Too good to be true?

[Khatovar]

I don't even see my mouse leave my screen, even when I use ground-target AOE on all 5 windows. In exceedingly heavy combat, I might see my cursor flicker, but it's still instantaneous.

You can also use mock mouseover where you don't actually send your mouse to the other window. You simply set up a region where moving or clicking your mouse at X,Y sends a keypress only to the slave and the keypress triggers a hardcoded macro. That is what I use for dealing with procs.

[MadMilitia]

I don't even see my mouse leave my screen, even when I use ground-target AOE on all 5 windows. In exceedingly heavy combat, I might see my cursor flicker, but it's still instantaneous.

You can also use mock mouseover where you don't actually send your mouse to the other window. You simply set up a region where moving or clicking your mouse at X,Y sends a keypress only to the slave and the keypress triggers a hardcoded macro. That is what I use for dealing with procs.

This most likely has to do with the way your setup is configured.

I'm a former grid user, so it makes the most sense for me to click what I think needs healed quickly. Now I use blizzard's raid frames with mouseover macros to eliminate the need for additional addons.

I'm curious to your setup. When you heal party or raid how do you deal with healer targeting?

[Khatovar]

I use mouseover for healing and rez. Mock mouseover for decursing, procs, cooldowns, interrupts. This is my setup

http://genus-industri.us/wp/2011/11/...ipt-v2-part-2/

[Ualaa]

I don't notice any heal lag, with a Repeater Region over a Grid Frame.

I'm using Grid + Grid Custom Layouts.
So my team (any composition of my toons) appear in column one (five toons).
And the rest of the raid in columns two through eight.

No pets show up, could add that but didn't want to.

With Grid you need Clique to interpret the clicks.

The Repeater Region sends the mouse stuff to only my Paladin on the Pally/4x DK team.
But it sent it to 3x Shaman on the Pally/Warlock/3x Elemental Shaman team.
On the 5x Resto Druids, they all got the mouse stuff.
Set it how you like.

With a Repeater Region and an identical grid frame across all toons.
You can drive with any toon.
And heal as effectively, as with the main toon.
Or at least as effectively as you configure your Grid.
On the Pally, Grid gets me (Set Focus, Clear Focus, Quick Heal, Big Heal, Cleanse).
On the Druids, Grid gets me heals on Left, Alt Left, Ctrl Left, Shift Left, Right, Alt Right, Ctrl Right, Shift Right clicks, and Scroll Up and Scroll Down; 10 binds instead of 5.

[Ualaa]

http://isboxer.com/forum/viewtopic.p...b49f593580e7c0

Although you can share the profile here or there.
Or in both places.

But that's how to share an IS Boxer profile.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I'm betting this is not CPU or memory but a leak in either a driver or some software you have installed, or possibly a bad keymap config buried in all those mapped keys you have(!). I highly doubt it's ISBoxer itself as I have yet to see anyone complain about ISBoxer having issues after long play sessions. For that matter, I can't remember any of the broadcasting software having reported issues with memory leaks, crashes or corruption once they were out of beta.

[edit] I do recall some folks having issues where a keypress in a high-pop/high-stress environment that triggered certain spells would be tough on certain video cards but yours doesn't seem to fit with my vague recollection of that problem.

[MadMilitia]

I'm betting this is not CPU or memory but a leak in either a driver or some software you have installed, or possibly a bad keymap config buried in all those mapped keys you have(!). I highly doubt it's ISBoxer itself as I have yet to see anyone complain about ISBoxer having issues after long play sessions. For that matter, I can't remember any of the broadcasting software having reported issues with memory leaks, crashes or corruption once they were out of beta.

[edit] I do recall some folks having issues where a keypress in a high-pop/high-stress environment that triggered certain spells would be tough on certain video cards but yours doesn't seem to fit with my vague recollection of that problem.

Well,

To summarize it when I stand in front of a portal or some other highly active graphical feature my setup slows to a crawl in single digit numbers when 5 boxing.

I don't see how that could be normal. Maybe my hardware is slightly overheating due to being on fan cooling. Thinking of switching to water cooled soon but don't want to water cool a setup I'm going to replace anyways.

[MiRai]

Well,

To summarize it when I stand in front of a portal or some other highly active graphical feature my setup slows to a crawl in single digit numbers when 5 boxing.

I don't see how that could be normal. Maybe my hardware is slightly overheating due to being on fan cooling. Thinking of switching to water cooled soon but don't want to water cool a setup I'm going to replace anyways.

First of all, don't water cool your current setup.

Second, it could be very normal depending on what your video settings are set at. The quad-core you're
currently boxing on can't handle a whole lot after the graphics engine update that came with Cataclysm.
You also don't list your video cards. You say they're nVidia GTX but, there are numerous nVidia GTX cards
available.

[MadMilitia]

First of all, don't water cool your current setup.

Second, it could be very normal depending on what your video settings are set at. The quad-core you're
currently boxing on can't handle a whole lot after the graphics engine update that came with Cataclysm.
You also don't list your video cards. You say they're nVidia GTX but, there are numerous nVidia GTX cards
available.

Graphics: All on low settings.

Cards: I bought these a year or more ago. I don't remember what they were because I don't have the boxes and windows insists on telling me they are 460s due to the generic driver. They are in actuality 275s from what I recall.


Isn't WoW far more cpu intensive than it is gpu intensive?

In any event it seems you agree with me that the Q9650 is the bottleneck here.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Before you go upgrading hardware and spending money, you can check a couple of things to narrow down your variables:

• If you're using the latest NVidia drivers, it has a GPU temperature monitor. Open that when you're having issues and post what temps you're seeing. Typically <80C is OK for GPUs. If you're going over 80, it needs attention.
• Download CoreTemp and run it. Report what your core temps are (all 4) when you're seeing the problem. Typically, sub 75C is fine. A good air heatsink should keep a Q series below 55-60C even when multiboxing.
• Go into the WoW advanced video settings and start disabling checkboxes one at a time and see if one of those makes the problem go away. You will have to restart the clients for some of those. As an example, my old ATI 5850 would absolutely choke (5fps) when I turned on terrain highlighting. Disabling that one setting and the card would run liquid smooth at 60fps.

[edit] Despite setting things to LOW graphics, some checkboxes may still be enabled.

Also, you can go into the NVidia control panel and set the 3D settings to "high performance" and turn off things like anisotropic filtering, antialiasing, etc.