Trying to Box Rift

[Dranny817]

Hi all I thought with the new F2P I would look at multiboxing Rift. Now my Rig as it stands now is.

I5 2500k @4.3Ghz
GTX 660Ti
32Gb Ram
Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard

Now I tried 5 and 3 box and can't get it to run it just eats my PC alive for some reason. Anyone able to help or should I just give it up as a lost cause.

[crowdx]

You should try to drop the slaves all down to lowest and if that does not work you can change to the low render mode which looks like cr*p but should allow the main client to look pretty decent at medium to high settings. I have a Samsung Gamer Laptop with a 675M and 16gb of ram running 5 clients pretty well, so no reason you should not be able to get it running.

[Dranny817]

You should try to drop the slaves all down to lowest and if that does not work you can change to the low render mode which looks like cr*p but should allow the main client to look pretty decent at medium to high settings. I have a Samsung Gamer Laptop with a 675M and 16gb of ram running 5 clients pretty well, so no reason you should not be able to get it running.

Ok thanks will give that a shot later on.

[Dranny817]

Still not able to box cpu running at 100% on 5 box :-(

[JohnGabriel]

Loading just 1 at a time, how many before it slows to a crawl?

[crowdx]

I also just noticed in your list of specs you are using an i5 cpu, everything I have uses i7, so the cpu most likely is your bottleneck

[Dranny817]

Loading just 1 at a time, how many before it slows to a crawl?

Only get two on once third is on it starts to peak.

I also just noticed in your list of specs you are using an i5 cpu, everything I have uses i7, so the cpu most likely is your bottleneck

I guess it is all bad new then for multiboxing Rift on my i5 then. might see if I can stick an i7 in my MB and see how much it costs.

[Smedbox]

I'd recommend using multiple computers. If you're going to get new parts anyway, put them in a new box and keep your old box as a secondary. Enjoy good graphics and a smooth experience.

[Dranny817]

I'd recommend using multiple computers. If you're going to get new parts anyway, put them in a new box and keep your old box as a secondary. Enjoy good graphics and a smooth experience.

Would love to have more machines but dont have the space tbh, well not atm anyways.

I looked into a i7 and I can put a i7 3770k without having to get a new MB anyone running the 3770k while multiboxing.?

[moog]

The i7 3770k is a 4 core / 8 thread chip running at 3.5GHz / 3.9GHz Turbo, according to http://ark.intel.com/products/65523
which is a pretty much identical spec to my i7-920 overclocked to 4GHz... http://ark.intel.com/products/37147

I can 5-box Rift - my main has graphics set to low but I've had to drop the other 4 down to the low quality renderer, else my GPU (2GB ATI 6950) was running at 99% all the time.
My CPU sits at around 40-70% load.
I get anything from 25-40 FPS on the main and the others are capped at 15FPS in the background.
I originally set ISBoxer to use all cores/threads for all slots (following the example in the video I watched) but I've since changed that to 2 threads per client and it *seems* to be performing better.
RAM wise, I'm hitting around 10GB of my 12GB with all 5 loaded. The 2GB of the GPU is pretty much maxed out, too, so make sure neither of those are your new bottleneck.