Multiple WoW's+patch AND YOU!?

[TMNT]

Damnit! You posted before I could finish my edit! lol

Scroll up, I gave you some links.

TO BAD! I said it before you edited! I win!

[Atorifan]

I didn't find any luck with what (not studying) I browsed on the helpfully supplied links in this thread. As in I took a look, and started having brain drain. I have vista 64 pro/home. I kept getting an series of start, restart, d/l, apply and then repair. After the third time, I just right clicked each wow's start icon and ran as administrator it worked as a charm. Only slight problem after that, I'd copy the patch folder into the dir, and it said bnupdate.exe.part. Each 3 files in the patch folder in the 2-4th copy on that pc suffixed in that way. Since it made a dir. for me by dropping into the main wow folder. I just pulled the 'meat' out of the orig. folder into the subsequents. Note: Cancel the downloading, and run the bnupdate.exe from within the patch folder. I hope that it's both clear and helpful, for anyone struggling.

[Chorizotarian]

If you use the single folder / symbolic link method the clone WoW folders get patched automagically when you patch the source folder.

[Atorifan]

I might read up on that. Boat zoning is pretty horrid, which leads me to believe Shatt might be ridiculous. Instance zoning is fine. My fps will shift between the 4 copies on one pc from 15-45. Sometimes 3 copies will say 45 and the 4th will say 15. And I look back a few minutes later and two copies might be 15. I haven't noticed any problems with lag or fps except as above. And I'm thinking the above might be a ram issue, and my pc needing reset occasionally. quadcore 4g ram. Last night I ran two alts from portal to shatt FP, and they both moved fine. One day I'll try the 5 at once.

[marvein]

I might read up on that. Boat zoning is pretty horrid, which leads me to believe Shatt might be ridiculous. Instance zoning is fine. My fps will shift between the 4 copies on one pc from 15-45. Sometimes 3 copies will say 45 and the 4th will say 15. And I look back a few minutes later and two copies might be 15. I haven't noticed any problems with lag or fps except as above. And I'm thinking the above might be a ram issue, and my pc needing reset occasionally. quadcore 4g ram. Last night I ran two alts from portal to shatt FP, and they both moved fine. One day I'll try the 5 at once.

loading lag is most often drive seek times. memory and graphics are when you have display lag but im pretty sure if you have bad loading times changin continents or going throuigh portals(really bad for me) that its seek related. Im pondering getting a raptor or two and splitting off my installs even further now that ive been venturing into shattrah more. I knowq its definately not system RAM because with all 5 copies running I never see more than about 2.5gigs used (out of ~3.6) and video is decent because i have graphics turned down and the fps stays pretty constant.

[Chorizotarian]

[quote='Atorifan',index.php?page=Thread&postID=4662 1#post46621]I might read up on that. Boat zoning is pretty horrid, which leads me to believe Shatt might be ridiculous. Instance zoning is fine. My fps will shift between the 4 copies on one pc from 15-45. Sometimes 3 copies will say 45 and the 4th will say 15. And I look back a few minutes later and two copies might be 15. I haven't noticed any problems with lag or fps except as above. And I'm thinking the above might be a ram issue, and my pc needing reset occasionally. quadcore 4g ram. Last night I ran two alts from portal to shatt FP, and they both moved fine. One day I'll try the 5 at once.[/quote]

I don't have any issues w/ boats / zoning on my 4 GB quad machine. Sounds like you are running your clones at a high maxbgfps. I cap mine at 15 fwiw.

If you want to try the symlink thing I wrote a script that makes it pretty easy:
[b][Other][/b] [url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=4854']PowerShell script to create symbolically linked (mklink) copies of WoW[/url]

[Atorifan]

Well I did the min/max 15/45 as suggested in the tutorial. Also with the boats, hearthing is the only drag on performance. It's a minor thing. I thought everyone wanted the maximum fp's possible. I also might need a new router. Mine's about 4yrs old. I thought it could just be comcast connection was the problem, and thus, out of my hands.

[farkenell]

can make a batch script to copy over only the changed/updated files.

xcopy -u * z: (mapped location)

some reason however my wow got bugged not sure why probably an error in the parameter....will need to check later.