I don't have anything to add as to why, just know it should not be that way. Your system is very similar to mine, and mine does great 10-boxing (first thing I tried). I have 32 GB RAM, i7 4790K, GTX980.
perhaps its my 6core who only has 3.3 ghz and your I7 has 4ghz :-/
How should I setup the cpu strategy in isboxer?
round robin, game decides, all for all?
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