New Dual-Boxing Setup for Classic WoW

[Ughmahedhurtz]

What's your budget?

[Landianism]

Thanks for the quick responses

What's your budget?

Like 500 Euro = 600 USD

I would imagine that any machine built in the last six years* should have no issues 2-boxing Classic

So that's like i7-4xxx, min. 8 GB RAM, GeForce GTX 7xx? When I compare that with current Hardware, then I assume, that a AMD Ryzen 5 would be fine, right?

I'm fairly sure this machine will be able to run two classic clients

Tried to run two Vanilla Clients and yes it works, but it's very laggy. And I think that Classic will come with updated graphics.

[MiRai]

I know we're not supposed to discuss private servers here but you could easily test this yourself right now.

It's not really the best test since it isn't the same client.

So that's like i7-4xxx, min. 8 GB RAM, GeForce GTX 7xx? When I compare that with current Hardware, then I assume, that a AMD Ryzen 5 would be fine, right?

Sure, but your budget of $600 needs to be stretched how far, exactly?

[Apatheist]

Tried to run two Vanilla Clients and yes it works, but it's very laggy. And I think that Classic will come with updated graphics.

You can tweak the classic client a lot to improve performance. Check out this thread.

Reducing things like particle density and view distance below the minimum available via the client has a huge impact.

I know Activision says they're going to tinker with the API but they've said they will not be updating graphics. During Activisioncon they stated they would be recreating the classic models and textures as faithfully as possible so I imagine trying out the available private server client will give you a fairly sound comparison.

[MiRai]

You can tweak the classic client a lot to improve performance. Check out this thread.

Reducing things like particle density and view distance below the minimum available via the client has a huge impact.

I know Activision says they're going to tinker with the API but they've said they will not be updating graphics. During Activisioncon they stated they would be recreating the classic models and textures as faithfully as possible so I imagine trying out the available private server client will give you a fairly sound comparison.

Without a doubt, Classic will be using the updated game client, and most of those commands in that post have been drastically altered, are currently locked down, or are long gone from the current game client CVars, and it's unlikely that Blizzard will be unnecessarily restoring old CVars just to please the #NoChanges crowd.

The Classic game client will also be rendering in DX11, not DX9, so there's both improvements, as well as additional resource requirements, to running 11 over 9.

Finally, using an updated game client will allow Classic to run smoother. An obvious statement, yes, but, for example, the original Vanilla game client updated a player's position 64 times per second, and this created an unavoidable stutter unless you were able to properly cap your your framerate at that number, which required that your display's refresh rate was, at least, 64Hz. Perhaps there was a small percentage of people playing on CRTs that had a higher-than-60Hz refresh rate, but it was still annoying to deal with, none-the-less.

[Apatheist]

Without a doubt, Classic will be using the updated game client.

True enough. The principle remains the same, though. Setting weather density to 0, disabling FX glow, etc. Pretty much every version of the game has had some out of the box ways to improve performance beyond what's available via the in-game UI. People were discussing render scaling in another thread. If it's a newer client that may be an option. It wasn't in classic.

I keep flipping between pessimistic and hyped for classic. Love the game but the list of unauthentic changes keeps piling up.