Quote Originally Posted by 'Gallo',index.php?page=Thread&postID=54243#post542 43
I have 1 hard drive. I used to run 5 folders of WoW, but my instance load times and login times were horrendous. I then switched to 1 folder of WoW, and found it a lot faster. I often reccomend this to newbies on these forums who have speed issues. I never got into the symbolic link method, but from what i understand, the difference is marginal.
There probably isn't a difference in symbolic links if you run one folder for performance, but it does allow you to have different settings for each instance. Do you just play with your graphics settings turned all the way down, even your primary account? Or do you play at kind of a mid level, which means you have to do that for all your instances?

I have my primary account jacked up all the way to max, while my clones are pretty much all the way down to the minimum. I haven't encountered shat yet as my guys are only level 32, but when I run through Orgrimmar I have no load times beyond the initial load which would happen regardless of multi-boxing. Also, I assume then you are managing your core affinities through keyclone? From what I could tell, you could only specify individual cores, but wow is capable of handling up to two cores and you can specify this using the processorAffinityMask variable in the config.wtf file.

I specify my primary account to explicity run across two cores that aren't the first so that they don't share times with the OS and other background applications, then all my others are spread across the 4 pretty evenly.