Hey, don't dis Sam! (ok, I'll admit I do that on the EQ forums already so I figured I stick up for him here. )

Thanks for the answers, guys.

I indeed tried the trick of carefully loading them all up to the char select screen but I never get all 6 to get that far. I do it like this: I first get them all to the server select-screen: this is easy, my Ram is still at only 20% and hardly any videotexture memory is used,

Then I quickly log them all in at once to try to reach the char-select screen. I was told to do this simultaneoulsy, so that EQ "divides up" the available memory between all 6 instances, before only 1 or 2 instances eat up all the ram and leave nothing for the rest. But alas, I never got more then 5 accounts in the Char select screen. And usually pretty fast after that, one or two drop out anyway (error).

Now I could try for weeks to get this right, but this time around I want my 6-boxing to be as hassle free as possible (which is why I am adding 3 Wizards to the mix, lol) and having to meddle with software is only fun for like 20 minutes, and after that stuff just has to work.

So I just unpacked all my computers again (just finished a move from Europe to Oz) and will go the Hardware way again. This is how I used to do it: http://forums.beastlords.org/index.php?topic=934.0 That is an old pic, I now have all 5 boxes on separate comps with 5 Commanders and 2 Kvm switches (1x2 and 1x4).

I will use the Commanders again in order to control each box individually (without having to swap to their view at all, even though I have kvm switches) and will probably use the wireless keyboards trick to give commands to the entire group. The good thing about the commanders is the long buff-macro's that you can give them. Beats having to hook up a G15 to each of them.

Still, kudos to anyone that ever got 6 instances of EQ to work!