FPS Background Option in Command Editor

[dariuslloyd]

Keyclone,

I am not sure if this is functioning properly or if I am doing something wrong. I play two characters with overlapping windows, one directly on top of the other. The slave is in the background, from another wow directory and the main is in the foreground. In my efforts to maximize FPS on the main account I thought limiting the fps of the background account would help. So I set the fpsbk to 5 in the command editor for the slave account. I am not seeing any noticeable improvement.

HOWEVER, one time after enabling this I did see a huge gain of over 40 fps. (which brought me to my normal single account FPS) So I am unsure if something is inconsistent or perhaps I did something wrong.

Please advise!

Thank you!

[keyclone]

yes, setting your maxfpsbk to something low (i use 5 as well) will save loads of cpu while the instance is not in the foreground.

you should also reduce your maxfps in order to restrain wow from attempting to get as many fps as possible
(40 is good.. more then 60 would be unneeded)

try hitting ctrl+R to show your fps.

[dariuslloyd]

Yah, I had the background set to 5 but didnt limit the normal max. The thing that puzzles me is even with those settings left blank, my primary account doesn't gain any FPS. Like I said I run two accounts each from their own directory. The "main" has higher graphics settings. I normally get 50+ fps in the old world if this account is loaded alone. The second account, the slave, uses bare bones everything reduced to minimum. He runs very high fps even when loaded with the master. I have turned the slave account to max of 5 in back ground, but I didnt make any gains on the masters FPS. My test zone right now is ungoru, the master sticks around 30fps regardless of the fpsbk setting on the slave. Am I doing something wrong? All I did was change the blank box to a 5 and hit apply and ok. I didnt think there is much more to it than that, but you never know.

Anyway, the fact that Im not making gains in FPS on the master leads me to believe I did something wrong. One time in Feralas when i was testing this, I did score a major FPS spike and was upwards of 70 as if that account was loaded alone, so I thought I had the background thing working properly. But then it went away, I am unsure what caused that.

For it to be considered in the background, does the window actually have to be minimized? I run both windows at the exact same resolution and overlapped. I can't actually turn on the FPS and see the background account because the main will be blocking it. I did test this with another program, and did not obtain any FPS drop (to 5 as I set it). I minimized the master, had the slave in foreground, and then put firefox overtop of it. I assumed this would cause the slave account to limit its FPS for being in the background, but it did not.

Anyway, any other ideas or suggestions? Thanks.

[dariuslloyd]

Heh, well I changed the maximum to 20 on the slave and it makes a world of differance. I still am unsure if the background option is working properly, but I jumped from 27-30 to a solid 55-60 on the main by limiting the actual max of the slave to 20.

[dariuslloyd]

Ok, I figured it all out. I originally only set the fpsbk option to 5 and left the maxfps option blank. That actually doesnt do anything. You have to set the max field as well or it does not recognize the background option. So there it is! Now that I got this working, it makes keyclone even more amazing. I can't wait to try loading even more accounts on this box. Thanks

[keyclone]

hmph... i didn't know about the maxfps requirement.

good find.

[dariuslloyd]

Glad to be of service