Keyclone - Multiple WOW directories

[Narezza]

Hey guys,

In the general forums, someone mentions that KeyClone recommended running all instances of Warcraft from the same directory. However, I was under the impression that you should make separate directories for each instance of WoW for best performance. Whats the consensus if Im running 5 toons?

Thanks!

[Goledist]

im no genius with this, but all i did was dl'ed Keyclone, and then after that i set up my maximizer settings and started 5 wows... very easy no seperate wow folders .. just go go keyclone!

hope this helps you

GoledisT

X( (Good mood, but this is my angry face)

[moog]

I started off with a shared directory, switched to individual directories and the performance degredation was huge... almost unplayable for me... so am back to a single WoW directory.

[keyclone]

it would depend on your hardware. if you have an old IDE drive, then you are going to have an issue no matter what. to improve performance, i would imagine you'd need multiple IDE drives to increase the number of readers.

if you have a SATA drive (newer ones are 3Gbps)... it's going to be tough for wow to fill that pipe, even with 5 wows. this would be like having 600Mbps per wow... which is comparable to the IDE speeds of around 133MBps or about 1Gbps due to additional caching effects. so, if your wow runs fine solo on an IDE, then it should be about the same for 5 on a SATA drive

another factor is using junction points. i have not used them, but i have spoken with people that have. my guess would be the improved performance may be coming from a cache within each junction point... but that's just a guess

just my 2cp worth....

[Narezza]

I'll have to try 1 directory again. I don't have any problems running the separate locations, but, like everyone, I want the best performance possible. I'll try the one directory thing and see how it goes.

Thanks guys