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[toptek]

What would good setting's in WoW for two boxing on the same PC .



my PC or PC's are

5700 gforce 256 MB video
2700 xp + AMD
1.5 MB DDR FSB 333
Msi MB

I can't find any good setting in WoW to keep it from laging out bad with two acounts on the same PC.

OR is it a WOW problem . I want to start boxing two on the same PC .


Sense I'm begining to understand how things work in Innerpace, with scripts.


or my PC's if its my stuff will 512 more per PC help any way or a new board and CPU .


I no 512 Will but in my case , are my PC's ok how they are for two acounts. or is it WoW.


I do plan later to use the Uplink Networking when i understand it more .

And am building two PC as I go .

So does anyone have any setting i could try to take out the Lag I get hit bad with two on one PC.

Later

[toptek]

with one acount runin my memory dorps form 1.5mb to 536 availabe .


WOW ,WoW is using a lot memory with just about eveything turned off, EQ that i remeber never really got that bad at defaults.



SO is it my PC or other setting I'm not a ware of, or WoW . any advice is welcome.


Later

[toptek]

FOR this lame post got it sovled after doing a in game OOC or GEN .


Someone said WoW is more memory then Video intense . so I lowered all AGP setting that freed up on all PC like 300 MB each . Still not euogh to me so I 'll be looking for anyother Advice that may free up even more.


Later

[toptek]

DID a few test and found why it so laged out at times and its not IS or evn me boxing .


ITs WoW it jumps with just WoW loaded in CPU time from 5 to 90 % in one session alone with just WoW .


and stays that way till I log out .

SO my question is and would someone give me advice on this how do I balance how WoW uess the CPU .



I now have 60 % memory with two acounts loged in and the FPS drops below 15 and the CPU goess to 100% with two acounts login the same PC. but before that its at about 70 to 90 % allready with just WoW runnin.

SO why does WoW need so much CPU time or is there a way i can cut that down to 70% with two acounts runin.

[Lax]

I dont notice that happen on my machine, I'd make sure it's not from some custom WoW addon like cosmos or something, if you use any of those. Past that, I'm not sure

[neshika]

My experience with WoW (and EQ) multiple accounts was as follows-

all minimal settings, including 800x600, no add-ons (besides IS and some bot stuff). Each instance SEEMED to take around 150mb of ram. I found that with 2gb of system ram, and minimal services running, that I could load up 8 accounts and be more limited by video card ram (128mb - each instance seemed to be taking 15mb or so each) - than by system ram. Of course useage fluctuates over time, after initial load it will unload some system ram...freeing it up, but if you zone excessively it will eat up more. Yes I know theres no zoning, but rest assured, it stores it.

I eventually plan on testing a 256mb/512mb video card + 4gb of system ram, but cannot report results atm. And just fyi - framerates were very low, but at least in WoW, this didnt affect bot programs running, just what was actually displayed. I could run 3 or 4 playable - 2boxing is definatly fine. The CPU's were dual 2.4ghz Xeons (with hyper-threading). I can also report that a friend with a 256mb vid card, 2gig system ram, and a single 3.4ghz P4 (with hyperthreading) can run 9 instances (altho with some swapping).

EQ is more of a resource hog even with settings turned down. I run out of video ram and system ram drops tons with 3 EQ accounts and 1 WoW account running. EQ seems to require around 300-500mb per instance....and around 30-50mb of video ram with medium texture settings. I run into texture swapping/display issues with 3 toons after a bit....and instantly with a WoW account or another box added in.

Hope this helps you.

PS - The EQ stats are with MQ2 loaded. I also am able to browse with Mozilla, play mp3s, run Trillian, Teamspeak, Google Talk, and w/e just fine with that many EQ instances loaded.