Re: Dual client woes under Vista

On May 9, 11:11 am, Dirk <newsp...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mark (newsgroups) wrote:
Well, I ran into my first issue with Vista last night. As some may
recall I've been running two instances of WoW on my XP machine to
level a duo team. I recently purchased a laptop that is supposedly
more powerful than my desktop and was keen to see if this helped solve
the low(ish) framerates I get when running two wow clients.

Desktop:
Athlon 64 3500+
2 GB RAM (can't recall speed offhand)
ATI x1950 Pro 512MB

Laptop:
Dell XPS 1530
Core 2 duo T9300 2.50GHz
3 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce Go 8600GT 256MB

I was recommended this laptop as an able but not top of the range
gaming platform. Yes, when I load a single WoW client I get better FPS
than my desktop. However, when I load up two instances of WoW,
everything starts to chug, and I don't mean FPS. Everything becomes
unresponsive, even trying to type in my login and password took a
couple of seconds between keypresses.

So anyone managed to successfully run two instances of WoW under
Vista, or can tell me if perhaps it's some problem with my hardware?
Perhaps the lower video memory?

I own a Dell Inspiron 1720, which is not as fast as your laptop and I
was able to run two instances of WoW on it. I'm not running WoW
fullscreen and I set the windows size for the second client pretty low.

It seems there is something else going on with your system, maybe
disable some services, Windows Vista is running a lot of things in the
background that you might not need. Maybe your virus scanner did a full
hdd scan during the time you tried it?

Well that's good and bad news. Good news that in theory I should have
no problem running 2 x WoW, bad news is I'm going to have to dig
around until I sort out the problem.

No, there was no scan running at the time. I wonder, I run both WoW
clients from the same directory in XP with no problem, could this be
an issue under Vista?

Since it's a fresh machine, I was quite interested in leaving
everything at default settings to "experience" Vista at it's full
potential, so so far I haven't performed any of the tweaks that people
recommend to improve performance. Since the game runs better than on
my desktop with only one copy open I wouldn't have thought I'd need to
disable stuff to speed up Vista for two copies. Will start doing that
as a last resort, just thought I'd post here and maybe see if someone
had experienced the same thing and had a direct solution. I'll try the
multi boxing forums later.
.

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