48 Box Unplayable Performance: Troubleshooting for 12 hours.
I'm a 48 boxer on EQ that has been 48 boxing without using ISBoxer. I've learned the error in my ways and I am extremely excited to join this community and start ISBoxing! There is a catch though, unfortunately. Every time I load my crew with ISBoxer, I am having extremely poor performance and my entire machine turns into a slide show. Even tabbing out into Windows is extremely laggy, to the point where it takes ~10 seconds to do a single click.
Without ISBoxer, I run smooth as silk. I average 10-20% in both CPU and GPU utilization. I really want to utilize a few of the features of ISBoxer, however. I totally understand that some features would cause extreme performance issues for my setup, which is why I want to ensure that ISBoxer is tuned to force-disable those performance-hungry features so I can continue to 48 box in happiness .
Goal: Just use the software to launch my groups and use hotkeys to switch between windows. I don't want any tiled windows or anything fancy, as I don't believe my machine can handle rendering all 48 accounts at once. I also absolutely do not want ISBoxer touching CPU Affinity or anything FPS related.
Problem: I've spent literally 12 hours at this point troubleshooting (each config change takes ~45min to load and test). I've attempted numerous configurations and each one results in horrendous lag of 0.1-0.5 FPS and turns my machine into a slide show.
Before anyone asks -- Yes, I am exporting my config to Inner Space before relaunching all of my clients. It would be a great question though .
CPU Strategy: I've literally tried every single one. I would prefer not using this though and let eqclient.ini handle CPUAffinity#=-1.
I've tried disabling and enabling foreground/background FPS on a per-character slot basis.
I made a regex find/replace pattern to fix the fact that ISBoxer appears to have overwritten a ton of my CPUAffinity#=-1 entries in my INI files.
I've also deleted all of the virtual eqclient.ini's, edited the base eqclient.ini and relaunched to generate new ones (I think that is how its working).
Window Layout: I've been using "Stacked Full Screen" with "Enable Swapping: False" and "Instant Swapping: False".
Something is making me believe that ISBoxer is forcing every one of my windows to render like they were "Foreground" and that is what is killing my performance, however this is just a hunch. I don't know what is going on.
At this point I've wiped and rebuilt my configuration from scratch twice, which isn't fun with 48 toons.
My configuration XML: https://zerobin.net/?2cfbdfcca844e666#z ... /DWZ7f4xU=
I am a paying customer and purchased a 2 year license in hopes to force myself to figure this software out. I've thrown 12 hours of my life at it this weekend and have thus far failed, so I'm really hoping that I can get some customer support on these forums. I cannot stress enough how much I want to reap the benefits of using this software, as you might be able to imagine.
Thanks for your time, take care!