how to improve performance?

I just started using this and it really hasn't helped me at all with cpu load or performance. Round robin balancing always makes the program under-use the cpu, the cpu load goes down to about 50% and the framerate becomes even worse. Selecting all the cores gives the same cpu load (100%) and performance (mild stutter) as multiboxing without ISboxer. Even if I resize the windows down, it doesn't do anything to help framerate.

Is there anything else I can do? I have power options set to high performance to ensure there's no throttling. FPS is supposed to be better with ISboxer than without, no?

[Ualaa]

If you have "Instant Swap" enabled in your window layout, then every window is rendered at full size.
And then they're scaled down (if you use Picture in Picture, aka Regions).
If you use "Stacked, Full Screen", they're essentially on top of each other.

With Instant Swap, your system uses the resources as if every window was the same size as the largest window.
That is more of a strain on your system than other boxing software, but it gets you very accurate mouse broadcasting plus instant swaps between regions/layers.



If you disable Instant Swap, then each region will be rendered at the size it is displayed at.
That is how pretty much all of the other boxing software options work.

You'll still have mouse broadcasting, but it won't be quite as precise.
You won't have instant window swaps either.
But there will be fewer strains on the system.



Regardless of which approach you use...

DX9 is fewer resources used than DX11, so that will be smoother/faster.

You can reduce settings, such as limiting the main window to say 30 FPS and the Slave windows to 20 FPS.
You can have the Slave windows look at the ground (could save views) and incorporate a mapped key (Target: Current Window = For the active window (Look Up) and Target: All Without Current = The Slaves (Look Down)... so no matter which toon you're on, the slaves look down and the main doesn't.

[lax]

Generally: HOWTO: Tweak your framerate

I have swapping disabled and my fps is 20/15. Even when I make all the regions super small in windows layout, it does nothing to reduce load. I don't understand how this is possible if it's supposed to be rendering at that size. Instant swapping is set to false.

I have DX11, is it possible to downgrade to 9?

Thank you lax, I've been through that guide. But ISboxer is supposed to improve performance without changing the in-game settings, right? I have had everything set to the minimum anyway. I mean, shouldn't I be able to run more clients smoothy with ISboxer than without it? That's the part I'm having trouble with...

[lax]

ISBoxer isn't magic exactly, no.

If reducing the window size with Instant Swapping disabled is not affecting your performance, you may just need the information that to make changes like that to your Window Layout may require a relaunch of the game? Or, it could just be indicating that the GPU is not your bottleneck. Or, that you have multiple GPUs and are using them "wrong" (e.g. by moving a window from one GPU to the other, you're asking for a massive performance drop). We don't actually have information about what your bottleneck is, that's part of what the guide is about...

I have DX11, is it possible to downgrade to 9?

If you have DX11, then you actually have all 3 of DX11, DX10, DX9, at minimum.
They are each different, and different games will use a different one (or even support more than one). With WoW the simplest method is to go into the Advanced video options, and there is a drop-down box.

I'm playing Diablo, my loads are

CPU - 100%
GPU - 60%
RAM - 60%

Thanks for your help, I thought my graphics card was the problem this whole time but I guess it's the processor.