Sat Feb 23, 2013 8:44 am
finally got Diablo working nicely with 4 boxes.
Just wanted to share this with you guys and Thanks ISBoxer for making this program, Boxing 4 Monks and have been doing to for the past few days, did runs on:
Act 2 Vault of the Assasin > Oasis (no problems other then very laggy when entering the side quest tomb in Oasis)
Act 3 Keep > Stone fort > core of Arreat > Tower of the Cursed work all the way up to Arreat Crater 1 > Rakkis Crossing > Bridge (no problems other then occasional lag spike on the bridge)
I think the lag spikes in those areas are game related, since I have seen them even before multiboxing.
My System Specs: (upgraded) - I upgraded my CPU and Ram for boxing.
i7 3770K
16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 1866
GTX580 x3 (SLI Surround Mode) << not needed for Diablo, I use it to play Skyrim in surround
Gigabyte P67 UD7 MoBo
OCZ Vertex 3 256GB (OS drive and Diablo Install drive)
My System Spec (Old)
Same as above except I had a 2500K and 8GB Dominator GT 2133
The reason for upgrade: My system when using the 2500K and 8GB Ram, CPU only has 4 Cores.. Diablo likes to have a good amount of CPU power, and eats 1.1GB of ram per box, this was causing my system to bottleneck at the CPU, on top of my apps running in the background, my ram peaked at above 95% usage.
I was able to quad box using 4 small screens, but once I make 1 big screen, 3 small off screen, the CPU choked and my FPS on all the boxes dropped to 7 FPS.
The 580's tri SLI is not needed for diablo boxing, I was able to run the same configuration on my missus rig during test phase, her rig is: (i7 3770K, 8GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 1333, 256GB M4 SSD for OS and diablo install, single GTX670 also running surround).
The ISBoxer Settings:
I split 2 boxes per 2 cores, each 2 box has 2 physical cores and 2 HT to use. basically slot 1 and 2 use cores 1-4, slot 3 and 4 use cores 5-8.
Windows Layout I used instant window swapping, 3 screens (Slot 2-4) running at 960,540 on the right monitor just stacked in a "L" pattern, main screen AKA roaming slot (Slot 1) in center running 1920, 1080.
Diablo Settings:
Main Roaming Window: everything cranked to max
Other 3 Side windows: everything set to lowest possible setting, ie; turn off shadows, phyx, use low textures, disable AA and use Low FX.
Disable sounds on screen 2-4 entirely
Tricks for multiboxing:
Not going to get into too much, please read the wiki.
I'll just add: Use the move key, it comes default not binded, I bind "K" for window 2, "H" for window 3, "N" for window 4.. on occasion one of your character runs off, be it from fear or knock back, or just snagged a rock and run becomes unsync, use the move key and point them back to your main character.
Act 2 Vault of the Assasin > Oasis (no problems other then very laggy when entering the side quest tomb in Oasis)
Act 3 Keep > Stone fort > core of Arreat > Tower of the Cursed work all the way up to Arreat Crater 1 > Rakkis Crossing > Bridge (no problems other then occasional lag spike on the bridge)
I think the lag spikes in those areas are game related, since I have seen them even before multiboxing.
My System Specs: (upgraded) - I upgraded my CPU and Ram for boxing.
i7 3770K
16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 1866
GTX580 x3 (SLI Surround Mode) << not needed for Diablo, I use it to play Skyrim in surround
Gigabyte P67 UD7 MoBo
OCZ Vertex 3 256GB (OS drive and Diablo Install drive)
My System Spec (Old)
Same as above except I had a 2500K and 8GB Dominator GT 2133
The reason for upgrade: My system when using the 2500K and 8GB Ram, CPU only has 4 Cores.. Diablo likes to have a good amount of CPU power, and eats 1.1GB of ram per box, this was causing my system to bottleneck at the CPU, on top of my apps running in the background, my ram peaked at above 95% usage.
I was able to quad box using 4 small screens, but once I make 1 big screen, 3 small off screen, the CPU choked and my FPS on all the boxes dropped to 7 FPS.
The 580's tri SLI is not needed for diablo boxing, I was able to run the same configuration on my missus rig during test phase, her rig is: (i7 3770K, 8GB Corsair Dominator Platinum 1333, 256GB M4 SSD for OS and diablo install, single GTX670 also running surround).
The ISBoxer Settings:
I split 2 boxes per 2 cores, each 2 box has 2 physical cores and 2 HT to use. basically slot 1 and 2 use cores 1-4, slot 3 and 4 use cores 5-8.
Windows Layout I used instant window swapping, 3 screens (Slot 2-4) running at 960,540 on the right monitor just stacked in a "L" pattern, main screen AKA roaming slot (Slot 1) in center running 1920, 1080.
Diablo Settings:
Main Roaming Window: everything cranked to max
Other 3 Side windows: everything set to lowest possible setting, ie; turn off shadows, phyx, use low textures, disable AA and use Low FX.
Disable sounds on screen 2-4 entirely
Tricks for multiboxing:
Not going to get into too much, please read the wiki.
I'll just add: Use the move key, it comes default not binded, I bind "K" for window 2, "H" for window 3, "N" for window 4.. on occasion one of your character runs off, be it from fear or knock back, or just snagged a rock and run becomes unsync, use the move key and point them back to your main character.