Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:42 am
Questions
Greetings Everyone!
This might end up being rather long winded and for that, I apologize but there are just a lot of things that I've been thinking about. And I know this isn't the introduce yourself forum but hey, first post .. might as well do it.
How I came to Innerspace: Ever since I played a Cleric and a Bard in Everquest at the same time, I've been interested in multiboxing. A couple months ago, my girlfriend and I got the crazy idea that we could recruit a friend our characters up to 60 [at the time; 80 now] and not have to deal with the idiots as we leveled. So after a could hours of research, I came across AutoHotKey. I downloaded it and used it for a bit but found it lacking, especially after seeing a couple videos on YouTube. This lead me to InnerSpace and ISBoxer of which I completely failed the seven day free trial. I -for the life of me- couldn't figure it out. I was also kinda o.O about putting my account names in. However, after smashing my face against writing a script for AutoHotKey just so I could do simple things like broadcast 1-0 to my other characters, I decided to give it another go and went ahead and purchased a license. From there, I've been 4-5 boxing World of Warcraft [raiding is fun, let me tell you] and 6 boxing Lord of the Rings Online just about every time I log on a game.
That said ...
If you didn't read my 'intro' you can start reading here. I'm done going on about how I came to be where I am. <3
I'm looking to get the most out of my experience. I like to think I have a pretty good grasp of how a computer works however it seems that multiboxing is another animal entirely.
My computer specs:
1. In World of Warcraft, I can run five instances without any real lag issues. Of course I have to turn down the graphics on the slaves but really, I kind of expected that. In Lord of the Rings Online however, it seems as though my computer isn't enough. Every account is on "Very Low" setting with AA turned off and yet I still have weird lag .. almost as if sometimes, it's caching (which I assume it is) textures and then it ramps back up to the 60fps that it's set to. I left the CPU Profiling to Round Robin, which looks like it has set 2 cores to each account, which I assume should be just fine on a 6 core processor. Other than that, everything is as you would expect it. My layout:
Region 1 and Region 2 are plugged in to the same video card while 3-6 are plugged in to the secondary card. From what I've read on these forums, that should spread the load however when I look at Afterburner, the second card's usage doesn't really move- you'd think with four accounts running on it, it would be pretty warm.
Any ideas on how I can improve this?
2. Currently, I'm playing 1 Warden and 5 Rune-Keepers. Are there any guides to this setup specifically? Everyone had told me to run 5RK+Tank however I've yet to see a guide that explains how to set everything up for it. I already have it set up so that four of them will cast spells like they're supposed to but I'm just curious if that's all there is? Are there any tricks that anyone's learned?
3. In playing a 5+Tank scenario, has anyone controlled a character that wasn't the tank? I'm thinking that maybe playing the healer and slaving the tank would work out due to reactionary events where people need heals quickly. I suppose on the other side of that, if I were a better tank, that wouldn't be the case in the first place. rofl
I apologize if this seems rather scattered- it's been an interesting week and I'm pretty tired. If I think of anything else, I'll just edit the OP.
This might end up being rather long winded and for that, I apologize but there are just a lot of things that I've been thinking about. And I know this isn't the introduce yourself forum but hey, first post .. might as well do it.
How I came to Innerspace: Ever since I played a Cleric and a Bard in Everquest at the same time, I've been interested in multiboxing. A couple months ago, my girlfriend and I got the crazy idea that we could recruit a friend our characters up to 60 [at the time; 80 now] and not have to deal with the idiots as we leveled. So after a could hours of research, I came across AutoHotKey. I downloaded it and used it for a bit but found it lacking, especially after seeing a couple videos on YouTube. This lead me to InnerSpace and ISBoxer of which I completely failed the seven day free trial. I -for the life of me- couldn't figure it out. I was also kinda o.O about putting my account names in. However, after smashing my face against writing a script for AutoHotKey just so I could do simple things like broadcast 1-0 to my other characters, I decided to give it another go and went ahead and purchased a license. From there, I've been 4-5 boxing World of Warcraft [raiding is fun, let me tell you] and 6 boxing Lord of the Rings Online just about every time I log on a game.
That said ...
If you didn't read my 'intro' you can start reading here. I'm done going on about how I came to be where I am. <3
I'm looking to get the most out of my experience. I like to think I have a pretty good grasp of how a computer works however it seems that multiboxing is another animal entirely.
My computer specs:
- Intel 980x
- 24 GB RAM
- 2x GTX 570 [SLI off - using three monitors]
1. In World of Warcraft, I can run five instances without any real lag issues. Of course I have to turn down the graphics on the slaves but really, I kind of expected that. In Lord of the Rings Online however, it seems as though my computer isn't enough. Every account is on "Very Low" setting with AA turned off and yet I still have weird lag .. almost as if sometimes, it's caching (which I assume it is) textures and then it ramps back up to the 60fps that it's set to. I left the CPU Profiling to Round Robin, which looks like it has set 2 cores to each account, which I assume should be just fine on a 6 core processor. Other than that, everything is as you would expect it. My layout:
Region 1 and Region 2 are plugged in to the same video card while 3-6 are plugged in to the secondary card. From what I've read on these forums, that should spread the load however when I look at Afterburner, the second card's usage doesn't really move- you'd think with four accounts running on it, it would be pretty warm.
Any ideas on how I can improve this?
2. Currently, I'm playing 1 Warden and 5 Rune-Keepers. Are there any guides to this setup specifically? Everyone had told me to run 5RK+Tank however I've yet to see a guide that explains how to set everything up for it. I already have it set up so that four of them will cast spells like they're supposed to but I'm just curious if that's all there is? Are there any tricks that anyone's learned?
3. In playing a 5+Tank scenario, has anyone controlled a character that wasn't the tank? I'm thinking that maybe playing the healer and slaving the tank would work out due to reactionary events where people need heals quickly. I suppose on the other side of that, if I were a better tank, that wouldn't be the case in the first place. rofl
I apologize if this seems rather scattered- it's been an interesting week and I'm pretty tired. If I think of anything else, I'll just edit the OP.