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Dual boxing completely pointless after expansion
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Pax Scindus
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2012-05-29 17:22:42 UTC

I used the dual box my two and sometimes three accounts across my three monitors all day.
I never dropped below 50fps.
After Inferno launched, the shiny new missiles brought me running- and I decided to reup my second account.
In the process of applying plex, I was dual boxing while IN STATION, and was getting 10fps.
I simply cannot dualbox any longer, what gives?
with one client running, I Max out fps.. as soon as I THINK about opening a second client, my computer freaks out.
I have a custom built PC, liquid cooled crossfired rig, so I'm not sure how to say this CCP, but its not me, its you.
How do I fix this?
-Pax
Terminator56
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-05-29 18:30:57 UTC
Try playing around with the "Interval" option in the graphics menu, I found that running more than one client with 2 video cards would half FPS if the limiter was on. Also try disabling crossfire and put your second client on the monitor that your second video card is connected to, that way each client gets its own video card.
Pax Scindus
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2012-05-29 18:41:25 UTC
Yeah, I've already disabled crossfire so as to run three monitors..
I'll take a look at the Interval, but this has never been an issue before, with the same PC.
What has changed that could cause this drop in frame rate?
Terminator56
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#4 - 2012-05-29 21:05:05 UTC
Not sure what has changed, but give playing with the interval a try. You could also drop your video settings on both the clients and see if that makes a difference.
Nendail Smith
Lockheed Nighthawk
#5 - 2012-06-01 01:09:46 UTC
Terminator56 wrote:
Not sure what has changed, but give playing with the interval a try. You could also drop your video settings on both the clients and see if that makes a difference.


I have been dealing with frame rate issues while multi-boxing for quite some time. Was doing some reading today and found a tip that said to disable "anti-aliasing"

I did so and doubled my frame rate. Not sure if it will work for you guys, but thought I'd share what I experienced.
Pax Scindus
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2012-06-04 19:08:04 UTC
Anti-aliasing off seems to have fixed my issue..
Strange that the update made me change that though.
Ah well, can't see any difference in graphical quality, so I suppose we're set.
Thanks all