EVE General Discussion

Min settings for one.
Programs like ISBoxer also allow you to do things with your screen real estate so you aren't alt tabbing between your EVE instances which also helps.

On 3 screens running 2 clients (full screen and open), chrome w 4 open tabs, Eft, bandicam, teamspeak and steam my PC is currently using just under 5 gb of ram so memory isn't really an issue. I won't delve into how many you can run in the back ground manipulated by a program like ISBoxer because you're getting into UELA violation territory.

With every thing but Chrome closed down windows is still using about 3.3gb of ram and I see that I use 500mb of ram for each EvE client that I open.

How much power you need depends of course on just how many clients you want to run. I have no problem maintaining over 60fps at absolutely max settings and can easily hold up to 200 fps on 2 monitors with minor settings tweeks and very little visual downgrade. I think I could probably maintain at close to 60 fps on 4-6 clients without even having to make things look horrible.

Eve isn't extremely CPU dependant so your biggest factors would be 500mb of ram per client and a decent video card. I'm running a R9 390, an nvidea 980 would be pretty comparable. You could easiliy run 3-4 I think at modest settings on previous gen video cards. (R9 280's, nvidia 960-970) Slightly older cards could probably still handle 2-3 with the options turned down a bit.

With an older win XP box and that much ram your options are probably pretty limited. A higher end card (xp generation) could probably handle 2 clients at med settings but it might be just barely.

You'll have to ask them.

Are you actually thinking of trying to run multiple accounts or are you just trying to convince yourself that a certain someone isn't cheating some how? Don't under estimate though the extent ppl will go to in extravagance. I've seen setups with multiple PC's on godawful numbers of monitors and keyboards and mice piled up all over the place. No idea how anyone can actually enjoy something like that but I'm sure when they know what they are doing it can be an bottomless pit of isk.

Example
Notice that 6 of those monitors are running 2 clients each. (isboxer I assume)

ISBoxer #2
Looks like this guys is running 8+ clients on a single screen. As long as the resolution isn't increasing (ie using isboxer to put multiple on one screen) it's just a matter of how much ram you have to load clients and a half decent cpu to keep up

Final Example
Video of tons of clients on a single screen.

Windows XP ? how about a computer that was made within the last 10 years? that should do the trick.

I can run 12 clients on my primary machine with stuff on low. I usually only run 10. All systems are windows 7 pro 64 bit based.

FX6300 at 4 ghz 16 GB ddr3 and a gtx 660 with a set of conventional 7200 rpm blue/black drives. I get a bit of lag when undocking all 10 at the same time but a SSD would fix that easily. Runs on two monitors one is 1920x1200 and the other is 1920x1080.

My e7200 system (3.168 ghz) with 8 GB of ram and a 5770 can run 10 clients on low fairly well (with isboxer providing CPU and FPS management). It has issues with undocking due to the lack of cores and no SSD. The blue drive in this system is about as fast as the black in my primary. Runs on one monitor at 1680x1050. Bought the monitor for 20 bucks at a pawn shop a few years ago so it's an old one.




32 bit XP is limited to under 4 GB of usable memory (vram and system ram) so that's going to restrict your ability to box.

Even 64 bit XP is less than an ideal choice compared to the newer OSes (win7 and post). XP lacks a lot of optimizations that allow the newer OSes to box better. Not to mention the lack of DX 11 and such.





When I gank I run them on my main computer with eve in windowed mode. I don't even use a window management utility. I've been running VGs since jan 1st with eve in windowed mode. WHs pvp etc are done in windowed mode.




EDIT : This link is of a system that is against the EULA. The usage of wooden dowels and tape to create a poor man's repeater is a bannable offense post jan 1st.

Example

Here's a link to the dude's blog where he explained his setup farther.

https://sites.google.com/site/khromtor/home





Here's a video that shows all the screens I'm looking at. This is with an old fleet setup AND old window setup. Stuff looks different now and are more efficient but this gives you can idea. Top screen is the secondary machine the bottom two are the primary computer. I run the booster the ore/hack/scout and one nestor on the secondary machine in this video. Currently I run the secondary nestor on the primary machine to speed up responses. OBS does awful things to my machines so the FPS is much lower than normal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ4LByLY5T4

Have you try EVE-O preview?

EDIT: Nevermind. The preview will not work on XP.

Really, why still use XP, specially now that you can have WinX upgrade for free and XP is now longer supported

Seriously, you should have already upgraded about a decade ago...nuff said.


p.s. I have an old PC, running Windows 3.11, any chance I can multibox on that one. It has 1024 mb RAM if that matters




That is one outdated system you use.
To get a perspective, my W7 laptop that is 4 years old can "run" 3 clients, if they are all on minimum settings and I don't stress them too much (so no Jita runs etc).

On similar aged PC, I could run 8 accounts using same settings (better GPU and twice the RAM being the main cause).

So 12-15 accounts isn't all that fancy, specially if you use an up to date rig, specially if it is one that was set up for gaming in the first place.

A computer from this decade would help

You should be able to make a billion in an HOUR of mining with 18 accounts.