Dual boxing I-17 issue

Hey yall,

Before I-17 hit, I could fire up two clients full screen at full settings and alt-tab between the two without issue.

After i-17, however, I can still do so, but there's a massive FPS drop that lasts around 15-20 seconds, maybe more, each time I bounce between the two instances. Now once I let it sit for that time period, I'm then back up to normal performance levels and can cruise along.

On rare occasions I can bounce between the two without issue when each character is on the same map.

Sometimes when the two are in different zones, the problem takes much longer to go away.

Win7 64bit
10.6 ATIs
5870 vid card
6GB RAM

I have attempted to use the maxinactivefps flag but it does nothing to help.

Thoughts?

EDIT: Video card now accurate.

i've been having sort of the same issue since I built my new rig. I was able to dual box with my Q6600 quad, 8gb ram, Geforce 275 but now with my new I7 930, 6gb and ATI 5770 I can't seem to even get more than 5fps.

I haven't tried swapping the cards yet, but I can't see why the ATI wouldn't be able to support the dual box, especially since I normally use the /maxinactivefps command.

Well crud. Nothin?

Ok, if I figure it out I'll be sure to report the fix.

i'll try tonight with the new drivers and see if I still get the same problem.

How nuts is this..here I am with an old HP desktop, WinXP, AGP video card and have no probs with double-boxing. When I put one toon on follow, it happens in real time on both parts of my screen. I only have one monitor, and give each instance half a screen, side by side...I just mouse back and forth.) I don't understand how an older puter/card can have so little probs with the game.

wierd aint it. My cpu is no top of the line unit or no uber gaming machine but I can run COX twice, search net, watch movie, and play freecell all at once and not a prob. I rarely get lag unless it's them team wide blips that come and goes every blue moon. Then I testd out a new machine and holy blazes barely could run one set of COH by itself. I'm keeping my old box till it kicks then I'ma builda replica without windows vista or the likes or course.

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Healix, running in Windowed mode may be a fix in and of itself, but I despise windowed mode. I alt-tab between two full screen instances.

Neg, Mid, no changes from pre-i-17 to post-i-17. However, I haven't retested this since I installed the 10.7s and after THAT occurred I've made some tweaks.

Real life has suddenly taken an extremely busy turn toward the psychotic, so hopefully I'll be able to catch a breath this weekend and muck about on it.

I was able to dual box yesterday after installing the 10.7. However, I also took time to adjust some settings to see if they would help so I'm not sure if it was just the delay Bill mentioned that allowed me to play or my settings change.


Edit: I just tried again with no problem. I even put all the settings back to max and was still getting 30 fps on both screen.

Looks like the 10.7s might have cleared it all up. I have a 2 second burst of low FPS the first time I zone, but then alt-tabbing between full screens works like a champ. No dumbing down of settings needed.

Thanks, folks.

is there a thread with good instructions on duel boxing?

Dunno, MH, but here's my guide:

Start CHV, log in, go back to desktop, start CHV, log in second account, play. Alt tab as necessary.

I log into the game (I use windowed mode) and then adjust it to take up half my screen. Then start the second instance, then adjust that to take up the other half. No alt tabbing...I can see both at the same time. Mousing back and forth is fast.