How to dual box?
By
Aramar,
Posted on: 2011-10-03 22:32 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
On the launcher
File->Settings / Advance Tab / Check Box - Allow multiple instances of a game to be launched
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depending on your specs you may end up having to lower your visual settings some when trying to dual box. if you find that your screen goes black (except for UI), gets laggy, and essentially unplayable; then drop to the deskop, relog on a single instance, lower the settings, load the 2nd instance, etc until it's stable for you.
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I was closing and reopening the launcher for a while until I discovered that.
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Originally Posted by Father Xmas
On the launcher
File->Settings / Advance Tab / Check Box - Allow multiple instances of a game to be launched |
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I haven't seen that before. Generally, it just gets slower for me if I have detail set too high and try to multibox.|
Originally Posted by WanderingAries
depending on your specs you may end up having to lower your visual settings some when trying to dual box. if you find that your screen goes black (except for UI), gets laggy, and essentially unplayable; then drop to the deskop, relog on a single instance, lower the settings, load the 2nd instance, etc until it's stable for you.
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With Ultra off, I can get about six instances running at the same time before things start to get too jerky. Since you can really only actively play one at the time, minimizing the other sessions can greatly improve performance I've found, even with lots of instances running. The critical bottleneck in that case is memory: if you have enough memory, you can run almost any number of instances so long as no more than a couple of them is really shooting graphics to the screen.
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Also adding -maxinactivefps 5
(or 15, or whatever you want) tends to help with system resources.
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Is this better than using the "-stopinactivedisplay 1" command? And I'm assuming you mean putting this in the Properties section of the game in the launcher right?
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Originally Posted by Aramar
Also adding -maxinactivefps 5
(or 15, or whatever you want) tends to help with system resources. |
Yes it's better. People have noticed the background session will likely map serve if it's not allowed to render something.
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Huh, never thought about that...I guess it likely triggers the hidden idle counter then...|
Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Yes it's better. People have noticed the background session will likely map serve if it's not allowed to render something.
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EDIT: If anybody's curious, even with the added command I still have to lower my GFX to dual box (not that I do often), but it makes toggling less of a stutter.
Is there a way to do this with the new launcher? I haven't tried it. It was pretty simple with the old one.
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