noamineo wrote on Mar 8
th, 2019 at 4:04pm:
I didn't find quildwars grabbed me that much, but it can most likely keep you entertained for a weekend. I suppose I should probably give it another chance.
Have any tips for multi-boxing DDO?
Even if I only get 50 hours out of it that's still about 6 months for me, so well worth trying for the cost of the bandwidth to download.
I use the PyLotro launcher, I've got 2 gaming rigs that I multibox on that are almost identical (mine and my wife's). The smaller one, what I'd consider the minimum for serious dual boxing, is quad core AMD at 3.2 GHZ (not overclocked) with an air cooled heat sing, 16 GB ram, 1 GB LAN, Samsung EVO SSD, and a 8 GB nVidia GTX1070 powering a 4k main monitor and a 1080p side monitor. I can run 4 DDO clients on the 4k monitor and 2 overlapping on the side monitor and my PC stays at about 50%-70% CPU utilization and 65 degrees Celcius, but performance is choppy. 4 windows on the 4k and 1 on the side monitor is pretty good, with occasional stutters while zoning but otherwise completely playable, and 4 or fewer are as responsive as a single instance.
The larger rig has 32 GB RAM and 8 cores, but is otherwise the same, and does a bit better with CPU usage but still has 5 simultaneous instances as the max for good performance.
The kids get weaker PCs, but they all can dual box with PyLotro without significant performance issues. They don't have SSDs, BTW.
I don't use any software to help control the multiple characters, mostly I use 2 or at most 3 characters, and even then it's usually at less crowded times when I can't find a human to run with. I use the 2nd box to open quests on higher difficulty, stand on pressure plates, and/or to cast buffs or handle traps. Performance might be worse if I had 4 accounts all in the quest in a room with active combat, I really don't know how much of a difference that would make. I tried the 5 and 6 instance cases mostly just to see if I could, it's more work than fun for me.