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Thread: Running 2 game clients lagfree
I believe with dual monitor (when using 2 monitors, and not 1 monitor and 1 TV), you have to drag the program from 1 screen (main) to the secondary, or move the Shortcut to the game to the Secondary monitor as well. Maybe it works that way (make sure both screens can use the same resolution). I will test it tonight
Beswa wrote:
Kra, How do you get SWG to run with Dual monitor support, or am I missinturpreting what you are saying? are you getting the two accounts running on two different moniters? I can't get this to work, and didn't think SWG supported it
Beswa
Message Edited by Beswa on 01-13-2005 09:38 AM
Message Edited by Beswa on 01-13-2005 09:40 AM
DeQuosaek wrote:
Sly20 wrote:
I got 2 accounts. Since JTL I got extreme lag running them both at the same time
Anyone running 2 accounts with decent lag? I got 1 gig ram now and a good computer / graphics card, ati 9800)... would it help if i upgraded to 2 gig?
Actually yes... Upgrading to 2 gigs will help quite a bit. I just went from 1 Gig to 2 Gigs and I used to get quite a bit of lag when siwtching between the accounts to the point where I would have to stand still for a full minute or so while the client loaded everything up after siwtching. Now it runs very smooth.
You'll notice that almost all lag in this game corresponds to stuff loading from your hard drive. Next time you're lagging really bad, look at your box and notice the hard drive access light flickering. More RAM = less hard drive usage = less lag.
It's very smooth with 2 gigs.
By the way... I have:
Penitum 4 3GHz CPU (800MHZ FSB)
2 Gigs DDR400 RAM (512M x 4 - Dual Channel)
ATI X800 Pro 256MB (running at almost full XT PE speeds)
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
2 x 120 Gig Western Digitalhard drives (in a RAID-0 array)
(still a little disappointed that I can't crank the terrain details up all the way and have smooth framerates)
Message Edited by DeQuosaek on 01-12-2005 11:03 AM
Can you hand me a link to that guide?
FooManChoo wrote:
I have a geforce FX 5950 Ultra 256MB, 1gig ram and a AMD 64bit 3400+ processor and I run 3 clients sometimes and never experience visual lag. I followed the steps that TH posted about making SWG run better by turning off certain graphics options, but I still have my settings maxed out!
Neutronos wrote:
Found it.
Neutronos wrote:
Can you hand me a link to that guide?
FooManChoo wrote:
I have a geforce FX 5950 Ultra 256MB, 1gig ram and a AMD 64bit 3400+ processor and I run 3 clients sometimes and never experience visual lag. I followed the steps that TH posted about making SWG run better by turning off certain graphics options, but I still have my settings maxed out!
The Lunatic Fringer
LunaticFringer wrote:
Actually, this may sound silly, but how do you get windows to let you run two clients at the same time to start with? I've got multiple accounts and I'd like to try this out. I've never seen a post for it and haven't gotten much help in game about it.
The Lunatic Fringer
You have to make a .cfg file and place it in the root directory of SWG, but I don't think its supported by SWG and may even be frowened upon ... so be carful. Not to sure if anyone can actually post details in official forums? sombody let me know if I am wrong please.
And Rhadida, for my earlier post about getting dual moniter support to work, maybe its mine and my guild mates graphics cards but the SWG window does not drag accross desktops/monitors, it hits a invisible wall, its as if it is not really windowed even when running in windowed mode! sorry for being a bit vague in what I had already tried. The only way I can get it to work is to login to first account, dump back to desktop, right click into properties and in there, the Windows properties select the second moniter as myprimary display, that way the client for the second account then appears on that monitor, this speeds up switching between toons, by just alt tabbing, but alas when you switch from one toon to the other the inactive account even though its ona second monitor still minimises, but hey, the same technique still works great for browsing/ reading e-mails while playing with a single account.
Please if anyone can actually get two accounts to display on two monitors via dual monitor output AT THE SAME TIMElet me know its driving me nuts ..... IT WILL NOT BEAT ME!
Message Edited by Beswa on 01-13-2005 11:19 PM
Message Edited by Beswa on 01-13-2005 11:21 PM
Found it.
Neutronos wrote:
Can you hand me a link to that guide?
FooManChoo wrote:
I have a geforce FX 5950 Ultra 256MB, 1gig ram and a AMD 64bit 3400+ processor and I run 3 clients sometimes and never experience visual lag. I followed the steps that TH posted about making SWG run better by turning off certain graphics options, but I still have my settings maxed out!
SpaceMace wrote:
Macro:
/flushGraphicsResources fullReset;
/pause 600;
/macro ClearCache;
Might help your performance issues a bit.
Make sure you name the macro ClearCache
Seems like this command is recognized by SWG. Doesnt work in other words
I wasn't planning on using it, but now I sorta want to.Message Edited by Isi-Lia on 01-14-2005 10:31 AM
LunaticFringer wrote:
Actually, this may sound silly, but how do you get windows to let you run two clients at the same time to start with? I've got multiple accounts and I'd like to try this out. I've never seen a post for it and haven't gotten much help in game about it.
make afile called USER.CFG that reads:
[SwgClient]
allowMultipleInstances=true
And make sure that the command iscapitalized the same. You can use the Windows Notepad to make the file. Make sure when you save it with Save As... that youchange the option right under the space where you type in the filename and chanegthe Save As Typeto All Files instead of Text Documents (.TXT)
That's it.