Huge FPS issues when running 2 clients

[DanielWard]

Hi everyone,

I'm wanting to run two WoW clients at the same time on the same PC, however whenever I do so I get massive FPS issues, game freezes, crashes etc.

I run them both in windowed mode, one on each monitor. Iv'e tried both on the lowest graphic settings - same issues. Iv'e tried running two copies of the game on two separate drives as well.

My hardware setup ( windows 10 64bit ):

2 x 1080p 60hz monitors
SSD
GTX 980
i7 4790k
8GB DDR3 ram

As far as I understand, I should be able to run two clients without any issues, considering iv'e seen it on some other PC's with much lower specs.

Any ideas / suggestions?

Thanks,

[Fascinate]

Have you tried fullscreen? Ive never tried two wow clients but i know i tried running swtor and wow at the same time and changing to fullscreen helped with a lot of the stutter.

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Is 8GB ram enough to run 2 clients?

[Fascinate]

Is 8GB ram enough to run 2 clients?

Ya it is, i think i was around 6.5 when i tried swtor and wow and had a few chrome tabs open.

[Deleted]

I don't have wow but if you run legion how much ram is used by legion only? Let's say in city.

[Mythbredor]

8GB is fine for 2 WoWs, at (10) settings i'm sitting at around 2-3GB. However I'd try playing with your settings and lowering your maximum FPS in the advanced settings (or adding it if it's disabled).

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my wow crashes when i change to v-sync on with windowed fullscreen mode. there is something wrong with the clients itself. try going windowed fullscreen and changing ingame the option to show 1 client on monitor 1 and the other client on monitor 2. your hardware is capable of ultra settings on both..

[DanielWard]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the input. Running both on windowed fullscreen seems to work, I can then switch them to windowed once loaded, weird.

This seems to solve my issues, all running perfectly now ( both on ultra ).