Setting CPU Affinity in Multiboxing Software
Posted on 30. May, 2010 by admin in Blog
multiboxing software can be used to make your CPU more efficient while you’re multiboxing. Nowadays, computers have more than one physical CPU build into the system. Normally, they’re all used as much as possible (as long as the software supports multi-threading). However, things are slightly different when it comes to multiboxing. Sure, you’re running multiple instances of a game, but only one instance really has your attention. The others spend most of their time just running macros and looking pretty. So, why not focus your CPU power where it can be of the most use. pwnboxer lets you do it. With CPU Affinity controls built into the multiboxing software.
As you can see here, pwnboxer supports upto 8 processor cores. This is equivalent to the Intel i7 processor. From this menu you can select which cores you want to use with which game. This will allow you to use a larger segment of your total power towards your main game which will has your attention nearly the entire time you’re playing. Sure, this function is built into Windows as well, sort of. You can go in and set each window’s affinity manually from the Task Manager. However, you’ll need to do this with each window each time its opened. You can do all this automatically straight from the multiboxing software setup within pwnboxer.
Here’s an example for someone that is 5-boxing on a quad-core processor. You have 4 cores. You then set the first two cores to run with your main game window within your multiboxing software since it needs the most processing power and is running at higher settings. For games two and three, you’d set the affinity to run just on the third core with each game. This is because your slave windows will be running at a lower framerate and at lower settings. So, they’ll need significantly less processing power to run. Repeat this with games four and five running on the fourth and final core.
Once again, the multiboxing software is running the main game window on the first two processor cores. Games two and three are running just on the third processor core. Finally, games four and five are running just on the fourth processor core. This way, you’ll get the most processor power always running to the game window that you’ll be paying attention to the most.
Worried about your games not having enough processor power to run? Well, modern CPUs (those produced since WoW was developed a little before 2004) are powerful enough to run at least 2-3 instances of WoW for each processor core. CPUs produced today are capable of running 5+ WoW on each processor core without much trouble at low graphics settings. So, processing power just isn’t an issue.
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