This little writeup assumes that you have read and understand the Dual Gliding 1.5.7. You will also need a valid copy of http://www.d3scene.com/forum/wow-bots/12071-glider.html


I have been a member of the http://www.d3scene.com/forum/wow-bots/12071-glider.html community for a long time and have been through a lot of the growth and changes that have come about. I've mostly kept quiet and lurked on these forums but I figured it's about time that I started contributing.

I currently run six copies of World of Warcraft on a 24" iMac running Windows XP in bootcamp ( http://blog.crtdx.net/wp-content/upl...plentyofem.jpg ) - I hope to increase that number but I am working out issues with dead sessions, a conversation for another day. This guide is to hopefully help you optimize the performance of your World of Warcraft instances to push as many as you can on one computer to save hardware upgrade costs and power used for multiple machines. I'll get right into it.

To start out, please make sure you have the following accomplished from TommiTMX's Guide.
1. A World of Warcraft folder located anywhere (just one!)
2. Glider installed.

Now! On with it,
1. Start World of Warcraft without anything else open on your computer. You do not need more than one folder, using XP and Vista, World of Warcraft can run multiple copies off the same installation with zero problems as long as the user "Everyone" has full access to the folder. Right click on the "World of Warcraft" folder, click "Add" type in "Everyone" and check off "Full Access" then apply (this is not necessary if you copied your World of Warcraft folder from another location such as an External HDD - only if you have installed fresh on your machine). Starting World of Warcraft once adds it to the Registry so Glider can find it.

2. Log into the game on any account and type the following.

/console maxfps 20

Setting the maxfps to 20 prevents each World of Warcraft instance from fighting with other instances of the game over CPU cycles. This combined with the next two steps will drop usage down below 10% (using a 2ghz processor as a base of comparison). Glider will run World of Warcraft perfectly smooth at 20fps, you will not notice a huge difference.

3. Disable in-game sound. Game sounds, even if you cannot hear them use a lot of CPU cycles, disabling it will shave off more resources you can better put to running more instances of World of Warcraft and Glider. There is no reason to have it enabled, Glider sounds are unrelated.

4. Turn down all video settings, uncheck everything that says "may improve performance" if you uncheck it and check everything that says it may improve performance if you do. You're gliding, your computer does not care in the slightest how glider looks and will love and appreciate the fact that you took the time to disable the settings.

5. Log out and exit World of Warcraft, this saves your current settings so they can be applied to all instances of World of Warcraft that you will open later.

6. Open your prepared Glider.
- - - a. Turn off keyboard hook, it's unnecessary and really lags down Glider and the computer the more instances of World of Warcraft you have going.
- - - b. Under Miscellaneous, uncheck "Remember game window size" - if you do not do this when you start the Gliders it will bounce your first instance of World of Warcraft around and stack it on top of each subsequent glider you open. This doesn't really make a huge difference as far as what glider is doing at all; however, it's irritating to me and difficult to move the windows if Glider is in combat.
- - - c. Background Enabled, Leave game window as normal, this allows you to keep them organized and shrunk however you would like instead of letting Glider automatically do it for you, I like tiling my windows on the screen to keep them small. Just a suggestion

7. Continue with steps 5, 6 and 7 on TommiTMX's guide located Dual Gliding 1.5.7

8. Open up however many copies of wow you are going to use and tile them (or stagger them if your monitor is small) on the screen. You're almost ready to go now.

9. Run the .bat files one at a time, wait until Glider logs into the character select screen before running the next. With 1.5.7 Glider will automatically attach itself to one of the provided open instances of World of Warcraft, it does not make a difference which one it latches on to.

Once they all load up, you're golden, congrats on the performance boost.

This guide has been written by CRTDX. All credits and copyrights go to him.