MacroQuest64

I've been running genbot on my two toons, and have noticed that the background bot is always significantly slower in running the program than the foreground bot. It's not the frame rate -- they're both set to 50 fps, and render rate 1/1. I just bought another GB of memory, which I thought would improve the problem but it didn't have any effect. I'm running Windows XP. Does that make any difference?

I added a command to log every major subroutine, and I can see that sure enough, the foreground bot is calling about 3 subs a second, and the background bot is calling a sub about every 1-30 seconds. If I switch windows, then the opposite bot starts to slow down, and the previous moves along just fine.

There's no particular pattern I can see connecting any particular sub with the delay.

Any ideas? Two-boxing just isn't working with this kind of delay.

--Vexix

As far as I know:
DO NOT use Turbo (it is set at 20 in default, no need to use it);
DO USE EQW, instead of using the EQ built in window functionality;
DO USE 50 FPS on fore, 35 background and a render 1/30 for background;
DO NOT USE sound on the background (put a file named nosound.txt in your EQ directory).
These are my settings and I have no problems at all running two session a time.

Thanks Falco. Sounds pretty similar to what I'm doing. Are you on XP?

I did find last night that it improved a bit when I dropped down my background render rate, and moved to 640X480 windows. Anyone else have any ideas on this?

--Vexix

No, I am on win 2000 pro.

Start > Control Panel > System > Advanced Tab > Settings button under Performance > Advanced Tab

Under Processor Scheduling, switch it from Programs to background services, if that doesn't do it switch the Memory section from Programs to System Cache.

Note that these changes will negatively impact your foreground processes (how much depends on how powerful your system is and how hoggish your programs are.)

Thanks grumpy. You are dead right. I did exactly that, and genbot is WAY more reliable now. Thanks!

--Vexix