Multiboxing auto-flusher

[Snowy]

So, I box with between 3 and 8 accounts at a time from my computer and the point at which is hit lag is with rain. Of all the things to cause lag problems, it's the damn weather. So here's a script I've tossed together as I have noticed regularly doing /flush all on all the alts helps massively.

flusher.iss

function main()
{
    ext -require isxvg
    wait 200 ${ISXVG.IsReady}
    if !${ISXVG.IsReady}
    {
        echo "Unable to load ISXVG, exiting script"
        endscript flusher
    }
    while ${Me(exists)}
    {
        wait 3000
        VGExecute /flush all
    }
}

 

[xbit]

I'm interested in your hardware and game settings to run 6 instances. When I took a break a year ago I could only get 4 to run with vga going for sessions of up to 3 hours... 6 boxes would lag out or have client drops/innerspace crashes like every 30 mins.

 

[popo]

forgive my ignorance...what does the Flush do?

When I'm running 6 toons on one machine I'm fine for a few hours....then I notice Memory consumption has bumped from 1.5G per session to 2.2G per session = Lag Time

Does the flush reset memory? I'd try myself this morning, but were in forced patch mode.

thanks!

 

[xbit]

forgive my ignorance...what does the Flush do?

When I'm running 6 toons on one machine I'm fine for a few hours....then I notice Memory consumption has bumped from 1.5G per session to 2.2G per session = Lag Time

Does the flush reset memory? I'd try myself this morning, but were in forced patch mode.

thanks!

Flush from my memory would dump your video cache and reload the assets for chunk your in. Everytime you chunk vg would load more assets and not purge old ones. I thought they fixed this when the last team took over for the f2p update but there is lingering issues still. I really notice massive issues when all boxes are not in the same chunk. Or travel through chunks to reach a spot.

What hardware and settings are you using to get 6 sessions running?

 

[Zandros]

What hardware and settings are you using to get 6 sessions running?

I have no problems boxing 3 toons overnight and through out the next day. Haven't tried 6 toons yet.

CPU: i7-3930k
GPU: GeForce 690 (I turn one card off due to Vanguard not able to handle SLI)
MEMORY: 16g
HARDDRIVE: Samsung 840 Pro 240g SSD
MOTHERBOARD: ASUS Rampage IV Extreme

 

[Snowy]

Hardware:
Intel 45nm 3.85GHz Quad+HT/8 logical core
PNY nVidia 470GTX OC@768MHz
Triple channel 24GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM

Also .. running Linux