[HOW-TO] Running two clients on one PC

[gillest]

Ohhhhh, Thanks indeed NB, I am PC blond as well and I understood...

Now, wonders if this would work with a blond PC (laptop)

Ok got it to work: didnt know had to add (space) before /multi...

NEED SOME RAM NOW .....

[emptyish]

I managed to get the two clients up and stably running, but preformance was far too poor to be practical. So missylee, I was wondering how much memory you have that you are running two clients alright.

[nazak07]

It seems to me with 2 clients up I am constantly taking up 1.5 gig of ram, I have 2 gig total. 2 clients at once work stably and smoothly . I wouldn't really recommend less then 2 gig of ram if you are going to attempt this, though it is doable on less, just not so smooth .

[emptyish]

Yeah, I have one gig. "Not so smooth" is a bit of an under statement Thanks.

[missylee]

My PC has 2 gig of ram, GeForce 7800 GTX and 2 screens.
After testing, i descovered that i can run both clients with full specs and no lag.

[thurmar]

Yeah, I have one gig. "Not so smooth" is a bit of an under statement Thanks.

As was stated earlier 2 clients can be run with less than 2 gig but not pretty or smooth.

The below quote is taken from the machine specs thread here. The quote is for 1 client so double it for 2.

Ryzom will use 800 MB or more of RAM with graphics settings maxed out so disable as many extraneous apps as possible, especially if you have less than 1024 MB of system RAM.

you could check out the performance tweak thread here to try and reduce some of your slowness but 2 clients on 1 gig of ram will just not be smooth...

[varden]

i been trying to run 2 clients with vista 64 bit on duel screens i added the space/multi but and in window mode but it just stop the first runing after the second starts up i need help plzs

[h0lycha0]

[*]Open the 'client.cfg' file in your new Ryzom directory, and make the following change:
Then add this line to the end of the file:
BackgroundDownloader = 0;

Did you do that? If not, are you getting an error?

[varden]

thanks all got a bit of help from ingame and got both runing at the same time on each screen

[kuroari]

ack, don't disable direct input!!

just do what someone said..earlier in this post... *runs to look*


*runs back*

zerotacg said it - just add /multi

and for emphasis - i said this on page 3

if your computer is strong enough to handle it...

right click on the 'ryzom' icon on your desktop

add /multi to the end of the 'target' line

(will look like this D:\Ryzom\client_ryzom_rd.exe /multi ---- only you will have somethign simliiar yet different for the first part)

hit "OK"

open ryzom - and login (windowed mode is a good idea...)

minimize ryzom after its loaded , and open it again using the ryzom shortcut on your desktop (the one you edited with /multi) - this time login with your second account.

wait for that to login, then start playing

expect serious lag if you have a not-so-high-end computer! setting everything to "LOW" before trying this, then upping as you go is a good idea.

and as an afterthought..

now that i have 4 cores in my computer *boasts like a brat* i realized that the game runs insanely smoothly if you change it so "each game" runs on a different core - MUST HAVE DUO-CORE OR HIGHER!!

to do that..

run first ryzom game -

do the 3 finger salute (ctrl-alt-delete)

go to processes and find "Client_ryzom_rd..." and right click that

Set Affinity

(for me with 4 cores - i have options 0, 1, 2, 3 - other comps will be different)

and set the affinity of that game to 'cpu 1' (check only cpu 1)

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run the second client, and find THAT in processes - set THAT affinity to only CPU 0

now, your two clients are running on "two diffurnt computers" (except for RAM and graphics usage) so itll run MUCH smoother!

happy duo-ing