/clientsleep

[Marcus75]

Anyone tested this yet? How does it work and does it reduce lag when playing two accounts on the same computer?

 

[Daedalus]

Put both of them on /clientsleep minimized, then whenever you minimize a client it stops rendering, and you can switch to another client, do your buffage there and switch back to your client.

Even though I don't own a buffbot, I can confirm that /clientsleep is working as intended.

 

[Yoshimo]

would this work for /stick? could i have 6 accounts all stuck to each other so when people see me on camlann and they are solo they just give up and not fight back rather than notice that the other 5 aren't doing anything? ^^

 

[Daedalus]

Yes. Well.. maybe.. When I run DAoC in clientsleep mode and I'm doing something else, the CPU usage is still at 20%.. so.. maybe.

Care to find out?

 

[Serbitar]

/clientsleep background 4tw

dont need to minimise then, just alt tab to the other one

 

[Cirandi]

It actually does work- I can finally run around with my bot in tow without losing /stick!

 

[Chimaira]

How do you make it work? =P interested

 

[vintervargen]

ooh, so if you duallog 2 chars, and make 1 with /clientsleep, that one doesn't loose stick

 

[Helme]

The computer doesnt render that one but it still does as you said it shoud do.. ie buff stick sprint or whatever the computer just doesnt generate the gfx on that account until you switch to it, and yes it works really good tried it myself.

 

[Shanaia]

The computer doesnt render that one but it still does as you said it shoud do.. ie buff stick sprint or whatever the computer just doesnt generate the gfx on that account until you switch to it, and yes it works really good tried it myself.

Cue loads of people using this cool feature without ever mentioning it .. but as soon as someone finds a bug/fault/error truckloads of people whine about it

 

[old.Whoodoo]

Cue loads of people using this cool feature without ever mentioning it .. but as soon as someone finds a bug/fault/error truckloads of people whine about it

So far nothing on VN about ppl using it like the old window drag effect, I think they have seperated the two way traffic that does the char-loc and client render, so in effect, what u see is what u get rather than the client being abused into making the server think theres a lag factor.

 

[Shanaia]

So far nothing on VN about ppl using it like the old window drag effect, I think they have seperated the two way traffic that does the char-loc and client render, so in effect, what u see is what u get rather than the client being abused into making the server think theres a lag factor.

hehe I didn't mean using as in "abusing" ... I meant as in you never hear people talk about good features .. but when there is something to whine we all jump on it.

 

[reggie]

i dont notice anything at all when using clientsleep minimized or background. does nothing for me whatsoever. My cpu is still maxed and i still ld all day long whenever the server goes above 1500 capacity.

lots of fun. not.

I read on rightnow they raised capacity to 2k and fixed lag. I lagged before but now its simply terrible. i get ld's all over the place on a 4mbit line. Often i just log off and dont bother. This better not be like that once game goes live.

 

[Evergrey]

i dont notice anything at all when using clientsleep minimized or background. does nothing for me whatsoever. My cpu is still maxed and i still ld all day long whenever the server goes above 1500 capacity.

lots of fun. not.

I read on rightnow they raised capacity to 2k and fixed lag. I lagged before but now its simply terrible. i get ld's all over the place on a 4mbit line. Often i just log off and dont bother. This better not be like that once game goes live.

I have no lag whatsoever after they raised the capacity to 2k, and for the /clientsleep is bullox...does not work at all tbh...still ld´s the same way as i did before and have tried both minimized and background...

 

[Daedalus]

I have no lag whatsoever after they raised the capacity to 2k, and for the /clientsleep is bullox...does not work at all tbh...still ld´s the same way as i did before and have tried both minimized and background...

What are your cache settings, and how much ram do you have, and have you tried putting both of the clients in clientsleep mode?

 

[Evergrey]

What are your cache settings, and how much ram do you have, and have you tried putting both of the clients in clientsleep mode?

my cache settings are set to standard atm.

and using Dual DDR400 PC3200 CL3 512 X 2 = 1024 ram with an 2.8 P4

and yes i have tried to /clientsleep both clients, and still doesnt work

 

[Daedalus]

Hmm. If the clientsleep function itself doesn't work for you, then, there is a bug with the client. Out of interest, what's the CPU usage of the game.dll process when having 1 DAoC process running with /clientsleep minimized on? And how much when you have two processes running?

 

[Thorarin]

/clientsleep works, but it doesn't guarantee /stick will work for your buffbot, that depends on some other factors as well. On a Hyperthreading CPU just /clientsleep alone should be enough, otherwise you can try something that helped for me:

• Use /clientsleep background on both clients
• Set your main client's priority to Below Normal in the task manager
• Keep the sticking (buffbot) client at Normal priority

This made sticking work a little better than having both clients at the same priority. Downside is that if you alt-tab to the BB client too long (depends a bit on hardware and circumstances), you might LD on your main account.

 

[Rulke]

stuff

Didn't nick used to have that avatar, but had to change it after someone had an epileptic fit and died and then complained?

 

[Shan]

/clientsleep works, but it doesn't guarantee /stick will work for your buffbot, that depends on some other factors as well. On a Hyperthreading CPU just /clientsleep alone should be enough, otherwise you can try something that helped for me:

Does HT work with DAOC with Windows?

 

[Spirou]

Does HT work with DAOC with Windows?

Got a p4 3.2ghz HT machine with WinXPpro.
Tried firing up 2 DAoC clients and assign one client to each (faked) processor (set Affinity in Task Manager -> Processes).
No difference in processor load whatsoever.

 

[Ralgedi Smurf]

/clientsleep works fine for me, but i still have the probelm that my bot goes LD pretty fast if i dont move it abit some times, quite annoying but atleast you keep buffs until you press esc on the bot screen

 

[Evergrey]

/clientsleep works fine for me, but i still have the probelm that my bot goes LD pretty fast if i dont move it abit some times, quite annoying but atleast you keep buffs until you press esc on the bot screen

Then it doesnt work as intended ?, the meaning with /clientsleep is to still be able to keep the other client minimized without goin LD - its suppose to send signals to the server and keep it online eeh?. Before 1.69, i never had any probs EVER with running 2 accs on the same PC, i never went LD and i could even have /stick...

The problem started in patch 1.69

 

[Andrilyn]

For me it seems to work quite well, never liked playing 2 accounts on the same computer due to constant LD'ing but with /clientsleep background on both accounts I hardly ld.
Sure the loading with 2 accounts still is around 25% longer than with just 1 account but when you get through the initial lag it hardly lags now for me.
Only problem is when you zone back to classic world (or SI or ToA) from NF my second account sometimes LD's but thats all, quite an improvement from going LD every 5 minutes when having loaded 2 accounts.

 

[Shan]

Assumed that HT wouldn't work. If you don't have correct OS then the software must support HT to work and there are only few games that do that (Falcon X.XX, and couple others)