wow locking up

[twistedone]

hey so quick pwnboxer question....when ever i go into an instance one of my wow's locks up, if i move the account to a different window it still does the same thing, just on a different window, i have tried giving each wow there own folder, same thing, i have tried using the same .exe same thing....im lost and really frustrated.... its never the same account but id say 90% of the time its the same window, its when i 4box and when i 5box only started happening with in the last couple of weeks

win7 64 OS

[Ualaa]

I had something similar when I upgraded from my Q6600, 8GB DDR2, old motherboard... to the new system i7 920, 12GB DDR3 and Asus P6T motherboard.

I'd suggest looking for an updated driver for the video card first.

In my case, and there was another user with an identical system (same parts, size, speed and manufacturer) who had the same issue. We solved it by moving to Nvidia based graphics cards from the ATI 4870X2 we were using. I found this, just by removing a component and replacing it, with older systems, and if there was no change replacing the newer component back into the system.

[twistedone]

ok this is really starting to p@#s me off, i just installed new vid card drivers...still doing it, i logged into all my accounts without using pwnboxer and everything works fine, figured it my be my cpu but its only getting to 70ish%, i know my computer isnt the "best of the best" but it still used to play everything fine, i have not changed anything in the setting until it started messing up.. posting all my computers info so maybe someone can help...its to the point to where im about to uninstall pwnboxer and start looking for another program, or just go back to keyclone, sure it took more set up but at least i knew when i turned everything on it worked.

os win7 64
cpu amd athlon 64 x2 dual core processor 5400+ 2.80ghz
4.00gb ram
nvidia 8800gt vid card
every driver is up to date all my windows patches are up to date (not that 7 has many yet)

[twistedone]

so no idea why this worked but so far ,/crosses fingers, deleting WTF folder and restarting computer seems to be working

[Ualaa]

Well, not positive the video drivers are you issue.

I was/am using IS Boxer, and the other user was/is using Keyclone.
In both our cases the freeze was a slave window, sometimes you'd run fine for several hours, and other times freeze up almost immediately.
In both of our cases, changing the video card removed the problem.

That's why I suggested starting with the video drivers.

[twistedone]

that was exactly the problem. i did update my vid card drivers....didnt seem to help...but now that i think about it im not sure if i restarted the pc after i updated, could have been.....o and to everyone on the forums sorry bout all my drama, i was just getting really frustrated

[Tim]

Try to run the WoW repair tool and make sure to check all the options to enabled.

For those of us WoW vets we know that WoW can lock up - often. When you multibox, you're just increasing your chance to lock up.

The biggest thing you can do is:

a) Delete contents of your WoW cache folder
b) Run minimal mods, and only low intensity ones (aka, not Questhelper, not Auctioneer)
c) Keep your HD defragged

Also, if WoW dies, it brings Pwnboxer down with it due to how Pwnboxer attempts to layer on top of WoW window locations. Not really a big, but not really a big deal. No matter what Pwnboxer has for super powers, it cannot re-program crash faults that are part of WoW.exe itself

[jpc1981]

I've been trying to scour the forums just in case anyone else was having this issue and I haven't come across a real fix for this. I run 3 accounts. Nearly every time I start pulling mobs in dungeons on account 1 account 2 and 3 freeze then crash. Just opening up 3 seperate accounts (not using pwnboxer) and having the 2 other chars on follow doesn't cause this, so the only thing I can think of is it's something with pwnboxer. Perhaps I have a setting wrong or something. This computer is only about a week old so there's no reason to defrag the HD, even deleted the contents of the WTF folder for good measure. Don't have tons of mods running. Anyone have any suggestions?

Operating System:Windows 2.6.1.7600
CPU Type:AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 255 Processor
CPU Speed (GHz):3.12
System Memory (GB):8
Video Card Model:NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465
Video Card Driver:nvd3dum.dll
Desktop Resolution:1920x1080
Hard Disk Size (GB): 931.41
Hard Disk Free Space (GB): 857.09

I have account 1 using one gamepath. 2 and 3 are both using the same gamepath, but different from account 1. Since I only have a dual core I have account 1 using core 1 and account 2 and 3 using core 2. Reasoning is account 1 is my main screen.

[Tai]

Hmm mine freezes before entering the game, also when im logging out, even if im only playing one account but its only a short freeze.. as long as i dont try clicking the window it unfreezes itself..

[jpc1981]

I disabled recount on all the characters and everything seems to be working so far.