What is required to run multiple bots on 1 PC ?

[Soldieron]

Hey guys , just basically wanted to know if anyone could give a rough idea of how much RAM would be needed and what kind of CPU and anything else required to run 10 wow.exe's plus the 10 HB exe's to go with them all on the 1 PC. I couldnt seem to find another thread on the forum so please point me in the right direction if there is a thread already in which case i apologise for a repeat thread , any help on this subject would be much appreciated !

 

[adribuddy]

as a simple maths it could be around ~500mb ea wow instance, and around ~150mb ea hb instance so (500*10 + 150*10) -> 6500 mb with some other shits of OS i would think that somewhere around 8 GB Ram is fine, cpu i5 or i7 depends on your budget and as a hdd the best option would be a ssd of 200+gb, this depends on your budget too.

 

[Soldieron]

Ok great thanks for you reply , i have been researching the past few hours on this topic and came up with this chart on wikipedia :

As a general rule of thumb for multiboxing 3D games on one PC, you want about one CPU core and at least 1GB of RAM per game instance, and a middle to high grade video card with at least 512MB of RAM on it.
Approximate recommendations
2 instances: 2 CPU Cores, 2GB RAM, 512MB video card
3 instances: 2-4 CPU cores, 3GB RAM, 512MB video card
4 instances: 3-4 CPU cores, 4GB RAM, 512MB video card
5 instances: 4-6 CPU cores, 5GB RAM, 512MB video card
6 instances: 4-6 CPU cores, 6GB RAM, 512MB video card

Is this a little over board on the CPU having 10 cores to run 10 wow instances ? i just looked up prices on cpu's with 10 cores and they arnt cheap , i really want to gather more insight on this before buying something i do not need or overkilling on the CPU if not needed.

 

[lilu]

mmmhhh .. atm i am running 5 instances on my pc (dungeonbuddy) .. and it is running ok (but not super fine)

taskmanager says:
8 gb ram (of 32)
cpu is on 30-50% (i7 3770)
my graka is a gtx 770

i am sure , if I setup my pc new it would be better (there is a lot of bullshit on it) ... but just to show that theorie and reality is not the same

and dont forget the modem/router .. there are some cheaps arround witch can not manage a lot of large packetes at the same time

lg
lilu

 

[buzzkip]

I built this, spec below. I run 6 bots, all run smooth, all run at 125+fps consecutively.

Main thing for running HB is CPU, to handle the application processes. Then RAM to store all the running applications virtually/temporarily. Then a GPU to handle the frames in the game, to prevent stuck handling on frame loss. But don't forget a good motherboard to prevent power bottle-necking.

[Motherboard]: ASUS Rampage IV Extreme LGA 2011 Intel X79
[Processor]: Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz @ 4.4GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor
[Processor Cooler]: Corsair Hydro H100i High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
[Memory]: Kingston HyperX Beast 64GB (8x8GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Quad Channel
[Graphics Card]: Asus GeForce GTX 780 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
[Power]: Corsair AX1200i Digital ATX '80 Plus Platinum' Modular Power Supply
[SSD]: 3 x Samsung 256GB SSD 840 PRO SATA 6Gb/s
[Optical]: Pioneer BDR-207EBK 12x BluRay RW / 16x DVD?RW 128GB
[Case]: Cooler Master Cosmos II Ultra Tower Case

 

[lilu]

OMG this one is Chuck Norris !!! NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED !!!!

but Windows does not look fine on the 4th Picture

 

[buzzkip]

OMG this one is Chuck Norris !!! NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED !!!!

but Windows does not look fine on the 4th Picture

that was booting into an old HD!

 

[Teveel]

Ok great thanks for you reply , i have been researching the past few hours on this topic and came up with this chart on wikipedia :

As a general rule of thumb for multiboxing 3D games on one PC, you want about one CPU core and at least 1GB of RAM per game instance, and a middle to high grade video card with at least 512MB of RAM on it.
Approximate recommendations
2 instances: 2 CPU Cores, 2GB RAM, 512MB video card
3 instances: 2-4 CPU cores, 3GB RAM, 512MB video card
4 instances: 3-4 CPU cores, 4GB RAM, 512MB video card
5 instances: 4-6 CPU cores, 5GB RAM, 512MB video card
6 instances: 4-6 CPU cores, 6GB RAM, 512MB video card

Is this a little over board on the CPU having 10 cores to run 10 wow instances ? i just looked up prices on cpu's with 10 cores and they arnt cheap , i really want to gather more insight on this before buying something i do not need or overkilling on the CPU if not needed.

For botting purposes your game client shouldn't get much past 500mb each, can get it lower than that but not without punishing the frame rate too low for certain things.
As for one CPU core per client that's rubbish as a i5 4 cores can run 10 clients or more easy.