5th client laggy but loads of gpu/ram/cpu power left

[Shady89]

my d3 client is lag spiking on the 5th client? GPU is under 50% load , 7gb of ram spare and cpu hits 40% at the very most.

whats causing this?

i can remember seeing someone having same problem on VS but its down atm :S

all help greatly appreciated.

[D3Hell]

make sure u set all video performace on lowest, other than that, it could be some connection problem. Torrents ?

[Shady89]

nope because its only the 5th client spiking.

[ladam]

Is it a virtual? Check your disk IO but I doubt it's that as you said it's only the fifth one.

You might want to delete the cache for your 5th client?

[Shady89]

its not a virtual , wheres cache in d3 client?

[sharkopolo]

Perhaps that 40% CPU is a bit lying? I don't know, but I cannot see how in multiprocessor environments it should be able to give a combined value of the different processors. Perhaps it can, but parallelisation is a bitch within computing, so perhaps that why? 5 resource hogging programs not distributed properly over the CPUs?
My guess, but I don't know, haven't tried running multiple D3s.

[Shady89]

d3 uses hardly any cpu power . it bounces from 20%-35% cpu , graphics is using 30-40% and ram is at 40-45%.

its sharing the clients over all cores.

[kamikizzy]

maybe its you AV or firewall, make sure your disc drives arent connected to...

[JerkJiggaler]

I have this problem with some of the scripts i run. It only affects D3, I run other games over D3 with no problem. I hardly notice however since the only account I actualy play is my main and I never use anything extra on my main. Honestly I still have no idea why it does this. Usualy with NoAreas or Buddy. Also it doesn't ALWAYS happen. Some apps will lag while others are doing perfect.

[ziggo0]

Which CPU? If it was say an i7...40% of 8 cores is only half, but with 4 actual core that's nearly 100% - it could be choking up. Have you tried limiting the FPS in the other instances? Check disk IO as mentioned and if possible clone/re-create the VM.