New user, 2 pc's 5 accounts.

[JBritt]

Hello,

I'm trying to get set up to try out multi boxing and i'm running into some issues.

Maybe i'm just not looking in the correct spot but I just can't find good documentation for keyclone. I have looked on their website and even the screenshots seem to be from a older version. i'm using 1.8k

I have 2 pc's. I hope to run my main account on 1 pc and 4 on the secondary. I have purchased 2 keyclone clients and I THINK I have them talking.

What i'm having an issue with is actually getting everything configured. I have looked through the documentation but I guess i'm just not smart enough to figure it out or I have missed something important. I have set up on the maximizer section where I want my windows on my 4-box PC. I see how you export the file. I have launched the 4 clients using wow.exe on each seperate install. But I don't see how to assign the clients to each maximizer section in keyclone.

Do I need to do more with the maximizer ini's in each wow folder, or is that all handled in keyclone?

I have not even gotten to keymaps, I still can't get the clients running in the appropriate order. Thanks much for any help you can give!!!

[Ualaa]

Open Keyclone and click on Set Up.

- I'm assuming you have had keyclone detect each of your wow clients. It was one of the basic tutorials on the www.solidice.com/keyclone page.
*EDIT* this link: http://solidice.com/keyclone/tutorial/index.html
- If you don't, basically you need to go to Set Up and then "General" and check "auto-add windows titled" and type in "world of warcraft".
- Check focus follows mouse. Make sure distinguish left/right mouse click is unchecked.
- Click ok, to get the keyclone start screen (where you just clicked Set Up from).
- Then start each wow in windowed mode, sign into the game.
- Click the add button on the keyclone and then click the mouse on the middle of the wow client, not the title bar.
- Repeat the process for each additional wow client that will be running on that PC.

- Now you have two sections for editing which client is in which window.
- Go back into Setup.

- I'd go to "Maximizer" first, but the order isn't critical.
- I believe you need to un-check the "enable maximizer" to configure your windows.
- There's a plus icon in the top left which will add a region.
- Click the plus to create a region, the first will be called region0, the second will be region1 etc.
- Position your windows where you'd like them. I personally disable the "Snap to Grid" option, but that's optional for you.
- There's an option called PIP, where you type the hotkey for the region you are configuring. You'll want to assign something to each region. I use Shift F1 through Shift F5 for my regions.
- I notice there is a drop-down menu to select which Display the region is on; I have no experience with this, but I'd imagine you'd need this for more then one monitor. I'm not certain if its for more the one monitor on a single PC or if this is for more then one monitor across your screens. Maybe someone knows a bit more, or you can play around with this.
- Once you have your windows in position, with a PIP hotkey for each, re-check the "Enable Maximizer"
- Click the apply button.
- You'll want to note the exact name for each of the regions you have created; default will be (lower-case) region0, region1, region2 etc.


- Now click on the "Command Editor", this is in the same column as "Maximizer".
- I name each client wow1, wow2, wow3, wow4 and wow5. The name does not matter, but shorter is easier then longer.
- The box which ways Command, a little above the "program" button and "keymap" button, type wow1 or whatever you choose there.
- With four clients on one machine, give each of your cpu cores an equal number of clients, ie Quad-Core would get a client each, Duo-Core would have two-each, single core will have all four. Obviously the machine with only one client on it, will not have a benefit from the CPU affinity box.
- Now that you have a name for the first wow client, click the program button and navigate to the wow.exe file, you don't want the launcher.exe. When you find it, click it.
- I leave keymap blank.
- Next field down is region; put region0 here, as this is the first region you configured and this is the first account we're setting up. The second account (repeat procedure from this section) will have your second region (region1 by default, unless you choose different names).
- Check the box beside wow:username. Type your account name in the field to the right. Wow usernames are not case-sensitive.
- Below that are two boxes. If your keyclone has wow: and maxfps: like mine, the wow: is background and maxfps: is foreground windows. If you're like my roommates download (more recent) then the one which is bkfps is the background and the other is foreground. You want to limit the background to maybe 10 fps and the foreground to 30 or 40 fps. You'll tweak these numbers later for a balance between eye-candy and a smoother running system. Lower numbers will have your system running smoother while higher numbers will look better.
- When you're done click Apply.
- Repeat the process for each other client on this computer.

- Go back to General. Uncheck "auto-add windows".
- Check "startup command" and type in the names of the clients (this is from the command editor section, mine were wow1, wow2, wow3). Separate your names with a semi-colon, don't include spaces. So mine looks like this: "wow1;wow2;wow3;wow4;wow5". In the next field pick a number for the seconds mine is 2, but a slower computer might was 5 or whatever.
- Click apply and then close Keyclone.

- Do the same for the other keyclone, on the other machine.

- Open keyclone on each machine.
- Now that you're set up, it should bring each of the clients to the log-in screen, with each client in the window you defined in Maximizer.

[JBritt]

Thanks for your reply.

I just found this guide that is VERY helpful,


http://www.digitek.se/dualboxing/Beginners_Guide_2_Dual-Boxing.pdf

[jurence]

4 on 1 box just sounds like a bad idea

Are you core duo? Both of my PCs are; my main pc holds 3, my laptop holds 2.

http://img356.imageshack.us/img356/4806/markeeconfirmcu2.jpg

[Gair]

I run 4 on one box and it's not really bad. Does depend on the processor through, having a dual proc helps. (Mine's AMD). Just as important is how much memory, and your video card.

[phineas01]

I am able to run 4 accounts on one computer and it's not even that great of a system. Windows Vista 32, AMD +4400x2, 2GB PC3200, ATI 1900XT. The key for me was removing all the unnecessary services and processes in windows as well as using symlink. Only area I have trouble in is the capital cities but it's not that bad that I feel I have to change my setup.

edit: Forgot to add I have Ready Boost enabled on a 1GB MicroSD card too. Not sure how much that helps me but I'm sure it's a good thing.

[JBritt]

Thanks for the input. I finally got everything up and going last night. The 4 clients seemed to run ok on the one box. It's a 3 ghz core 2 duo with 2 gigs of ram and a nVidia 7950 GT. I have 4 gigs on the PC I just run one account on so i'll swap that over to the 4-box when am not feeling lazy.

It's going to take a little getting used to on the controls. I need to do a lot more research on the best macros to use etc.

[Ualaa]

I'm running five on one-box.
Keyclone software boxing & Jamba for my multi-boxing addon; both are amazing.

I'm playing on a 30.5" wide-screen monitor.
Basically my regions are 640x480 (x4) along the top.
And then 1446x1085 in the left corner for my active window.

That leaves a fairly large window on the right for Firefox to check quests, or to play a dvd in to make farming tolerable etc.

Vista 64-Bit, Service Pack 1
Q6600 @2.4 Ghz
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2
8 GB Patriot Extreme DDR2 @800 mhz
Raptor 10,000 rpm, 5 wow clients SymLinked from my main install.
G15 Keyboard for 54 extra macro's is nice.

The game seems to run fine, with graphic settings on (medium - eye candy / maximum - view distance) for my main window and minimal on all four slave windows.