Some help would be nice

[Trixanity]

Tried to follow the tutorials, but with no luck.
I'm slowly preparing myself for some dual boxing. I dunno whether to use 2 screens or do split screen on my one big monitor. I think I'd prefer to just use one screen. I can't figure out how to do it. I copy + pasted 2 x WoW to somewhere else (So I don't mess up my "real" install of WoW) and called them World of Warcraft Box 1 and 2. I've tried launching them both, they're windowed and don't work to well.

What I did was to edit the config in the WTF folder to something like 1680x570 each. I run a 1680x1080 resolution on my 22" inch screen.
I probably did something wrong. I also tried to create a .bat file for launching and it did not work at all either.
So some help would be nice.

I haven't tried AutoHotKey yet, I'll get to that when I actually get the 2 applications to work nicely together.

I have the hardware for it, as I've run 2 x PTRs without copying a new folder, but that's something else as it required me to minimize to each etc. to move and control both. Now I want to dual box it for real.

As a last question: I've noticed that many dual/multi box with multiple of the same classes. Why is that? Is it easier or something? I figured it'd be more rewarding to level two or more different classes.

Sorry for bothering you all and hopefully I didn't miss some stickies that could help me.

[Trixanity]

AMD X2 3800+ @ 2.6 GHz
2 x 512 Corsair XMS blah blah RAM (It's not much, but it runs everything decently, before you comment on it ^^)
Radeon X1900XTX
Samsung SyncMaster 2232BW 22"
Windows XP
WD Caviar SE 320GB
ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe (If mobo interests you)

The optional monitor I have is a crap, cheap 17" CRT monitor, that I have on my left. Which is the reason I want to do split screen on my main monitor, assuming I would often have to turn my head left to look what's going on with the second char.

Just ask for info, if you need it.
I doubt I would be unable to run 2 x WoW as I've done it before kind of. I can also run some of the newest games on maximum settings.

[ahnubis]

What happens when you try and launch 2 wows?

Are you using 2 different accounts?

if you crash what error message do you get something like error #132?

[Trixanity]

Well, about performance problems. I ran two copies on PTR.
I don't have 2 accounts yet, but I can test on my bro's account as well as my own.

I can open WoW, but it opens in two seperate windows (Note: I wanted them to be two half size full screens run as split screen), the windows aren't the size I want them anyway. With the .bat file, nothing happens, other than a small windows appears for less than a second and then nothing.

Edit: Forgot to add, that I don't crash at all. It's nothing like that, I just want the 2 copies to be full screen and run like the tri-box example in http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums2/viewtopic.php?t=1767&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
Only difference is instead of one copy taking half of the screen and two copies taking two quarters. I want two copies to take each half of the screen. If you know what I mean? Like playing split screen in say... Halo.

Edit2: If I really get different results like this than on PTR. I can look for
another gig of RAM. I'm just a bit reluctant as I'm a bit poor at the moment and I'm on a Socket S939 which means good old DDR memory,
but I guess I just gotta do what I gotta do to make it run properly.

[Hippieman]

Did you modify the .bat correctly? It's not enough to just copy the text in and create the batch file, you have to modify the paths so that they match the ones on your own computer. In the batch file you can actually play arround and get the exact thing you're seeing if you set the margin values and REM's correctly (I'm no expert with regards to the two, so the exact values and REM-commands I'll leave to someone else to answer).

Cheers,
Hippie

[Trixanity]

Yeah, I modified the paths and I'm quite sure I typed nothing wrong. About the marginals, I had no idea how to put them correctly, so I just removed them and edited the resolutions in the config files located in the WTF folder as was also suggested in the tutorial. Maybe the marginals have to be there for the .bat to work?

[Hippieman]

Yes, that's why they're there :P They're used to scale your windows (which shows in how people get 4 symetrical windows on a single screen).

[Trixanity]

Then I must hope for someone to drop by who knows what marginals to use for a 1680x1080 resolution, but wouldn't the .bat launch the two WoW applications, despite the lack of marginals? Anyhow, I can do nothing but wait. So I would not need to edit the configs, if I have the .bat and I have Maximizer in the WoW folders, right?

[Trixanity]

I guess no one knows about how to do it then. Meh.

[Metalocalypse]

I'm not really in the know with Maximizer, but here's a try with the 1680-1080 ;
Since that would mean the screen would be split and one above the other (instead of next to one another) you'd get 840*1080 for each (correct me if I'm wrong)


REM batch file to launch 2 windows split horizontally
REM Upper Screen
[path of 1st copy of wow]\maximizer.exe --margin 0,840,0,0
REM Lower Screen
[path of 2nd copy of wow]maximizer.exe --margin 840,0,0,0


Since you'd only have to account for the split in the middle you don't need to specify what the left or right side margins are (just the top of the lower one and the bottoms of the top one).

Now this doesn't accout for the gxResolution of both screens.. so you might have to wiggle that a bit .. hope that this was useful a bit.

[Trixanity]

I tried with those marginals and got this:
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/2307/wowsplitscreengonewrongre2.jpg
Well, the first time I loaded them up, one ended up like shown on the picture and another went into a windowed one in the middle of my screen in a medium box filling up 1/3 of my screen I reckon.

What I did was to edit the marginals in the .bat file, nothing else really. Did
I misunderstand any of the info you gave me?

Edit: I think I got it. I messed a bit with the marginals and found out I had
to reduce the numbers to get a bigger application instead of increase.
That came a bit as a surprise. I still have one minor problem though.
And it's that the taskbar is still visible. I want it to be like... Full screen and by
that I mean no taskbar visible and it's basically that each application takes up half of my screen, so it's one full screen like I normally run one application
of WoW :) Sorry if I'm getting picky, but I've never liked playing windowed :roll:

[Trixanity]

I've tried to tinker with the maximizer.ini and have had no luck. I tried removing the # at the taskbar command. I've tried setting it to 0 and nothing happens. I think this would be the last thing I need to know, before moving on to learning and creating hotkeys.

Edit: I noticed I forgot to show my gratitude for pushing me in the right direction. Thanks!