A Different Boxing Question?

[Boondock_Saint]

I was wondering if it was possible to run 2 copys of wow on the same pc 2 monitors with 2 keyboards/mice and be able to designate a KB to each application. My wife and I are wanting to play together now that im boxing and have multiple accounts but I dont wanna buy another pc at the moment I was wonding if anybody knows how to do this, if its even possible. I figured this would be the place to ask since I got all the info I needed for my 3xshammy Team Snap, Crackle, and Pop from this site.

[Zal]

no, can't do that

[Boondock_Saint]

I did use the search box and I didn't find the answer to my question so I asked, sorry for using the forums for what they're used for.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Windows has no facility for tying hardware to a specific application unless the application itself is hardware-aware. I.e.: WoW would have to be written specifically to support this. ;) (I suppose it could be done with a hack but that's something that would definitely put you afoul of the ToS.)

[thinus]

Without getting a special keyboard driver for the second keyboard I don't think you can do it. You need to know which device generated the keypress and once you go past the device driver that isn't possible as far as I know.

[Gunsnbowses]

I did use the search box and I didn't find the answer to my question so I asked, sorry for using the forums for what they're used for.
I think the bit about the search effort is just his quote and not directed at you.

:)

[Boondock_Saint]

I did use the search box and I didn't find the answer to my question so I asked, sorry for using the forums for what they're used for.
I think the bit about the search effort is just his quote and not directed at you.

:)

Yeah your right I wasnt paying attn pfft =) thanks for the input guys

[Zaelar]

Not with a standard keyboard, but if you get a keyboard that can have all of its keys remapped in a way that doesn't effect the other/all other keyboards plugged in you could have one keyboard have every keypress be some random symbol that wow doesn't use by default and then change all of the keybindings in one account to the symbols, but one keyboard would be in charge of typing login info and for chat.

[Maxion]

Technically, you might be able to do at least the keyboard part of it using half of one keyboard each, binding keys on your half in your installation of wow and unbinding everything else, and vice versa.
Or one of you could be using an X-Keys Pro of some kind and the other the normal keyboard, just bind all the x-keys keys to ctrl-shift variations of all the keys or something, and keybind accordingly.

But either way, one of you would be without a mouse.

A lot cheaper and easier to get a new computer of some kind.

[EaTCarbS]

equation:

Keyclone > 2 keyboards in 1 computer

?

(2 keyboards into 1 computer just doesn't make sense to me :P )

[nomenquis]

Now this is some rather 'insane' idea, but if your computer is up for the task there would be one solution for it.
You can easily (well, depends on your knowledge / willingness to rtfm) set up a setup like you want on a linux box. And then run wow x 2 using wine / cedega.

It's going to be a fun project however :)

[moji]

Well, you could rewrite the drive bus, and then it's just a simple driver flip around without a KVM. I actually do something similar with 3 monitors and a mouse and a Tablet pad, but you gotta make sure you have your config files overwritten appropriately. I have to restart every time the flux capacitor jams up, whenever it falls below 88 mph, but Hal rarely has problems as long as the omega 13 is in queue.


On second thought, buy a second computer if you wanna play at the same time.

[Bigfish]

(2 keyboards into 1 computer just doesn't make sense to me )

Makes sense to me. Its pretty nice having a keyboard tied to the individual client. But then, I'm 100% hardware, so no idea how you would do it on1 computer.

[Catamer]

I guess your wife doesn't rate her own PC... it's either that or you have control issues :whistling:

[Duese]

Their is one option that would require a little bit of money but not much... Buy a piece of crap computer with no bells or whistles that can barely run windows xp. Should run you <$50. Then run HotKeyNet (or keyclone) on the second computer passing all keyboard inputs to the secondary window of WoW.

Obviously the irony of the situation is that I'm telling you to buy a second computer, which is not how you wanted to fix the problem, but if you have another computer lying around that can't play WoW, it still can be useful.

[nomenquis]

Their is one option that would require a little bit of money but not much... Buy a piece of crap computer with no bells or whistles that can barely run windows xp. Should run you <$50. Then run HotKeyNet (or keyclone) on the second computer passing all keyboard inputs to the secondary window of WoW.

Obviously the irony of the situation is that I'm telling you to buy a second computer, which is not how you wanted to fix the problem, but if you have another computer lying around that can't play WoW, it still can be useful.The problem with that would be that you still can't have 2 mouse pointers in windows. There is some stuff around that 'simulates' multiple mouse pointers, but as soon as you click (and drag for that matter) you're back down to only one pointer. -> Rotating on both screens with 2 mouses just is not going to happen on windows without some insane trickery.
There is still the linux solution though, http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/07/04/27/021241.shtml might be a neat starting point with tons of links.

kind regards