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Atorifan
02-09-2008, 09:24 PM
I'm about to crash, haven't slept. Work, reading this site, and setting up new pc. I was thinking of 3 pc's, but the elctrical footprint in an old condo, wasn't seeming the best plan. I also, already had been running two pc's. I went to the local fry's today. quad core 2.6g, 1tb hd sata, 64b vista, 4g ddr2, 8800 vid card and a 24" wide screen flat panel is my hopefully flawless plan for success. I still need to buy one more acct, which I forgot to do. I could probably do it online, but I'm tired enough, I can consider that tomorrow. Since the monitor is so large, I figure 4 mini windows wouldn't be as mini as on the old 20" I was using.

I do apologize if anyone feels putout with trying ot help on the older setup, and my switching to a new one.

The below is for the brand new machine. I can manually start 3 copies of wow, and manually resize the windows. I've set up the DNP, the round robin, registered keyclone. setup the maximizer and then comd editor with the proper accts and region names. I'm just missing one or two key parts to be running properly.

After some sleep, I was reading this post How to Box 5 accounts (or 2 or 3 or 4) with ONE computer ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=1767')

What I do, is I have 5 different folders, for example
[code:1]c:\wow1
c:\wow2
c:\wow3
c:\wow4
c:\wow5[/code:1]


I don't know what this .bat? is for or supposed to do, or why you would want to do it. Since I'm not running 2 monitors on one pc, the second .bat was of no help or use to me. I did what he said, and made 4 copies of the wow folder, but dragging the shortcuts to the desktop, none of them would launch wow. The first time divxdecoder.dll was not found. Copying that .dll to the desktop on second try, interface.mpq the sysstem cannot find the specified file. trying to search for it led to no results, either. Launching from the orig shortcut within each wow folder the game launches normally. Launching keyclone still does nothing, as far as loading Wow. But when I launch four copies, it lists 5 instances in the keyclone window.



I am still struggling with the startup command part, and getting keyclone to run 3/4 copies at startup. Let me expl, the orig, main comp has the ip port of the second pc as start up comd, and it launches wow on its own, just fine. Doing that on the new machine, does nothing. I'm also confused on the 'add' button. I thought with default it would run whatever instance of wow you listed in the command editor. I'm also trying to run the 4 box machine with one instance of wow, ie just the same shortcut. It's a brand new machine and brand new copy of keyclone. When I try to use the 'add' function, and have the 3 wow windows on the desktop, and keyclone on the side, it always says target: world of warcraft. But that doesn't seem to do anything. I just get a 'busy' mouse pointer til I click on keyclone in which case, it adds keyclone. Or desktop manager if I click on the desktop. When I launch keyclone, nothing further happens, though it does say I'm connected to the main machine. I know this is rather vague and perhaps out of order. But just rereading the keyclone tutorial, it doesn't even mention the startup command box.

I was rereading some older posts and someone was going to lay down a write up of the 4/1 '2 machine boxing', and haven't had time yet. I keep going through posts, trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong or not doing. I'm not intentionally thick=headed, or especially lazy. The rereading things has taught me a peice here and a peice there, that I might have otherwise written yet another 'pleading for help' thread. When I have a clearer head, tomorrow, I'll try and do some more specific 2 machine searches, maybe I can find my answers. As always, thanks for any help in advance. I know it's a drag constantly 'stopping the bus', but I am trying to nail it down, and will try again tomorrow.


Keyclone is working to some extent, each copy will try to type in the p/w as I try to enter the acct names in each window.

keyclone
02-10-2008, 08:47 PM
Hi Atorifan,

if you are still confused.. you could give me a call and i could try walking you through the setup step by step.

otherwise, drop me a note and i'll see what i can do

have a great night ,

Rob

ilikemages
02-10-2008, 10:56 PM
Hi Atorifan,

if you are still confused.. you could give me a call and i could try walking you through the setup step by step.

otherwise, drop me a note and i'll see what i can do

have a great night ,

Rob

Rob for moderator/admin

thinus
02-10-2008, 11:47 PM
I don't know what this .bat? is for or supposed to do, or why you would want to do it. Since I'm not running 2 monitors on one pc, the second .bat was of no help or use to me. I did what he said, and made 4 copies of the wow folder, but dragging the shortcuts to the desktop, none of them would launch wow. The first time divxdecoder.dll was not found. Copying that .dll to the desktop on second try, interface.mpq the sysstem cannot find the specified file. trying to search for it led to no results, either. Launching from the orig shortcut within each wow folder the game launches normally.


The example .bat files are just so you can launch multiple instances of WoW easier. The examples given use the WoW Maximizer tool (do not confuse it with the KeyClone Maximizer functionality). If you are using KeyClone you probably do not need to worry about the .bat files as KeyClone can launch multiple WoW sessions for you if I understand correctly (I don't use KeyClone myself). You can try looking at the KeyClone sticky in the Software section.

As for the shortcuts on your desktop, how did you create them?
An easy way is to launch windows explorer and browse to your WoW folder. Right-click-drag the WoW.exe onto your desktop, select "create shortcut" when prompted.
It sounds like the shortcuts you made did not have the "start in" folder specified correctly, you can check this by right-clicking the shortcut and selecting "properties". The "start in" folder should be your WoW folder.

Atorifan
02-10-2008, 11:57 PM
The example .bat files are just so you can launch multiple instances of WoW easier. The examples given use the WoW Maximizer tool (do not confuse it with the KeyClone Maximizer functionality). If you are using KeyClone you probably do not need to worry about the .bat files as KeyClone can launch multiple WoW sessions for you if I understand correctly (I don't use KeyClone myself). You can try looking at the KeyClone sticky in the Software section.

As for the shortcuts on your desktop, how did you create them?
An easy way is to launch windows explorer and browse to your WoW folder. Right-click-drag the WoW.exe onto your desktop, select "create shortcut" when prompted.
It sounds like the shortcuts you made did not have the "start in" folder specified correctly, you can check this by right-clicking the shortcut and selecting "properties". The "start in" folder should be your WoW folder.Ah, that explained there was a separate maximizer vs keyclone maximizer, wasn't clear in the write up. And creating shortcuts vs using 'copy here' solved that, thanks for that tip.

Atorifan
02-11-2008, 12:03 AM
As of right now, I get 2 wow's launched with keyclone, and not the other two. I don't know what could be different. I'm so frustrated. Also, the select box for account on the cmd ed screen is greyed out, with no data input. I don't know how the hell I did that. Deleting keyclone, did nothing, same settings were in place when I reinstalled. I haven't tried synching my two pc's and even just 3 boxing yet, though it does seem to be linked between the pc's, as I have to pause to input some information on either of the other two accounts. There has to be one simple little thing that is or I screwed up. Since I can't restart from scratch with keyclone, I'm left stuck with what I have now, til someone can help address these concerns. Thanks for the replies, hopefully I can get fully going soon. While discouraged greatly, I'm still trying to chip away at it

thinus
02-11-2008, 12:14 AM
Can't help you much with KeyClone. Not sure if the settings are stored in the registry or a .ini file somewhere. If you know about the registry then you can search for KeyClone and see what comes up. If you don't know about the registry then STAY AWAY.

Have you tried https://solidice.com/keyclone/faq.html ?

Atorifan
02-11-2008, 01:18 AM
Ya, I've read it and the other how-to's on the various pages. I'm stuck with no idea how to unstuck or what I might have done. Even though it looks like everything was done correctly the first time. So, I'm left with just 2 instances running at one time, with the maximizer, and that's it

Jurimax
02-11-2008, 05:03 AM
Atori, if you follow this Howto step by step it will work (at least worked for me ;-) )

HOWTo - Set up Keyclones Maximizer (Updated v1.7s v1.7r) ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=2322&pageNo=1')

Atorifan
02-11-2008, 10:04 AM
Keyclone posted a great pictorial tutorial, it solved all the problems. ?All that's left is fine tuning, and adding new tweaks.