5 clients at once?

[bugilt]

I was wondering if anyone has tried to record all five clients at the same time on the same computer. I'm sure you would have to running a quad with dual video cards and 4+gb of ram with wow on low settings. I'm mainly just asking to see if it is possible. My computer specs are way to low to produce anything decent. Maybe someone with one of those $5k machines could give it a shot.

[pipakin]

I was wondering if anyone has tried to record all five clients at the same time on the same computer. I'm sure you would have to running a quad with dual video cards and 4+gb of ram with wow on low settings. I'm mainly just asking to see if it is possible. My computer specs are way to low to produce anything decent. Maybe someone with one of those $5k machines could give it a shot.

I run 5 on my machine and it's nothing special. Dual core processor, 1 video card (GeForce 6800), 2gigs of ram.

Main window is at 1280x800 windowed, 2-5 windows are at 640x480 with graphics set to minimum.

Get >30 fps everywhere but shatt.

[bugilt]

try recording with fraps and get back to me :p.

[Kaynin]

double post -_-'

[Kaynin]

quad 2.4Ghz - pretty standard quad cpu
en8800 ultra, single videocard. I suppose a pretty good one, 768Mb and good memory and clocking speeds.
4Gb ddr 800Mhz running them on right now.
Standard 7k rpm s-ata, nutting too special

Am able to run a 5 box pretty decently with the main at near max settings and the 4 alts with low settings. Two dirs, main from a seperate dir, four alts from another, but the same dir. All on the same disk/partition. Not much else to know in terms of hardware/performance. But it's pulling it with ease really. Some places like Shatt/Org AH and such, are a bit laggy, yeah. But whenever it matters I've never lagged. Instances, PvP (except that raid I did in stormwind, that was laggy. >.< ), random questing about, never really lagged noteworthy. :p

Fraps does not seem to lower my fps much at all either. But I have fraps save the movie to a seperate disk, I heard that can make a lot of difference. :p

[Skuggomann]

Still 5x Fraps = drain hard disc space, whats it? aroudn 100Gb/min? :P

[Kaynin]

Oooh, all five? I misread the post. ;_;

Fraps can't do that on one pc. You need a desktop recorder for that, and I don't know of a good one for that really. Either that or multiple computers.

If you can somehow work out how to record fraps on all windows. This is how it should be done.

At least two disks, one to play WoW off, using two directories max. Preferably one. And one to save fraps on, preferably scsi.
I think writing anything more then two per disk is gonna cause too much lag on a standard drive (Not to the game, but to the recorded movie.). So, this is probably one of the few things you can actually use scsi for. Which might work better. :p There's normally no reason to go scsi over s-ata for playing games, but this is something different I suppose. xD
And defi 4gb minimum, 6gb would be enough without much or any loss I reckon, above 6gb will probably not make much difference. Then I think hardware wise it should be able to pull the load while playing at decent settings. Videocard isn't important for frapsing, just for playing the game. :p

You still need to find a way to run fraps per wow instance first though.

[Pararanger]

Fraps can only record 1 wow instance at a time, but you can get a desktop recorder if you using only 1 computer for all your multiboxing. It will record everything on the desktop from all monitors that are connected

[Majo]

I just recorded a minute or two of full desktop recording while playing 5 accounts. I was able to get 15fps to the video, but when editing the video in sony vegas i had major issues. I appears as though the software can't support video files that wide (2560x1024). It's very choppy when previewing, and when I rendered it all the parts where the video should have been were blank. Also, I noticed you cannot set the video project to be 2560x1024, it has a limit on the width of 2048.

I'm going to try this again by recording with the divx codec. Maybe I'll be able to resize it to smaller video dimensions while recording.

[bugilt]

cool thanks for the help majo

[Majo]

Alright, I got it to work. Here's a video as a demonstration. Sorry I didn't edit it down in length and content, it's very very cumbersome to work with in vegas (video preview is really realllllly choppy).

http://files.filefront.com/Majo+Full+Screen+Recordtwmv/;10073323;/fileinfo.html

What you see on the left is my left monitor, and the right is my right monitor. I'm running 2560x1024 (that's 1280x1024 x2) via horizontal span. My specs: E2180 Dual Core (1.8GHZ OC'd to 3.2GHz), 4gigs DDR800 (soft limited to 3gigs), 8800GT 256mb PCI-E x16, typical 500gig 7200rpm SATA western digital hard drive. I have the 4 small wow's limited to 15 fps, and my main one limited to 80fps. Quality settings and sound off on the small wow's, and quality completely full with sound on the main wow.

Here's what I used - http://camstudio.org/.
I set the region to full screen, I set the recording thread priority to Above Normal and i changed all the keybindings as they were interfering with my F1-F12 keys in WoW. I set the video codec to divx and set that to resize to 1280x512. I was able to record with other codecs, but divx was the only one i have installed that will resize for me while recording. I set the quality settings all the way up, but I get the feeling it's being limited because I don't have the full divx.


I'll work on getting better quality out of it, but as you can see by my specs I'm running about a $1k gaming machine. No big deal. Hope that helps shed some light on the possibility, Buglit. This was fun to figure out, thanks for bringing it up. I'll probably play with it some more now.

[Majo]

Oh and the music in the video is Yelle - Ce Jeu.

Had a couple people ask.

[bugilt]

That is just perfect! Great job! I have the five orc shaman setup to. I can't wait to test this on my computer. I'm thinking about trimming down my windows install and giving this a shot.


Awesome!

[Majo]

Some people asked if I could upload it to Youtube, and I explained how the video is double-wide in dimension so it would come out pretty hard to watch when fit into the letterbox of a Youtube player. I uploaded it to Youtube anyhow cuz I was bored at work, so here's what it ends up looking like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_uj4s_lJJM

[Gurblash]

actually the youtube video isn't bad at all. Aces mate :D

[Marathon]

Yeah Agree ... looks ok on youtube

[crzywolve]

that was very very cool!! PROPS!!!!!!

[Knytestorme]

What are the keybindings and macro you use for your /\ pattern spread?

[Majo]

What are the keybindings and macro you use for your /\ pattern spread?2 of my clients have a keybinding to "strafe left" when I press Control-1, and the other 2 have a keybinding to "strafe right" when I press Control-1.
Also, 1 of those clients that went left, and one of them that went right, have a keybinding to "walk forward" when I press Control-2.

When I press Control-1 and Control-2 at the same time, I get that spread formation.

[Majo]

Please see my new post - I've made a how-to video on doing this.

[Original] How-To Record Fullscreen Multiboxing ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=6643')

[bugilt]

I still have to wait for blizz to give my account back to try this.