5 Boxing on One Mac

[vultuk]

Just a couple of screen shots of me running 5 accounts on 2 screens on my macbook Pro.

http://www.bloodlineguild.info/shadet/mb1.png
http://www.bloodlineguild.info/shadet/mb2.png

:D

[Xzin]

Is that playable?

[vultuk]

Suprisingly enough in low graphics, it actually is. I'll pop out a video sometime when I get some decent software to record with :)

[Asrai]

What's your FPS at?

[vultuk]

When running i'm around 42 FPS. When Casting with all 5 I drop to 36 FPS approx..

That's playing with all windows on one screen (not with external monitor right now)

Screen Shot : http://bloodlineguild.info/shadet/mb3.png

[Xzin]

I would love to see how your FPS manage in Shat/Org or AV with a full UI buildout :)

It MIGHT even still be playable... not sure though.

[vultuk]

I'd like to see it too! lol.

I've never played with as many as 5 on one machine before. I've done 3 and that's my limit. That was on the Test Realm and did a Sethekk Halls run with Pally, Lock and Shammy Healer.

It ran great there so 5 will be a challenge

WTB [Portal to Shattrath] lol

I'm aiming for a 3 machine setup. 1 for a tank, 1 for a healer and then 1 for the DPS. Hopefully that should be able to handle everything fine :)

[Morganti]

Valorin is looking for key broadcasting software for a mac. Got synergy working last night, but the modified broadcasting version is PC only. Anyone know of something?

[Autofollow]

Valorin is looking for key broadcasting software for a mac. Got synergy working last night, but the modified broadcasting version is PC only. Anyone know of something?

If you zoom in on the second pic shown, you'll see he has a browser with a google search for exactly that.

The search criteria he is using is: send keycode to application in background applescript

There is some nice information on those links that may help.

[Gigatron]

Thats awesome! :D

[The IT Monkey]

vultuk,
What are the specs on your macbook pro? I've got a mac mini with a 1.66 core duo. If I upped the ram to two gigs do you think I could get away with doing the same thing?

I am finding a lot of information here on these forums but not a lot pertaining to mac... hint *cough vultuk cough* hint. Maybe you could write a quick how to for a mac?

I am a PC guy but I just don't think my machine would be able to handle more than two boxing.

Any info would be helpful, thanks.

[vultuk]

Well my macbook is 2.33 ghz core 2 duo. 3gig ram. 128mb dedicated graphics card

Not sure how many you'd be able to run on your mac mini. With 2 gig of ram i'd imagine you'd probably get 3 boxes out of it, outside of main cities! As mentioned earlier in the post I'm not expecting to be able to roam shattrath like this It just wouldn't happen unfortunatly.

Tonight I actually started my team that I will be continuing with. I'd like you to meet them...

http://bloodlineguild.info/shadet/teamvlt.jpg

Pally Tank, Priest Healer and 3 Mages

I'm running the Healer on an old mac mini, only using an external Number pad to activate macros. The other 4 characters are controlled on my macbook. Mage's in the background and Tank maximised to fill the screen. With that setup i'm seeing around 50 FPS around goldshire etc and around 23 FPS in Stormwind Auction house.

I need to get a seperate machine just for the DPS I think, that would be my ideal goal.

As for information on Mac's. Well, I'll happily do my best, however There's still a number of Bugs I have to figure out myself. For one I'm yet to be able to send Key's to windows in the background so when sending keys to other windows They are popping up on top for a brief second, and i'm not happy with this. It's a work in progress but as soon as I have a setup i'm proud of i'll happily post up a how to.

[Valorin]

Well, I'm just trying to figure out how to broadcast hidden or not. I'm trying to use Global Hotkeys as suggested in another post, but I have the following problem: both instances of my WoW app have the same name, so the Global Hotkey isn't sending two keystrokes, just one. Any ideas?

Valorin