rarr
06-10-2008, 07:27 AM
I've been reading quite alot over the past couple of days about multi-boxing and reckon I'm going to give it a shot. It's mostly quite old hardware but hopefully it'll cope.
I started setting up the computers last night and depending on how well it goes tonight depends on how far I take it ;)
Anyway the setup so far consists of 3 computers:
On my main computer I've got 2 monitors and I thought I'd run 2 instances of WoW with the main toon full screen on one monitor and 4 on the second. It's a P4 3Ghz with an oldish GeForce FX 5900XT dual head graphics card and 1.5 gigs RAM.
Computer No 2 is again quite old, a dual CPU 1.8Ghz AMD (from the days when 'dual' meant 2 physical CPUs ;) ). It's again got an old GeForce graphics card and maybe 2 gigs of ram, I can't quite remember. I figured I'd run 2 instances on this one as well.
Computer No 3 is older yet, ~1.6Ghz AMD no idea what graphics card is in it or RAM so it'll run just one instance.
I've probably got another computer or 2 knocking around I could set up if the main or computer No. 2 can't cope with running two instances.
All the computers are going to be running Ubuntu and I'm going to set up VNC on them or something so I can run them headless. However I might be able to dig up a spare monitor or two if needed.
As you can tell it's all a bit up in the air at the moment! I think I'm just going to have to have a play with it and see what works out best, I’m not totally sure the hardware will be able to cope. Running out of power outlets rapid as well!
Ah long post.... I'm gong to have a dig and look into various software options....
I started setting up the computers last night and depending on how well it goes tonight depends on how far I take it ;)
Anyway the setup so far consists of 3 computers:
On my main computer I've got 2 monitors and I thought I'd run 2 instances of WoW with the main toon full screen on one monitor and 4 on the second. It's a P4 3Ghz with an oldish GeForce FX 5900XT dual head graphics card and 1.5 gigs RAM.
Computer No 2 is again quite old, a dual CPU 1.8Ghz AMD (from the days when 'dual' meant 2 physical CPUs ;) ). It's again got an old GeForce graphics card and maybe 2 gigs of ram, I can't quite remember. I figured I'd run 2 instances on this one as well.
Computer No 3 is older yet, ~1.6Ghz AMD no idea what graphics card is in it or RAM so it'll run just one instance.
I've probably got another computer or 2 knocking around I could set up if the main or computer No. 2 can't cope with running two instances.
All the computers are going to be running Ubuntu and I'm going to set up VNC on them or something so I can run them headless. However I might be able to dig up a spare monitor or two if needed.
As you can tell it's all a bit up in the air at the moment! I think I'm just going to have to have a play with it and see what works out best, I’m not totally sure the hardware will be able to cope. Running out of power outlets rapid as well!
Ah long post.... I'm gong to have a dig and look into various software options....