4 Accounts on 1 comp

Hi guys new here, I have been briefly reading through some threads and this seems a great idea Im so bored of WoW I think this is what I need.

I have a new computer, 2.4gig Quad Core cpu, 4 gig of RAM, 500gig HD, 2x 9800GTX cards, 1000 watt PSU

I was wondering if it is able to run 4 accounts on the 1 pc. Would I need to change some settings, like SLI for example? on or off?

Would the keyboard and mouse on one window do the same on the other 3? I understand for more boxes you need to have a few programs to do this, but is it any different if you do it all on 1 pc?



Cheers :)

My sig shows the specs of my Laptop and I 5box just fine with it.

You DO NOT want to enable SLI.

And you will need to use software to send keystrokes to your 'clone' windows. I myself use Keyclone. But there are other options available. You can read up on those on the Wiki

G'afternoon Kalashnikov and welecome to the forums!

your box will easily be able to run 5x wows if you'd like. just make sure to restrain their fps, otherwise they will each try to get 999 fps... kill all fps across all of them. if you turn your details to a middle level, you should be able to easily get 20 fps in the background and 45 fps while in the foreground. experiment to get more (lower details help). also remember to spread them across your cores.. leaving cpu0 with the least load... as it handles the system tasks.

here's a shot of a 4 box'ing setup... 1 monitor... running on an amd 3500+ 2.2GHz single core and an 8800GT OC (i was getting 10/25 easily on 4.. 5/25 when i run 5)


http://solidice.com/keyclone/keyclone_v1.8e_pip_1.jpg

if you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a note.

have a great night,

Rob

With your setup you could run 5 copies of wow, windowed, full screen.

wow thanks for the quick replies guys :D I'm very keen to start this ASAP.

See with my Quad core I can do 5 accounts? thats perfect cause I wanna get them to 70 and do Heroics? I was interested in 5 shamans.

So for example I open up 5 wows, how do I designate the max fps and can you really get them all on the same screen as below? that looks VERY cool!



Sorry for the noob questions!! :)



Btw keyclone looks cool I will try that one

also, I must note I am from Australia and play on oceanic realms (US located). My ping is normally around 300. How will 5 accounts affect my ping?

guys how do i set max FPS? and how do I make second window in the main window? I'm trying 2 atm





please help

@Kalashnikov
what are you using?
in keyclone, create a command for each of your wows.. and set the maxfps and maxfpsbk

edit: here we go:
[Keyclone] HOWTo - Set up Maximizer (Updated PiP)

ok cool I will read through that but I don't want to buy the keyclone/wow accounts just yet, I want to test them with a trial account or two to see if I will lag bad and how many accounts I can have at the same time without lagging

so If I play just my main account I will get roughly 300-400 ping from Australia to the US, what would it be if I was usuing 5 on 1 cable line?

I'm on something crappy like 1.5M/256k and 5 accounts runs fine, my connection becomes a problem when I try and run 10+.
The latency is a bit of an annoyance, your clones will follow at a longer distance during your servers peak hours - but it isn't anything that will ruin your play.

+1 Keyclone

*edit* My latency didn't go up, 1 client to 5.