Simple Dual Boxing FAQ / Wiki

I actually run two instances of WoW off of a single copy on my drive, and experienced no problems.

My setup is on a Pentium 4 3 GHz CPU with 2gigs of ram and a Radeon X1950 Pro on WinXP. I don't use any sort of external programs, and simply alt-tab back and forth between my priest and paladin.

I use a single 1280x1024 monitor, but run my WoW instances in windowed mode 1280x768. One instance is top aligned, and one instance is bottom aligned. With this arrangement, I can see the health bars and minimaps (herb and mine) of both characters while the bottom client is in the foreground. So usually I have my paladin, the tank/dps'er in the bottom window in the foreground, and the priest healbot passively following in the top window that is partially exposed in the background.

Alright, here's the deal. I've just started dualboxing today, after considering it for quite a while. I'm a complete retard regarding scripts and coding, but I learn quite fast.

I've gotten simple things like pressing 2 and both characters cast whatever is bound to the key 2 to work without much trouble. But! How do I, while having the maincharacter wow open, bind a key to ignore that toon and execute something on the other toon?

Example. I fire something from both toons, but right after I want to dot something from toon2. Can I code alt to only apply to toon2? So I can for instance (I'm trying out mage/lock) fire off a fireball and a shadowbolt, then press alt+3 to execute whatever is bound to 3 on toon2?

Hope you all got my point hehe

Edit: Another thing. When I tab out of wow to write something else, is there then any way to avoid AHK to execute the script for, say 2? Without disabling or suspending anything

You can use modifier keys in /cast in game macros, yes. Or just rebind WoW2 to be different than WoW1. See the macro thread for info on alt/shift/ctrl modifiers.

Nevermind, trying out Keyclone, which so far seems to be alot easier to set up. Thanks for your answer, though.

Is this possible on a mac? Are there mac equivalent programs that will let you stroke a key to acivate in two seperate apps? Anyone?

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Originally Posted by dark_flip

Is this possible on a mac? Are there mac equivalent programs that will let you stroke a key to acivate in two seperate apps? Anyone?

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I believe iusethis has some keyboard automation tools that do it. I know that realbasic has the apparatus to grab the app and send events to it. I have never tried doing it with a windowized wow on osx though.

Too many projects.

Is a Quad core important for dual-boxing or is a dual-core sufficient?

I've been doing this for about a month now. Just kind of messing around. I've been in some instances, Kara, outside questing, etc. My comp is a Core 2 Duo 2.4G with 2G of RAM and an 8800 GTS (BFG). When I dual box I generally reduce both windows to 800x600.

Occasionally I get into a situation where 1 or both windows suddenly slow down to 1 fps. I haven't quite figured out the rhyme or reason, but it seems to often happen when 1 character is in Shattrah and another character is somewhere else...but not every time. I've noticed that a single instance of WOW will do work on 2 cores, and there is definitely a performance improvement, so I'm curious if I'm overloading my processor here.

These are showing if your were to run on either 2 different cpu/screens or both running open on one screen, what if you wanted to run it as to where, both WoW's are running but you only maximized them one at a time, for example take your alt on one account, then set it to follow your main, and just minimize it will it take some stress off what is needed for a single core chip?

Currently this is what I have:

Intel Pentium Processor (HT) 3.2Ghz
2048MB RAM (I have space for another 2048RAM if needed)
nvidia geforce pcx 5750 (256MB)

I'm not sure how well this answers your questions, but...

My specs:
3.0 ghz dual core
3 gigs of ram
ati raedon x600 256mb

Most settings are set to minimum, using windowed mode and separating the windows so I can see most of all of them.

With 3 accounts, I get some serious lag in shattrath when they are all there. If I minimize two I can get around. Other than that I'm usually fine/minor lag.

With 4 accounts I set them to /follow my fifth(on other computer) so I don't use them directly as much, but when I do(mostly in towns) it varries from pretty bad to minor lag. I can minimize to reduce lag. I haven't been to shattrath yet.

Xzin,

I am going to start reworking the WOWWiki article on dual boxing... it needs to be cleaned up and updated. I figure on splitting it apart into hardware and software requirements. There are still a few zealots on WOWWiki's admin team who would prefer it just be deleted. Yet if it is cleaned up a bit I think it will have a long life there.

I also want to create a subsection (its own page) of useful mutlibox macros beyond the 5 or 6 in the macro page threads...

so, if you check WW occasionally don't be surprised it changed