Just discovered this site a couple of days ago and I wanted to say hi to everyone. I've been dual boxing for a really long time (since EQ1) and it's really great to find a site filled with people who actually get the fact that multi-boxing is the only fun way to play.
After reading all the info on here, I'm ready to move up to the 5-box. I did have some questions, though. I charted out the rig I'm planning on putting together. My ultimate goal is to be able to control 5 unique classes fairly easily.
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Basically, it's a 21in for the main monitor with 5x15in satellites around it. Each of the boxes will be running in clone mode with ultramon to handle keeping the cloning at 2 different resolutions. With this arrangement I should be able to keep track of what is happening with all 5 characters simultaneously. All of the boxes will be hooked into an 8 port KVM so I can switch between them.
For controlling the 4 extra toons I had originally planned on using 4 XKeys pads. But after looking at the optimus maximus keyboard, I realized I wanted something where the buttons would update depending on which modifier keys I had depressed.
This led me to an idea I had a couple of years ago. Using small touchscreens with a VisualBasic virtual keyboard app to send keypresses to WoW. When I first thought of the idea, I wanted to use it for work (having a customizable virtual keyboard for Photoshop, 3DS Max, etc.) But I couldn't get my boss at the time to foot the bill for it.
I'll have 4 small touchscreens for controlling the individual characters and a large touchscreen on the right to send commands to all 4 extra characters simultaneously. Plus an XKeys pedal on the ground to handle modifier keys. The touchscreens will be hooked up to an extra, el cheapo graphics card which is just there for the extra desktop for the third monitor on each machine.
Anyway, here's what I'm curious about. Right now, I've got two monitors hooked up to a single graphics card on my machine. When I run WoW in fullscreen mode (not windowed mode, maximized), like every other video game it pushes any windows on the second monitor way over to the far side of the screen.
If I use a second card for my virtual keyboard app, will WoW do the same thing if I run it fullscreen? I'm just curious if it would, since it's on a seperate video card. If it does, I'll just run it in maximized windowed mode, but I'm also wondering how much that would degrade performance with something like a GeForce 8600GT.
Anyway, I probably won't have all the components assembled and the coding done until sometime October/November. But after that, I'll be lookin' for y'all on Mag!
BTW, have y'all checked out the info on Wrath of the Lich King? The death knight class looks sweet! I'm seriously thinking of setting up a Death Knight, 2 x Shadow Priest, 2 x Warlock squad when it comes out.
Laters!
-Memooselah
PS,
The 10 boxing movement video was bada**!
