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Well im interested in duel boxing. I have 2 accounts but only 1 computer with 1 monitor and 1 keyboard & mouse.
My computer is pretty fast and is quad core so capable of loading WoW twice without lags or chokes.
Can i do it? And if so where should i read to get me started?
Thanks alot!
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What you are after is heavily discussed and very possible.
Hey Ghorok,
Welcome to the forums!
I currenty use AHK running 2 WoW's on 1 PC, using 1 keyboard.
http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums2/v...=17&highlight=
Thanks for the welcome and the program! Thankyou very much.Quote:
Originally Posted by wolviex
your welcome, its how i started, AHK and continue to play, looking forward when i get the money to go the PC route.
Glad ur still on because i have no idea how to use AHK, Im confused to the max. Can you talk to me via MSN or X-fire? ( x-fire if possible )Quote:
Originally Posted by wolviex
http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums2/viewtopic.php?t=807Quote:
Originally Posted by Ghorok
Even that confuses me :(Quote:
Originally Posted by unit187
i dropped you a note. keyclone would probably be the easiest to setup and get going.
let me know if you need anything more.
then Keyclone is exaclty for you ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ghorok
:lol: thanks for advice!Quote:
Originally Posted by unit187
I'll definitely be picking up a couple of Keyclone licenses. I stumbled upon this website today....I have 5 WoW accounts and didnt know you could multi-task the clients. Yeah...I have 5 WoW accounts because I basically got my family into it. However, they don't really play anymore...which leaves me with trying to figure out something to recoup a bit of my investment. This looks like an answer. I'll start out dual boxing...eventually going dual-box on one PC and dual clients on my other PC. I might integrate another PC sometime along the line. I'm currently building another desktop to upgrade from what I have right now.
Quad core on the main PC w/ 8800 GTS....Dual core on the secondary w/ 7900GT. Should be okay I think. Latency may be an issue but I don't plan on PvPing with that setup.
Are you saying I have issues! :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Keiji505
One thing to note with levelling, in my reading here I've discovered one thing that may make you want to do at least 3 clients vs 2 - you dont get a 'party bonus' if you have only two people in the party. If you have 3 or more you get a party xp bonus. I dont know if it goes up as you add four or five.
Also I read that Dwarves get the biggest bonus.
Dont know much about keyclone as I've gone the hardware option (read: going... *twiddles thumbs as I wait for stuff to arrive) but many ppl have great things to go and the author is very active on these forums.
-Slats
Ah haha, wow. Sorry if I offended your Latency ;)
Hm, okay. I'll see if I can start out Tri-boxing. I'm going to do some dual boxing tests tommorow and see how well I can handle that. When I finally do get into leveling I'll run the tri/quad box setups. I don't know if my PC can handle three clients on it. If it can then I can run a rudimentary 5 box instead. Reading about Zin's setup is quite incredible and expensive. Kudos!
I'm a little hardware limited still. My wife already gives me weird looks when I talk about playing more than one character.
I've talked to my gf about it - and she immediatly told me I was a cheater.
I was a sad panda. :(
I spoke to my Guildies about it and they called me crazy to 'spend so much money on wow'.
Just watch a few multibox videos... and I get excited again about it. =)
I play a pretty geared Warlock (will hit 5/5 merciless this week) and while its a blast, I need another project to get me back into the swing of things, and this is a project that I can carry across multiple MMO's.
-Dan
Is there any truth in the Dwarfs get more thing?
Interesting to know.
if you want to just get a quick taste of multi-boxing, get a few 10-day trials from wow and a copy of keyclone or AHK (to be fair). i suggest mages or some other caster as your first group... easier and more fun blow stuff up ;)
i can triple box on my old crappy laptop (1.5GHz, 1G RAM, 64M grfx) and still get 24 fps in SW. (800x600 each windowed)
difference between keyclone is ahk.. keyclone costs $10 once while AHK is free. keyclone requires little to no setup, while AHK has some pretty extensive macro programming.
there are threads on both here in general
haha I looked into AHK. I'd much rather pay the convenience factor associated with Keyclone. 10 bucks is like a drop in the bucket for such a nice program. Judging from the amount of work you've already put into it and are still putting into it, you're not charging enough haha!
I do have a question though, I run a couple of OSes. Does your program work with Vista as well as XP? Are there issues with linking up to the two?
Well, I been 5 boxing on my quad core for some time now. It is no comparison to hardware. Don't matter how good your machine is, separate pc for each character is best. I tried dual boxing on 2 machines and it is FAR better in terms of latency. At some point when I have cash, I will be going 100% hardware, but in the meantime though, this works well. Especially for pve.
I been doing some pvp and it is acceptable. Only problem is I get the odd disconnect on one of them once in awhile. Hopefully blizzard fixes the bugs with follow soon.
latency? seriously... you are on a local network with ping times under 1 ms... no one, anywhere, will feel the latency effects between 2 clones communicating across a local network to synchronize their actions. anyone that says they do, well.. they are expecting a bit much.
now... running 1 per machine is much nicer to the cpu then 3 on the same cpu. but that's not latency, that's load.
and high load can, depending on the situation/drivers, starve out communications and potentially disconnect a clone. i have yet to see that happen even on my crappy little laptop, unless my network was choppy.
therefore... until money rains from heaven... multi-boxing with 2+ clones per machine it will be for me