setting up multibox: same computer, 2 wow folders, only ever runs from one folder?

[tph88]

ah ok - well not running any special software to help me run wow.

Anyway, pointing to the .exe works, remembers my 2 separate account names and graphics settings etc.
Would have posted this update earlier but got distracted making macros. I can see this becoming an addiction...

[luxlunae]

ah ok - well not running any special software to help me run wow.

Although it is certainly possible to run as many instances as you like without software, you do need software to duplicate keystrokes to multiple clients at once. That is what multiboxing is. It is not tabbing between two instances (which will get exhausting and be very inefficient). There are both paid (isboxer is amazing) and free (hotkeynet is very powerful but requires a lot of programming) software for duplicating keystrokes.

[tph88]

Although it is certainly possible to run as many instances as you like without software, you do need software to duplicate keystrokes to multiple clients at once. That is what multiboxing is. It is not tabbing between two instances (which will get exhausting and be very inefficient). There are both paid (isboxer is amazing) and free (hotkeynet is very powerful but requires a lot of programming) software for duplicating keystrokes.

Hi Luxlunae, thanks for the reply!
Yes I understand that. My point just was you don't need to have one of those other softwares running in order to run 2 instances of wow.
So my steps in getting my multiboxing up and running were:
1) buy another account
2) get 2 instances of wow running on my computer at the same time.
3) run softare to duplicate keystrokes, add addons etc
4) create scripts/macros etc as needed.

If I couldn't get step 2 to work, then it doesn't really matter if I have anything else running yet.

I am using AutoHotKey since I already had it installed for work, am familiar with it and have written some scripts. Since I"m just checking it out (and because I'm also cheap) I don't want to pay for IsBoxer. Wow is my least expensive hobby and would like to keep it that way!

I've got my 2 instances running, from 2 different folders. Authotkey passing keystrokes. Jamba addon. Macros created on both accounts to deal with follow/attacks. Am tweaking macros as I get more experience with this to make them more efficient. Haven't figured out yet how to get the Jamba taxi part working (but will research and post another question on that if I need to).

Thank you all for helping me! It is much appreciated!