Can it be done

[Boogieman]

I Use octopus for my dualboxing. I play 2 accounts from the same box.
I run different Audio and Video settings for each account for performance reasons.
When i log out wow saves the A/V settings from the last account logged out.
So this means every time i start up i have to reconfigure 1 accounts A/V settings because wow has set them to be the same as the other.
Is there a way to make custom launchers per account so that i don't have to go through this every time?
Also it would be nice to be able to have the launcher remember account names since it won't do this when multiple instances of wow are loaded on the same box.
If i could also make it remember the password that would be cool as well but not if it poses a risk to being hacked

[Redbeard]

Correct me if im wrong but I think 2 folders of WoW allow you to save separate settings for each folder.

[Bot]

redbeard is correct. just copy and paste the whole wow directory and youll be dialed(you dont have to install twice). or you can read up on symbolically linking files . but 2 folders is the solution.

[Boogieman]

Correct me if im wrong but I think 2 folders of WoW allow you to save separate settings for each folder.

What do you mean 2 folders of wow if your referring to 2 instalations on the same machine then thats not how i play i run it from one install

[Boogieman]

sorry writing when the second post came through

[ruineraz]

This is what i do to support multiple settings, may take a lil work if you're not technically inclined:

for these instructions, consider %WOW% to be the directory where wow is installed, for me C:\Games\World of Warcraft\

• I set all the login (login name, check "remember account name") , video settings, and sound settings for WOW instance inside of wow.
• Exit the game.
• In the %WOW%\WTF\ directory is a file called config.wtf. Copy this file to config-myconfig1.wtf in the same directory.
• Start the game, login with your second account name. Change the video & sound settings to whatever you'd like.
• Exit the game.
• Start WOW up again to verify that your 2nd account login name has been saved.
• If so, exit the game, if not, fix it and test again. Once fixed, exit the game.
• In the %WOW%\WTF\ directory, again copy the config.wtf to config-myconfig2.wtf.
• now comes the fun part... go to your %WOW% directory (not the %WOW%\WTF\ directory)
• Create a file called wow1.txt and add this text:

@ECHO OFF
cd "C:\Games\World of Warcraft"
COPY WTF\\Config-myconfig1.wtf WTF\\Config.wtf
start WOW.exe 

• next, create a 2nd file, called wow2.txt and add this text:

@ECHO OFF
cd "C:\Games\World of Warcraft"
COPY WTF\\Config-myconfig2.wtf WTF\\Config.wtf
start WOW.exe 

• now, rename both of this files from *.txt to *.bat, so u now have wow1.bat and wow2.bat . Windows recognizes the BAT file extension and executes the commands in the script as a series of batch commands.
• Create shortcuts to these 2 files on your desktop and set whatever icon u want.
• Viola, done!

This will copy the desired config file over the existing wow config file each time you use the icons.

Good News:
you can change the settings however you'd like in the game w/o worried about replacing them, because each time you use these icons to start wow, it copies the files. This is good if you've got family members who use your account and like to turn on (or off) music or environment settings.

Bad News (well just things to remember):
if you make changes to your wow config file you want to keep, you should have to only have one instance of wow running at a time, and when complete the changes, exit wow, and again copy the config.wtf to whatever proper file name.

For those of you with quad cores, I've also found this setting in your %WOW%/WTF/Config.wtf files.

in one config, you can use this setting (uses CPU 1 & 2):
SET processAffinityMask "3"

and in the other, you can use this one (uses CPU 3 & 4):
SET processAffinityMask "12"

This will spread the load around to all your processors. Works great for me.

[ruineraz]

for whatever reason, the slash's don't show up in the snippets of code i gave, it should look like this:

COPY WTF\Config-myconfig1.wtf WTF\Config.wtf

[Boogieman]

Well i done all the stuff to make the batch file and the launcher works but it doesn't copy the config files over as it should it still just uses the last config file to be logged out
Ive checked the commands and rechecked them they are just as you specify but its not working properly yet although it does seem that im almost there im just lacking something anymore help with this would be great thanks in advance

[Threeofme]

Correct me if im wrong but I think 2 folders of WoW allow you to save separate settings for each folder.

this is how I did it,

main (normal folder) for playing my main, 2 copies of that folered named wow1 and wow2, and have Keyclone start them from their respective folders...

all settings stay how you left them on which ever folder...

[Boogieman]

I found another scorce on the net thanks
the only thing that is different is some quotation marks in the command and it also requires the full directory to those files to copy them but i got it now thanks alot
for a fairly new boxer it sure saves some time and pain in the neck