copy's of wow

[Theanara]

hi guys,

just a small question. ive readed a few times that ppl completely copy their wow-folders for each account they run.

my question... why?

Im currently running 3 clients on 1 pc at the same time and it goes smoothly, (later on ill add a 2nd pc for the last 2 clients).

So why make multiple copy's off your wow directory's?

[Wilbur]

Some people have problems with Launching WoW 3x, some people don't, Its entirely dependant on your setup.

[laeelin]

Different settings, different hotkeys, different add-on's, ect...

Thats why I run more than one copy of the wow folder...

My main has many add-on's, and her movement is bound to "A,S,W,D", but not do the arrow keys.

My clones use almost no add-on's, and dont have movement bound to "A,S,W,D", ect...

This way I can move all my clones with the arrow keys, without moving my main (primarly used to make my clones turn for LOS) and move my main without touching my clones....

[Theanara]

Thanks for the quick reply's i tought i was doing something completely wrong.

[The IT Monkey]

Having copies of the wow folder also allows you to not have to type in account names each time.

[mxracer050]

you guy have it all wrong!!

having copies of WoW is just plain sexy :wink:

[kllrwlf]

Different video settings, more (or less) mods.

I have mine on 2 different hard drives... in theory it runs smoother.. but I haven't done any tests.

[Wilbur]

you guy have it all wrong!!

having copies of WoW is just plain sexy :wink:

No, having multiple copies of WoW opened over one computer will result in slowing your HDD's significantly. If you have one copy opened five times at least you will benefit from the cached data. It'd be well worth investing in 4 low capacity SATA 2's Raid level 0 and stick WoW on there, should give you some much improved load times ;-)

[Tamu]

How do you handle the patching process for each instance of wow.exe?

[keyclone]

after each update, where you will need to download an update, you would have to run the launcher for each folder... updating the files for each copy as needed.

after that, you can run the wow.exe directly until the next update.