"Multiboxing" on a laptop

[Aarelan]

Well not really multiboxing - more single boxing but with multiple accounts (anybody got a name for that?)

Anyway - I've been away on a job for a week (I'm in the sports technology industry so this happens a lot) and haven't been able to do anything with my team. My problem is, that since I went to 5 toons, my laptop won't hack it anymore (I can run 4 with the graphics cranked down on all of them). Even when running 4 I sometimes run into a problem where my machine overheats and shuts down.

Does anyone run 5 accounts on a laptop. If so, how successfully, and what machine do you use?

[mikekim]

last year i had to purchase a laptop for someone to use for multiboxing. (i work for a famous royal family - so money is not an issue when they want something)

I decided to use an alienware M-17 (8gb ram, 7950m x2 running SLI GFX & 17" screen). this machine was quite happy running 5 accounts at between 35-50fps.

I myself run a Macbook Pro for multiboxing when i'm travelling - depending on foreign internet connection speeds i can get a playable game running between 3-5 accounts at once.

basically you need to get a machine that has a reasonable gfx card and 4-8gb of ram

[Ñightsham]

I myself run a Macbook Pro for multiboxing when i'm travelling - depending on foreign internet connection speeds i can get a playable game running between 3-5 accounts at once.

How do you setup M/B'ng on a Macbook?

I have a MacBook Pro w/4Gb and am interested in doing so.

[mikekim]

How do you setup M/B'ng on a Macbook?

I have a MacBook Pro w/4Gb and am interested in doing so.

simple really create multiple copies of the wow application, use clonekeys or clonedkeys to broadcast the keys to the other windows

Ohhh, come on! You can't dangle that little tidbit and then NOT name the famous royal who multiboxes!!!!!

:cursing:

I cant tell you any names, but their country is making quite a lot of news for the wrong reasons atm... Don't know if there will be unlimited budgets next year

i second the need to know

or at least... can we get a pic of someone multi-boxing in a castle? (that'd be cool)

I can probaly post an old screenshot of one of the gaming suite setups (basically they rent a couple of hotel suites for 3 months and play warcraft constantly - we have that good a relationship with the hotel, they have allowed us to install our own 100mb leased line just for this purpose) - the screenshot was taken in one of the smaller rooms pre WOTLK, but even then they were using Quad Core machines, 8800 Ultras and 30" dell / apple screens. (we currently have over 30 of these machines ready to be deployed when required - (most now upgraded to i7, GTX 285 or 295)

[mikekim]

[simpletom]

I cant tell you any names, but their country is making quite a lot of news for the wrong reasons atm... Don't know if there will be unlimited budgets next year

$80 billion debt would do that

[lacitpo]

How do you setup M/B'ng on a Macbook?

I have a MacBook Pro w/4Gb and am interested in doing so.

Check the software forums for Plexer. It's a pay solution but totally worth the $25 and active development.

Then just run multiple instances of wow. Check wowwiki's mac page for more info on setting up multiboxing on OSX.

[Toonarmy]

Aarelan,

Try the Sager 9280. Here is the link from a few weeks ago when issue this was discussed.

Laptop for 4 wows.

[Sychosys]

I had a long griping post but Ill shorten it up

Dont buy Alienware. Its a rebranded Something at this point in time and all that extra money actually gets you less. Sager laptops are actually what Alienware used before they were bought out by Dell, they are good solid laptops and are generally half the price with a wider spec range. They also used to have really good back to school time specials for their systems. Another brand of computer are the Falcon Northwest laptops. I have never used them cause they made Alienware look like cheap systems but they have always gotten good reviews. Do a google search for gaming laptops, you will find quite a few other brands out there.

[aboron]

I can manage to run 5 on a laptop, but very marginally, enough to keep up with dailies mostly. I had to turn down to minimum on all 5 and then also make sure the windowing software is allowing the actual resizing of the game. Like if you are running in a 200x150 window on the clones, then that is all the game is trying to render. IS prefers to normally run all instances at the same resolution as the main window and then scale to fit the preview windows, this helps the pip swap action speed, but when it does that on my laptop, all 5 at full size it too much to handle.

This is running on a dell 1720 w/ Core2 2.2Ghz 4Gb ram Vista 64 bit and the weak link: nVidia GeForce Go 8600M

It's a fairly sad experience in dalaran, but for a simple daily run it gets by. And of course it works tip top for my #2 use of wow, in game chat.