Quote Originally Posted by 'Chorizotarian',index.php?page=Thread&postID=70250 #post70250
You're very close! The OS will try to load the files individually, but the file system knows that the symlinks all point to the same location so it will use a cached copy generally. You should get the same reduced disk activity that you do running from 1 physical directory, but you can keep your settings, macros, addons, etc. separate.

I don't think that the disk configuration will have much effect on CPU activity no matter how you do it. That's my theory anyway. You can check using perfmon.
Great script I just got this all done. I too had the wow.exe problem and ended up just copying the wow.exe to each WoW[X] directory. No big deal.

A few questions still troubling me:
1. I'm also confused at the advantage of doing this vs. running everything from 1 physical directory. In my case I've linked the interface and wtf directories (I recognize the video and config file inplications of doing this). But then what advantage is left vs. running c:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Wow.exe five times? Almost every FAQ about mutli-boxing says you MUST make sure you don't just load "c:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Wow.exe" but I've yet to understand why not (besides seperating settings, macros, addons).

2. I followed the instructions to link the WTF directory as well and that worked great BUT how do I modify the script to instead link the .\WTF\Account instead in this way my save variable files would be linked (what I want) but my c:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\wtf\Config.wtf would be independently maintained - allowing my slave WoW video settings to differ from that of my main WoW toon?


Cheers.

PS this community rocks.