How much can my 1 computer handle?

[Garm]

Wow... after about 5 minutes of playing with 2 accts and Keyclone I'm absolutely hooked and my mind is racing! So before I get ahead of myself and my finances, I'm wondering if anyone can help at a glance, to tell what my 1 CPU can handle... Before I spend half a day loading trial accts I figure I'd ask =P And if there is another post on this, I'll take that, heh.

ok here's what i assume is relevant info::
dell xps 400
pentium D 2.8 GHz
1GB ram
Nvidia geforce 6800 256mb

I've been toying with my 2 accounts in minimum quality and seems like theres no stress at all on fps, and I can definitely deal with the visual deficit for the mega-increase in fun.

Anyone wanna hazard a guess for me? Or dash my hopes? lol

[Xzin]

3-5, depending on ram, memory card and if all are full screen or not.

Be sure to test in crowded places and not just starting areas with no UI mods.

[Garm]

Thanks guys! Installing 4th right now! Though the day may come where the monthly cost to play will induce vomit... it shall not be soon!

-"garm"
-uldaman

[Xzin]

Power bill will probably exceed monthly access... tho perhaps not if you play on a single box.

[Garm]

Yea, I know you can copy directories... but how do you input a trial key to make it a separate acct?

[Gigatron]

Why do you guys create separate wow install directories? I been running from the same install no problems.

[Bollwerk]

While it make work using the same directory, it also may cause a crash or disconnect, since it is trying to use the same directories to cache information.

As far as inputing a trial key to make another account, just go to the main WoW site and create an separate account using your trial key.

[Otlecs]

Why do you guys create separate wow install directories? I been running from the same install no problems.

I'm a recent convert to the whole "multiple WoW on a single machine" thing, and gave this a bit of thought ahead of deciding how to handle it.

Apart from the potential for file access problems and data corruption / loss for any mods you might be using, the single most important thing for me is unique key bindings per-instance of WoW.

On each of my machines, I have a "WoW Master", which has all my regular keybinds so I can play any of my characters directly, and one or more "WoW Drones", with fewer key bindings (like movement keys unbound for example).

Apart from my multi-boxing, I still enjoy playing a single character from time-to-time and that would be close to impossible with my personal key setup because it's quite different between the master and drones.

I keep everything up to date with a simple sync relationship across machines and across installations. Update one, sync binaries, all done.

I'm glad to hear a single install is working for you though. If it ain't broke, don't fix it

To the OP... let us know how you get on with that machine. I don't recall seeing any specific metrics for this sort of thing other than my own experiment with 5 WoW running on a 2Gb Vista laptop when somebody made the mistake of telling me it couldn't be done

[Garm]

tyvm gang, I've got 4 windows running and I seem to have avoided the /follow disconnect problem with a "spread out" macro and not maximizing any window while peeps are on /follow. Seems everytime you get out of maximize you got to put in 3 more passwords lol =(

so 4 accts on minimum video quality is def playable, though before I hit shatt I'll be buying another 1gig stick.

[Sam DeathWalker]

There was some post at lavish about using one directory or many, at least for EQ, lax concluded one directory was best. I use one directory for 4 instances all the time with no problems.