Got the trial, tried dual boxing! But do I need 2 copies?

[cerruption]

Interesting, yeah it definately seemed to trip me up in the past.

What would happen is, I'd have a logged out instance of WoW open, along with a few other windows. You'd think I'd notice that, but I guess sometimes I didn't ops:

So I'd go to play WoW, by starting another instance, oblivious the first one was open. All would be fine, I'd play for a while, until I'd alt-tab (which I do often, to read up on quests on wowhead for example).

Then it happens, the ultra ugly graphics crash, its hideous looking. I was worried I wouldn't be able to dual box, but with the 2 copies its been perfect. I was even hesitant to alt-tab too much, thinking "the next one" would just crash my system eventually. But so far, so good =)

Anyways if it helps, I have an nvidia 7600gt, 2gb of ram and a single core 64 bit CPU (athlon 3500+ I believe). Not the newest system, but its fairly fast for what I do.

[Gigatron]

Sounds like your running full screen, give windowed mode a shot. I've ran 3 instances on a dual core and I'm now running 5 on a quad core. Only problem I ever run into occasionally is the dreaded /follow disconnect, but not one crash or strange graphical artifacts.

[Bradster]

If you want to save a trip to the store http://www.shatteredcrystal.com/

Used them many times. Insta CD-Code via e-mail and your up and running.

[Wilbur]

As I said, there are several merchants about for this, Its generally advisable to shop about, see who's doing the best deal for what, etc.

[Blokus]

When I was "dual-boxing" I ran WoW out of the same directory on the PC. When starting the second copy I would often get a message saying it could not find a socket. I would just retry starting it and eventually it would go after a few tries. Once I found out about making a second directory, this problem was eliminated.

I think basically YMMV when you run from one directory. If its working for you, just keep trucking.

[Djarid]

This tends to happen to some people, other people, it doesn't.

I have a theory that this is happening to people who run WoW over multiple cores and don't set them to a specific affinity.

not for me... running dual core... no affinity set. I swapped back to a single copy of wow after the performance discussions on this site and it has been flying.