Once you're set, Start the server, and the click the instance button to run your copies of WoW. Here's the setting for MotionA, the others are similar except for processAffinityMask key (click here ('') for key values and what they mean). Each item you make will have to have their own settings. Now in the Status tab, create a new profile for your team. Very handy so you're not casting crap when browsing WoWhead. In the Options section I have broadcasting turned off on Alt+tab. You define the position of the screen and then the resolution. In that picture you'll see the Motions(my PvE team name is Sparkle Motion, you get a cookie if you get the reference :) ) and their settings. To set this up, you have to define the zones you want (don't worry about tying them to a specific instance, we'll do that later), one for each toon you plan on having. Maximize is one of the great features of this program, it lets me do things like this. It defaults to blacklist, but I found it easier to make a whitelist and just pass the ones I want.įor Passthru I have the Windows key in there. On the Server tab, my Keys setup is to pass only the keys I want. In the Client tab and Games section, I have five tags, each pointing to my copy of WoW Octopus takes a bit of setting up, so here's ('') a tutrorial and I'll post my setup. Keyclone is another type of software that a lot of people use, but when I started I didn't want to make any financial commitment yet so I chose Octopus since it was free, and I've been using it since. Octopus is a keyboard/mouse p2p broadcaster for multiple instances of any executeable (you can use it for other games) regardless of what machine they exist on. Here ('') is a batch file to make it easy as well, also in Vista there's a way you can have multiple executables point to the same files with only one copy existing, I'll post that later. A neat trick is in WowAceUpdater, just change the WoW directory it points to by hitting F8, change dir, OK, then F10. It sucks to have to maintain multiple AddOn directories, but you get used to it. If you don't, each instance will try to write to the exact same files, and you'll start noticing stuttering in your game, even if you have great FPS. It is important that you have separate WoW directories, one for each instances. Obviously having gobs of RAM will help especially in major cities since you can get some stuttering action going on, so 4gb is minimum for five instances, of course, more is better. My setup has instances 1 and 2 using the first two core, then 3, 4, and 5 using the second two (which you can setup in config.wtf and Octopus). Particularly having a quad core CPU since you can tell WoW to use specific core (WoW uses two at all times, never just one). WoW isn't a graphics intensive game, however a good GPU is helpful, but RAM and CPU are IMO most important. The important pieces of your hardware will be the RAM and CPU. XLoot (looting is a bitch, so this helps a ton) Kingston 4gb (2x2gb) DDR2 8 (soon to be 8gb)ĥ copies of WoW (Each needs their own folder on the HD, this is important)ĪddOns: (Only going to list essential MB addons) This setup will assume five instances of the game. This post will concentrate on a single machine, go here ('') for hardware info on multiple boxes. But if you're super hardcore about PvP, then separate machines may be your option. If all you want to do is PvE one machine will do, and one machine can decently handle PvP situations. There's two ways to go about this, one huge beefy machine to handle all the instances of WoW you want, or multiple machines, one for each instance. But once you get through that, it's a breeze, and hopefully this post will make things easy.įirst off, hardware. It really breathed new life into the game for me, however, it can be really confusing and take a lot of setup. It started out as something I wanted to try and see if it was any fun, and after running my three warlocks, I soon came to realize how awesome it can be. I've been multiboxing now for about a month. I figure I'd repost it here in case it might help any one out. This is a repost from my guild forums since everyone is so curious about multi boxing.
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