Playing WoW twice on the same PC with independent controls

Sawell

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Does anyone know if this is possible?

Basically my girlfriend wants to play WoW with me (woop), but she's only got a pish laptop... she also wants to use a controller (I've tried to reason, women). I've got loads of monitors so I can run an extra desktop using ultramon, but is it possible to segment the input control devices so that one desktop uses my keyboard and the other uses a controller? Would be ideal, don't fancy repairing my old PC.
 
You can run as many clients at once as you like, as long as your PC can handle it.

You need a new account, and running it on a controller will be the most pointless experience i can imagine. You will only be able to hotkey 6 buttons at most. i dont know about you, but when i played wow, i'd hotkeyed around 30.

Playing two copies of WoW independantly on one machine by 2 people is, for the sake of ease, impossible.

Playing two/three/twenty copies of wow on one machine by 1 person is not.
 
Just how pish is the laptop? I've got a 4 year old dell one with crappy integrated graphics that can still run wow smoothly.
 
Regardless of how pointless it might be to play with a controller to you, that's how she wants to play. She's not a level 80 raiding every night, she's likely to not get past 30 and spend most of her time looking at the cute bunnies and talking on skype with our friends. There's no reason why you can't bind R1/L1 to closest target, X to mouse click and other buttons to 1/2/3/4 etc. It's quite playable.

My question was really if it's possible to bind an input device to an application independently, but apparently it's impossible? Yet this is the exact function that multiboxing software does, although it binds an input device to multiple applications, but it can differentiate between the two and shut off one. There's seriously no software out there that allocates an input device to a single application and removes itself from functioning in windows/other apps?
 
Google Auto Hotkey.

Might be able to make that do what you want. It allows you to set keys to input to certain windows you have open. I used this when dual boxing on WoW.
 
Sawell said:
Regardless of how pointless it might be to play with a controller to you, that's how she wants to play. She's not a level 80 raiding every night, she's likely to not get past 30 and spend most of her time looking at the cute bunnies and talking on skype with our friends. There's no reason why you can't bind R1/L1 to closest target, X to mouse click and other buttons to 1/2/3/4 etc. It's quite playable.

My question was really if it's possible to bind an input device to an application independently, but apparently it's impossible? Yet this is the exact function that multiboxing software does, although it binds an input device to multiple applications, but it can differentiate between the two and shut off one. There's seriously no software out there that allocates an input device to a single application and removes itself from functioning in windows/other apps?
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Is her laptop really far too slow for WoW?

The system requirements aren't high at all - friend of mine runs it on his "spare" PC, which only has a 2GHz P4 and an MX440.
 
If you can find a program that controls two mice and two keyboards separately on the same system you might be good to go. I've never really looked into it but I'm sure some whizzkid would've invented such a program by now.
 
WOW can run on quite old laptops if you turn settings down :)

GF was playing on a 5 year old toshiba and until WOTLK it ran fine, kinda died since WOTLK though so we bought a new laptop purely to play WOW. She was shocking at first with controls but now shes fine, makes quite a good healer as well tbh :p
 
Integrated graphics cards generally manage to run WoW, know my ancient Dell ran it pretty well!

All I can say is that if bot programs can control multiple clients on the same PC I've no doubt there's utilities that allow it.
 
Sales at almost every comp store, if she wants to play that badly get her, or make her get a £250 laptop, should easily run it tbh. If you spent all of £350 you'd get a pretty sweet laptop more than capable of running it.

Also, it doesn't matter if she wants to use a controller, she'll give up soon enough. with two attacks at level 1 it might not be "that" bad, at level 10 she'll be irritated at lvl 20 it will be impossible. Whats she going to bind potions to, her 4th attack, a nice heal, shield etc, etc. Not to mention its an mmo, if she ever plays without you there, and you know, wants to talk to anyone at all she'd have to use the keyboard.
 
Here's what one guy and his girlfriend do when they want to play/raid WOW together...

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http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/08/extravagant-world-of-warcraft-setup-includes-47-pcs-seven-monit/

1.5yr old news for a lot of people round here but someone must have not seen it :D

If anyone has seen pics of another setup with more than 47 rigs then link them :)
 
WoW's a good game and all but not good enough for me to ever consider multi-boxing at that scale.

Heck I was thinking of doing recruit a friend with myself and using my PC with several clients but that's too far.
 
Other then to farm gold and sell it, thereby making actual money, I don't see that theres any point in multiboxing. Raiding/PvP with yourself really wouldn't be fun.
 
To control 2 instances of WoW on the same computer you need multi boxing software, otherwise it'll be a complete mess.
 
platypus said:
Other then to farm gold and sell it, thereby making actual money, I don't see that theres any point in multiboxing. Raiding/PvP with yourself really wouldn't be fun.
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Actually its great fun.

5 mages grouped in av at level 70 all with pom ap pyro, what ever the class and gear they die.
 
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