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The-Plethora
01-09-2008, 07:14 PM
I have been 2 boxing for a couple of years now but I am keen to get rid of the 2nd PC which is a bit of an old clunker and run both accounts from a single PC.Main Specs of the PC in question is...Quad core 66004GB RamATI 2900XTATI 2400 ProRaid 0 Raptors3 Monitors - Left 1280*1024, Centre 1680*1080 Right 1280*1024Water cooling - A big plus compared to the previous 2 comp setup as its almost silent.I have tried this out and it seems to work fairly well running my main character at the usual detail levels and my second account on extreme performance which uses cores 1 and 2 of the processor which is ideal.So far I can see several benefits such as having just one keyboard and mouse, running both clients windowed on 2 monitors allows me to scroll across and type chat on each monitor however combat is much slower than 2 boxing as I currently have to click the spell icons on each screen.Do I have any options here? I am looking into getting a nostromo gamepad as other people have talked about whilst looking at controlling multiple characters (2 boxing) but I am worried that this is going to be a non starter for my setup as only one of the clients is going to have 'focus' for keyboard and mouse at one time and so might not work.Hope the pics help explain, any ideas good! <a href="http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=7451399" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img2.putfile.com/thumb/1/816545021.jpg" alt="Click to enlarge" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=7451444" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://img2.putfile.com/thumb/1/817103820.jpg" alt="Click to enlarge" border="0" /></a>

Korpo
01-09-2008, 07:21 PM
If you are (or become) handy at using the keyboard to fight, you should be able to just use the mouse to select which copy of the game you want to interface with by clicking on it, and fighting via the number keys. You'd have to keep track of what key does what, x2,  in your head to be very efficient at it, but I suppose it could be done. Not by me, mind you, but by rainman or something.

Josgar
01-10-2008, 12:15 AM
That is an AWESOME set up by the way xD