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Game Forum / Role Playing Games / EverQuest / April 2006make me a 2boxer!
welp, i turned on EQ with all the settings on - ALL of them - and all on maximum ... and wow, what a beautiful game!!! my old box: pIII 733 mhz 512 sdram geforce 3 new box: dual core 2.2ghz 2gb ddr 500 radeon 1900xt and so, being the addict i am with 4 accounts, i have to ask: HOW do i multibox? -i got windows application compatability toolkit and fixed eq ... but i wasn't able to alt-tab ... -i can run eq in windowed mode at my screen's resolution, then minimize it and start the patcher again to load another instane ... when i did that, i couldn't use the mouse in the 2nd instance ...i think i'd be happy just having mouse and alt-tab, and if i can run 3 or 4 accounts at once, i'd be alright turning off all the settings (after 5 years, ya get used to it ...) so is there a walkthrough for this? is this against sony's policy? am i allowed to ask people in-game about all this? and what else do i need to know? thank you again! fennin.faza / firiona.goom > welp, i turned on EQ with all the settings on - ALL of them - and all > on maximum ... and wow, what a beautiful game!!! Aye, I'm actually fairly impressed that they keep revamping zones, though I have no idea of their reasoning for what zone to do when. Looks good though. > and so, being the addict i am with 4 accounts, i have to ask: HOW do i > multibox? [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > i allowed to ask people in-game about all this? and what else do i > need to know? Ahh, the multi-box. Well, I can tell you that I can run two instances of EQ on my machine and if they are both in windowed mode, I have no problems whatsoever ALT+TAB'ing. Well, occasionally EQ has a problem with my ATI card and can't seem to remember my gamma settings between instances, but aside from that it works very well. What I've done is just replicated my entire EQ directory and set my second account up to run from the second directory, also setting all graphics features to the bare minimum in the interests of saving system resources. Also, the two instances are set to overlap completely so that only one instance is drawn at a time. Other people might mention using EQWindows or WinEQ or the like for all your ALT+TAB'ing needs, and that might work fine (or even turn out to be necessary) for you as well. As a matter of fact, I can remember hearing of someone running 4 instances of EQ on one machine - each set to 800x600 on a 1600x1200 desktop so that all were completely visible at the same time. It was certainly not with all the new models turned on. As a matter of fact, I think it required all graphics be set to minimum.  SignatureRichard Carpenter "Write something worth reading, or do something worth writing." -- Benjamin Franklin Richard Carpenter schreef: > Other people might mention using EQWindows or WinEQ or the like for all > your ALT+TAB'ing needs, and that might work fine (or even turn out to be [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > "Write something worth reading, or do something worth writing." > -- Benjamin Franklin I am one of those 4boxers.. playing 4 accounts on 1 pc, 800*600 on a 1600*1200 desktop. all visible and about half the new models on (for the chars i play) and sound on 1 session. graphics are not set to minimum, but in newer zones i do have to tone down on graphics. works fairly good, have a p4 2400 with 2gb ram and ati 9700 (needs upgrade) yes all accounts need their own directory if you have any questions.. ill follow this topic > Richard Carpenter schreef: > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > yes all accounts need their own directory if you have any questions.. > ill follow this topic Hmm. I'll bet it's the 2GB RAM that makes it work. I've been looking for an excuse to upgrade... Of course you realize that now, when my wife kills me for splurging on 2GB RAM *and* picking up two more EQ subscriptions, it will be all your fault. :P SignatureRichard Carpenter "Write something worth reading, or do something worth writing." -- Benjamin Franklin > Richard Carpenter schreef: > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > yes all accounts need their own directory if you have any questions.. > ill follow this topic One question. Can you mouse across screens with that setup or is ALT+TAB necessary? SignatureRichard Carpenter "Write something worth reading, or do something worth writing." -- Benjamin Franklin good question.. i wasnt able to but SOE did change something in a patch beginning this year that made the windows mouse and eq mouse fluent, so now i can mouse across all screen and just click on the needed spellicon (which is sometimes faster then alt-tab alt-num > -i got windows application compatability toolkit and fixed eq ... but i > wasn't able to alt-tab ... > -i can run eq in windowed mode at my screen's resolution, then minimize it > and start the patcher again to load another instane ... when i did that, i > couldn't use the mouse in the 2nd instance Did you run the second instance from the same EverQuest folder? That won't work. You need to make two completely separate copies of the EverQuest folder, and run one copy from each. -- Don. --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- See the a.g.e/EQ1 FAQ at http://www.iCynic.com/~don/EQ/age.faq.htm -- -- Sukrasisx, Monk 60 on E. Marr Note: If you reply by mail, -- Terrwini, Druid 55 on E. Marr I'll get to it sooner if you -- Teviron, Knight 46 on E. Marr remove the "hyphen n s" -- Wizbeau, Wizard 36 on E. Marr > Did you run the second instance from the same EverQuest folder? > That won't work. You need to make two completely separate copies > of the EverQuest folder, and run one copy from each. If you run WinEQ, only one folder is necessary. It has support for handling multiple "eqclient.ini" files, so you can run instances with different settings. I recommend it, the basic version has all the features you need to multibox (configurable keys to switch windows, quicker and easier than alt-tabbing). Hugh Don Woods <don-ns@iCynic.com> schrieb: >> -i got windows application compatability toolkit and fixed eq ... >> but i wasn't able to alt-tab ... >> -i can run eq in windowed mode at my screen's resolution, then >> minimize it and start the patcher again to load another instane ... >> when i did that, i couldn't use the mouse in the 2nd instance > Did you run the second instance from the same EverQuest folder? > That won't work. You need to make two completely separate copies > of the EverQuest folder, and run one copy from each. Hmm ... I had to dual box on a system where I had no 2nd copy of my eq- folder. All worked fine for me when I started Everquest just a second time. And I dual box my EQ for some longer time (normaly with 2 different eq folders. All without any additional Software. Alt Tab, sound, graphics, ... All works fine for me. But my settings are all set to minimum. So no good textures or good models. Only my own toons have better models so I can see the horse when I am on it. (First I used WinEQ, but that is no longer needed. But patch is quite old. Over a year in the past I think!) Konrad >> -i got windows application compatability toolkit and fixed eq ... but i >> wasn't able to alt-tab ... [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > That won't work. You need to make two completely separate copies > of the EverQuest folder, and run one copy from each. Due to the way file caching works, there's a very good argument for running all instances from the same directory. Even identical files with the same filename, but from different locations on disk, will be cached independently, but if you the files are truly from the same location, then the same cached image will be used by the system file cache, which reduces memory footprint and load times. Lots of people report just being able to run the game from the same directory without changing anything, it just means you need to accept all the same settings for the different instances. If you use a 3rd party app, you can run from the same directory but have different settings, allowing for example, the second instance to run without luclin graphics. SignatureTony Evans Saving trees and wasting electrons since 1993 blog -> http://perception-is-truth.blogspot.com/ [ anything below this line wasn't written by me ] |
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