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Hi folks,
After failing with Google and the TL forum search, I've decided to make my own thread on an issue I'm having a bit of trouble with: dual boxing.
Basically, I play on the SEA server, and I'm an achievement hound. Now, anyone that's tried to queue for FFA on SEA knows that you can easily sit in a queue for hours (I once had the queue running while doing some other stuff on the comp, and by the time I had to give up on it the queue had been active for over four hours!), so I've been planning to queue my main and secondary accounts at the same time, thereby needing only two other people to queue and effectively turning it into a 3 player FFA.
Of course, the easiest way for me to do this is dual boxing. But as it stands, when you go to open a new application of Starcraft II, if it's already running it simply brings the current one back into focus (unlike WoW, which would open up a second app).
Has anyone figured out how to dual box with SC2? Perhaps some shortcut parameter I've missed that can force start a second application? Or something within Windows itself (I'm operating under Windows 7 64 bit) that would allow it? It doesn't seem like the kind of program that needs to be only running one instance at once, but of course I'm not very tech savvy so I don't know what kind of coding went into it. ^^
If anyone could help me out, I would greatly, greatly appreciate it. As it stands, it'd take me almost non-stop queueing for FFA to get the 800 wins achievement by the time the Protoss expansion comes out... >.>
Thanks in advance!
Jax
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I haven't attempted this, as for NA servers, because FFA seems to be very quick queue times. I would say to try making a Virtual PC (partitioning a part of your drive with SC2 on it) and running one from there, or pull up a nearby laptop and run it from there?
If you want to try using a Virtual PC, you can search Microsoft Virtual PC online and should be able to download it for free. GL ^_^
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This kinda toes the line for fairness, since you sort of get 2 bases to work with. All sorts of abusive things you can do with this. That said, you'll probably need 2 computers (since its a DUAL BOX) to do it. Traditionally, people just have a set up (usually through custom hardware) that wires your mouse and keyboard to both computers. Also another simple way to try is to emulate another OS on your computer and run sc2 from there.
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sandboxie lets you run as many copies of sc2 u want as long as u have that many accounts
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ACHIEVEMENTS. WHAT HAVE YOU MADE OF US!!!
>_>
Also isn't this boarding on illegal? Or at least frowned upon by Blizzard.
I recommend apply'n your dedication to achievements to maybe learning something useful.
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Why not just play on NA if you have an SEA account?
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sandboxie allows you to run up to 8 sc2 at one time.
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It's not like I actually want to do anything unfair, it's just that doing this the fair way would be outright unfeasible as it stands. No fault of Blizzard's of course (though if achievements were tied to b.net accounts instead of regions there wouldn't be a problem ^^), it's just that SEA doesn't like FFA. =P The only rule that it might violate is 'intentionally losing', but that applies more to ranked games and smurfing.
I'll try out Sandboxie; thanks for the tip!
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On June 16 2011 13:32 Kiyo. wrote:
Why not just play on NA if you have an SEA account?
I do play on NA, but SEA is my home region and the region most of my friends play on, so it's my main account. I've gotten about 2000 more achievement points on SEA than on NA, and I don't much fancy the prospect of having to do 400+ more custom games to start balancing the two out. =P
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On June 16 2011 13:22 stink123 wrote:
This kinda toes the line for fairness, since you sort of get 2 bases to work with. All sorts of abusive things you can do with this. That said, you'll probably need 2 computers (since its a DUAL BOX) to do it. Traditionally, people just have a set up (usually through custom hardware) that wires your mouse and keyboard to both computers. Also another simple way to try is to emulate another OS on your computer and run sc2 from there. From the post I don't think he's actually trying to "control" both accounts within the game simultaneously (the traditional dualbox), it sounds like he just wants to run two clients with one of them being inactive to reduce the amount of required players and thus time for the queue.
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On June 16 2011 13:31 Aruno wrote:
ACHIEVEMENTS. WHAT HAVE YOU MADE OF US!!!
>_>
Also isn't this boarding on illegal? Or at least frowned upon by Blizzard.
I recommend apply'n your dedication to achievements to maybe learning something useful. Not very helpful post man he's asking on a techish question and you say he should apply his dedication to something useful? Why not be more useful with how you apply your posts and not judge him on what he wants to do with his time. To op I don't think that this is a problem with Blizzard as long as your not trying to have to accounts active to somehow match make with yourself but since that's not your aim I think your fine. GL man hopefully sandboxie fixes your problems! :D
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Thanks for the help guys; Sandboxie did the trick and should prove a useful program to have in the future! ^^
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If you have a really powerful computer maybe you could run your second SC2 in a VM on lowest settings?
Otherwise you need two computers hooked up to a kvm. Then assign a shortcut to switch between comps.
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as you saw, sandboxie does the trick, you also have the option of using a virtual machine (if you already had one setup, otherwise sandboxie is a quicker solution)
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This would make it easier for you to play (snipe) yourself in ladder, can't see it being allowed by Blizzard.
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Try the microsoft utility "desktops". Depending on how SC2 checks for another instance it might be fooled. I haven't tried it myself, but I have used desktops in the past for other, similar, reasons.
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