I’ve recently start playing wow again, after a long break and just brough TWW, but we have talked and my wife kinda wanna start by my side so we can play together.
I know we can run multi battleNet at once and also having 10x wow running if you have that amount of accounts, but my question is really if you can play two accounts at the same time with diffrent input`?
I have seen you can play WoW with K/B but also on controller, so here is my question.
Is it possible to run two accounts to play together on one pc, where one is using Keyboard/Mouse and other account is using Controller so we can play together without getting a new PC for her.
Think you’d struggle with using one cpu and gpu to run 2 lots of graphics across 2 separate monitors. It’s not an issue if you are say multiboxing with several accounts as your cpu and gpu will only still have to do the work of one person, as the rest of your accounts are simply just following you and there’s only you that needs to be able to see that. With 2 separate players on one pc, it will have to work twice as hard to output 2 lots of different graphics to 2 different monitors. Sounds like a recipe for a very hot gpu, whether it is possible at all, I have no idea.
Because of the changes with multi-boxing and botting prevention system, you can only use an input on the window that is foremost and active. Having two inputs like that may trigger a botting warning. I would write to Blizzard support for advice with regards to if it is possible without breaking any terms and conditions.
As for the input, there a lot of software options. Aster being the one that I found the quickest with a google search. I have no idea which works the best.
You can connect ten keyboards or controllers to one pc but the input will still go to the focused application.
So even with ten input devices and two monitors you can only control one application at a time.
To send inputs from a second device to a different application you would need third party code which a) stops the input from beeing forwarded to the focused application and b) send input to another application.
Which is simply multiboxing with extra steps. Because a thrid party program would control a second game client.
How the inputs of the third party are triggered is irrelevant. Bots trigger them with a logic, multiboxing programs copy the inputs from the input device and you would copy input from a second input device.
Tl,dr: You can connect multiplte input devices to one PC but still one PC can control only one client (literally), the focused one. Everything else needs a third part program and thats against tos.
I’m going to say no, it’s not allowed due to botting restrictions. WoW generally can run on a fancy potato, just set the graphics a bit lower until she decides whether she likes the game enough and then slowly upgrade the PC.
Method one is just connect more input devices to your pc → you can still control only the focused application, no matter how many you connect.
The other methods are third party aps using the windows API to emulate hardwareinput, the same is used by bots and is therefore a bannable offense. And even if you use this, windows only forward inputs to the focused application. So they will lose control over their characters the whole time after one of them clicks inside the game window.
Your PC is like a driving shool car or a plane, multiple pilots or drivers still control the whole thing, you cant split it in two. You can slap more input devices onto it but you still control only the focused app. To send commands to non focused apps you will need to write code which is … a bot.
I would be surprised if there is a “Windows Splitscreen” feature.
Yeah as others said, there is no way of seperated input.
The only way would be Blizzard implementing this feature into their software, as Splitscreen games do.
So no, you and your wife can not play simultaniously on the same PC.
Windows does not support it natively, but you can with a multi-seat application. People have been using these for many years. I just have not had any experience with them lately to give advice on which is the best for his purpose.
If you have the means, I don’t think 500 quid is a bad investment into a new PC if your wife is actually committed to playing with you, and from what you’ve said, she is, so yeah.
The only time 3rd party software that is against the TOS is when it changes the Wow code if mirrors keys for you. Since they are not mirroring keys then it should not be. But because of the way it will work, then it may trigger an alert. So as I previously said check with support first.
Support will most likely recommend to not use such software, as it is impossible for Blizzard to tell if the sotware is used to bot or not.
It’s a thrid party software for input instead of direct input, period.
Multiseat Software like Aster i.e. is not like a driver.
It isn’t even a “real” Multiseat setup.
Multiseat setup would be a machine as server with Thin Clients connected for mutliple users with eacth their own instance.
Using a software solution to achieve this, like Aster, could alert Warden.
AFAIK, people with 2 accounts just keep 2nd logged in and AFK for purposes like gearing alts, extra chances in farming things etc. and keep them on /follow or keep alt tabbing.
So it’s not the same as it was like … I still remember that video of a guy multiboxing 40 characters to take a world boss down xD
Software elevated multiboxing is, which it would be.
Third party progtams which control characters do not “change the wow code”, how should they, we do not have wows source code … and what is there to change? They want to control a character not reinvent the client.
They simply use the windows API to send keystrokes to the running wow application. Its not about “mirroring”, its about a program which sends keystrokes to the wow client. Which is different from receiving this keystrokes from hardware.
As soon as you use any program to interact with wow its against tos. That simple.