Quick question about playing solo vs boxing w/ ISboxer

[bollwerk]

I just started using ISboxer and I love it, even though it's a bit hard to understand at first.

If I sometimes want to play solo (like for raids), will it mess up my settings if I use the same character and wow folder that I use for boxing with ISboxer? I'm afraid to test it because I don't want to mess up anything I have spent hours tweaking.

In the past, when I used keyclone, I had separate wow folders for boxing and for solo play, so it wasn't an issue. I could still do that, but was wondering if I need to.

[lax]

One of the core ideas behind ISBoxer is that it does not require, nor make, any permanent changes to WoW. You do not need to create a single in-game macro specifically for multiboxing, because ISBoxer will set things up temporarily with the ISBoxer Addon. The ISBoxer Addon is virtualized and will not do anything unless you are launching your team through ISBoxer. Config.WTF is also virtualized, so you will automatically have different Config.WTF settings when you solo than when you multibox as well.

The only thing I'd say might be typical to do differently between solo and boxing with ISBoxer is different addons. At worst, that's a matter of checking or unchecking some boxes at character selection, so that's not too bad. You can virtualize addons.txt if you want, as well.

So no, you do not necessarily need a second folder, but there are still people who prefer to keep separate folders for solo vs boxing. I don't, personally. Maybe some other people will chime in with their experiences

I assume that you are talking about the graphics settings. If you were referring to different settings that we have not covered in our responses, let us know.

I also play solo and multibox at different times. I have found that ISBoxer doesn't affect the solo (non-team) graphics settings at all. This is nice because when I play with one window I want the graphics settings high, but when I play with many windows at the same time I want the settings lower. (This increases performance and reduces power consumption.) ISBoxer handles this nicely. Just shut down the multiboxing team, start up a solo window using the Blizzard Launcher (not Inner Space), and all the high graphics settings are intact.

[bollwerk]

I was mainly concerned about graphics settings (resolution and detail) and UI settings for each addon. Sounds like I should be fine.

Thanks.

Sorry to hijack this post, but my question is very similar and not completely answered above. (if I need to repost in a new thread please let me know).

New to InnerSpace as well, and I am interested in duoboxing a simple existing 80 level paladin/shaman combo. My screen resolution is 1280x1024, and I used the default windows layout in InnerSpace for two toons for one monitor ('master' on top, 'slave' below).
I also want to play solo (raiding mostly), so I want my overall look and feel of the GUI the same, and position of for example Grid, chat windows etc as well.

Started up InnerSpace, and want to move some addons around on the screen to create enough real-estate. First thing I did, under wow Video settings ticked Gui scale, and turned it all the way down. That made my action bars a lot smaller and I have space on both sides of the lower action bar to put my chat window and for example recount/omen.

I stopped there, exited Wow, and started the same toon up as solo (not under InnerSpace). So this is full screen. Chat windows are now overlapping the action bars (which is correct due to virtualisation of the graphics settings in Config.WTF). So I go to Video settings and also click GUI scaling, and turn it all the way down....

BUT: the action bars do not grow as small as under InnerSpace in the main window. In fact, I am missing real estate to the side of the action bars and now the Chat Window and Recount overlap the action bars still. (In InnerSpace they do not).

Is this a side effect of the change in aspect ratio under InnerSpace for the main window (it looks more 'wide' with 1280x(something less than 1024). I have 'remove windows frame' ticked and also 'force wow in full screen mode' (without the second the Windows bar never got removed).

Wondering if there are any tricks to setting things up so the placement is the same under solo full screen play and multibox play on one monitor within InnerSpace.

[Ualaa]

There's a good chance, you have Windowed Mode or Windowed Mode (Full Screen) checked differently.
If all of the settings are the same, and the resolution is the same, it won't matter whether you start wow.exe or via Inner Space.



You could open the Config.WTF file and the virtualized Config file, and compare them to see they're the same.
Or perhaps, don't virtualize the config of your main toon, so its boxing and solo config is the same.

[lax]

Placements are different because you're cutting off part of the screen for your other windows... If you want it identical to playing without ISBoxer, your best option would be to keep the window the same size as playing without ISBoxer

Thank you for the replies! That is what I ended up doing: have the main (master/active) window on my first monitor (full screen), and all the slave windows on the second monitor.