Multiple bots on 1 computer

toomanynames · Post by **toomanynames** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 11:20 am

First post so I hope this doesn't result in a flame LOL.

I have searched the forums and found much usefull info to achieve what I'm looking to do but I've not found the "exact" nugget, hence my post.

I have read several of the posted macros and I'm still grasping the script language and such. I used to using other products similiar to this and scripting is not alien to me but not 100% on this script yet.

Essentially I wanted to know if there is a way to have MQ read from three independent log files via 3 independent WinEQ2 Pro sessions running on the same PC. This would be for EQ1.

The searchs I've done so far seem to only get hits on single bot type stuff. I can't find any that have multple bots on the same computer but that could be just me using poor search techniques I supose :\.

Any help other then "yes it can" or the like would be helpfull.

fearless · Post by **fearless** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 11:28 am

Each eq session is completely seperate and each macro / plugin that runs in each session is also seperate. Therefore you can have one session do x, while the second session does y, and third session does z.

toomanynames · Post by **toomanynames** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:02 pm

Ahh, ok so this shouldn't be to big a deal then. From what I had read so far, since there were no examples I could find, i thought it was more a 1 toon to 1 box to 1 MQ session.

So the next question would be is there a lot of overhead for 3 MQ's running on the same PC?

Anyone have experience running 3 WinEQ and 3MQs :).

The box I've got is 2.26Ghz 1G RAM 7200IDE HD Nvidia 128VRAM agp8x.

3WinEQ's suck up nearly all the ram, any ideas of memory usage for MQ?

Geekylad · Post by **Geekylad** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:22 pm

http://www.lavishsoft.com/wineq2/faq.php#3.3

I run 3 Sessions at 1600x1200 on 1 PC. P4 3.2GHz and 1Gig RAM. Just gotta turn some EQ settings down. Gets a bit choppy in places that use a lot of texture memory though.

fearless · Post by **fearless** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:22 pm

1gb is lean, though I doubt you will run into serious troubles. I run 3 on 1.5gb just so it doesn't use swap and I don't have any serious problems.

Geekylad · Post by **Geekylad** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:27 pm

Yeah it is, but it'll do till payday when I chuck another gig in :)

If things get choppy i usually just drop the resolution on the 2 bots, I always play my main manually.

toomanynames · Post by **toomanynames** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:13 pm

On more thought, do you need to have each WinEQ Pro session running from a seperate directory?

I've got all three of my sessions running from the same EQ directory. I guess I'm not clear on how MQ "hooks" the EQ exe or if it even "hooks" it at all.

Geekylad · Post by **Geekylad** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:17 pm

The answer to that question is on the page linked. With a v.good explanation.

toomanynames · Post by **toomanynames** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 2:43 pm

I didn't notice it but I'll re-read and see if I can find the answer.

I am already using 3 sessions on one box and used the guide off of Lavish to make sure each of the sessions use the least memory possible.

What I'm not garnishing off that read (the first once over anyway) is how MQ hooks the EQ exe.

I think I'll just start poking around a bit and read more of the scripts posted here to find my way.

Many thanks to those that posted.

fearless · Post by **fearless** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:00 pm

toomanynames wrote:On more thought, do you need to have each WinEQ Pro session running from a seperate directory?

no

toomanynames wrote:I've got all three of my sessions running from the same EQ directory. I guess I'm not clear on how MQ "hooks" the EQ exe or if it even "hooks" it at all.

Does it matter?

Lax · Post by **Lax** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 3:31 pm

1) Run them from the same directory.
2) MQ hooks into every EverQuest that's running, separately. Plugins and scripts (macros) loaded on one are not necessarily loaded on the others