symbolic link + pwnboxer = no real time resizing?

[arbiter]

[edit] Never mind, "enable running game movement" was unticked :/
delete this post if you want

[Tim]

Oooh tell me more about how you are using symbolic links!

[arbiter]

well xp users have to use some other way than this, but for vista/windows 7, symbolic links is built right into the kernel,

The easiest way to do it is by using the mklink command.
Just create a .bat file and include this (substituting D:\World of Warcraft with your Main wow install location)

mklink /d Data "D:\World of Warcraft\Data"
mklink /d Cache "D:\World of Warcraft\Cache"

md Errors

md Logs
md WTF

mklink "BackgroundDownloader.exe" "D:\World of Warcraft\BackgroundDownloader.exe"
mklink "dbghelp.dll" "D:\World of Warcraft\dbghelp.dll"
mklink "DivxDecoder.dll" "D:\World of Warcraft\DivxDecoder.dll"
mklink "ijl15.dll" "D:\World of Warcraft\ijl15.dll"

copy "D:\World of Warcraft\Launcher.exe" Launcher.exe

mklink "Patch.html" "D:\World of Warcraft\Patch.html"
mklink "Patch.txt" "D:\World of Warcraft\Patch.txt"
mklink "Repair.exe" "D:\World of Warcraft\Repair.exe"
mklink "Scan.dll" "D:\World of Warcraft\Scan.dll"
mklink "unicows.dll" "D:\World of Warcraft\unicows.dll"
mklink "Wow.exe" "D:\World of Warcraft\Wow.exe"
mklink "WowError.exe" "D:\World of Warcraft\WowError.exe"

Copy the batch file into a new folder where you want the link to be and run it.

Launcher.exe is separate as you can't run wow.exe directly from Explorer (not sure if that's true for vista or not) and can be used if you wish to run wow by itself, although pwnboxer can load the linked wow without any trouble.

[Catreina]

You can also use Winbolic Link - it is what I have been using. It rocks - I have no less than 7 installs from one real install with linkage

[TwentyTotems]

So what files should you link to get optimal performance?

I run 5 installations of 3 different HDD's:

HDD1 = OS + WOW1
HDD2 = WOW2 + WOW3
HDD3 = WOW4 + WOW5

Currently Im only linking the mpq-files on WOW2-5 from the WOW1-folder. But I see that you are linking .exe's and .dll's also.

My wow's run quite fine, but if there is a way to optimize the performace ofc I would love to do so.

/Twenty Totems

[arbiter]

i only link exe's and .dll's since it means i only need to patch 1 wow as well as running them from 1 hdd. They really don't add any benefit besides patches.

[necrimus]

I would strongly recommend getting WoW1 off your drive containing your OS, especially if it's Windows. I have a similar setup but drives 2 and 3 are in a RAID0 array. This makes them run much faster.

To answer your question, I symlink /data /cache and /interface.

[arbiter]

Originally Posted by necrimus

I would strongly recommend getting WoW1 off your drive containing your OS, especially if it's Windows. I have a similar setup but drives 2 and 3 are in a RAID0 array. This makes them run much faster.

To answer your question, I symlink /data /cache and /interface.

i have 2 hdds, one is my os and small programs, the other is everything else, but since the machine is for wow only, everything else is pretty much wow :P

[Booyah]

Originally Posted by Catreina

You can also use Winbolic Link - it is what I have been using. It rocks - I have no less than 7 installs from one real install with linkage

I use XP, doing this will save hard drive and allow my computer to work easier?

Can you explain how to do this, or point me in the direction I need to go?

Thanks.

[Tim]

Originally Posted by TwentyTotems

So what files should you link to get optimal performance?

I run 5 installations of 3 different HDD's:

HDD1 = OS + WOW1
HDD2 = WOW2 + WOW3
HDD3 = WOW4 + WOW5

Currently Im only linking the mpq-files on WOW2-5 from the WOW1-folder. But I see that you are linking .exe's and .dll's also.

My wow's run quite fine, but if there is a way to optimize the performace ofc I would love to do so.

/Twenty Totems

HD1 = OS
HD2 = Page File
HD3 = All WoWs