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Pics of your gaming setup

Started by Vitandus, Fri, 2009-09-18 : 02:25

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Vitandus

I'm always interested in seeing how people have their gaming area arranged. I know some of you play on two monitors and some on laptops. The folks with design or IT jobs probably have a totally different setup than the casual WoW fan or the flight sim buff.

Joe, I want to see your multiboxing arrangement!

wildcard

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Sorry, no digital camera to take a pic, but here's the rundown.

Layout
"L" shaped desk with an angled center, raised for the monitor with one of those "cubbies" underneath for the CPU case.  Due to poor ventilation I just keep my subwoofer there and have the main CPU tower on the far right edge of the desk.  Main PC utilizing the standard positions (main monitor in the center, with my second PC keyboard and monitor to my left on the desk.  Keyboards are about 8-10" inches apart.  Second PC tower is on the far left edge of the desk.

Hardware
No KVM or keystroke repeater setup.  Just have a very basic, old-school dualbox setup.  I run two instances of WoW on my main gaming machine, both in maximized windowed mode for easy, quick alt-tabbing when needed.  I run my "killer", the toon who does all the killing and looting on this machine, with J Random Third Toon on the other game instance.  I run my healer's account on my second machine to my left, since all of my healing macros (see below) are bound to my numpad, I don't have far to reach to use em since the left keyboard's numpad is just to the left of my main keyboard.

Mods
I utilize FollowFelankor for managing the toons' logistics (mounting, following), running on the "slave" accounts.  On my healer's account, I have a bunch of macros set up in BindPad, which allows binding a keystroke to your macros without having those macros on an actual action bar.

Macros
I have three macros for each character in the party, healer included.  One each for Power Word: Shield, Greater Heal and Renew.  Also one for Prayer of Healing the entire party, Mind Searing my killer's target, and casting Penance on my "tank" (in my case, my hunter's pet).

The healer's self heals are thus:
"/cast [target=player] Spell Name"

Then, for the party:
"/cast [target=party1] Spell Name" heals the party leader.
"/cast [target=party2] Spell Name" heals the third party member.
"/cast [target=party1pet] Spell Name" heals the party leader's pet.

For Mind Sear I use:
"/assist party1" on line 1.
"/cast Mind Sear" on line 2.

Utilizing the variables instead of character names lets me interchange the party members without changing the macros every time, just make sure your main toon is the party leader (always party1).

As for layout:
Healer's heal self macros are on Slash (PWS), Star (Greater Heal) and Minus (Renew).
Party1's heals are on 1 (PWS), 2 (GH), and 3 (Renew).
Party2's heals are on 4 (PWS), 5 (GH), and 6 (Renew).
Party1pet's heals are on 7 (PWS), 8 (GH), and 9 (Renew).
Mind Sear is on Plus.
Prayer of Healing is on 0 (zero).
Penance is on Point (.)

I'm sure there might be more efficient ways to do it via keystroke emulation to do it all from one keyboard, but this works for me since I didn't want to buy additional hardware solely for dualboxing.  I welcome all questions and comments.

Oh and Pat, I realize I went way off tangent since you only wanted pics, so feel free to move this to another board if you wish.
Play like ya got a pair.



Dave

guess i'll go first. forgive the terrible quality.

Optiquest 24" monitor (Viewsonic's bastard child)
Logitech 5.1 something something speakers
Logitech G25 wheel
Antec nine hundred case, with a Porsche pollen filter
Logitech MX revolution mouse (blasphemous)
Dell keyboard, courtesy of UCSD
Rule #1: Nobody is your friend.
Rule #2: Do not feel sorry for anybody.
Rule #3: Do not trust anybody.
Rule #4: Nobody can help you.
Rule #5: You gotta look good.

Tarn

Pardon the quality and color. The second picture was taken after the sun went down.

Gumbysbuff

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On - The - Road Mobile Setup (plus headset for the Hotel)

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