Hi all, first of I don't know if this is the optimal way of doing this. But I asked around on IRC earlier and didn't get any better suggestion so I thought I'd make a post about my solution to this. First off, Reason for haveing several configurations : I recently started playing again (just been botting for a few months and before that I wasn't playing for a few months). As I run the same WoW-client when running the bots and when playing as usual I first of had to change gfx-settings every time I wanted to play (or bot). So what I wanted to solve was making it possible to start WoW with a custom config. First of I thought about starting wow with the config-file as a parameter but I didn't find any documentation supporting this. Ah well this seems to be getting way to long so I just explain how to do this if anyone else wanna do it. 1. Copy whatever configuration your currently using from Wowfolder\WTF\Config.cfg to either highResConfig.wtf or lowResConfig.wtf in the same folder (depending on which setting you have atm). 2. Start Wow and configure it with the secondary configuration you wanna run. Quit Wow (first when quitting settings are written to Config.cfg). 3. Copy the new Config.cfg to either highResConfig.wtf or lowResConfig.wtf (whichever name you didn't use before). 4. Start up notepad and copy and paste the following : ----- start cutting below ------ @set wowdir=c:\games\World of Warcraft @cd %wowdir%\WTF\ @del Config.wtf @copy highResConfig.wtf Config.wtf @cd %wowdir% @start Wow.exe ----- end of first cut and paste section ----- 5. Save this to text-file and name it highreswow.bat (suggestion place it on the desktop). 6. Clean up notepad (remove text). Copy and paste the following : ----- start cutting below ------ @set wowdir=c:\games\World of Warcraft @cd %wowdir%\WTF\ @del Config.wtf @copy lowResConfig.wtf Config.wtf @cd %wowdir% @start Wow.exe ----- end of second cut and paste section ----- 7. Save this to text-file and name it lowreswow.bat (suggestion place it on the desktop). 8. Done! You can now run wow with lower resolution using lowreswow.bat and high res using highreswow.bat. Please note that the current Config.cfg is removed before you run the bat so if you start up WoW without any of these batchfiles you'll be using the last used settings. Hope someone found it usefull, seem to be creating wall of text for something pretty basic, but guess it might help someone =)
Very nice, i modified the Lowres batch file a little bit so it disables all addons when started @set wowdir=D:\Spiele\World of Warcraft @d: Wow is on Drive D on my system so i have to switch to Drive Letter D @cd %wowdir%\WTF\ @del Config.wtf @copy lowResConfig.wtf Config.wtf @cd %wowdir%\Interface\ Switch to Interface Folder @Rename AddOns AddOnsTMP Rename original AddOns folder temporarly @cd %wowdir% @Wow.exe @cd %wowdir%\Interface\ After Wow.exe is closed goto interface folder @rmdir /s /q AddOns Delete the by Wow created AddOns folder without prompt @Rename AddOnsTMP AddOns Rename the Temporary Addons Folder back to your Original Addons Folder Thats it! Please be carefull with the "rmdir /s /q" command !!DO NOT START 2 CLIENTS AT THE SAME TIME WITH MY VERSION OR YOUR ADDONS FOLDER MIGHT GET LOST!!
