Keyclone/maximizer causes graphics issues after using PiP?

[Hachoo]

So I've been using keyclone with maximizer for awhile now. Never used PiP though. I decided to set up PiP to F8/9/10/11/12 for each WoW instance which also changes my focus, etc.

Heres the issue, if I use the keys to swap regions so that say my Wow2 comes to the foreground and gets resized, and WoW1 gets put into the background and shrunken, it works, but usually shortly after I do this (maybe if I do it 2-3 times, haven't fully tested yet), my whole computer starts to whack out. The graphics start to chug big time, switching windows becomes almost impossible, and I basically have to close all my WoW windows. I usually then reboot so I'm not sure if just restarting WoW would fix it - this has happened all 3 times I've tried to use the region switching PiP feature.

Is this a known bug? Any way to fix it?

[Solon]

I use this feature many times every session, and haven't had the issues you are having. My first thought is you have an addon that is freaking out, try going addon free a while for testing and see if that improves it. Do you have enough RAM? I say 4gig minimum for 5 box. Have you set maxfps to ~50 and maxbkfps ~15? Do you need to set core affinities? (I think you only need to do that on a quad core with Vista) How many monitors/graphics cards (card RAM?) Have you set your graphics options for your toons to minimums?

[Hachoo]

I'm using XP, can't see more than 3GB of RAM and thats what I have. The hard drive isn't thrashing when this occurs like you'd think meaning its not a RAM issue (no swapping), it definitely appears to be a video card issue.

I actually have the maxfps 30 and maxfpsbk10 on all of my accounts (only have a GeForce 8600GT 256). All accounts are set to min graphics 800x600 except main is 1024x768 (still minimum graphics) and I have keyclone setting affinity of main + first clone to CPU0, last 3 clones to CPU1.

I can play the game for hours with 5 accounts without any issues, but within a minute or two of using the PiP swap with keyclone my system starts to hang itself.

[phara]

I have the same problem. On my system it's caused by the WoW windows not losing focus after using PiP. Try this:

(assuming maxfpsbk=10 and maxfps=50)
1. Turn on FPS display in all your copies of WoW (ctrl-R by default).
2. Verify that the unfocused ones are at your maxfpsbk cap of 10 and that the main window is at 50 (or whatever your settings are).
3. In your main window cycle through all your PiP windows using hotkeys, pausing for 4-5 seconds between swaps and without moving your mouse out of the main window.
4. Observe the FPS in all windows - the expected result is that all slave windows would be at 10 fps - but on my system all slave windows and the main window are at 50 fps.

The workaround (if your problem is the same as mine) is to move your mouse into the slave window for a second then move the mouse out - then the window will truly lose focus and the fps will drop back to 10 (assuming you use some form of focus follows mouse).

If you're interested keyclone I'm running on win xp pro 64 bit with a 7800gt video card and 4gb ram. Clean installed system, nothing extra. I'm using windows focus folllows mouse featyre - not the keyclone one.

[Hachoo]

Hmm, I will try that once I have a new LCD (Mine died 2 days ago so I can't use my PC until the new one arrives tomorrow).

Its possible that is the problem, as it doesn't seem to occur until i've swapped to 2 or more clones. I do always make sure when using the swap feature to not touch anything until the background window becomes the foreground and gets resized. I find that if I move my mouse or something it can sometimes stop the entire process from completing.

Will try this in the next couple days and report back.