Focus follows mouse has gone bananas!!!!

[heffner]

Over the past few days I have been getting some very odd behaviour on my slaves. First off, I turned on focus follows mouse in Keyclone on my slave machine probably a couple of weeks ago. I don't know exactly when my problems started but tonight it was just crazy.

I was trying to run an instance and my slave toons were just activating random commands, switching targets on their own and even casting spells. This happened at random for 1 to 5+ seconds. It was really bad at one point and my slaves were not responding to any of my key presses at all (of course that meant WIPE :P). At first I attributed this to lag since it was only occasional over the past little while. Tonight it was incredibly bad. I would press my DPS spam hotkey and my fire mage was casting frostbolt and arcane missiles!! I don't even have those keybound (but they are on hotkeys)!! Windows would open. Targets would switch. Two of my guys even started to hearth!! My computer was possessed. At first I though maybe it was my wife using her laptop but I couldn't imagine how that would do this. I realized it was likely due to having focus follows mouse active because my mouse cursor was rapidly cycling between my four windows and it only happened on my slave toons. Finally, I turned off focus follows mouse and everything was fine...at least so far.

Anyone else ever experience this?? It was so bizarre.

[Kaynin]

Over the past few days I have been getting some very odd behaviour on my slaves. First off, I turned on focus follows mouse in Keyclone on my slave machine probably a couple of weeks ago. I don't know exactly when my problems started but tonight it was just crazy.

I was trying to run an instance and my slave toons were just activating random commands, switching targets on their own and even casting spells. This happened at random for 1 to 5+ seconds. It was really bad at one point and my slaves were not responding to any of my key presses at all (of course that meant WIPE :P). At first I attributed this to lag since it was only occasional over the past little while. Tonight it was incredibly bad. I would press my DPS spam hotkey and my fire mage was casting frostbolt and arcane missiles!! I don't even have those keybound (but they are on hotkeys)!! Windows would open. Targets would switch. Two of my guys even started to hearth!! My computer was possessed. At first I though maybe it was my wife using her laptop but I couldn't imagine how that would do this. I realized it was likely due to having focus follows mouse active because my mouse cursor was rapidly cycling between my four windows and it only happened on my slave toons. Finally, I turned off focus follows mouse and everything was fine...at least so far.

Anyone else ever experience this?? It was so bizarre.

Does your wife have a keyclone installation on her Laptop?

Would be a wickedly cool prank to pull by the way. :D :D :D

[heffner]

Lol. Nope. She doesn't share my appreciation for MMO's.

[Talamarr]

I don't know why and I'm sorry but I found your recount of your problem really freaking hilarious LOL (the imagery is priceless) Thanks for the laugh.

[heffner]

Well, just to update. It happened again tonight even with focus follows mouse off. Not as bad as before though. So, it doesn't necessarily appear to have anything to do with focus follows mouse.

It seemed to happen primarily during boss fights tonight (go figure). Might be lag, I don't know. My keypresses become totally unresponsive and spells are going off that I am not activating. Some of these spells are not bound to any key. Maybe it's my G15 screwing up, but even when I hit my "2" DPS key sometimes nothing happens as well. Anyway, incredibly annoying. I might try some hardware-based system to see if that changes anything. So, far it's only been in instances as well. Relogging seemed to help, but that could be a coincidence.