epayne6
11-12-2010, 05:43 PM
Hello Dual -boxing community
I unusually don't post here but I've got one very confusing problem on my hands. I hope someone here can help me out. I use to be a 5 char multiboxer. I say 'use to' because after a couple of major changes it stopped working.
My setup info real quick. I use 2 computers. The main was a 3Ghz Pentium 4 laptop with 1G of memory running Win XP SP2. This one showed only my tank. The other is a Core 2 Duo 1333 desktop PC, with 3G of memory, also running Win XP. The other 4 chars ran on this box. I purchased 2 copies of Keyclone v1.9 (one on each computer) to broadcast my keystrokes.
Things were great for a long time. I setup my firewall to exclude Keyclone and WOW, and both machines sent and recieved my keystrokes perfectly. Then the P4 laptop died. So I got a new 2.13GHz Core 7i laptop with 8G of memory running Win 7 64bit versus. Funny thing is the old P4 laptop died just a couple of days before Patch 4.01 came out. So after I installed, fully updated and setup WOW and Keyclone on the new machine it was just in time for the patch download.
Both machines now fully updated, I fired up Keyclone to multibox for the first time on my new setup. This is when all of the problems started. On the new machine. I discovered that Keyclone is NOT Win 7 compatible. The Keyclone Wizard works and my Connections window shows the IP address of the Core 2 along with my Command Name, but Maximizer doesn't work. On the Win 7 machine Maximizer is frozen in place. You can't resize the windows or name anything. The input boxes are always blank and they clear after anything is typed in them so the only way it works is with one full-screen window. I'm pretty sure it's broadcasting the Core 7i's keystrokes, but there is no way to tell.
The Core 2 desktop [running XP] version of Keyclone stopped working. Maximizer works but the WOW windows will not resize and place the way they use to. I tried changing the game's video setting to Windowed but all I get is 4 copies of WOW running in 4 centered, 1-sized windows. The keystrokes are not being broadcast, and none of the Command Names show up in the Connection window. I read somewhere that the wow.exe had been changed but that shouldn't kill the keystroke broadcast.
And that's the story. The new laptop is not compatible with Keyclone, and the old one isn't working at all. I know it's not a firewall or anti-virus problem because even when I disable or completely un-install them nothing changes.
What should I do? Should I get another keystroke broadcaster software setup, or try a hardware multiplex? If so, which one? Is there a software package I can try for a few days/weeks before I have to commit money? Or is there something I'm not seeing? Any help would be great.
Thanks
I unusually don't post here but I've got one very confusing problem on my hands. I hope someone here can help me out. I use to be a 5 char multiboxer. I say 'use to' because after a couple of major changes it stopped working.
My setup info real quick. I use 2 computers. The main was a 3Ghz Pentium 4 laptop with 1G of memory running Win XP SP2. This one showed only my tank. The other is a Core 2 Duo 1333 desktop PC, with 3G of memory, also running Win XP. The other 4 chars ran on this box. I purchased 2 copies of Keyclone v1.9 (one on each computer) to broadcast my keystrokes.
Things were great for a long time. I setup my firewall to exclude Keyclone and WOW, and both machines sent and recieved my keystrokes perfectly. Then the P4 laptop died. So I got a new 2.13GHz Core 7i laptop with 8G of memory running Win 7 64bit versus. Funny thing is the old P4 laptop died just a couple of days before Patch 4.01 came out. So after I installed, fully updated and setup WOW and Keyclone on the new machine it was just in time for the patch download.
Both machines now fully updated, I fired up Keyclone to multibox for the first time on my new setup. This is when all of the problems started. On the new machine. I discovered that Keyclone is NOT Win 7 compatible. The Keyclone Wizard works and my Connections window shows the IP address of the Core 2 along with my Command Name, but Maximizer doesn't work. On the Win 7 machine Maximizer is frozen in place. You can't resize the windows or name anything. The input boxes are always blank and they clear after anything is typed in them so the only way it works is with one full-screen window. I'm pretty sure it's broadcasting the Core 7i's keystrokes, but there is no way to tell.
The Core 2 desktop [running XP] version of Keyclone stopped working. Maximizer works but the WOW windows will not resize and place the way they use to. I tried changing the game's video setting to Windowed but all I get is 4 copies of WOW running in 4 centered, 1-sized windows. The keystrokes are not being broadcast, and none of the Command Names show up in the Connection window. I read somewhere that the wow.exe had been changed but that shouldn't kill the keystroke broadcast.
And that's the story. The new laptop is not compatible with Keyclone, and the old one isn't working at all. I know it's not a firewall or anti-virus problem because even when I disable or completely un-install them nothing changes.
What should I do? Should I get another keystroke broadcaster software setup, or try a hardware multiplex? If so, which one? Is there a software package I can try for a few days/weeks before I have to commit money? Or is there something I'm not seeing? Any help would be great.
Thanks