COV two boxing

[JustusIV]

I am trying to two box city of villians, I have tried both Keyclone and Octopus and neither seem to work. It is setup right because during login it is working but as soon as you get into gameplay it does not. Is there some sort of protection against this?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Did you add the window titles for the CoV games to the client section? If not, then it won't know where to send the keys. :P

[JustusIV]

Both programs find the windows just fine. During login the keys strokes send two both copies but as soon as i get into gameplay they no longer do. The game does change the title of the windows but it still but i have tried that title, manually setting them and in octopus setting it by the name of the process. Nothing seems to work after the login screen.
Any other ideas?
JustusIV

[JustusIV]

I just tried autohotkey to send stroke with no luck also.

WinGet, Cityid, List, Mercy Island

~1::
KeyWait, 1, D
#IfWinActive, Mercy Island
{
ControlSend,, 1, ahk_id %Cityid1%
ControlSend,, 1, ahk_id %Cityid2%
}
Return

It worked fine while i was logging in then when i was in game it just doesn't work.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Interesting. CoV may do screwy things with windowing that prevents these types of programs from working.

I just looked in Octopus config and it lets you specify a process name. Did you try that?

[JustusIV]

I just looked in Octopus config and it lets you specify a process name. Did you try that?Yes i tried that. Same results works in login screen but not actual game play.

[JustusIV]

Looks like i am not the only one having issues.
CoH/CoV ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&postID=40602&highlight=city#post40602')
KeyClone and COH/V? ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&postID=31124&highlight=heroes#post31124')
Dual Boxing City of Heroes. ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&postID=36633&highlight=heroes#post36633')
Looking for Assistance ('http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&postID=17264&highlight=heroes#post17264')


Heh, i did use the search at first buy it didnt like my three letter searches cov coh etc
Hope there is a fix for this soon :(

[Lost Ninja]

CoH windows titles change everytime you zone and are set to the zone you're in. Process name is CityOfHeroes, and that works in Octopus, big problem is that the game won't take keys unless its in the foreground, so you would need to alt tab to each window per keypress. Or run two machines.

[JustusIV]

Thanks for the tip. I will set this up tonight.
.....big problem is that the game won't take keys unless its in the foreground, so you would need to ...... run two machines.I have heard of programs that can force foreground on multiple windows. I wonder if that could work.

[JustusIV]

I just wanted to let everyone know i did test it out last night and it works great. Lost ninja was correct when saying it needs to be in the foreground hence the two computers. Thanks for helping guys.

[Smegster]

im running on 2 machines but it still does not work, connection between computers runs fine, notepad works, still wont accpet going to another client... so annoing... any ideas of what i might be doing wrong? thanks

[McBooty]

Hey bud-
Yeah I 3boxed CoH/CoV for years. It's a pain because you have to do it all manually.
The reasoning I heard behind it (because I tried keyboard emulators and mouse emulators like MouseMachine) is there's hidden character input.
When you type in the CoH/CoV client, there's other characters sent along with your one keystroke, just to make sure people aren't using some kind of bot to control their characters.
You see this sometimes when you're zoning and alt-tabbed out, and you come back to type something and weird stuff happens. Like your character is turning around in circles, or there's a bunch of gibberish on the screen, or you find you've somehow hit the "RUN!" hotkey 19 times in a chat channel.
So a few years ago someone was talking about how it would be possible, but a pain, to look over the code and find a way to duplicate these secret characters. They said a coder could find it but it'd take a few weeks of thankless, intensive work.
In the meantime, I guess our only solution is hardware; an Xzyn-style multiple wifi keyboard/mouse with the same receiver, or one of those splitter devices like Vyndree uses.
-Mac

[Lost Ninja]

Never noticed any of that and I can quite happily run a duo through Octopus. Think I'm using 1.2.5 mainly as I had issue with mouse control spinning madly in higher versions, I have a small hope that the new stuff Skarlot is working on will be better. :)