Switching from one system to two systems - and horribly, horribly lost.

Alright, this is about the point where I feel safe enough to post. I may have missed something, knowing me. I just ain't good at looking. D: I've been looking around for about two weeks now, trying to figure out how to get this working the way I need it to.

I have two PC's. Each one is very capable of running WoW twice. I currently 5box on my main machine, without making any use of the other. I want to switch off and use two machines, namely so I can get away with turning the spell graphics up so I can see AOE ranges and so forth (since EVERYTHING is jacked to the lowest possible settings at the moment.) I plan on running two or three copies on the secondary system, depending on how much it can handle. However, I need to do this on as minimal a budget as possible: namely, free if I can pull it off. I have to shell out for 5 copies of Wrath come november and I don't have much money to throw around. D:

Keyclone can connect via IP to itself, so my understanding is that I can just register another copy of Keyclone for the second computer. That's fine by me - the money spent on keyclone is negligible in budgeting. I'm all for tossing keyclone more money, he deserves it anyways. :P

The problem I'm finding is actually the mouse. I've looked around - Synergy, from what I've heard, has some pretty intense problems with camera spinning. Octopus is something I see a lot of people using, but I can't make heads or tails of the available documentation. What I need is a peice of software that will let me move the mouse to the second PC as if it's monitor was a third monitor on the first PC. that's the only functionality I want or need - if keyclone will handle keystrokes, then all that's left is the mouse anyways.

If/when I do get my hands on this software and figure out how to get it working, my last question is about hotstrings and multiple copies of Keyclone. I'm using the FTL setup on my five shamans which are all running on the same system. Does multi-systeming through keyclone effect hotstrings at all, or will I just be able to get away with duplicating the hotstring files to the second system? I would imagine this sort of setup would also entail some slight latency between keypress on machine 1 and signal reciving on machine 2 - is it a noticible delay or is it so smooth I won't notice it?

thanks in advance.

KM, Interbox.

I'm currently considering the same change from one to two systems and have been testing the trial of Skarlots software. It is superb.

Interbox Thread

Obviously the keyboard does need to work over the two systems, not just the mouse in an FTL system. Keyclone needs to be aware which session has focus in order to send the correct hotstrings to the other four. The perfomance of an FTL system under these conditions is unknown to me, and to be honest, the inability to trial Keyclone is the only factor holding me back on changing the setup for the time being.

And yes, I know Keyclone is cheap. I licensed one copy already and have no hesitation in buying a second license if everything works well, but I'm not so wealthy I can afford to spend on software that will lie unused should I be unhappy with the result. I like my FTL setup too much to go back to a more "traditional" key repeater.

I await your results with interest.

You might want to look into Kavoom as well. I've been using it every since I went to three computers and I like it. Easy to use and setup. You can also download and install it for free to try it out. I think there's like a 30 minute time limit or something like that, but it was enough to convince me to buy it.

Kavoom KM lets you move the mouse between multiple computers. Kavoom KVM lets you type directly on different computers from the one keyboard. You'll need that to work on macros and various other things that require keyboard input in WoW on the second computer.

I recommend it over all the other options that I tried to figure out with no success when I was setting mine up. I'd rather spend my time playing and figuring out other stuff. Never heard of Interbox from the other poster, but I'd like to hear about your results if you try it.

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I have only tired Kavoom and it works very well. There is a graphical setup screen with proper ratios of your monitors and you drag the monitors around to match your setup. Then when you drag the mouse from one pc to the other it is seamless. There is also a function for passing keystrokes to a logon screen on the other machines also. There is also a shared clipboard function between connected machines.
Good luck.