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I am interested in fooling around with this software with some test accounts. I have 30" monitors and I intend to split them up such that I can have 2 copies of WoW running on each half of the screen with no seam down the middle. Right now I am using WoW Maximizer to do that - it does not work just yet but I know why and am working on it. Soon, it will - in effect removing the windows around WoW and basically using a dual core computer and an nVidia 8 series GPU to run two WoWs at once (at nearly 60fps each!) when previously it would have needed two separate computers to do so.
While I have always been a staunch hardware only guy, this may make sense to augment some of my hardware with in order to greatly simplify the amount of keyboards and mice I have to deal with as I segue into 10 accounts at once. I see this as being a quasi KVM combined with Synergy if I can get it to work as I think it can. It will make a handful of computers a large "cluster" of machines - enabling gaming at 25+ megapixels (even though there are multiple clients running and it is not all one HUGE game).
Not having read through all of the replies or tested it myself yet, my questions to you guys/girls:
Can you broadcast several dozen different keys or just a handful? I would need to broadcast a ton.
Can you hot key broadcasting to certain boxes only? Meaning hit say Alt+F1 and send commands to only boxes 1,2,3,4 and not 5? Or 1 only and not 2,3,4,5?
Can you setup multiple hot keys to broadcast to say, 1,2,3,4,5 or 6.7.8.9.10 or all 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10? Or more?
How well does mouse duplication work? Does it sync up perfectly (Even hardware mice don't do that).
How stable is it?
How exactly does it differ from AutoHotKey?
Is this being hosted somewhere? The link seems broken and the sourcecode out dated? Can anybody (Ellay?, Sourceforge?) step up and host it?
Ill answer as best I can.
1. You can broadcast as many keys as you like or as few as you like, its easy to set in SB's latest version
2. Yes You can set which boxes to broadcast to (I am currently testing this feature as I didnt have a 3rd machine until now)
3. It works pretty well as far as I can see for simple operations like clicking, but causes problems when you want to drag stuff or move your toon via the mouse.(at least on my setup)
4. No problems to report on stabilty, have a combo fo 2 to lvl65 with no problems whatsoever.
5. No clue, I dont use AutoHotkey, but i think ahk sends keys to multiple clients on one machine, MB just simply sends keystrokes to whichever window is in focus currently.
6. Link works for me. (First post), make sure to get ShockBetas modified versions (Sticky topic) for the server.
So, how exactly is this different from Synergy with mouse broadcasting turned on and the ability to hot key certain key sends?
It is close to the same functionality as synergy with key broadcasting. The difference is you can choose which keys you want to broadcast, on the overall layout.
Stability for me wasn't good, it would close out for no reason every 2-5 minutes. I have not heard anyone else have this issue though, so I assume it may be something on my end with my changes done to my network cards.
Except the coverage speed to be the same as synergy for mouse sync. Your multiplexers will most likely be more effective but this costs $0.
I have no idea. I tried both, MB worked for me immediately, Synergy didnt so I stuck with MB.
Both seem to do have similar functionality.
Synergy and Multibox are very similar. Multibox is not a modifed version of synergy. Multibox was wrote for the specific purpose of multiboxing games. With Multibox you have the ability to toggle broadcasting of keyboard key presses to all or some of the connected computers. The same for mouse movement and button presses. There is also a global list of keys to broadcast(intially all being broadcasted, but can change in the options). The mouse movement works now across different display resolutions. There is still a problem with mouselooking while broadcasting mouse movement, but screen position of the mouse is absolute. There is also key bindings to hop to specific displays. I.e. I have broadcasting on and want to control the far left display. I press my bound key and broadcasting is turned off and have immediate keyboard and mouse control of that display. Or I'm on the far right display and need to immedietly get to the far left.. again same as above. There is also an option to never broadcast to a specific display. This will never allow multibox to broadcast keypresses to said display. This was added as you may not always be playing on all your computers, I personally have an extra computer in my setup that has chat/guides/internet open and sending broadcasted keys to it was unwanted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xzin
There have been other ideas and suggestions of what to add to the program, and that's the good part about multibox, it can be added. The source is fairly easy to understand and anyone with c++ knowledge is able to meld it to what they want. I tend not to put in stuff I don't see useful for the whole. This keeps a baseline for people to work with.
Again, any suggestions that have gone unanswered please post them in the new thread, so I can have a more concise list then having to parse through the 10 pages of this or the other posts.
I got a mouse problem as to when I hold right or left mouse button on server and move it around for turning and viewing my client then just starts to spin a lot more then I am moving and are incapable of moving it up or down while holding either mouse button down on server
Is this a mouse incompatibility or software maybe
If it spins AMAZINGLY fast then thats a software issue - synergy allows you to change the mode as detailed in one of my other posts.
Well it's probably not AMAZINGLY fast but fast
It ofc works fine outside using Multibox but when I am it does that