Add me to the list of users of Inner Space to do multi-boxing. I'd used WinEQ2 before when running DAOC, but only to be able to have accounts 3-5 logged in while I 2-boxed to do Power Leveling or to do buff-duty while I 2-boxed Necromancers on 2 computers. I had to make a mod to the synergy code at the time to use for this, since nobody had released any of the updated broadcast-capable software yet.
I tried to get Inner Space setup to do multiple session input with DAOC, but couldn't ever get it to work properly, and when I made the jump to LOTRO, I dumped my subscription to Lavishsoft completely, as I had no use for the products. When I started 2-boxing in LOTRO using one of the released, updated synergy tools. But of course, was limited to just 2 accounts (one on each computer). After reading this yesterday, I spent some time last night running 3 accounts on 1 PC after doing some initial setup, and trying to understand all of what's going on. It works :thumbsup: , but there are minor issues I'm working on:
1) My first issue was having LOTRO running in DirectX10 (I'm running Vista 64). I couldn't get the console to display, or anything to really work. Once I disabled DX10, it seemed to work great.
2) After starting up a LOTRO session, it auto-centers the window on me rather than placing it into the upper-left corner of the screen. I have a 10-second delay in my startup script that then calls a windowpos 0,0 which seems to alleviate the issue, because I think LOTRO is causing it.
3) Mouse repeat enabled a couple of times on me without warning. I'm not sure what caused it. It also caused the 2 side-windows to snap into full screen mode under my main's window when this happened. Since LOTRO doesn't handle mouse repeating very well (the camera goes all over the place it appears), it'd be nice to just disable that functionality completely.
4) I have a Logitech G15 keyboard, and I am using the G keys and the M lights. The MR key still appears to trigger macro recording, so I'm not sure about tying that key to anything.
5) I can't seem to get the Num Lock to toggle when I'm running LOTRO. Well, at least the light wasn't changing state, and whenever I tried to tie a key inside the game to a "NUM 0" or "NUM 8", all LOTRO would detect was the non-Num Locked version of the key ("Insert" and "Up Arrow" for those 2 cases). However if I typed into chat, and I toggled Num Lock on (even though the light wouldn't indicate it was on), the numbers would go into chat.
6) Does processor affinity save per session? I set processor 1 only/processor 2 only/processor 3 only in the 3 sessions, and also included it in the startup script, however on subsequent startups (even through Inner Space restarts), the console would tell me "processor affinity not changed".
7) Anyon else have experience running this in LOTRO? I'm open to any tips/tricks/etc. I've 2-boxed 2 hunters to 60 the old way, and I played around with a captain main and 2 champs last night. LOTRO doesn't break /follow on melee combat like WOW, but I'm still trying to figure out the best way to do positioning for single-target attacks. I chose the champs because of their PBAE capabilities and since I've already done the other main DPS class.
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