Boxing on a Mac- The Whats, the Hows and the Whos

[Fef]

Your alts will follow you just the same. All this does is limit the number of frames (images) you client attempts to render (compute and display) every second.
All you may notice are slightly choppy animations on your alts.

On the other hand, this will set a lot of resources free which will hopefully allow you to crank up graphics quality on your main.

[hertome]

I will give the fps-command a try.



DO u have a macro made for it (i.e. u have to use this

command everytime u load wow) or can u add this to the wow "ini"?

[TheBigBB]

Clonedkeys was working fine again last night when I set my main window to lower specs and the follower windows to slightly higher specs, so they're more equal. Huh.

[Fef]

I will give the fps-command a try.
DO u have a macro made for it (i.e. u have to use this
command everytime u load wow) or can u add this to the wow "ini"?

This is done automatically by Octopus in my case, but I'm pretty sure you can put the /console command in a macro, and the ".ini" file will certainly work.

[hertome]

It works great thank for the info.

I added it to the config.wtf:

SET MaxFPS 30
SET MaxFPSbk 10



and it works. I play my main on fill Detaisl not (disbled Shadows btw.)



Thanks a lot everyone

[alphaquam]

For those that use ClonedKeys, just wanted to post here to let you know an update will be available this week that will allow creation of a custom key blacklist.

[TheBigBB]

For those that use ClonedKeys, just wanted to post here to let you know an update will be available this week that will allow creation of a custom key blacklist.

Thanks for the update!

I am just posting here to report that higher specs on my computer drastically increased the reliability of Clonedkeys and eliminated dropped keypresses. I tested this by mashing my keyboard for 15 kyes in my guild chat in Dalaran, and seeing how many of the 4 followers got it right. As usual with the Mac, it took Clonedkeys a bit of time to relay the info to them all, but finally they ALL got it right, and consistently. This would never have happened before, especially not in Dalaran. The bad news for people on a budget is that I am running now with 8 Gigs of RAM and TWO NVIDIA 8800 512MB Video Cards to make this possible in a place like Dalaran.

The other sad news is that I now have a powerful gaming PC to run another 5 (for 10 man raiding) and its key duplication does work quite a bit better with Keyclone, so I guess Mac users are at a slight disadvantage, though if you press keys at a slow, controlled rate it isn't much of an issue. I don't think this is an issue with Clonedkeys, but probably something to do with how a Mac works. On the other hand, the Mac's processing power on a Mac Pro is way superior for multitasking with its 8 cores. :-)

[alphaquam]

I apologize for not having a release ready yet as stated previously. It's quite close, just a few more details to iron out. I've also been researching the latency issue but have not made and significant progress as of yet.

[TheBigBB]

I apologize for not having a release ready yet as stated previously. It's quite close, just a few more details to iron out. I've also been researching the latency issue but have not made and significant progress as of yet.

Hey there, nothing to apologize for. I am sure you're doing the best you can, and I appreciate even having a program working for my Mac at all. Do you have any idea what the problem with the latency is? My brother is a Mac programmer for a living so I was thinking that if I dropped him an e-mail with some specifics maybe he would have some input on that issue.

[alphaquam]

After digging through the original code, I think it may have to do something with how the method that sends the key commands is handled. I believe it waits for some kind of return value indicating whether or not the key command was actually received by the target application. With one slave, that single round trip probably isn't noticeable. Once you have four slaves, though, that's a lot of extra time. If your brother could offer any advice, that would be great. The function of interest is AXUIElementPostKeyboardEvent. The source is available on the project site.