Win 7 (64-bit) & Keyclone problems? **edit** FIXED - user problem :) at least the first one

[jak3676]

Having 2 issues that I wonder if anyone has experienced/solved.

I used to multibox a bit with Win-XP (32-bit) and Keyclone (1.9g I belive). I did the RAF thing up to level 60 and really enjoyed it. But I left my trio parked in Shat at level 60 back in May and I started raiding with my guild full time. Now the summer slow-down is in full effect so I figured I'd pull my trio out of retirement and see what I could do. But now I'm having two issues. I'm not sure if this is related, but a couple of weeks ago I bought a new hard drive, and installed the Win7 (64-bit) release candidate on my gaming PC. After the install I reinstalled my old hard drive (drive E and copied my wow clients over.

I figured out the "run as administrator" thing for win 7 (I hear Vista is the same way). That at least allowed keyclone to save my settings and to open 3 wow clients - but it seems like I have maximiser messed up somehow. I have 3 seperate WoW installs (all on the same hard drive for now, but I'll move 1 or 2 to the 2nd hard drive soon.) Keyclone will open 3 wow windows, but they all stay in windowed mode, stacked on top of each other - not arranged as I'd like (large main window on left, 2 smaller windows on top of each other on the right). They open with the settings that I have on that wow client - something isn't getting passed correctly. Keyclone is correctly passing keystrokes to all 3 clients - the problem appears to be isolated to the maximiser.

I've tried setting it up both with and without using the wizard - but both give me the same result. I went back and tried using 1.9g (instead of 1.9i) - but I get the same results. Anyone else have a similar issue?

The 2nd issue I get is a WoW error when I have my WOLK install not set to windowed mode and I launch it with keyclone. I get a pop-up that says - "World of Warcraft was unable to start up 3D acceleration. Please make sure DirectX 9.0c is installed and your video driver are up-to-date." Win7 installs a higher version of DirectX by default, and I just updated my nVidia driver today. The program works fine when I run it seperately from keyclone, but when I load it with keyclone I get the error. When I set it to windowed mode I don't get this error. I also never get this error with my two TBC installs - just the WOLK install. I'm lost, but I have work around for that so It may not be important.

[Slats]

Your first issue sounds like you havn't quite setup Maximizer fully. Have you named eached region of the screen and in your commands asked each WoW to load in a different region?

[jak3676]

yeah - for a basic setup there's not much too it, but maybe I'm missing something. I have a 28" WUXGA monitor (1920x1200) and I'm triple boxing on my 1 PC.

I started by making my maximiser layout.
region1 = 1280x1200 starting at 0,0. region2 = 640x600 starting at 1280,0. region3 = 640x600 starting at 1280,600. I check the block for "enable maximiser", set my PiP fo F9 for region1, F10 for region2, and F11 for region3. I set them all to a resolution of 1-to-1, and they're all on \\.\DISPLAY1 (the only option on the drop down box).

then on the command editor section I made 3 commands (wow1 = region1, wow2 = region2, wow3 = region3). They are all comming from C:\World of Warcraft (x)\:Launcher.exe (where x = 1, 2 or 3).

then on the general tab I check "auto-add windows titled" and "world of warcraft" is typed in and the "exact match" box is checked. Toward the bottom, "startup command" is checked and I've typed in "wow1;wow2;wow3".

The only other thing I've touched is the do-no-pass tab where I've entered "W A S D NUMLOCK and SLASH"

When I launch keyclone (set to always run as administrator) I get my 3 wow programs to launch - and keyclone recognizes 3 titles of "World of Warcraft". When I type in one screen it passes the keystrokes to the windows behind the top one - but all 3 windows stay stacked on top of each other. I played with the WoW video settings and set them all to windowed and I made them all have a different resolution - 1440x900, 1280x768, 800x600 - just so I can tell that I have 3 distinct programs open at once.

Not sure what else to do from here. ?(

***as a side note I see that on the command editor tab the "wow: username" box is greyed out now and the field is blank - along with teh "wow: maxfpsbk" and the "maxfps" boxes. I know I used to be able to use those as well. hmmm...

[jak3676]

OK, I messed it up. I don't really want to reply to my own post - but maybe this will make it more clear to others if they get the same issue.

Been re-reading the forums for like 6 hours and I stumbeld across my answer in a post from 2008. I was pointed to the Launcer.exe now WoW.exe in each of my commands. Not sure why that affects anything, but obviously it does. I changed them all and now it appears to open correctly. I'll do some more playing with the 2nd problem tomorrow.

[keyclone]

the launcher is not the game. you want to select the game program... wow.exe

when it starts up, keyclone will grab the main window and use it to receive/post keys to/from. it will also put that window into the specified region in the maximizer layout

[Theodore]

OK, I messed it up. I don't really want to reply to my own post - but maybe this will make it more clear to others if they get the same issue.

Been re-reading the forums for like 6 hours and I stumbeld across my answer in a post from 2008. I was pointed to the Launcer.exe now WoW.exe in each of my commands. Not sure why that affects anything, but obviously it does. I changed them all and now it appears to open correctly. I'll do some more playing with the 2nd problem tomorrow.

Launcher.exe opens the windows where u see the news and then must press the "Play" button down right in order to start wow.
Wow.exe is the location where that "Play" button find and execute when u press it. Now I believe I helped you understand how that affects anything
good day!

[MiRai]

Launcher.exe opens the windows where u see the news and then must press the "Play" button down right in order to start wow.
Wow.exe is the location where that "Play" button find and execute when u press it. Now I believe I helped you understand how that affects anything
good day!

Nice necro, this thread is over one year old.