Comparative analysis? HKN vs. GCP vs. ISB?

[5fingersofdoom]

Keyclone is great,I loved it and would recommend it to anyone thinking of boxing.
ISBoxer so far excellent I see it as suited to boxers who have a little more experience,and need more options in control.
HKN haven't used it.
Hope that helps.

[PhantomRogue]

I'm going to set up ISBoxer this weekend. I might switch back to one PC so I can use the window swapping, for PvP and questing, I bet it's invaluable.

The instant Switching and basically 1 click mouse repeating is what really sold me on ISBoxer. Ive used IS before for EQ and whatnot, but the ISBoxer actually brought me back to WoW because I wanted to try otu boxing. Running an i7 920 and 4 GB of RAM, I run 5 WoW's, iTunes , Firefox and IRC on the PC with ZERO lag.

Not sure if thats just overall processing power of the i7, but ISBoxer's frame rate limiter and Offscreen Resolution is very friendly for the single Machine users.

[zanthor]

It's a nice feature, but is it significantly different from the functionality you get from simple directory junctions?

Once configured it's 100% invisible. You can move your config from machine to machine without problems, doesn't require OS knowledge, etc.

That does sound good, but one thing that worries my though. What is the performance difference between a full-size window resized to for instance 800*600 and one where the window is configured to run at 800*600 in WoW? Also, my main windows is 1920 * 1200, so if I set up my user interface to look decent in that resolution, scaling it down to 800*600 (or something similarly small) will make it too small to actually see what is on the screen

There is a small performance h it to running all windows @ 1920x1200, but really if your machines running smoothly it's not likely to be a big difference. UI is totally irrelevant, the other windows swap so fast you'll give up trying to do anything on them since you can just make them full sized, and then do what you want and back...

As for the user friendlyness, I bought a trial subscription yesterday and I find it pretty confusing. There are no standard buttons in the program - it looks nothing like standard windows/mac windows, which makes it a lot less intuitive. The setup is confusing and while the wizard will get you running fast, in order to utilize 100% of the programs potential, you have to spend just as much time learning to use it as I did in my time with HKN. In comparison, HKN is kind of hard to setup if you're not into programming - but once it's learned it's actually easier to use that most other programmes which require you to browse about for functionality in windows menus with poor or no documentation.

Um, menus are standard on all GUi based OS's... Wizards menu, quick setup... 40 seconds later you can log in and kill shit.

I like the "fake" mouse pointers and the easier macro management, but I find ISBoxer / IS to be a bit user un-friendly and cluttered and not very intuitive compared to keyclone/HKN (I haven't tried GCP for more than 15 mins so I can't comment on that).

Because setting up FTL in KeyClone is so transparent... and I don't believe you are calling a SCRIPTING LANGUAGE more intuitive than ANY GUI.

Wow.

[zanthor]

Inner Space "calls home" when you launch the Inner Space program, and when you launch a game through it. If it can't connect, launching will not be successful. That's pretty much it, you don't get randomly disconnected while playing or anything like that (unless your connection to the game drops) -- the connection to my server is just for a second while launching. The primary license server currently has a 294.5 day uptime.

In another week I'll have been using IS exclusively for a year... in that time I've had exactly zero times that I've been unable to launch IS.

[zanthor]

/takes screenshot
/runs away

[Eggy]

I started out with HKN for DAoC and WoW, it's pretty good, but when things get hectic it tended to que up my commands, or not even broadcast them to my game instances. The window swapping was pretty fast, but not instantly, would take about half a second to a second to swap, which ment slow reaction times.
I LOVE how easy and flexible it is to set up, though it might take some time to get everything just the way you want it, but once you get a hang of it it's pretty good. You can pretty much tailor it to your own needs. Mouse broadcasting is pretty good, even though I never was able to get it to show a cursor it still worked for things like aoe spell broadcasting. And it got a pretty solid community when/if you need help with anything freddy is pretty much there to help you out instantly.

But I'm actualy using Innerspace now, it's just too easy and too good to pass up on imo. Instant window swapping(pretty much a must in pvp), the mouse broadcasting is superb, it doesnt que up commands or occasionaly not broadcast them like HKN did for me.

Another thing which is a HUGE bonus is the virtual files, now I know it's possible to do this on your own and indepentently but you dont have to do jack for it to work. And it offers so much, having different addons loaded depending on toons, different gfx settings ect, and all you have to do is keep one wow updated. No muss, no fuss.

The keymaps is pretty flexible and easy to set up(Though I wish you could set conditional keys).

Anyway, suffice to say, I like both programs but I'm more then willing to pay for the superior product, which in my mind is Innerspace, even though Freddy does a really good job with HKN(Can't wait for HKN2).

[Eggy]

Made me laugh

[rocnroll]

Like this?

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[zanthor]

The keymaps is pretty flexible and easy to set up(Though I wish you could set conditional keys).

What are you trying to accomplish? I've not found anything I can't do with IS/ISboxer so far... so I'd be surprised if you can't solve this.

[Eggy]

What are you trying to accomplish? I've not found anything I can't do with IS/ISboxer so far... so I'd be surprised if you can't solve this.

Actualy, come to think of it, I take that back.