Solid state is one of them all-flash harddrives?
Yeah.. I saw a 30 GB one of those for $5k and decided to use that money to get through college instead. Computer parts, as well as everything else, are quite expensive in Denmark compared to pretty much anywhere but Iceland.
Now I could just put anything I'm likely to use while on battery on my memory stick (8 GB bought in the USA for hardly anything) but really not handy to have anything sticking out.
Well, yes. They are all flash hard drives. Some rugged / commercial / military units are $5k or more. The parent company of EVE Online uses them to run their server. Ultra fast, no seek delay, less (but not as much as some people will have you believe) power use. No moving parts.
But you can get them for far less than $5k. A 32 gig one runs about $500 right now and prices are plummeting.
*skips over all the unhelpful "my OS is better than yours" crap*
I run five machines at home. When they're running Windows (which is all the time I'm gaming), three of them are XP Pro and two are Vista Home Premium.
I use Multiplicity, which works perfectly across all of them.
I also run an unmodified Multibox.
The only problem I've ever had manifested itself as client connection lag, followed by client disconnect. I wrote about this somewhere else, but ultimately solved it by simply making entries for all machines in the host file for each individual machine.
In short, I have a mixed Windows configuration and haven't had the problems you've had, which isn't a great deal of help other than reassuring you that there's nothing inherently wrong with your setup, despite what people may have you believe.
The big difference is that my SERVER machine runs XP. I only use Vista clients. I couldn't say if the server runs under Vista, but I'll have a play with that when I get home.
Do you have an XP box that you can run the server on?
Ok, I'm home now and did a quick experiment with the server running under Vista.
Keyboard broadcasting works with no problem. Mouse broadcasting does not. The hotkeys for enabling/disabling broadcasting don't seem to work either - the keys are just passed straight through and never recognised as hotkeys.
So it does look like you're going to run into problems with running the Multibox server on Vista. Unless you're motivated and able to fix it yourself, it looks like you'll have to find another solution even if you work through your current problem.
There was already a post about this exact problem on the boards. I can't seem to find it but I know I saw it. They said the same thing Otlecs did the XP machine worked as the server but Vista does not.
Modified Synergy works fine, no such problems at all.
Just signed up. Very interesting forum you guys have here been reading it a lot.
Anyway I have been playing with dual boxing lately and went through Synergy and then Mutibox. All my machines are Vista and I don't have a single problem. I run a Vista multibox server to Vista multibox clients no problems. I bound the backtick "`" as my broadcast toggle and that is working.
Im using the Multibox modified version linked on these forums.
Mouse broadcasting is working too but I do not use it so it may have some unknown caveats.
Multibox does seem to require that I add host entries for every PC but after that everything was fine.
I don't have vista yet but my multibox worked no problem wihtout host entries. My new rig is vista but that hasn't arrived yet once it does i can start my 3x shamans
Seriously now, that is quite a biased and frankly sad statement.Originally Posted by Xzin
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