Dual 8800GT 2 LCD per card?

[Xar]

...once the connection bug gets fixed or I find out whats breaking my connection between my 2 keyclone boxes I will use hers and mine together.
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Hmmmm, last night I started 5 toons on Magtheridon, was happily setting up my macro's, etc. Fired up keyclone on both comps and bam, they would not connect to each other. Sounds for override, etc. worked on one but not on my main. I started uninstalling junk and worried I got a keylogger or something from a rogue chest run video I watched earlier in the day. After 2-1/2 hours I couldn't take it anymore and went to sleep.

This morning I had the same problem and decided to cut and paste my keyclone.ini out of it's folder and then keyclone override properly triggered sound, still would not connect to my other pc so I shut down keyclone there, cut & pasted the keyclone.ini somewhere else and it too then worked correctly and both communicated just fine.

What's weird is the ini's were perfectly readable in notepad. Maybe doing the same might help you, if you try it and it works please let me know. I was going to PM keyclone and let him know what I ran into but I wasn't sure if installing the .NET 3.5 stuff for Octopus earlier in the day did something to affect the .ini or if it was just isolated to keyclone itself.

[keyclone]

keyclones disconnecting is very odd... but you are not the first person to mention they also run octopus (why??)... checking the page, octopus does somethign with injecting packets into the stream... this is very bad territory as far as blizzard and many other games would be concerned

i would recommend not running/uninstall octopus (the page also mentioned that octopus installs a mouse driver... another very bad area... and cause for many BSOD)

then reboot... uncheck the override overlay... and see what happens.

please drop me a PM with the results

[Xar]

keyclones disconnecting is very odd... but you are not the first person to mention they also run octopus (why??)... checking the page, octopus does somethign with injecting packets into the stream... this is very bad territory as far as blizzard and many other games would be concerned

i would recommend not running/uninstall octopus (the page also mentioned that octopus installs a mouse driver... another very bad area... and cause for many BSOD)

then reboot... uncheck the override overlay... and see what happens.

please drop me a PM with the results

Actually I did not ever run Octopus, I had installed the 2 requirements in anticipating running Octopus. I felt they were safe since they were downloaded from MS. Those two components are still installed on my second box and it's fine, just somehow both keyclone.ini's got corrupted or misconfigured in a way that I could not tell so that after removing them from the keyclone folder it ran perfectly fine. Set up my do-not pass keystrokes again and all was good. I don't use keylcone in a complex way yet.

If I read the tutorial correctly Octopus does not install the driver you are referring to by default, it is an optional mouse filter driver and I had no interest in it anyway.

As to why my interest in Octopus...since you asked...[edited out my dumb rant, been tired, frustrated and overwhelmed with all these new things to consider]...I wanted to try Octopus because 1) it's open source, 2) I don't care for or like that keyclone is not permanently licensed on my computer once I purchase it and it makes an outside connection every time I start it up (the way this works was not obvious when I purchased but since you have a good reputation here is the only reason I continue to use it). I hope you will give alternative licensing schemes some thought in the future, it's a big issue for me.

[Dezeral]

As to why my interest in Octopus...since you asked...[edited out my dumb rant, been tired, frustrated and overwhelmed with all these new things to consider]...I wanted to try Octopus because 1) it's open source, 2) I don't care for or like that keyclone is not permanently licensed on my computer once I purchase it and it makes an outside connection every time I start it up (the way this works was not obvious when I purchased but since you have a good reputation here is the only reason I continue to use it). I hope you will give alternative licensing schemes some thought in the future, it's a big issue for me.

I wasn't too thrilled to find out that Keyclone would not function if I blocked it with my firewall. I would also prefer a way to license it that did not require it to "phone home" everytime I start it up. And like you, I based my trust of the program on its popularity here. I am however pretty happy with the functionality of Keyclone.

[Xzin]

I can't say I disagree with the phoning home part but I have not tested KC personally either, being a hardware only boxer. Therefore, I don't use KC although I see its utility. I would prefer it not phone home either.... but are you sure it is phoning home (out to the Internet) and not simply trying to connect to itself - it after all is server client based, is it not?

[Xar]

I can't say I disagree with the phoning home part but I have not tested KC personally either, being a hardware only boxer. Therefore, I don't use KC although I see its utility. I would prefer it not phone home either.... but are you sure it is phoning home (out to the Internet) and not simply trying to connect to itself - it after all is server client based, is it not?

Yep, it basically starts up every time "unlicensed" and phones home to request it's license. I can understand trying to prevent theft and unpaid use but there's got to be a better way. I own Vegas and the only time it requires to phone home is during initial installation when I've wiped my system and reloaded everything. Beyond that it happily runs after I block it. Other software I have purchased also follows that same method. Keyclone works well when it works and it's easy to get started with it. The recent disconnect problem I'm sure will get fixed.

Last night I did get Octopus running and am still learning the ins and outs of it by playing around with it. A few things I don't understand about it yet but I'm sure I will eventually.

In the end I would really rather hardware multi box but right now after pricing everything I don't think I could swing it until 2009 and don't really want to build halfway clone machines that I'm not going to really be happy with.

[Chorizotarian]

I have 2 8800GTXs on a 750 W PC Power & Cooling power supply, and I've had no issues. We'll see what happens when I slap in the quad proc that just came in the mail today

OMG!! Tell me more! I want to know! My plan is to get a 2nd 8800GTS G92 so I can have SLI when I want, and 4x monitors when I want. Do tell!! I am really REALLY glad I followed Opt and Wilbur's advice and got the quad, its a monster!

The Q6600 is giving me no problems so far. It was suprisingly easy to install. I was dreading having to remove my aftermarket CPU cooler, which requires forceful screwing into the mobo, but it was a lot easier than when I first installed it and didn't know wtf I was doing.

Once I got the Q6600 up I was originally pulling a comfortable 60 fps on my main with 4 clones running at 15 in the background. I changed my directory setup though, and I think I may have hurt myself by moving each clone to a separate directory. My fps was down to 45ish, and I was getting runaways on the last clone. I'll have to play with it and see if some mklink magic (single physical location) can fix the problem.

Next project is to add a 3rd GPU and 3rd monitor. I hope the wiring in my apartment can take it!