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    So, just to recap some of the general quirks with multiboxing (forgive me if you know some of these already):
    • latency will cause rubber-banding, which may cause characters to reposition repeatedly, sometimes ending up with them facing the wrong direction.
    • Hammering your CPU (causing each client to fight with the others for thread priority) may cause rubber-banding, same as above.
    • Slow disk access (read or write) may cause stuttering and Ye Olde rubber-banding again.
    • IWT+CTM sends the toon to the spot where the target was at the time you clicked the IWT button. What this means is that if the target moves, the next IWT keypress will attempt to reposition again. All of the above factors can greatly increase the waypoint "wobble" (usually observed as the IWT toon running away and/or running in circles around the target).
    • Spamming the follow, IWT/CTM, and other movement keys can back up the queue, especially if you are on a populated server or in a heavily-populated city or area, resulting in the above rubber-banding and follow-breaking, etc.


    There are various other things that can exacerbate the above. You might do some poking and prodding at your CPU usage, thermal profile, process/thread affinity and priority and disk activity and see if you notice any areas where things are exhibiting inconsistent or wildly variable performance. I'd give you some specific things to poke at but I'm not a mac nerd.

    [edit] One thing you might try if you haven't already is manually clicking/pressing keys on your slave character and see if you see the same problems you see while using broadcasting software. If not, then it's something to do with the software itself, or maybe that your processes are fighting with the game clients for CPU cycles. If you can do it, you might try setting all the game clients to LOW priority so they free up things every so often.

    Good luck!
    Last edited by Ughmahedhurtz : 02-03-2012 at 07:52 PM
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