Comparison of Octopus and Keyclone
Having been a registered user of Keyclone for three weeks, I really got fed up with all of the bugs I ran into and none of them being recognized each time I reported them. Others have reported the same issues that I've had. In searching through the descriptions of the different key replication programs on here, the best description appears to be Keyclone. Why? Because at first glance, you think that a product with good support is a good way to go. I'm here to tell you, that's a wrong assumption. Below are my findings in using Keyclone versus now using Octopus:
1. Keyclone occassionally has runaways. This can occur at any time and cause your character(s) to die as a result.
2. Keyclone has a key registration server that can be down sometimes. What if the company goes out of business and shuts it down? All those copies sold no longer work.
3. Keyclone sometimes causes your focus of your application to change from your game. This can occur with full screen or windowed. I've seen it several times. Didn't bother reporting that one because I didn't get any acknowledgement that my previous posts were actually bugs. In fact, the support I received was 'are you sure you're not running out of memory?'. I had to post several times my memory configuration. A simple post later after I had provided all of the requested information was 'I'll look into that one, others have reported this problem too, etc.'
4. Keyclone occassionally will lose connectivity between machines and not work. Restarting it fixes it. But when you're in a battleground, this means death because of a lack of a solid product. In 3 weeks, this issue happened maybe about 7 or 8 times. Sometimes it showed 'program not responding' in the title bar. But other times, as others have posted as I have, it wouldn't show that, it would just not work.
After being completely frustrated with Keyclones issues and dying in the battlefield, I looked at the 'Comprehensive list of Software tools' again. When I tried Synergy before, I didn't get it working, but only spent about 5 or 10 minutes. So because I use multiple machines, I looked at Octopus. Downloaded the required software to my machine ( MS.net 3.5 and vc redistributable 2000 ) for my Windows Vista machines and got it set up within about 20 minutes. The entire key to getting it working is that you must run it as Administrator on Windows Vista. If you don't, it won't run, just closes with no message.
Octopus has NONE of the issues listed above. In fact, it has no issues so far that I've run into. And on top of that, it does things that Keyclone doesn't do. A really BIG one is that capitalization works across machines. Keyclone doesn't support capitalization.
So my question is, is it better to have a product that has good product support or a product that requires no product support? And on top of all those issues and support question, Octopus provides the source code! So if you want, you can look at it, recompile it, and be secure knowing there isn't any questionable transmission of data.
If you have any questions about how I came to the conclusions here, I'll be more than happy to provide the results that I've found in working with both of these programs. My posts on dual-boxing.com show the issues I've run into and the responses to them. To be fair, I've not used any mouse logic between either Keyclone or Octopus so I don't know how that compares. All my use of the programs is using the keyboard because that's how I play for the fastest PvP play time.
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