So... hardware multiboxing?

[bpkdasbaum]

bpkdasbsaum,

How are things progressing?

Did you get in your hardware in and were you able to do any testing with your 4MP &/or Warrior3MP teams?

The reason I ask in part is because another friend has been doing some 5box testing with Aster and is seeing decreases networking performance with the WoW clients disconnecting.

I think so far he has been using 1 Network Interface Card (NIC) and I recommended he try 2+ NICs...

Are you seeing anything similar?

How many NICs are you using?

Kinda meh ¬_¬

KVM arrived a few days ago, didn't have time to deal with it properly until Saturday.
15h+ Troubleshooting Sound and Display issues (non multibox related).
Setting up the KVM and displays was straight forward, but my GFs PC didn't have sound as a result and multiseat has limitations for displays/graphic card assignment. I found out that my IGFX couldn't output sound for some reason, but ports on normal gfx cards worked fine, attempted to trouble shoot that for hours, couldn't find a solution, opted for workaround.

Didn't have any disconnect issues while multiboxing, but didn't have time for extended testing, was only standing in town and checked out how controls work for about 10-15min. I am using and integrated card from my motherboard (ASUS PRIME-Z270-A) Intel® I219V, 1 x Gigabit LAN Controller

Gotta say it's shitty to play / control right now _ _"

Struggles/issues to overcome:

1. battle.net app issues
- only 1 login per bnet possible , if you login on the second machine, it logs out the first.
- install directory shared can't install bnet app per user with individual settings
- only 1 install path can be selected (I have each wow in seperate directory with symbolic links)

Workaround: Create shortcut to each wowclassic.exe and start wow on each client. wow account and settings are saved per wow login (due to individual config.wtf)

2. Control and starting

It's apain the ass to switch to each display and start wow on each of them
display settings reset everytime I switch from extended view to 4x PBP (I have to set my other monitor as main every time)

M>ouse/keybinding have to be redone completely. I used hotkeynet previously and not all buttons / mouse clicks were sent. I set up my binding, so only specific combinations were sent. This way I didn't have to rebind or change stuff on my main char.
With the KVM, all keypresses and mouse actions are sent. Don't know how to deal with that. Just deleting keybinds won't work, if I for example press ALT Q on master, but the binding does not exist on slave, the slave will still send Q in the game client.

Don't know how to prevent mouse from sending on clients, I don't want left and rightclick to be sent while in synchronous mode)
Can't press 2keys + mouse rightclick same time. Seems to be hardware limit of the switch. If I walk forward, and strafe left right, I can't have freelook at the same time, the camera loses focus (W A/D + holding right click)

3. KVM

Sometimes the KVM shortcuts via keybiard to switch to next port won't work
Mouse feels junky, but works (took me sometime to find the option to switch the mouse mode from absolute to relative)
I got a G700s mouse it has an integrated chip that can be programmed and able to send keys, all additional buttons work.



I wish there was a better hardware solution, with more options of what is sent and what not, similar to hotkeynet
Or someone please make or point me to a KVM, that has real pass through / cloning ^^