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Hardware Multiboxing Update:

I finished the setup and took my 5/6 man team for a spin ... it's a downgrade from hotkeynet ... But it WORKS! That's the important part. ...
Minor Annoyances:
- display resets position and main monitor setup when switching from PBP to Fullscreen
- keyboard shortcuts for switching are not working reliably... I am mostly using the buttons on the switch currently though, it's kinda faster to cycle through.

Controls:
- Had to unbind WASD on slaves, if I ever need to control them solo, mouse walk or arrow keys will do
- All keys are sent, unlike it hotkeynet, I can't block certain keys, so some double bindings had to be reevaluated, moved spells around that were blocked in hotkeynet by excluding certain keys
- Mouse clicks disabled via mouse disabler app

PC Resources:
- no disconnects, stable connection with 6 clients ~1h played, I had 7 running for a few minutes as well (@nodoze you asked about this I believe?)
- 100% CPU utillisation on i7-7700K @4.20GHz (slight OC) while running 6 clients via Multiseat. I can sometimes see characters lagg/skip, but that happened with hotkeynet before as well. Tends to happen less if I play on only 5 chars.
- 5 clients run smoothly
- 16/32gb memory used

Minor good things that appeared by accident
Master is set to 1440p and has a "dead" monitor on the left (the mouse can move into that empty space) slaves are 1080p.
When changing settings in wow the master and slave don't click the same buttons while mouse is active on all 5 PCs. This is convinient

It's quite easy / hassle free to switch mouse clicks and mouse wheel on/off with mouse disable app. ...

Shower thoughts:

- Maybe I should just upgrade my PC, get a shiny new Ryzen and canabalize my current one to give my GF her own full PC. This would make my Multiseat setup and monitor/sound issues less strenuous and easier to setup ...
- I should make a new dedicated forums post for the progress on everything, maybe somewhat of a guide now that I got proof of concept ...
- Automate/save display settings with MurgeeMon App, so I don't have to manually adjust settings everytime I stop multiboxing
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Black Friday is approaching and your girlfriend likely deserves an i7-7700K so get yourself a Ryzen so you can treat her right!

Which mouse disable app are you using?

I definitely think a new guide thread would be really good/helpful. Reserve at least the first 3 or so posts and keep the top updated if/as things evolve.

At some point I though you were having performance issues with Aster and were looking at switching to VMware... It sounds like you figured them out so I would definately include in your new guide thread any tips/tricks to finetune Aster for WoW Multiboxing.