Quote Originally Posted by jak3676 View Post
I don't actually see there being a good reason to run multiple desktop PC's anymore. For people that want to look at hardware broadcasting for better performance, I think the better option is to feed that input back into a single PC with virtualization. ...

... with focus-follows-mouse and remapped keys for alt-tabbing. I think the performance there will be fine for 5-boxing- arguably better in some scenarios. I can program keys on my keypad to switch the current window of focus to which ever window I need, then to send a single keypress to that window - that all happens with just 1 keypress. ...

These sorts of rapidly switching focus options seem to be the best footing for whatever blizzard decides to do in the future also - if they say, "no broadcasting by any means", I'll already be compliant. ...

The part that's kicking my butt right now is getting my screen layout optimized - but its slowly coming together.
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Agreed as full VMs (or Virtualized Desktops) architecturally give you virtually the same thing as physical PC.

Regarding getting your screen layout optimized, did you try renaming your windows with a tool like GUIPropView and then running a layout for each window by name via something like ShiftWindow? It testing mine were all pretty easy to get laid out correctly everytime and others were able to get it to remove the borders at the top of each client (I got it removed on 1 but didn't do for all of them in my testing).

What are you using to bring a desired window into focus via keypress?