Whole lot of questions about Key Clone

[Phanes]

Please let me aplogize in advance but I could not find any manual or anything to answer these questions.



Could someone please tell me what dnp and rr are on the opening screen of keyclone?

Could someone give me a blow by blow on how to set up a hotstring? I read the FAQ and it was a little vague for me.

Does setting a CPU affinity help the performance or something when running WOW?

What happens if I leave the maxfpsbk and maxfps boxes empty? I have a monster machine and get 200+ FPS when running two accounts so I don't really want to limit this.

Is there anyway to setup a master account? That is to say it would broadcast everything, accept do not pass list, but when I click on other accounts they would not broadcast to the master?

I assume setting up hotstrings can do this but I cannot really figure out how to do them.

Thanks

[Phanes]

Oh yeah forgot to add what does strict and white-list do on the do not pass page?

[zanthor]

Could someone please tell me what dnp and rr are on the opening screen of keyclone?

DNP is Do Not Pass - Self explanatory
RR is Round Robin - Sends to 1 client, then the next, increments on each key press.

Could someone give me a blow by blow on how to set up a hotstring? I read the FAQ and it was a little vague for me.

Outside the scope of support I have time for right now, hopefully someone else has the time.

Does setting a CPU affinity help the performance or something when running WOW?

CPU Affinity matters if you have multi-core processor and are running more than 1 client. Depending on your system you can set each copy of wow to have it's own processor or spread them across the different cores as you desire. Running 5 copies on a quad core I put a client on cores 1&2, a client on 2&3, a client on 3&4 and a client on 4&1, the fifth client I run across all four cores.

What happens if I leave the maxfpsbk and maxfps boxes empty? I have a monster machine and get 200+ FPS when running two accounts so I don't really want to limit this.

Leave them empty means no effect. Setting them to 0 is the same as saying no limit.

Is there anyway to setup a master account? That is to say it would broadcast everything, accept do not pass list, but when I click on other accounts they would not broadcast to the master?

I don't believe so with keyclone. Hotstrings would still receive keystrokes based on the keypresses on the other machine.

Oh yeah forgot to add what does strict and white-list do on the do not pass page?

Strict makes it so its very accurate about passing key combos, this helps stop sending rogue keystrokes. (Say D is on do not pass, but CTRL D isn't. With strict pressing CTRL then D sends CTRL down, D down, and when you release Ctrl then D it sends CTRL-Up but NOT D-Up because D is on DNP. this keeps your toon turning right.)

White List is opposite of blacklist. If your list says QWEASD and is black, those keys dont pass, if the whitelist box is checked, ONLY QWEASD pass. I've always been a fan of whitelist because with 105 keys and millions of combo's, I really only want to tell the game WHAT to pass rather than WHAT NOT to pass. But functionally it's nearly identical.

[Phanes]

Zanthor thanks for the info.

I think I figured out hotstrings. There are some keys on my Priest account I did not want passed to my mage account but I wanted passed from mage to priest. I did some keymapping and associated it with his command file and he no longer passes those key strokes over. I am still unclear about the core thing. I have the new I7 and it has 8 cores. Back in the day playing games like the Realm and setting core affinity helped with memory leaks and such. Does setting the core improve performance or stop the wow memory leak? As it stands with the core I7 and two instances I am only using 17% of my CPU.

[zanthor]

CPU Affinity is all about performance. If you set one copy of wow to use cores 1-4 and the other to use cores 5-8 you'll see the least conflict. The big issue people run into is they run 5 copies on a quad core without an affinity setting, WoW by default uses cores 1 & 2, which means 5 copies on half your CPU, half your CPU sitting idle.

[Chranny]

*snap* I have the new I7 and it has 8 cores. *snap*

4 cores, 8 threads.

@Zanthor
Haven't they fixed that yet?

[Phanes]

I see so with me just running two accounts it probably is not a big deal, I get great performance right now, but if I were to goto five accounts then I should set the CPU affinity because alot of my threads will just be sitting there at 0% while the others are maxxing out.



I may actually go up to 5 accounts. Right now I am running a mage and a priest up to 80. I have two other accounts that are inactive but have 60s on them. I may make two DKs and then split one of the 60s off to a new account. My group would be a hunter, mage, priest, and two DKs. Although from what I read alot of people who five box often get tired of the game pretty fast. Essentially you end up playing a single player version of WoW.