Multiplicity and World of Warcraft to dualbox - Useless?

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I'm interested in dual-boxing for World of Warcraft, but skeptical.

When I first read about Multiplicity I imagined it to be a software of the functionality to broadcast my mouse movements/clicks and keyboard keystrokes on other machines connected to my Multiplicity server.

This would be ideal for WoW. I could have my two mages cast spells at the same time, and move at the same time. Responsiveness would be almost perfect.

However it seems this isn't how Multiplicity works (unless I'm mistaken). I'd instead have to move each character at a time; move my first character, then move my mouse off the screen to the other computer, then move the other character. It would _not_ be synchronous unlike how I formerly thought this program worked. For the sake of gaming using Multiplicity is a little less cumbersome than just having two mouses and two keyboards at your desk but not that much better, unless you can broadcast keystrokes and mouse from your computer screen to multiple computers.

Are there workarounds in Multiplicity to make dual-boxing World of Warcraft more synchronized?

Thanks in advance!
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Just a follow-up, I found a hardware device that does what I've been describing above:
http://vetra.com/844text.html

Does Multiplicity have the utility of a hardware multiplexer like that one?
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

No I am afraid that you cannot duplicate actions on each box to dual wield mages. Multiplicity shares mouse and key board function but not simultaneously. You should also be aware (he says from experience) that if you have fast pads or extra mouse/joystick keys and commands that the software has to be installed on both PCs.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
No I am afraid that you cannot duplicate actions on each box to dual wield mages. Multiplicity shares mouse and key board function but not simultaneously.


Are there any plans to add this functionality at some point? Since the clients are merely executing commands sent to it by the server, it should be trivial to implement customizable hotkeys which instruct the server to issue commands to multiple clients at once.

This is already possible with Synergy, and I'd be using it alongside Multiplicity, but unfortunately, Multiplicity's clipboard/file-copy capabilities break when Synergy is run (even with screen switching disabled).

As an example of how Synergy handles key broadcasting, this is a portion of what its config file would look like:

section: options
keystroke(Shift+Control+1) = keyDown(1,host1), keyDown(1,host2); keyUp(1,host1), keyUp(1,host2)

What this means is that whenever the user presses 'SHIFT-CTRL-1' on the primary screen, Synergy issues a keyDown/keyUp command for the number '1' on two of the client systems. It works incredibly well (yes, even in WoW), and I honestly believe this is something you should consider adding to Multiplicity (you'd make a lot of people happy, and perhaps even collect a few additional customers).