I just purchased multiplicity pro to use with EQ2.

I have eq2 running in windowed mode on each machine and have not had a problem.

However, CoH/CoV and Lineage 2 is another issue.

On the Primary (no game running on secondary) both games start out fine and load the log in screen. However, the momment I click or type CoH hangs the whole system and Lineage 2 gives me a blue screen (something about an IRQ). The games as a default load in full screen mode.

In order for them to run correctly, I have to turn off both multiplicity parts (multiplicity.exe and multiplsrv32.exe)

I've also tried running Vanguard and WoW both work fine in windowed mode. I haven't tried them in full screen.

I have a ms keyboard and logitech mouse but I haven't installed any specific drivers for them. It's what ever default driver the OS loads.

Yep. it's like he said. Multiplicity is much nicer set up but MaxiVista does work. I tried it with CoH/CoV and Lineage 2 both of which would crash my OS (WinXP) with Multiplicity but they work great with MaxiVista. MaxiVista also says it's Windows Vista compatible in some specific graphics mode but I haven't tested that out since i don't have Windows Vista yet.

GL.

If you receive a IRQ BSOD then you have a hardware / driver issue.

Multiplicity does not install any drivers.

Is there any movement on this issue? Its been known since 2005. Would be nice to get it fixed so I can use Multiplicity for the reason I purchased it.

I'd like to add that I have been experiencing this exact issue myself as well. I've been wrestling with it on my own for the last few weeks, not bothering to do a web search since I was confident that my issue was unique. Clearly however, it's not. I'd love to see a fix for this.

I think it has to do with maybe the length of time you spend on the secondary machine...? It never fails if I quickly go over to machine 2 and click something and then go back. But, if I spend any sort of extended period of time on the secondary monitor, it seems to occur. It doesn't appear to have anything to do with how long City of Heroes has been running. In fact, In the time it took me to read this thread and type this response, I was able to duplicate the issue. (CoH is running on my primary PC at this very moment)

The thing to keep in mind is that ONLY the game itself stops responding. I can minimize the game and the keyboard and mouse work fine on the desktop and in other programs. The game itself runs fine, too, except that you can't interact with it. After the issue occurs, if you exit Multiplicity, it doesn't fix the issue, by the way.

Since this is a commercial product that I paid for, I'd really like to see some action taken to resolve this issue. It's not like I'm running unsupported freeware like Synergy or something. (Which by the way works fine, although it doesn't switch well when a game is running fullscreen. Which reminds me, I wonder if this issue will happen if I play CoH in a window... Hmmmm.... I'll let you know.)

I think it's been mentioned in other threads that the situation is likely caused by code in the game that is blocking what it thinks is a "cheating situation" and I think is outside the scope of the Multiplicity code.

Thankfully, Stardock is trying to resolve the situation.

I'm not a coder for City of Heroes, so obviously I can't sit here and say that's accurate or not, but - That sounds like a bit of a cop out, since there are two competing products, one six months old and free, that work.

Speaking of competing products, I'm going to go and buy MaxVista and use it, instead. It's a shame that I have to, because Multiplicity is definitely the more feature rich product. Here's hoping that Stardock continues to try and resolve this rather irritating (and, apparently, long-standing) issue.

Just FYI, I didn't buy MaxVista - I got Synergy working just fine. The only feature that I don't have is the ability to copy and paste physical files back and forth, but that was easily taken care of by a shared folder. I'll continue to use Synergy until Stardock fixes this problem.

As a test, could someone try changing the following registy key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Stardock\Multiplicity\Seamless\Seamless\KeyReset

Set it to 0 (it will probably not exist)

Does the problem still happen?

I will try it out right now and let you know what happens.

Oh - I assume you mean to change that registry key on the server machine and not the 'remote' machine, right?

You were right, the registry key did not exist. I created the entry "KeyReset" as a String type entry, with a value of "0". You didn't specify if it was supposed to be a String or not, but everyhing else in the \Seamless key is, so...

Anyhow, I'll let you know what happens.

Yes change that on the primary and it is a string.

So far, so good. Haven't played in a few days because of a project, but I've made it about 20 minutes so far. I'll keep going and see what happens.

I am afraid that fix didn't work. I was hopeful for a while, but I've got the same symptom again. Back to Synergy again.