Trouble with City of Heroes

I have the exact same problem with EverquestLive (eq 1 some call it) I am using Multiplicty Pro.

System works fine in EQ2, its just EQ1 it messes up in.

I, too, had the same problem with CoH, but I hadn't played that game forever. Don't really want to re-enable my account though just to test out the new software I'm using in CoH. lol

I can say, however, I have not see this problem happen in WoW. I don't play EQ (anymore) or EQII.

same problem here. Thought I had it fixed by using mouse button to change control instead of seamless but im now looking at my perfectly uncontrollable CoH character.
Any advice/help from the devs be appreciated I cant live without my multiplicity and I like CoH .. what a dilemma.

just tried maxvista software and despite not being as nice as multi it works with no crashes or problems in CoH. I dont like it as much though so hopefully they fix this to work

There is no city of heros demo so we can't look into this problem currently.

If you can find an app which has a similar problem with a demo then we can investigate further.

Do you have fade desktop enabled or the status window showing?  If so what happens if those are disabled?

mm something i didnt know CoH is run in opengl, I dont know how that would affect anything .. but then again I dont really know anything about programming hehe.
Direct Input / Direct X ??
mm anyway I dont imagine thats much help but you never know.

Neil,

Can we look into this some more? I am running into the same issues with Multiplicity and City of Heroes, which is the main reason I purchased the program.

If there are still no City of Heroes demos available, I can provide 14-day Free Trial passes for you to test with if needed.

Problem is as described by original poster. Oddly, the mouse moves, the game highlights objects under the cursor, et al; but no keyboard presses or mouse clicks are received by the game. The computer -is- receiving mouse clicks and key presses though, since I can alt-tab out and use other windows as normal; but switching back to the City of Heroes window yields the same problem.

Note that this does not affect the secondary PC at all; it runs perfectly fine.

Looking forward to securing tech support on this,

Q.

A 14 day free trial pass would be most helpful as we could then install it on a pc and reproduce this problem.

 

All right, give me an email address or some other means to get the information to you, and I will send.

Looking forward to seeing this fixed,

Q.

My address is neil@stardock.com

Have you found anything out yet Neil? The problems is still there. They just reactivated closed COH accounts and I tried playing. Works great until the main machine becomes unresponsive. May take up to 10 minutes to happen but it always does. Exiting CoH and renetering it on the main machine resyncs its. I use MP Pro with 4 computers.

I have tried with out and without clip board sharing, status screen and all other settings I can think of.

I am seeing similar behavior in Tycoon City New York and in Weird Worlds(Demo available)

In Weird Worlds, the mouse is still fully controllable, but the keyboard becomes disabled.

In Tycoon City New York, the mouse can select focus, but none of the mouse buttons can be activated. The keyboard also seems to stop working.

This bug has rendered my copy of multiplicity useless when playing these games. A workaround or bug fix would be greatly appreciated.

[Waaaay off topic]
Good to see you again Scott. Whatever happened to "The Inheritance"?
{We now return you to yoru regularly shceduled topic ]

I have tried both of those games and have been unable to reproduce any problems with the mouse or keyboard after switching.  I was trying with the games on the primary, is this how you had them?

The only problems I had was the game minimizing when you switch if the status window & full screen fade were on and seamless mouse switching did not work in Weird Worlds, only hotkey switching.

Just adding my experiences to this. I have had this problem on any game written by Sony Online Entertainment. Matrix Online, Everquest, EverQuest 2, so on... The problem generally will not start for a good half hour to hour of play time. It seems to happen when doing a large number of mouse clicks on the other machine. Meaning that if i am playing two chars (one on each computer) then the one i am focusing on most works fine then when i switch to the other that one has locked up. Also if i am browsing on one and playing on the other the one with the game will lock up when i am doing a lot of browsing or searching. I wish I could give more exact information, please let me know how I can help solve this.

I am a new user to Multiplicity just bought the std version last night.  I mainly play WoW and haven't had any issues.   One thing that leaps out at me reading this thread....

Is there any commonality among all of you beyond CoH, EQ etc etc.... could you all be using the same brand keyboard/mouse with drivers that may be causing issues? 

I am using a Logitech G15 keyboard and G5 mouse.   Some of you may want to start building a list of your mouse/kb hardware and driver levels to help stardock try and reproduce or determine if there is a common denominator.

Niel.  You were unable to reproduce this issue when all these users had the issue... what is your setup???

Hi Neil, Thanks for the response. The problems only arise in those games after extended play and extended switching, at least 30 minutes.

The problem happens where the machine running the full screen games is primary.

I am running into the very same problem. I downloaded the trial version and was AMAZED at how easy it was to switch between chars. Needless to say I was Highly dissapointed when the main system locked up. Please let me know what I can do to help solve this problem. Mult is a godsend!

BTW, mine happend within minutes once and after about 10 seconds the second time.

I also noticed that it takes keystrokes and mouse movment to cause it to fail. I left my system running with two caracters standing around selling stuff all night long, Mult worked just fine all night. However after a little while of playing with those characters, EQ locked on Primary.

Im having the same isssue also.. has there been a fix or a work around on this yet?

Trouble with City of Heroes 5/22/2005 6:58:32 PM ctophermurray

This is one long-lasting bug. Kinda sad.  

Ya it is.. I bought this program so that I could use my other computer while still playing my game.. This has been this way since I bought it but I thought there might have been a fix or something coming out but its taking way to long. Has there not been anything resolved yet?

I have a feeling it might be an anti cheat system in the game itself.

Hey Neil, From what I know about this game there are no cheats that are out like any type of exec cheats. This game is an MMORPG and from what I found there has been no recorded cheats that run on the PC itself after this updater finishes. The game loads up fine and without a problem and everything works great. Its after a little while that this program comes up after switching from pc to pc a few times then the main pc with the mouse and keyboard locks up but the game will keep going, no crash lines or anything else going on not like the comp locks up and needs a reboot its like it loses connection once it comes back in. IS there any type of setting I can try or a resync or anything? Thanks again

Still nothing nor a reply that something is being done???? This program is useless to me until u guys can resolve this issue.. The fist time this issue came up was By ctophermurray
Posted May 22, 2005 18:58:32. That was may 22nd and its now july 12 and still nothing is being done to resolve this. IF your unable to resolve this / come up with a fix then i need a refund for my money. If this is being worked on you can let us know but it seems to be a very big issue that i guess does not seem to be worked on..