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ISBoxer pages |
Frequently Asked Questions |
Getting started with ISBoxer Suite |
KVM Mode |
Repeater Regions |
Types of Actions available for Mapped Keys |
Using the ISBoxer Toolkit Interface |
Using multiple computers |
Videos |
Fully functional WoW setup in 40 seconds |
Creating your first team |
ISBoxer Toolkit Overview Part 1 |
ISBoxer Toolkit Overview Part 2 |
Game-specific Information |
Aion |
EverQuest |
EverQuest II |
EVE Online |
Lord of the Rings Online |
World of Warcraft |
more... |
System Requirements |
Windows 2000 or later, 32-bit or 64-bit |
.NET Framework 2.0 or later |
November 2008 or later update to DirectX |
ISBoxer is the world's finest multi-boxing suite, with exclusive features like instant window swapping (our competitors take several seconds, which can mean your death!), a mouse cursor in every window! Our keyboard and mouse broadcasting offers unparalleled configuration, and works with precision whether using one PC, or multiple. ISBoxer can be very simple to get started with, and in fact for World of Warcraft you can go from downloading to actually playing the game with a basic setup in less than a minute! (Video demonstration of 40 second setup for World of Warcraft)
ISBoxer is free software for Inner Space, a Lavish Software product. To use ISBoxer, you will need to purchase Inner Space, or apply for a FREE 7-day trial!
Contents
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Features
- This is a list of some of the most exciting features in the ISBoxer Suite
- One click to launch
- Launch your whole team with a single click in the Inner Space menu!
- Key broadcasting
- Send one, send all, send to any target window or windows!
- Mouse broadcasting
- ISBoxer exclusive feature! See the actual mouse cursor in every window!
- KVM Mode
- Control one or more game windows (on the same PC, or another PC) from the current window. Move over Synergy, this KVM's for gaming!
- Key Maps
- A variety of types of Actions are available to create your own Hotkeys to do different things, such as enabling special modes, sending keystrokes to one or more windows, and more!
- Window Layouts
- Choose a layout for your game windows, including the ability to swap them into a main area when active! Picture-in-Picture or tiling any way you like it, because you are the designer, with our click and drag layout editor!
- ISBoxer exclusive feature! Picture-in-Picture switching speed is instantaneous!
- Virtual Files
- ISBoxer exclusive feature! ISBoxer can help you set up separate configuration files per character or account, making it a breeze to keep different settings (lower graphics options, for example) for the characters you usually don't switch to while multiboxing! With EverQuest 1 and World of Warcraft, separate configuration files per character are set up for you via the Quick Setup Wizard.
- World of Warcraft Macro management
- ISBoxer works for many games, but some of them we can provide additional features for. ISBoxer makes it easy to manage your macros! There is also integration with the Jamba addon. See the ISBoxer World of Warcraft page for more details on WoW features.
- Quick Setup Wizard
- The Quick Setup Wizard, new in ISBoxer 33, can help you get started, regardless of what game you are playing. For World of Warcraft in particular, this wizard can provide you a fully functional multi-boxing configuration in less than 1 minute! (Video demonstration of 40 second setup for World of Warcraft)
Instructions
The following is a very general overview of the process of using ISBoxer Toolkit.
- Make sure Inner Space is installed, and has been run at least once.
- Install ISBoxer Suite to your Inner Space folder
- After making sure Inner Space is closed -- this will make sure it saves its configuration for ISBoxer to read -- launch the ISBoxer Toolkit (note: you may need to right click and select "Run as Administrator" if using Windows Vista or Windows 7)
- Create one or more Character Sets. A Character Set defines a team you will be playing. The Quick Setup Wizard can help you with this and other basic functionality
- Export the configuration to Inner Space
- Launch (or re-launch) Inner Space
- Launch a Character Set from the Inner Space menu (under ISBoxer Character Sets)
Please see our Guide to Getting Started with ISBoxer for a more complete guide with Walkthrough Videos.
Game-specific Information
- EverQuest II
- Question: Does SOE allow using ISBoxer with EQ2? Answer: Khatovar's e-mail to SOE and their customer service response. Thanks to Khatovar for sharing this.
- World of Warcraft
Using Multiple Computers
Downloads
ISBoxer Suite
- Current stable release
- 2009-07-26 Build #33 installer: Lavish.ISBoxerSuite.33.exe
- List of Changes since Build 32
Please install to your Inner Space folder (which should be selected by default during installation).
- Using Windows 2000 or Windows XP?
- If you get an error when launching ISBoxer that says something like this "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application", then you need to install the Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 or later. (Vista and Windows 7 come with .NET Framework already installed.) You can install .NET Framework via Windows Update.
- Using Windows Vista or Windows 7?
- If User Account Control (UAC) is enabled in Windows, ISBoxer Toolkit will warn that you need to run it as Administrator. You will also need to run Inner Space as Administrator if this is the case. If you use Ventrilo, you will also need to run that as Administrator for your push to talk key to work (otherwise, Ventrilo will not have permission while the game is active).
- If you do not have updates to DirectX 9 installed
- Inner Space may pop up the following message: Inner Space requires the March 2008 (or later) update to DirectX 9 to be installed on your system. This is different than DirectX 10, and does not mean DirectX 9.0c from 2004. Click OK to be taken directly to the download on Microsoft.com, or click Cancel if you would rather find it on your own. (linux users: d3dx9_37.dll). To elaborate, Microsoft released updates to DirectX 9 every other month or so, the latest being November 2008. Having DirectX 10 is irrelevant -- Windows Vista and Windows 7 both come with DirectX 8, 9 and 10. However, they do not ship with the periodic updates to DirectX 9. If you get this message, you should follow its instructions instead of asking something like "i need to downgrade to dx9 on windows vista 64 bit before i can run innerspace?" (the answer is no). The November 2008 update to DirectX 9 can be found here.
- Does this work on 64-bit Windows XP? 64-bit Windows Vista? 64-bit Windows 7?
- Yes.
Upgrading to a new version
- Upgrading ISBoxer Suite is seamless and backwards-compatible. You do not need to uninstall your old version, and all of your settings will still be there.
- Download new version
- Install new version
- Run new version
- Export to Inner Space to generate current data
Known Issues
Some of these issues are not attributed to bugs in our software. Any known bugs in our software, however, will be fixed as soon as possible, and noted here.
- Lord of the Rings Online
- The game must be in DirectX 9 mode (no DirectX 10 support at this time, sorry!)
- EVE Online
- Bug: If the size of the Main Region in the active Window Layout is not identical to the resolution in EVE, the cursor positioning is incorrect
- EverQuest 1
- World of Warcraft
- Mouse broadcasting may not work properly if Hardware Cursor is disabled. You may need to make sure that Hardware Cursor is enabled in the World of Warcraft video options (click Resolution on the left), and it may help if Reduce Input Lag is disabled (not checked).
- Slow performance can be expected when running multiple sessions on one PC if the "multisample" setting is higher than 1x. To improve performance, find the Multisampling drop-down in the World of Warcraft video options (click Resolution on the left, and the Multisampling box will be in the upper right), and select an option that includes 1x multisample (for example, 24-bit color 24-bit depth 1x multisample).
Recently resolved issues
- World of Warcraft
- Since patch 3.2.0, players with UTF-8 characters in their names were not working correctly. This issue is fixed in Inner Space Build 5020. Please restart Inner Space to correct this issue!
Gameplay Screenshots and Videos
This section is for gameplay screenshots and videos of multi-boxing with ISBoxer. Walkthrough Videos can be found in our Guide to Getting Started with ISBoxer.
- Videos
- EverQuest 1
- World of Warcraft
Reporting Bugs
To report bugs or other problems you can do one or more of the following:
- Join the chat channel described in the section below and explain the problem
- E-mail to lax@lavishsoft.com
Join us in chat
We are on irc.lavishsoft.com in channel #isboxer, the best place to talk about and get help with all of the tools for multi-boxing with Inner Space! Whether you are already using it, or just have some questions for people who are, please feel free to stop by.
If you do not know how to join IRC, click here to join us via your browser! There is no registration process or anything, but please select a Nickname (alias) so you don't appear as "mib_5few93" or such from not having a name.
Coming Soon
- Pending Updates (completed for next Build)
- Selecting a different Character Set from the IS menu than the one already in play will now immediately switch to the new Character Set (Note: Action target groups are not yet cleared when doing so)
- Fixed a bug with Shift, Ctrl, and Alt not working when using an input language other than English. ISBoxer is designed to work with any language; you do not need to use English.
- New Action: Sync Cursor. This action will update the cursor position for a given Target to match the current window's cursor position (it does NOT offer the option of moving the cursor to a set position).
- World of Warcraft
- Worked around an issue with /follow when not grouped or in the same raid, used in conjunction with the Jamba addon. Note that since this is a bug in Jamba 0.4 (fixed in the "development" version 0.5 of Jamba), Jamba strobing may not work, but it will at least follow the desired character.
- ISBoxer Addon will now always be generated for a given character, even if no WoW Macros are being generated by ISBoxer, if World of Warcraft is selected in the Character's "additional features" drop-down box. This fixes problems caused by having WoW Macros generated, and then switching to a configuration that uses none (the WoW Macro would still be present in the previously-generated ISBoxer Addon).
- WoW Macro Actions can now have a name specified for use with /click
- Clearing the ISBoxer Toolkit profile now includes a confirmation box, and will disable auto-save on exit
- Currently in development (may or may not be completed for next Build)
- Mapped Keys now have a timed reset function. This can reset the Mapped Key to Step 1 if pressed more than a specified amount of time after the last press, or after it left Step 1
- Mapped Keys now support Sticky Steps. Each Step can be configured to "stick" for at least a specified amount of time, meaning that as many times as you press the Hotkey during that time, it will not advance to the next Step.
- New Samples Browser window
- Samples may include any number of top-level ISBoxer items (Character, Character Set, Key Map, Action Target Group, etc), and have various description features including Game information and Author information
- Create and submit Samples for others
- Download and view Samples, with ability to install any given Sample
- Planned (not yet in development)
- Improvement to Repeater List creation: Box to press keys in to toggle in the List
- Improvement to Mapped Key creation: Ability to create multiple Mapped Keys with similar properties (e.g. 1 key to 1 key)
Release History
See Release history