2 accounts, 2 monitors, 1 computer, please help me!

[Kambriel]

Ok, I have searched to death so I wouldn't have to post but never got an answer. I have read the stickies, tried the stupid .bat file and nothing works (not sure how to edit that since it was for 5 accounts and that may be my screwing up but theres no info on just 2 accounts for it).

Please, please, in simple terms, how do I get my 2nd account of WoW to show up on my other monitor? I have keyclone and maximizer and have been successfully dual boxing on my one computer with one display. But I decided I'd like my "follower" to show up in a different monitor since my main is only 17" ws and I'm have trouble seeing my 2nd to loot quest items. This is driving me nuts! :evil: Please help!

Edit to add, main monitor res is 1680x1050 and the other is 1024x768.

[Wulfos]

Well, the easiest way would be
1. set your display settings of your computer to Dual Screen (don't know where exactly, somewhere in the settings of your videocard ...in windows vista you dont have horizontal span anymore :( )
2. start each wow in windowed mode (display settings->windowed mode in the options of wow) and then hit the http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/4489/maxmp9.png to maximize the windows.

The .bat file is helpful to change the resolution of your wow windows, but if you have 2 monitors and 2 wow windows, the easiest way is to just maximize them on each monitor ;)

[Kambriel]

ok, how do I get the .bat file to work? I'd prefer if I had something to just auto do this for me instead of manually adjusting everything all the time.

[Wulfos]

This depends on your display settings

If you have dual view:
[code:1]c:\Maximizer\Maximizer.exe --device 0 --margin 0,0,0,0
c:\Maximizer\Maximizer.exe --device 1 --margin 0,0,0,0[/code:1]
should work.

If you have horizontal span I have no idea, sry ;), but as you have 2 different resolutions i think you have dual view *g* so try the 2 lines above

[Kambriel]

I have dual view. But how do I get it to make sure the resolutions are set appropriately since they are both different?

I had to adjust the res in WoW before I dragged it over. And don't want to always have to do this.

[Wulfos]

Well, Maximizer sets the resolution of wow automatically.

--margin w,x,y,z

means: let w pixel space between the top of the monitor (--device 0 = first monitor, --device 1 = second monitor) and the top of wow, x pixel space between the bottom of wow and the bottom of the monitor, y pixel space between the left of the monitor and the left of wow and z pixel space between the right of wow and the right of the monitor.
(damn it, i should learn better english)

so c:\Maximizer\Maximizer.exe --device 0 --margin 0,0,0,0 maximizes a instance of wow in your first monitor without any space anywhere. same with the second monitor.

(I'm really sorry for my bad englisch >.<' )

Edit: Just paste the 2 lines above into a .bat, adjust the path to maximizer, and then start it. it should start both instances of wow maximized to both monitores (notice that you have to put maximizer.exe into the directory of wow)

[Jusa]

I'm pretty sure that the last post i read from keyclone is that dual monitor support on maximizer is sill not done yet.

But if you don't want to adjust the resoloution each time you open wow you need to copy your wow folder and launch an account from each folder. This will let you change any settings you want like key settings and video settings and still have your original wow folder to save the original settings so when you want to play non- boxed you don't have to do too much setup to change back.

[AndyB]

I'm pretty sure that the last post i read from keyclone is that dual monitor support on maximizer is sill not done yet.


Keyclone does not support dual-view, but program "WoW Maximizer" does. It's old, but still very useful.

Wulfos has the syntax right. (At least the device and margin flags.) In my case maximizer.exe is actually placed in the WoW directory. There are additional commandline options to change what is actually called, but why bother?

I start mine as such:

[code:1]"c:\Program Files\WoW1\Maximizer.exe" --device 0 --margin 0,0,0,0
pause
"c:\Program Files\WoW2\Maximizer.exe" --device 1 --margin 0,0,0,0[/code:1]

I have to put that pause in place because when opening multiple copies of WoW quickly, it seems to occasionally grab the wrong window, leaving one (or more) copies un-maximized... So I do have to hit a key between each window pop-up, but it's a small price to pay in my mind..

[Danin]

Yeah you have to use Maximizer the program to get it to work on Dual View. I have two different-sized monitors so I can't run horizontal span, it was fun trying to figure that one out.

[Kambriel]

Ok, I seem to be missing something. Do I just type that into notepad and save it as a .bat file? I click it and it does nothing, please help. I have maximizer in both directories.

[AndyB]

Ok, I seem to be missing something. Do I just type that into notepad and save it as a .bat file? I click it and it does nothing, please help. I have maximizer in both directories.

Just so you catch errors, do this manually first:

1. Open a command window. (Start->Run, type "cmd" in the box.)
2. Change to the WoW directory. (cd "c:\program files\World of Warcraft")
3. Run the program: (type ".\maximizer.exe --device 1 --margin 0,0,0,0")

That should open a full screen WoW session on your second monitor. If not, report back the error...

[Wulfos]

Perhaps it saves it as "foo.bat.txt" and you dont see the .txt ...

Go to Tools->Folder Options...
Then View and then uncheck the Hide extensions for known file types.

Then just rename it to foo.bat and it should be a batch-file.