Keyclone maximizer causing a problem with in-game text

[Alcsaar]

Not sure whats up, for the past few days I've been using maximizer with no problems. Today I download trivia bot and put it in my addons folder, and now a portion of my screen is causing all text to blurr.

Heres a SS

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/5383/49210834li9.jpg



Once I maximized WoW, text was fine. No blurr.

I tried with trivia bot on and off, no difference.

The error is apparent right after starting WoW, because typing my account password in also shows "streaks" comes down off the asteriks.

Err how is it to small to see the problem? Hrmm, its big enough to me?

[Wilbur]

Thats to small to see the problem.

[Diamndzngunz]

Maybe make the chat box bigger?

[keyclone]

when you use maximizer, keyclone is going to modify the size/resolution/aspect ratio of the wow window you put in defined region. if you have specified a small region, it's going to be small text

you can always try to resize the text box and scale up the ui... or get a bigger screen/better graphics card

[zanthor]

Did Triviabot come with any fonts? That could be causing an issue as well. If you didn't have the problem with Maximizer BEFORE trivia bot, and you did after trivia bot, I'd wager it was something triviabot installed and didn't remove when you disabled/removed it.

[perseph]

Maybe you should use Clearfont2 -> Increas every text up to 140% nice addon :D

[Alcsaar]

You guys seem to think its a problem with my sight :O

Getting it bigger would just make the text blurr bigger.

The first half of the sentence is crystal clear, the second half blurrs, and hten if it goes to a second line the first half again is clear, and the second half blurrs. It changes depending on where i move the chat box to on my screen.

[keyclone]

then try running your wow directly... no via keyclone.. and see if the text is still messed up.

my guess is that the text will still looked messed up... most likely due to a font / resolution issue

[Ughmahedhurtz]

There's some detail missing from here that would help a lot.

1) What resolution do you have configured in your WoW Video settings screen?
2) What resolution do you have Maximizer/Keyclone set for?

If those two do not match or 2 is smaller than 1, you will get wierd font issues including things like you're seeing.

[Dezeral]

I have the same issue when I try to use the maximizer features of Keyclone. I have been watching this thread hoping to see if the probelm can be resolved.

Here is what works and what doesn't for me. When I use plain old maximizer, the text is perfect. When I use Keyclone, the text is distorted. I run 5 clients on one computer using span desktop video settings. The monitors are two 24" LCD with native resolutions of 1920x1200 on each monitor. My main client is on the left screen at 1920x1200 while the 4 clones are on the right monitor at 960x600 each. I run the main client from c:\wow1 and the clone clients from f:\wow2. The resolutions are set correctly in the config.wtf at 1920x1200 on c:\wow1 and 960x600 on f:\wow2.

When I run Keyclone and utilize the maximizer features, it looks as if there is a scanning issue. In other words, it looks like I'm running a client at a lower resolution and stretching it to fit the 1920x1200 window.

I saw the same type of thing when I was first setting up the plain old maximizer when the config.wtf resolution was set lower than the actual window size. Once I put the correct resolution in the config.wtf, the problem went away using the original maximizer application.

[keyclone]

@Dezeral

try this. run keyclone with maximizer, running one command at a time... each time you run a wow, please check the config.wtf and see what the gxResolution (i think that was it... at work atm) is set to.. and compare that to the region size/dimensions... they should be the same.

[Dezeral]

I'll take a look at it this evening after work. I did check that first to make sure it wasn't something too simple or obvious, but I did not check one command at a time. Thank you.

[Dezeral]

Ok, running just one command from c:\wow1 within Keyclone, the same text distortion occurs. The config.wtf has "SET gxResolution "1920x1200" in the c:\wow1 directory.

After running just the one command, I noticed that there was one line of pixels running vertically on the second monitor. This should not be happening with the 1920x1200 setting as that exactly matches the monitors native resolution. I went into Keyclone setup and then maximizer and changed it to 1919x1200. This fixed the text distortion. When I changed it back to 1920x1200, it again extened one pixel onto the other monitor but the distortion did not come back. However, if I exit Keyclone and restart it using the 1919x1200, the text distortion comes back. This leads me to believe that there is something going on whenever Keyclone first starts up the windows. There is definitely something odd going on.

[keyclone]

are you using xp or vista? dual-view or horizontal span?

i have read people had some problems and updating drivers sometimes helped.

the single line of pixels is very odd. please update your drivers and let me know what happens

[Dezeral]

I am using Windows XP and I have the latest drivers from Nvidia.

[Dezeral]

I've played around with this some more. I'll try to describe what is happening here. I'd also like to make a request to make the maximizer configuration window larger. I'll explain more about this later. Just to recap here a bit. I use Windows XP with two 24 inch monitors in horizontal span mode connected to a single 8800GTX video card. This gives me a single desktop that is 3840 wide by 1200 high and is reported to Keyclone as a single display.

First, it looks as if there is an "off by 1" error with Keyclone-maximizer. As to whether this is causing the distorted text problem or not, who knows? Under the maximizer config, you request the starting x,y cooridinate of the top left corner of the window. You then request the h,w of that window. In my case, my first window starts at 0,0 and is 1920w x 1200h. This would correspond to a starting coordinate of 0,0 and extend over to 1919 and down to 1199. 0 to 1919 = 1920 and 0 to 1199 = 1200. However, what you get when you enter in a starting point of 0,0 and a 1920w, 1200h is a window that is actually 1921 wide by 1201 high. This is why one pixel extends on to the other screen. The same thing happens for all windows, I just didn't notice it because those windows are smaller and are edge to edge.

The way I added each window to the maximizer config was to click the + sign. This gives me a new widow with the default name of region1. I then click in each box along the top of the maximizer config window to enter in the desired window settings. In my case, I named my main window V and gave it the 0,0 starting point and h,w of 1920,1200. Then I cliked the + again and did my next window which was named A, started at 1920,0 and is 960w,600h. Third window was named B, starting at 2880,0 and 960wx600h. Fourth window is C, starting at 1920,600 and 960wx600h. Fifth window is named D and starts at 2880,600 and is 960wx600h.

This creates all the windows I need to 5 box. I setup the commands for each character with the Main using window V, the alts using windows A through D. Each command runs from a separate WoW directory so that there is no risk of something screwy going on with the config.wtf. The reason I would like to have the maximizer config window enlarged is because, once I have created the windows V, A, B, C, D, I can only edit the settings for window V, A, and C. The reason is because it seems like you have to select the window by clicking on it in the maximizer config screen to edit its properties. V, A, and C are the only windows that you can see in the maximizer screen. Windows B and D are too far to the left and "off" the maximizer screen.

Here is what I am after when all is said and done:http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/8301/3840x1200sim5boxjx1.jpg