Viewport Modification - 2 Screens, 1 WoW 1 UI Interface

[Xzin]

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x45/Xzin-WoW/ps-021507-1.jpg

http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/05/11/dual-heading-and-wow-a-how-to-guide/

"There's been many a time when I have been tempted by the lure of a larger monitor. I just never seem to have enough room on the screen in WoW, between all my toolbars and chat windows and party member icons and such. The actual window into the world seems to get more crowded the more I play. Now, since I am ultimately a geek, what would be better for me than one big monitor? Two monitors. Yessir, I've been planning to dual-head my system for a while now, and when Bill wrote WoW Insider asking for help on this, I jumped at the chance. I know it's been a long time coming Bill, but here it is."

Could be useful for that 6th monitor in some 5 boxing setups?

[mmcookies]

After I get my 5-box setup, I'll probably play around with this a bit.

My idea right now is to eliminate the party frames from each of the other
four clients, and instead enlarging/rearranging the party frame on my
"main" client's second monitor so they are visually related to the
corresponding neighboring monitors.

[O][M][O]
[O][X][O]

M - main client
X - main client's second monitor
O - other clients with no party frames

I want to create a centralized information HUD that is large and clear
enough to be read with peripheral vision (which means the information will
be mostly graphical instead of text based).

There's even the possibility of the other clients sending info over the
party-ui channel to feed the main client's information center.

[wolviex]

ive been running dual monitors in WOW since i got the game, wow on one screen, web browser, music player xfire on other, i am gunn have to try this.

[Shogun]

I did this for ages, infact only recently gave it up. 3x19" LCD screens and 1 17" CRT, decided I wanted the 3rd LCD on another PC, and wanted deskspace back, so I gave it up (for now) and dumped the 17" CRT

2 UI screen shots:

UI during raid (http://www.xs4all.nl/~anahka/tickles/1.jpg)

Just showing cast bars, /focus etc (http://www.xs4all.nl/~anahka/tickles/2.jpg)

[Xzin]

I have not fooled around with it much yet but was unable to get it to work because I rotate my screens. I have plenty of desktop space and it would be nice to use the extra 1600 x 1280 for chat, damage charts, etc - non essential stuff.

I think it has to do with not being able to force the 8800s to accept "user supplied" resolutions. It works if I do it horizontally. Ahh the lovely "benefits" of being on the cutting edge.

Of CT_Viewport and Sunn's Viewport Art... I seemed to like Sunn's better.

http://wow-en.curse-gaming.com/downloads/details/5784/

Which is currently moot until most likely nVidia releases a new patch for the 8800s to allow me to tell the desktop and WoW to use custom resolutions.

[Shogun]

A "how to" guide from the UI forums
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=12052602&sid=1

[Jayk]

That way is good but I prefer 2 screens rendering 1 wow, like this.

(pic of my alt)
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/8789/wowscreensb8.png

[Wilbur]

Then you have a horrible split down the middle where the two Bezzels of your screens are :-( Not my kinda thing personally.

[Xzin]

You can reposition your character so they are not in the middle though.

[kyo]

Xzin, what kind of hardware are you running?
pc i mean.
would it be a lot harder on my pc to render that 2nd screen?

cheers

Kyo

[Los]

actually i dont think so since the vga card now renders both at the same time instead of seperatly. At least my fps stayed up pretty good on a lvl 10 alt in exodar (looks great apart from the lcd casings ;( )

[Xzin]

My main box is a quad core with 3x 8800GTXes, 4 gigs of ram and 2 raptors. 1000 watt PS although honestly the idle load is only 400 watts so 800 might have been fine. It powers 6x 30" monitors that I can switch to also use for the other set of Zins.

The Zins rigs are all amds, single or dual core, 1 - 2 gigs of memory and 8600 video cards.

Rendering a second screen depends on your video card and enough ram really... as well as not splitting the screen or simply using two video cards.

[Shogun]

Was running 2 screens on my rig, 2ghz AMD with 1.5gb ram and a 7600 card, so you don't need a great spec PC to do it