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Finally got around to taking a screenshot. This is my 5-box on a single machine using keyclone and two monitors (on horizontal span).
fullsize:
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/1349/ss2lq1.th.jpg
halfsize:
http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/4545/ss3ce7.th.jpg
Nice!
is that on 2x 1600x1200 ?
I don't know of any monitors that can do 2560 x 1024 so most likely yes. A 30" can do 2560 x 1600 - so it would be POSSIBLE to do on a single 30" but he said it was horizontal spanned so my money is on two 1280 x 1024 17"ers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Djarid
sweet setup.
i'd request that you post your hardware and software config for the noobies that may wonder how you did it.
and i hope you post future group shots so we can see how they proceed (multi-boxer photo album of pwnage :) )
Neato! What's the FPS like?
Quad-core Q6660 cpu
8800 GT
WinXP (32-bit)
4-gb of ram.
I use two installs of WoW, one for main, one for alt. Will end up switching to 5, eventually, I think. Only 'helper' software I use is Keyclone. Most of the UI stuff should be somewhat familiar with anyone whose seen the stickies in the 'addon' forum. On the alts, I use the bare minimum.. two-box toolkit, omen (could just use threat 1.0 or whatever the base add-on is for sharing threat info), and automaton.
There's a thread that goes through my buying process. I did this like.. last month... for right around $1000, including all hardware except monitors.
Yes, I am set up on horizontal-span on two 1280x monitors. Only one of them is a 17" LCD.. the other is a 21" CRT that's sorta old but still nice.
Buying two brand-new monitors is on my list for x-mas. Gonna see if I can't sweettalk someone into buying me a new one.
I rarely dip below 50fps on my 'main' screen (in the screenshot, 55 fps). I am very often maxed out (70 is my maxfps).
Multiple harddrives? Whats the load like going into Orgrimmar or similar? Logging in taking forever?
Single hard-drive. The load times don't seem long to me, at all. I'm not sure how much having only two installs effects this.Quote:
Originally Posted by kayb
I'll time it next time I load them.
Greetings,Quote:
Originally Posted by kalih
Just be careful with the size & resolution of those two monitors.
Once you go over 1280 wide each (say 1440 or 1680 for a 20-22 wide screen), you exceed the max resolution of most cards (ie. 2560).
And that's a bit of unchartered territory, I have found out : very hard to figure out how to do it, hardware wise.
Dual cards didn't work for me under XP, constant freezes, seems to be DirectX related.
/salute