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hi im new to dual boxing, ive had a look at the tutorials and stuff, but im still having a few probs, first of all wow maximizer wont run my games in windowed mode, even though its selected, so i set the res to 800x600 windowed and it just makes the screen size 800x600. also im not sure wat resolutions i should have my two games running at, i use a 19inch Wide LCD at 1440x900 wats an optimal resolution to run 2 WoW's at side by side on the same screen?
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if you want WoW windowed just open them and go the video settings and click windowed mode.. the size of the windows is completely up to you tho.. i like to keep the main window larger with the alt windows poking out a little on the side... this is just so i can see that there is movement in that alt window to make sure its following, but thats just me, feel free to experiment and figure out what works best for you.
p.s. usually if no one answers your question its because its probably in a sticky or already been asked. try using the search, im sorry if you already know this:P
well GL!
im horribly stupid and i should probebly shoot myself right now, worked it all out by reading more stickies :) ive finally gotten 2 wows working at once with keyclone, windowed and set up in the regions i want :) im so happy ahha its mad how you can do this.
wat i wanted to ask though, how on earth do u play probebly if u got like 4 regions on one screen? must be pretty small writing you have to read. because ive got 2 regions set up, 1 top left, 1 bottom right, and both same sizes both at ingame rez of 800x600 and its pretty hard to read stuff on the screen. is there a way i can fix this? in game rez change or something?
many people just use multi-monitors, which looks very cool.
most of todays quality graphics boards have multi-monitor support. the 2nd monitor doesn't have to be anything huge and sexy.. even the 17" running 1280x1024 would have better res then a wide screen @ 1600x1400 split in half
Using Maximizer, you can specify what exact resolutions you want to run at. Here's what I do:
I have 5 WoW install directories, and the Maximizer/cfg files in each. Based on where I want the window, and at what resolution, I have the maximizer.cfg file defined for that. Just look at the readme.html that comes with the Maximizer download - it explains it fairly well.
My 24" is 1920x1200, but I want to be able to access Vent/Firefox/Winamp/etc around the window, so I just run my WoW1 install in regular windowed mode at 1680x1050. Sometimes I'll just use my laptop for handling this 'extra' work. Now, my other monitor is a 1680x1050 20", and I have edited the maximizer.cfg files in my WoW2,3,4,5 directories to use the top left, top right, bottom left, and bottom right corners, all with a resolution of 840x525. Technically, the game resolution is just a viewport size for a DirectX/OpenGL program, so you can use anything you want to specify. The common in-game resolutions are only there since those are standard display resolutions for running in full-screen mode. The Maximizer program allows you to override those settings, remove the 'window' borders and titlebar, and specify where on the screen you want to place your 'maximized' resolution.
As for reading text in an 840x525 window - that's a little difficult. I bump the UI Scale to 1 (the max), and it's not too bad. I had thought about creating a custom UI to make everything larger and easier to read.. but that's low on the priority list right now. I figure I'm not looking at these small windows to read text - I can target my AoE spells (blizzard/flamestrike/etc) just fine with them, and icon/bags are easy to see with the highest UI scale.