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I run 5 WoW's on 1 box using Maximizer. My desktop res is 2560x1024 which is two 1280x1024 monitors in Stretch mode on an ATI x1650 PRO.
I have 5 separate WoW installs so I just copied Maximizer into each and set up the configs like this:
#copy 1
margin = 0,512,0,1920
#copy 2
margin = 0,512,640,1280
#copy 3
margin = 512,0,0,1920
#copy 4
margin = 512,0,640,1280
#copy 5
margin = 0,0,1280,0
This puts 4 small instances of WoW onto my left screen @ 640x512 each and 1 large instance of WoW on my right screen @1280x1024. I'll stitch up a quick screenshot and post shortly to demonstrate.
Works great I just have to launch them one at a time and wait for Maximizer to resize and relocate each WoW window before launching the next one. I'm also able to close one and then reload it at any time without any problems.
I checked your post in the Screenshot forums Stabface, looks really nice!
And to Xzin: The fact that your monitors are configured that way shall not mather since the Maximizer forces the pixels to do as you want, maybe something in your .ini is wrong :roll:
Possibly... I didn't fool around with it much really.
Stab - what do you do if/when a WoW crashes? Can you recover without needing to bring the whole system down and restart them all in sequence again?
I had problems with Maximizer seeming to not end on the size that I wanted. I got a black screen for quite a long time with the wow gauntlet cursor and then I ended up with something quite different than I ordered.
Not that there is anything wrong with the distributed executable, but recompiling it and fixed this for me. But later I have this up for Wine.
Yes, I have 5 individual shortcuts and just have to relaunch the one that crashed. It will load up and then snap right into place. Just be sure to turn off KeyClone before logging in else you're broadcasting your password to the world. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Xzin
I (cleverly?) labeled each shortcut with a suffix of M, UL, UR, LL, LR - main, upper left, upper right, etc. - so I know exactly which one to restart.
One limitation I dislike is that you cannot launch 2 simultaneously -- it appears Maximizer launches WoW, waits a certain amount of time and then looks for a window with the "World of Warcraft" title to do its magic on. So you have to wait for 1 to fully load and get "Maximized" before loading another. (note to self: create a batch file to launch WoW's one-by-one with a delay between.)
You can do this off 1 WoW install as well BTW, you just instead have to put the Maximizer parameters into the command-line instead of the .INI file.
I *believe* it would be possible to fix this so you can launch as many as you want all at once -- if you had a way to change the title of the WoW window! Maximizer has an option to change the name of the target application window it is maximizing. But I haven't done any research to see how to change the title of the World of Warcraft window. I'm sure it's possible.
On my machine it takes ~15 seconds to get to the login screen per WoW instance, another ~15-20 to login and get past the load screen, plus a bit of laggy time after that where the world is still loading models and other players and such. So about 2ish minutes before you're in game and ready to rock. Which I guess isn't all that long really, but still annoying.
I have some problems using Maximizer. I have 2 monitors, first 22" widescreen operating with 1680x1050 and the second a 19" with 1280x1024.
When i start maximizer wow starts and it operates with 1680x1050, 60fps an a cpu usage of 4%. I have Intel Core2 Duo E6600, 2x 2.41Ghz.
When I open maximizer for the second screen, it works with resolution 1280x1024.
But now both screens have only 9fps and gaming suxx -.- The CPU usage is constant on 4%.
I use a Geforce 8800GTS with 640mb.
Anyone an idea what's wrong?
horizontal / vertical span activated?
more infos about that:
http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums2/viewtopic.php?t=877
it is not real horizontal span, it is dual view. each montior can be configured for its own. i don't know how this mode is called.
so if i take horizontal span with e.g. 3200x1024 i should get better fps on both screens?
Yes, it needs ideally to work as a single desktop to ease the pain for the GPU. There's a thread or 2 about this somewhere on the boards that explain it better than I can, but using a span should help you :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Andorades