Weird screen resolution problem at 2560x1600

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08-26-2008, 11:25 AM
ockhamsrazor

Weird screen resolution problem at 2560x1600

I just added a second larger monitor to my system which is one of those Dell 30" 2560x1600 beasts. It is set as my primary with my secondary monitor set to 1920x1200.

WoW runs fine on the main monitor either full screen or windowed. However I seem to be having a weird sizing issue. I'm not quite sure how to describe the problem, so please bear with me.

Normally as I progressively increase the in game resolution from 800x600 -> 1024x768 -> 1600x1200 -> 1920x1200, I gain more and more screen real estate to play with. More space for toolbars, large chat windows etc.

However with my new screen resolution the game seems to have "topped out" at 1920x1200 and I'm not getting more space. The image is larger and the video settings are clearly set to 2560x1600 (both desktop & ingame), but I don't actually have more space to play with ingame.

I've played around with maximizer settings and currently have it set to 1-1, nothing seems to have any effect, I just can't get it to use more space than 1920x1200 on that main monitor.

Everything seems fine with the secondary monitor and accounts.

Any help anyone?

Thanks,

Matt

Thanks,
Matt
08-26-2008, 11:48 AM
keyclone

G'morning Matt,

you can set the game resolution for any region to any value you want.. just type it into the box just below the pip hotkey.

so, reset regions... create region... set the w,h to what you want... then click the game resolution and set it to the largest region you are going to define (this helps to insure the aspect ratio doesn't get out of whack)

have you checked out the layouts section? (link: http://solidice.com/keyclone/layouts/index.html )

how many wows are you trying to run on each display? what sizes are you selecting for the regions?
08-26-2008, 11:49 AM
zanthor

RE: Weird screen resolution problem at 2560x1600

It's possible that the client just doesn't support resolutions quite that high well, I don't have any first hand experience past 1680x1050 myself...

I'd double check things like your UI Scale as well to ensure that it's not actually giving you more space but raising the UI Scale for some stupid reason or another.
08-26-2008, 12:02 PM
ockhamsrazor

Vista64, Single NVidia 260, 8GB RAM.

I'm currently 3 boxing with 3 regions.

Display1 - To prevent the main window from overlapping the vista taskbar (major lag issues when it overlapps in the slightest), I've set the region to 2560x1550 with maximizer set to 1-1.

Display2 - Two regions, each set to 800x600 and maximizer 1-1.

I've never touched the UI scale option before, and am at work now so I can't try it. What does it do exactly and what should I set it to?

As an aside for others who might be reading this thread , focus follows mouse doesn't seem to work for me either. So I just used the Control Panel->Ease of Use->Focus follows mouse option instead which seems to work fine.
08-26-2008, 12:11 PM
Klamor

i've played wow on a 40 something inch Tv... got like 3000x#### or w/e so, it does support higher resolutions :)
08-26-2008, 01:09 PM
mikekim

WOW does support 2560x1600 (i know his because i have the "hard" task of setting up 16x gaming machines for people I work for, just to play WOW 8) )

-multiboxing on 5x 30" screens is a nice perk of the job :thumbsup: (should have taken screenies :thumbdown: )

try running wow without using keyclone and set the resolution manually, just to test that it works ok with your card.

then edit the settings in the keyclone.ini file to match the resolution that you require to run at.
08-26-2008, 03:23 PM
BobGnarly

When you say it "doesn't use" the extra space, what does that mean, exactly? Like the monitor is not a native res, or like the game graphics are being stretched to fit the 2560x1600?

If you mean the later, I wonder, do you have your "ui scale" on in the video preferences? If not, it'll scale up the blizzard UI to fit whatever res you have, making it appear that it's at the same res, just bigger.

I have the same monitor, and it does work in wow.
08-26-2008, 05:49 PM
-silencer-

Quote:

Originally Posted by 'Klamor',index.php?page=Thread&postID=110706#post1 10706

i've played wow on a 40 something inch Tv... got like 3000x#### or w/e so, it does support higher resolutions :)

Oh really? What TV do you have? Most 1080p HDTVs from 32" to 72" I've seen still only have 1920x1080 resolution. "1080"p does actually mean something. The other HDTVs were only 1366x768...

I've yet to see a consumer TV with the resolution of the Dell's 30" 2560x1600.
08-26-2008, 06:24 PM
ockhamsrazor

It appears to be streching the graphics from 1920x1200 -> 2560x1600. Although the image doesn't look distorted at all. I'll play with the UI scale tonight and see what comes of it as part of my attempt to switch to the leaderless, focusless, hotstrings setup changes I want to try :-)
08-26-2008, 07:16 PM
-silencer-

Quote:

Originally Posted by 'ockhamsrazor',index.php?page=Thread&postID=110913 #post110913

It appears to be streching the graphics from 1920x1200 -> 2560x1600. Although the image doesn't look distorted at all. I'll play with the UI scale tonight and see what comes of it as part of my attempt to switch to the leaderless, focusless, hotstrings setup changes I want to try :-)

Load up WoW, go in-game, and change the UI scale to 1.0.
Exit the game.
Go to your WoW/WTF/config.wtf file.
Change this line:
SET gxResolution "1680x1050"
to this:
SET gxResolution "2560x1600"

Now load up WoW and see if that worked. I had to do that on my main when I tried out 860x1200 resolution on my 1920x1200 LCD to get the resolution to scale correctly.
08-27-2008, 12:08 PM
ockhamsrazor

I set my UI scale as low as it would go and it seems like it that does the trick. I now have the screen real estate I would expect, and no image distortion. However I'm still wondering if I should have to do this. I'll try manually editing the config.wtf tonight like you suggest and see what happens.