How is your maximizer set up? (widescreen monitor)

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09-03-2008, 11:02 AM
unseen

How is your maximizer set up? (widescreen monitor)

Ideally, I'd like to have some kind of decent resolution on my 22" widescreen monitor that will let me have two instances of wow running right next to each other. On the left would be a paladin I plan to tank with and on the right would be my priest I plan to heal with (mostly using clique). The rest of my team (3 warlocks) would be running on a second machine.

The problem I'm running into is figuring out how to use maximizer to get my two instances of wow running without looking "weird'.

Anyone have any tips or can you share with me how you run your wow? I've thought about running PIP, and I'd be willing to play with that if I could accomplish it without, again, it looking "weird". For PIP I can essentially get one screen at 1024x768, but the remaining space on the screen isn't wide enough to really do much with.

My monitor can handle up to 1440x1050 (I think that's the resolution). Any tips on how to use this space most effectively?
09-03-2008, 11:10 AM
GizmoxLoW

What i did when i was running just 2 instances is go into your video options and rotate your display 45 degrees, then your monitor is meant to be unscrewed from the stand, spun around and rescrewed so its up and down rather than side to side. then on the maximizer just divide your current resolution in half and put both instances at the same resolution but one on the top half the screen and one on the bottom half

i did this with my 19" but instead of it being 1440X 900 it was 900 x 1440 both wow clients were at 450x720(in keyclones maximizer) the ingame resolution was still 800x600 hope this helps
09-03-2008, 11:23 AM
MrWoW

I two box at the moment on a 24" 1900x1200 and I run PiP. Main is full 1900x1200 (full video settings), and the clone account in a small 500/375 (or 600/450?) window with a 800x600 game rez (all video settings turned down) in the very bottom right corner and I find it works quite well. Once they catch up to my level 70 on another account I plan to purchase a 19-20" widescreen monitor and have the 2 clones on the 2nd monitor in portrait mode for tri-boxing.

Mine is similar to http://solidice.com/keyclone/layouts...egions_pip.jpg but with the clone window moved all the way to the bottom corner (and a different UI layout).
09-03-2008, 12:14 PM
unseen

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Originally Posted by 'MrWoW',index.php?page=Thread&postID=115267#post11 5267

I two box at the moment on a 24" 1900x1200 and I run PiP. Main is full 1900x1200 (full video settings), and the clone account in a small 500/375 (or 600/450?) window with a 800x600 game rez (all video settings turned down) in the very bottom right corner and I find it works quite well. Once they catch up to my level 70 on another account I plan to purchase a 19-20" widescreen monitor and have the 2 clones on the 2nd monitor in portrait mode for tri-boxing.

Mine is similar to http://solidice.com/keyclone/layouts...egions_pip.jpg but with the clone window moved all the way to the bottom corner (and a different UI layout).

Cool, maybe I'll do something like how you have it set up. I could technically then have grid/clique set up pretty big on the priest and be able to click on it without actually switching to it.
09-03-2008, 12:55 PM
Nogs

mine for two boxing at 1680x1050 was like this

http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/7843/uiru6.th.jpg

PIP region 2 set to always on top (region 2 being the dinky window) i built my ui around this wind it worked really well, saddly now i four box so am going to have to buy at least a second screen...
09-03-2008, 01:03 PM
Savage

I've got the standard One large on the left and four small on the right, vertical. 1920x1200 28" monitor
09-03-2008, 04:52 PM
softflow

You can also turn your widescreen 90 degrees clockwise and have them top/bottom with about 1024x768 for each window.

Edit: Oops, just now noticed you said 1440x900, so that's more like 800x600 stretched to fit, which shouldn't be too bad at all.
09-03-2008, 07:17 PM
lapdawg

Quote:

Originally Posted by 'MrWoW',index.php?page=Thread&postID=115267#post11 5267

I two box at the moment on a 24" 1900x1200 and I run PiP. Main is full 1900x1200 (full video settings), and the clone account in a small 500/375 (or 600/450?) window with a 800x600 game rez (all video settings turned down) in the very bottom right corner and I find it works quite well. Once they catch up to my level 70 on another account I plan to purchase a 19-20" widescreen monitor and have the 2 clones on the 2nd monitor in portrait mode for tri-boxing.

Mine is similar to http://solidice.com/keyclone/layouts...egions_pip.jpg but with the clone window moved all the way to the bottom corner (and a different UI layout).

What happens if you click on the small clone window to loot and then click back to the full window? Is the small window now hidden? That is the issue I am having with PIP. Any ideas?
09-04-2008, 12:18 AM
keyclone

Quote:

Originally Posted by 'lapdawg',index.php?page=Thread&postID=115486#post 115486

What happens if you click on the small clone window to loot and then click back to the full window? Is the small window now hidden? That is the issue I am having with PIP. Any ideas?

make sure, in the maximizer editor, the small region has 'always on top' CHECKED
09-04-2008, 10:15 AM
MrWoW

Quote:

Originally Posted by 'keyclone',index.php?page=Thread&postID=115605#pos t115605

Quote:

Originally Posted by 'lapdawg',index.php?page=Thread&postID=115486#post 115486

What happens if you click on the small clone window to loot and then click back to the full window? Is the small window now hidden? That is the issue I am having with PIP. Any ideas?

make sure, in the maximizer editor, the small region has 'always on top' CHECKED

^ This. Since Keyclone posted here, I figured that I would say a big 'Thanks!' for the great software. I admit to being a little cautious about spending the $20 at first, but now I regret waiting so long to do so.
09-04-2008, 10:21 AM
MrWoW

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nogs',index.php?page=Thread&postID=115314#post1153 14]mine for two boxing at 1680x1050 was like this

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http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/7843/uiru6.th.jpg[/url]

PIP region 2 set to always on top (region 2 being the dinky window) i built my ui around this wind it worked really well, saddly now i four box so am going to have to buy at least a second screen...

That looks sweet! If you can (and don't mind) could you provide a list of addons you are using for that UI. Specifically the bottom part of the screen; like how to get the map square, and Omen and Recount (I am guessing?) to all look like that. Unit Frames looks like Pitbull... ?

Thanks!
09-04-2008, 12:36 PM
keyclone

Quote:

Originally Posted by 'MrWoW',index.php?page=Thread&postID=115804#post11 5804

Since Keyclone posted here, I figured that I would say a big 'Thanks!' for the great software. I admit to being a little cautious about spending the $20 at first, but now I regret waiting so long to do so.

:thumbsup:
09-05-2008, 01:04 AM
unseen

I've got PiP set up:

region 1 is maximized at 1280x800
region 2 is tiny, always on top, 320x200

It looks great until I click on region2, then the taskbar appears from behind everything. If I click on region1 the taskbar disappears.

I'm running Vista, any idea how to make this behavior disappear? Other than the taskbar it seems great.
09-05-2008, 04:27 AM
keyclone

this should help:

How does one disable Windows XP Taskbar flashing
link: http://en.allexperts.com/q/Windows-X...XP-Taskbar.htm

previous thread source
New to 3 boxing -simple question
09-09-2008, 11:17 PM
unseen

Quote:

Originally Posted by keyclone',index.php?page=Thread&postID=116342#post 116342]this should help:

How does one disable Windows XP Taskbar flashing
link: [url]http://en.allexperts.com/q/Windows-XP-3282/disable-Windows-XP-Taskbar.htm[/url]

previous thread source
[url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&postID=42533#post42533

New to 3 boxing -simple question[/url]

The problem I was having was that the entire taskbar was on top of the window. No flashing of any kind. I found the solution to be going into the taskbar settings and unchecking the option "Keep the taskbar on top of other windows" seemed to be a good enough workaround.

I looked at the article you suggested but even tinkering with the registry keys suggested had no effect on what I was experiencing. Just figured I'd pass along a potential workaround to anyone else that sees this in vista in the future.