WoW Maximizer

[Silly Gooooose]

is it possible to do the separate WoW spots without having 4 separate installs?

Only way I can do it at the moment is changing the data in the maximizer.ini and then saving, then opening wow, then changing and saving, then opening wow... it's annoying.

[Djarid]

dead easy, use a batch file to launch the wows and configure teh settings on the command line.

I use keyclone now so can't remember the options off the top of my head but a search on "command" and "maximizer" should yield results

[Method]

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.

Thanks Stabface - this is very helpful. Just want to confirm before I reproduce - is there anyway to use just one client for this instead of installing 5 different versions?

Thanks again

[Method]

dead easy, use a batch file to launch the wows and configure teh settings on the command line.

I use keyclone now so can't remember the options off the top of my head but a search on "command" and "maximizer" should yield results

Eep, just saw this post after I posted the above. Would you mind elaborating on "batch file" Is there a wiki I can refer to on how to use this?

thanks again!

[Method]

dead easy, use a batch file to launch the wows and configure teh settings on the command line.

I use keyclone now so can't remember the options off the top of my head but a search on "command" and "maximizer" should yield results

when you say that you use "keyclone" is there a function in keyclone that automates this process?

[Method]

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'm planning to run two seperate monitors - right side will be for the main screen - then 4 slaves on the right side. My monitors are not stretched at this point, so they are independent. I tried plugging the values above to get the right combination and it worked for my first screen, but it did not work for the 2nd one. I came up with 0,600,0,800 for the first and 0,600,800,1600 for the second. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for the help, much appreciated!