WoW Maximizer

[Xzin]

This is a useful tool. It allows you to remove the windows around the WoW client when you play windowed - and extends the functionality to allow you to place that window wherever you want and keep it borderless - something the game client does not (yet?) have. I used to use it before it was integrated into the WoW client and it was always rock solid and just worked.

It is open source (yay!) and does a few things that might be helpful for us multiboxers.

You can download WoW Maximizer from Curse Gaming at

http://wow-en.curse-gaming.com/downloads/details/146/

The latest version (1.4.1) is no longer maintained but it works pretty well for single boxers. What it does is allows you to play WoW in a window but remove the window borders. This is accomplished without this program if you click on the windowed and maximized buttons in the default WoW options. WoW does not let you move the window around though, it is all or nothing. In the even you have the hardware to box two characters on one machine, this will allow you at the moment to place one window at the left or right side of your screen but it does not currently support a second window.

Perhaps some talented programmer could modify the program to allow for this functionality? Right now the program only expects one WoW window. If there was another program with a different name or window class it would work fine but since you are cloning WoW copies, nothing changes and there is no way for the program as it is written to accommodate that. Fortunately the source is available with the binary..... so..... well - it can be updated.

This tool (once modified) would be very helpful for people who want to dual box side by side on a large monitor on the same machine.

[Ellay]

Kind of off-topic but you deserve mod rights, granted

[Xzin]

*looks at my post count* *looks at Ellays*

/giggles

[Anton145]

Hmm, Xzin you can use this tool to run more than 1 WoW..
I Dual-Box on a 19" Wide monitor, my computer is pretty lame and the CPU usage is from 70-90% all the time with the 2 instances running simultaneously. Here's how it looks:


My resolution is 1440x900 so when I shall open the 2 instances of WoW I first run the Maximizer.exe and 1 Windows will come up doesn't matter wich one, then I go into the .ini file and change my Margin row wich looks like this [code:1]margin = 0,0,0,440
margin = 0,450,1000,0[/code:1]
And I'll just add a "#" to row representing the already open window.
The "0,0,0,440" is my big window with 440 pixels margin to the left corner.
And the "0,450,1000,0" is the small with 450 p margin from the buttom of the screen and 1000 p from the left corner.

I hope you understood what I meant now.. Thanks for sharing this tool, I have great use of it!
:wink:

[Xzin]

Odd, that always crashed for me.

[Anton145]

Works for me in Windows XP as long as you start the first instance and then wait until that one is displayed properly before you start editing the .ini.

[Xzin]

So you cannot setup 2 different INIs and two differetn WoW directories?

I spoke with the author of the program but he has since moved on to other projects.

This isn't critical for me but it would be nice for some other boxers out there if somebody wanted to fool around with it a bit. I was hoping to get a 1 click solution to deploy it and also recover if one crashed without needing to take the whole "array" down.

[Anton145]

Well yeah, if you had 2 or more different installations of WoW that would work ofcourse, since the Maximizer.exe is looking for a Maximizer.ini in the same folder as itself..
So you would be able to have separate installations with individual Maximizer settings, that would work but there's no way you can get it to open multiple Windows from the same WoW installation as you want them to without configuring the .ini before opening each window. Unless you can make some magic in the Maximizer.exe... :wink:

[Xzin]

Maximizer is open source. I tried waiting and then opening... might have something to do with the fact that I play in landscape mode and it does not detect my resolutions properly......

[Anton145]

I dont know what "Landscape" mode is, but WoWMaximizer forces the computer to display the the resolution you selected in the configuration file.. Nomather what the WoW.exe tells your computer to do..