Screen Res issues and keyclone

[bbj]

Ive been fiddling with screen rez issues and keyclone. I have a Nvidia 7950 GT with 2 19" LG flatron screens - 1280 x 1024 native res.

It seems that wow checks the GFX card's capabilities and does not allow you to select an invalid resolution of eg 1280 x 1024 ( when running in horzontal span mode) The nvidia utils wont even let you select this mode.

i set maximzer in keyclone to region me 2x 1280x1024 regions and that works fine, but in wow it sets the Rez to 800x600 which means i get a display that is streached to fix the region. It doesnt make a lot of difference on the graphics, but its very visible on the text.

i dont quite know how maximer does what it does, but its not letting wow know of the new "possible" resolutions. It dont even know if it can....

[Xzin]

You should be able to specify this deep in nVidia's advanced options under custom resolutions.... or / and in WoW's config file.

But I can't say for sure those will work b/c I haven't played with them much. Just some thoughts.

[Contents]

In order to have WoW stop streching your screens, you need to go into your WoW folder/WTF there should be a config file in there. Open it with notepad and change the resolution to whatever you'd like.

I'm at work but i think the string in the config file is something like "SET gfxres 800x600"

I'm sure I'm not really close but that should give you something to work off of.

[bbj]

yep - did that - 1280x1024 is an invalid rez in horizontal span mode so wow resets it back to 800x600

[Contents]

once you change it in the config file dont ever go back into the video settings in WoW. Otherwise you have to reconfigure the resolution all over.

[bbj]

once you change it in the config file dont ever go back into the video settings in WoW. Otherwise you have to reconfigure the resolution all over.

I dont have to - i can see the res aint correct. My bars are all squashed up.

If i disable maximzer in keyclone, switch to dualview and extend my desktop ( ie 2 seperate screens ) then it works (res stays as specified etc), but then i have the super low framerate issue because of direct X

wow seems to interrogate the gfx card ( or Dx ) to find out what resolutions are available and only presents you with options for that. The fact that maximizer has restricted it to a specific area of the screen does not feature when it determines the res that it will accept

[keyclone]

hmmm... do you have a suggested solution? once i get back to working on keyclone (after this weekend) i'll be finishing the multi-monitor support thing. do you think this would be enough?

[bbj]

ok now i feel like a total noob.

I rebooted, reset to horizontal span and now it works just fine

my regions are 0,0,1280,1024 and 1280,0,1280,1024 ( in keyclone )

both screens now run at that res just fine. I dont know why it wouldnt before, but like any problem in windows, a reboot normally fixes it.