Quote Originally Posted by kenphillips View Post
Breakin' it down Barney-style

The reason it's one client per monitor for monitor resolutions less than 2048x1536 is as follows:
The client resolution and window resolution must be the SAME for full mouse functionality!

Since EVE's minimum client resolution is 1024x768, the window resolution for this client, in a multiple client per monitor setup, is also 1024x768. On monitors that don't support a 2048x1536 resolution, multiple clients per monitor is impossible without overlap since the monitor lacks the screen real-estate to display all clients in the foreground at once.

Hence, you can only have one client per monitor at monitor resolutions less than 2048x1536. Unless my logic is flawed, as I don't have a monitor that supports this resolution.

Also, I realize this type of window management works in WoW. But it doesn't work in EVE. This is because the client res and the window res are not required to be the same in WoW. Please refrain from using WoW examples of window management in this thread.
With IS, the clients will run @ 1024x768, but IS shrinks what get displayed. I've run 3 EVE clients with IS before on one screen, and my monitor res is 1920x1080. IS will run the clients natively at what ever res the client is setup to run, but will sample the output to give a display for the slaves at w/e resolution you want. I say sample, because there is no smoothing and th scaling is very crude for speed purposes. It is true that the main window has to take up 1024x768, but slaves just need to take up space in the same aspect ratio. They will be at 1024x768 as far as eve is concerned. The really only lends itself to setups where the main window takes up 90% of the screen and the slaves take up a small fraction each.

You can NOT have a master on one screen at 1080p and a slave a on a 2nd monitor at 1680x1050 and have mouse broadcasting working. You can however have the master at 1080p, and multiple slaves each rendering at 1080p, but displayed in a smaller res window on the 2nd monitor (say 4 slaves taking up 840x525 each). All clients would be running at 1080p, so mouse broadcasting would work.

EVE is a bit of a PITA because it does not inherently support arbitrary resolutions, or dynamic resizing (yet). It only allows resolutions that you vid drivers report. For example, if you wanted 3 client, where one is 1920x720 and 2x slaves at 860x360 below the main (to completely fill a 1080p screen), you would need to register 1920x720 as valid resolution with your video drivers, and then set all of your clients to run at that res.