Hmm, pondering how to set up screens for my four shaman..

[Ozbert]

whatever you come up with.. please post a screenshot (or pic of your rig) to the screenshots section (hardware specs as well please.. helps when others try to figure out what they want to do)

Perhaps we should have a new section in the wiki specifically for layout configuration examples, using the various different methods?

[keyclone]

hmmm... "setup of the week" ?

[Kaynin]

Well, it's easy to make any sort of set up, but as soon as functionality comes to play it's suddenly a whole different ballgame..

It's a lot about preference ofcourse, sure a rig with multiple screens looks awesome, but in terms of neck cramps, not that convenient for example. Oo

I'm going for PvP, I'm currently leveling so was not that worried about things, but now that I get more and more interesting world PvP, I just notice that, with the two options I've used so far, it just won't cut it. *shrug*

Oh well, 100th post, back later. xP

[Kaynin]

With your setup 1 idea, I'd size my windows as follows:

Main across top of screen: 1680x765
Three clones below that: 560x255 each.

The aspect ratio of all those windows is exactly the same, plus it leaves 30 pixels empty at the bottom of your screen, which happens to be the height of the Windows XP task bar.

If all four clients are configured for 1680x765 in their config.wtf files, then when Maximizer resizes them, the graphics will remain undistorted.

How do I keep my clients at 1680x765? Keyclone seems to change it. Still get distortions.

[keyclone]

keyclone's maximizer is setting the dimensions as per the layout... it's wow that changes it to a more normal combination.

ie: you choose 1680x765 .. aspect ratio of 2.19 ... and the clones are placed @ 560x255... but when wow starts, it will immediately change the 560x255 to 800x600.

look for v1.8g this weekend

[Kaynin]

Alright, will do.

[Ozbert]

keyclone's maximizer is setting the dimensions as per the layout... it's wow that changes it to a more normal combination.

ie: you choose 1680x765 .. aspect ratio of 2.19 ... and the clones are placed @ 560x255... but when wow starts, it will immediately change the 560x255 to 800x600.

Isn't it the case that WoW reverts to 800x600 only if the horizontal resolution setting in config.wtf is smaller than 800, or the vertical setting is less than 600?

For example, config.wtf contains:

1600x600 - this is fine
800x1200 - this is fine

1600x599 - reverts to 800x600 (599 too small)
799x1200 - reverts to 800x600 (799 too small)

If all four clients have 1680x765 in their config.wtf files, then it shouldn't revert afaik.

EDIT: Ah, I just remembered, keyclone modifies the config.wtf files and sets the resolutions to the size of the corresponding regions. Perhaps this behaviour could be optionally disabled?

[Djarid]

Yes, I think we need to promote this to a feature request... specifying resolution for the instance separately from the region it will run in... it will allow people who want to squash different aspect ratios into their small windows to have an undistorted main.

[keyclone]

i have considered that... and only recently found another hook within wow to enable it.
i've already put it on the list... not currently on schedule for v1.8g ... but we'll see