Going Dual-screen
I hooked up my second monitor yesterday after my wife went to bed to test out playing with 2 monitors and putting the non-essential info on the side monitor. I like it! I like it a LOT! Next up is a serious upgrade, because my framerate took a big hit (about half) in the name of a clear playing area.
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I’m so glad I don’t have to mess with that many buttons. I use just a few skills depending on fight composition. All needed skills fit in just the standard UI. Hell 98% of my 2 default right side bars are full of /gchat, /generalchat, and /yell emote macros.
There are tears in my eyes, both out of beauty and awe… I am going to jump Mindkiller and put him in a dumpster behind Chucky Cheese and jack his monitor. I will ask you later how to hook it up. =) N don’t have pitty for him, I am sure that he was thinking of trying the same thing the week that I will be bed ridden after my surgery.
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ROFLOL! SNORK!
Geeks will be geeks. He’s a Gitr wanna be, huh? I’ll give details after the deed is done. You could play on a laptop in bed with a monitor on the nightstand.
huhn - I didn’t realize you could span the monitors like that…(evil thoughts begin to coalesce)
The main reason I wanted to span was the nice questlog mod from FuBar that puts nice colors on them and makes them clickable as I run through them. I really like being able to click it as I progress to remind myself where to turn it in, etc. instead of having to search for the quest in the default log.
Eventually, this thing was expanded clear down to my chat window and was interfering with my bags window when I’d open it up. More than once I got blindsided by something on the right side that I couldn’t see because of the quests, and that just plain sucks.
It will be a few months until I can get an upgrade, but when I do, you can bet I’ll be posting more screenshots than ever before. We need to make our final payment on our wedding album when it comes in (any day now) and then I’m buying a few necessities first.
So the evil that lurks in the minds of men also lurks in the minds of….ahem woman. I will be sleeping light from now on you treacherous wench. Lets just see how hostile you are when you are bed ridden and in need of….hehehe painkillers. Turnabout is fair play and I play DIRTY.
Hmmm dual monitors….lets see i could move this here…and this here. Might work hehehe.
I wish I had the machine to handle that and also the money to afford the machine to handle that. But unfortunately even if i could i would get so much Wife Aggro it alone would kill me.
Looks very impressive.
I am running at 12fps in world play, and probably much less in instances. There was a sacrifice for this.
I just wanted an extended desktop over two monitors so I could keep Cartographe* open in one and WoW open on another. But my current card, ATI Radeon X700 PCI-Express doesn’t support it. It’ll support spanned … Hmmm, there might be value to be had afterall! I didn’t think to set the viewport up like you did. I’m checking this out.
*http://tixu.scribe.free.fr/indexen.php
What does this cartographer addon do? cant really tell from the screen shot.
I had the card set up to span both displays, set the game setting to something like 2500×900 and used CTViewport from the latest version of CTMod (the one with the superscript 2 on the minimap button) and set the viewport to halfway.
From a Dual-screen noob, exactly how hard is it to get set up? How many hours of messing around roughly would ya say it takes?
What are some of your add-ons you’re using? Cartographer, AllinOne? Titan, Dmgmeters are ones I think I was able to pick out. Do you use Bongo for the action bars, and what gives the party breakdown like you have under the buffs? Very cool set up ya got goin!
Being one who has run Dual-screen for Photoshop and runs it at work for everything, hooking it up at home with my dual-output video card was no problem. It just took me some searching for CTViewport until I realized it was already installed as a part of CTMod.
I was up and running with everything in its place in 20-30 minutes even with looking for Viewport, so it wasn’t too bad.
I believe that most, if not all of my current addons are in my GUI in the left sidebar. Of course, they mostly need updating, and I’m using a LOT of Ace2 mods for easy updating with the WinAceUpdater. It literally takes about 30 seconds, so I do it daily.
I am spanning across dual Planar 20inch wides. My game res at 2560×1024 using geforce 7950 GX2 1 gig video card, frame rate is around 78 fps. i am wondering what mods to use to offset character from center. have 3/8 bezel so it looks wierd. any help would be great. i really like your set up…
Thanks for reading, Revlis.
Use CTMod’s Viewport to move it over just a tad. If you make it something like 2300 wide in the viewport, it should shift your toon over onto one monitor or the other.
I’m drooling, man. I haven’t had a framerate like that since 1999 or so.
1st off I’d just like to say I loved your set up so much, it inspired me to buy a 2nd monitor. The only prob is Im a noob when it comes to computers. I managed to get both monitors to work with my desktop, I downloaded Ct Viewport, but all I get is WOW on one (with the letterbox look), and the other just with a desktop which is nice to run thottbot or other programs, but thats not what I am trying do. I have no idea what to do, I checked everywhere on the web and can’t find answers or at least any that I can understand. I read above about spanning? Could you please help me, and explain what I need to do.
Sure thing. Thanks for reading and such.
What you do is, make sure CT_Viewport is a loaded addon for that toon. Log in, and go to the CT options window. Under Viewport, drag the other monitor’s far side of the yellow box onto the outside edge of the monitor you want everything to be on. Accept the changes.
If that’s still too hard to follow, I can do a series of screenshots tonight when I get home. It will be a tad late, but if you can wait a day, I’ll get you set up.
Thanks alot I got it. Only thing now is if I span WOW even 1 inch into the monitor everything is slower than slowmotion
Any tips on speeding it up or what computer upgrade would help.
Thanks
If you have on-board video, you’re screwed. Video cards will be the best improvement, with sytem memory coming in second. I run 5-13fps for now.
I think Im screwed then
I have a Sager Laptop with ATI Radeon 9600 PRO graphics, with 1gig of Ram which I will be upgrading to 2 gigs in the next two weeks but I dont think the extra ram will be enough to get it to run smoothly.
Thanks for your help.