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Going Dual-screen

March 5, 2007 By Gitr 26 Comments

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 theย 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.

Warning, this full-size image is 250k if you’re on dial-up.

Filed Under: Gaming, UIs, WoW

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  1. Lance says

    March 6, 2007 at 7:06 am

    What does this cartographer addon do? cant really tell from the screen shot.

  2. Gitr says

    March 6, 2007 at 7:19 am

    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.

  3. Jikksta says

    March 6, 2007 at 2:14 pm

    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!

  4. Gitr says

    March 6, 2007 at 3:28 pm

    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.

  5. Gitr says

    March 6, 2007 at 3:31 pm

    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.

  6. Revlis says

    March 23, 2007 at 7:58 pm

    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…

  7. Gitr says

    March 23, 2007 at 10:22 pm

    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. ๐Ÿ™‚

  8. Dekashi says

    April 18, 2007 at 1:53 am

    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.

  9. Gitr says

    April 18, 2007 at 7:23 am

    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.

  10. Dekashi says

    April 18, 2007 at 4:14 pm

    Thanks alot I got it. Only thing now is if I span WOW even 1 inch into the monitor everything is slower than slowmotion ๐Ÿ™
    Any tips on speeding it up or what computer upgrade would help.
    Thanks

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