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How to get multi-monitors to work well with World of Warcraft
Did you ever want to see what Azeroth would look like if you could push all of those toolbars to some other screen? Amanda Rivera over at our sister site, WoW Insider, did. She's recently conquered getting your computer to display World of Warcraft on one screen and your toolbars on the other, giving you a clear picture of the beauty of Azeroth without all of those clumsy bars.The only downside to this technique is that the game can really only be rendered on one monitor and not across two full monitors. Rendering across two monitors causes your character, who would be standing in the middle of the two monitors, to be annoyingly split across both of them. Now, if you only had the expensive gaming rig to support those three monitors.
Dual-heading and WoW: a how-to guide
There's been many a time when I have been tempted by the lure of a larger monitor. I just never seem to have enough room on the screen in WoW, between all my toolbars and chat windows and party member icons and such. The actual window into the world seems to get more crowded the more I play. Now, since I am ultimately a geek, what would be better for me than one big monitor? Two monitors. Yessir, I've been planning to dual-head my system for a while now, and when Bill wrote WoW Insider asking for help on this, I jumped at the chance. I know it's been a long time coming Bill, but here it is. First, some caveats. I run a nVidia graphics card, so these steps are using their drivers and control panel. I don't have access to an ATI card since they are not allowed within 100 yards of my house, so I cannot give any advice with that side of things. However, the setup within World of Warcraft should pretty much be the same. For the purpose of this article I set up my system using two 18-inch monitors: a Samsung and a Sony, so it doesn't matter what brand of monitor you use. Being left-handed I configured the left-hand monitor as my main game space, and the right-hand monitor as my toolbar/bag/chat window space. Also, in order to complete this dual-heading setup within WoW you'll need to download CT Mod 2. I used the CT_Viewport feature within the mod to configure the play space within the game. There might very well be some other options out there, but this seemed the simplest since I already had the mod running on my system.
