How to get multi-monitors to work well with World of Warcraft

by Seraphina Brennan Jan 15th 2009 at 4:00PM

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Massively meta

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.

Tags: amanda-rivera, dual-heading, dual-monitor, how-to, panoramic, triple-heading, world-of-warcraft, wow-insider

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Kolo said on 1:50AM 1-16-2009

Recently? Says one year ago lol.
Nice post though

faidwen said on 11:05AM 1-16-2009

Please note, this will no work with Vista, because they have removed the SPAN MONITORS option to allow one large desktop... :( Sorry. Horizontal spanning was removed because of the new setup for dual(+) displays under Vista, and you will have to revert to XP or earlier to accomplish the same task... :(

krel said on 1:31PM 1-16-2009

take a look at a utility called softTH (http://www.kegetys.net/SoftTH/) - might let you get around the span issue in vista.

TH2G is a better solution anyway - LOVE mine. :)