Warcraft(3) with multiple monitors?

[Sdashiki]

This is frustrating the hell out of me.

I bought the mini-dvi to vga adapter, finally, so I could hook up my CRT to my iMac, play WC3 on one screen and be able to do other things on the other one.

No dice.

Open WC3 (and I assume WoW?) and it makes the other screen go black.

Wtf is that?

Windowed mode is no good as you cant resize it to fill a screen.

anyone?

 

[Mackilroy]

That's the way it works. You have to play that way.

 

[Sdashiki]

Bastards, someone, quick, write me a 3rd party app for this!

 

[Aranince]

hmmm....I have dual-screen setup on windows and it lets me use the other screen...but it minimizes the game: so it might be like that everywhere.

 

[mluby]

I've had the same issue with fullscreen games. The best solution I've found is to run the game in window mode, then set your screen resolution so it's larger than the game window. From there you go into universal access and turn on zoom. You can get the one screen to almost look like fullscreen without sacrificing the second (or third) screen's functionality by zooming in. You're best off using the "only move screen when cursor reaches the edge of the screen" setting, otherwise it'll be a pain to use a mouse in-game.

Why, though, are you looking to do other things while playing Warcraft III? Most games (turn-based games excepted) are intended to occupy your full attention. Good luck anyway.

 

[AzMacNoob]

I used to try to get it working as well for quite awhile but I found that playing the game does indeed take up all your focus so why try to do other things at the same time? Perhaps running yahoo messenger or sending IM's on AIM at the same time or reading forums while waiting for things to build

I'm just glad that WoW works half decent with doing things at the same time while playing in fullscreen.

 

[-Nick]

Yep, its because your playing in fullscreen.

Your only option here is to play in windowed mode. With WoW this is easy enough, I'm not sure windowed mode is built into WC3 but I'm sure theres a third party app for it.

 

[Sdashiki]

command-m, windowed mode.

but its stuck at a small size, i think 1024x768 sized window.

 

[goodtimes5]

Don't want to start a new thread: anyone figure out a solution to this? Windowed mode sucks.

 

[Freyqq]

the solution would be made by blizzard in a patch.....nothing we can really do

 

[Xavier]

ya, its just not possible to have it run full screen on one monitor, and then have another monitor for use of other things.

Frustrates me, but whatever, no big deal. The only time i use AIM while playing WC3 is when im not in the middle of a game

 

[eXan]

You must be a true gosu if you can play an RTS and do other things at the same time O_O

 

[xtbasic]

It's not necessarily (for me) about doing other things. Say my girlfriend is over and watching tv shows or movies on my second monitor (which is a hdtv). If i get bored and want to play a game of wc3 the second monitor then goes blank and she gets upset, and then i get upset and it's a vicious circle.

IF anyone knows a way to get this to work, I would greatly appreciate it. If it takes bugging blizzard to get it to work, then I'm all for it, someone just point me in the right direction

 

[Sdashiki]

Sometimes, some custom maps (DotA for instance) when you die there are periods of time when you cant do squat.

I wanted to be able to do other stuff without windowing.

 

[Fishi]

So, you guys use macosx? Because I made an app for this issue on windows (vista, havent tried on xp or anything else but should work, maybe with minor adjustments). You run the game windowed (with -window parameter) and then my app allows you to alt-enter in game to go from windowed to fake-fullscreen and back. Which means it removes the edges, puts it always on top and maximizes it. So now you can move the cursor to other screen but it looks just like fullscreen (but probably does not run as smooth as fullscreen, dunno don't really care because wc3 isn't very demanding). Of course it's impossible to play wc3 like this because you can't scroll right so the app allows you to lock/unlock the cursor inside the wc3 window with the Ctrl-L shortcut. It currently has one minor bug that I know of but it's quite delicate and would require a long post so I will just tell about it if anyone's interested.

So if you don't run windows this is worthless, but if anyone's interested you can e-mail me at rishie_88@hotmail.com or post here. ^.^

 

[KingYaba]

Fishi, does it work in XP?

 

[Fishi]

KingYaba, I don't know. I put the app on free webpage you get from isp and wrote some instructions here http://hem.bredband.net/fishi. So do try it and tell me if it works. I mean I see no obvious reason why it should not.

 

[flipperanubi]

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[Mohecan7]

There are solutions...

http://bit.ly/9r5tzJ

 

[Sdashiki]

WTF does that have to do with this topic at all? Did you like troll for posts on here asking for multi monitor support?

If you read anything here youd know that WC3 blacks out all external monitors apparently...theres no fix for this unless you know something we dont.