hello

Hi everyone, just wanted to say thanks to the admin that accpeted me into your community, i've been reading the forum daily for a few weeks now and finally decided to join :)

Quick question...im running a 2 box setup at the moment (since i have a 5x PP and SE on each account) and I have trouble switching between screens using alt+tab. I read about the alt+enter scenario and running them in windows, i thought great. Set it up and although its a bit small i can manage, however whenever i return to full screen mode the target window isnt visable. I assume its so far up the screen i can't see it or drag it down, so now i cant see the colour of mobs and how much damage im dealing to them :(

anyone help me solve this?

Go to your options then click on Initialize (or sth like that) button, that should do it.

okie will give it a go. I tried resetting res etc but nothing worked before. thanks.

Use windowed mode, press alt+enter.

yeah thats what i do, but when the screen returns to full size, the target box is missing from my view and i cant get it back now.

I meant, don't play in full screen mode. Changing between accounts takes a long time as well. It's just smoother to use windowed mode.

ye s'pose that's the other option, i dont like how everything has to overlap though, i only really use if for trading iemts between accounts once a week and when buffing a group. ah well, grin and bear it i suppose.

welcome officialy to the boards :p

always nice to see people wanting to get their opinions heard (or flamed or smashed, etc >.<)

heheh thanks, i look forward to all that :) from what ive read it generally seems ok though.

This forum isn't that bad.. go to l2blah if you want to get flamed for.. well existing, god help you if you ask a legit question lol

sod blah, i didnt find it very enlightening tbh.

Welcome to the boards. Windowed mode works smoothly when dual boxing. Full screen forget it. You might need a quick heal and you will end up dead.

In window mode, stretch the screen to be full size. Thats what I did, no overlapping. And alt+tab works fine. Looks like it is full screen.

i alt+enter and stretch the window to almost full screen leaving the windows task bar exposed you can click the other client from there, i still get lag issues from this but its much less than alt + tab. and if the gamma goes dark click on an empty part of the task bar and back again on the game window. of coarse the ideal for 2boxing is to have 2 boxxes (2 computers).

ill have to try allwine's method and see if it works well.

if you running vent or another program though alt + tab might bring that up instead, could be deadly if you need a quick heal from your SE.

i dont have trouble with lag tbh (my rig is ample enough to run 2 l2 accounts easily) the trouble im getting is when i want to play one account, or need to go full screen or change size, the target box at top of screen is no where to be seen. So i cnt see much to do with monsters etc.

Isn't the best thing for dual boxing a dubble screen?
Or is it just not possible (but I don't understand why it wouldn't be)?

it is, providing u have a dual head gfx card. :)

I guess I'll dual box when Aion comes out then as I've to buy a brand new computer by that time :p

As for your problem, I had the same when switching play between laptop and desktop. All icons would move place as resolution wasn't the same. As stated before, I just clicked on the initialize button in the options and everything was fine again.

never even lookind into Aion, dont know anything about it. what is it?
/stupid

i dont have trouble with lag tbh (my rig is ample enough to run 2 l2 accounts easily) the trouble im getting is when i want to play one account, or need to go full screen or change size, the target box at top of screen is no where to be seen. So i cnt see much to do with monsters etc.

go to system options, game tab, click initialize. you will have to move all your boxxes and hot bars back where you want them but your target window will be visable again.

saweet, will try it, 2nd person to suggest so sounds like a winning answer. thanks.

one other thing, the system remembers where all your boxes/status windows etc from the last client closed. So close the client (that you want to keep everything in order) last.
Another note when alt tabbing, I alt tab a few times before I start to play so the it saves those executions in main memory. this is a must for sieging/pvp etc. Dont forget to alt+p for better video performance too.

P.S. I bought a 22" HD wide screen monitor, so I just keep both clients open next to each other.

heheh my 2x 8800GTXs in SLI should run it ok think, thanks for the advise though, i'll give it a whirl.

what resolution you use for your desktop and your L2 clients allwine?

1440x900 (32bit) for me in-game.

Same monitor res,

what resolution you use for your desktop and your L2 clients allwine?

1680x1050 for desk top. The L2 client is adjusted for best fit. When I am just leveling in run my main screen at about 80% of total screen size. If I am sieging I run both screens equal size and side by side.

it is, providing u have a dual head gfx card. :)

I just want to comment on this. As far as i've been able to accomplish, puting a 2nd client on the secondary monitor in windows xp (dunno about vista) results in lag and mouse clicks are not registered correctly so you click one place and it sends you running off to 'ol blue yonder.

mouse clicks are not registered correctly so you click one place and it sends you running off to 'ol blue yonder.

don't click on the box ingame, click on the upper blue bar that the game is inside of (forget the name of the bar). that way your chr wont run off.

that's not what I was trying to say. Was talking about having 2 clients on one computer, each run on a seperate monitor. if you have dual displays and 2 accounts, try it sometime. For me, the client on the secondary display device doesn't seem to actually click where I tell it to. It doesn't seem to be a temporary thing either, as I have never been able to get it to work correctly.

wow

well initialize worked fine and i have all my boxes back.

Pop - ive tried the 2 screen setup before and noticed a little lag ut that was before i had my uber rig setup. just play single screen now.