playing wow on my aaxa m2 micro projectorFollow

I never really understood the idea of having two monitors. You can't look at both at the same time, so you might as well just run the game in window mode and run the video/whatever in the background.

I can Alt-Tab faster than I can turn my head.

But I guess it's nice with a projector for movie nights.

There is a lot of downtime especially when playing wow. I like to be able to read chat windows and such while being able to watch whatever video uninterrupted. Sure i can alt tab. but sometimes theres a billion window open. from web browsers, to chatting programs, bittorrent clients etc etc.

And yes projectors are nice for movie nights.. if i have time and im not lazy ill get some movie picture up of it in the living room

Damn! That is cool....now where did I leave that extra 8k lying around.

If i had money to buy those crazy projectors i would but for 300ish this works pretty well

I'm reading your post and replying to it while helping my friend on a quest.

I couldn't live without 2 monitors.

I think I'd find a projector more annoying than helpful for WoW, though.

But you can't play and write at the same time, so it boils down to how fast you can switch between the screens compared to how fast I can hit Alt + Tab (which is quite fast).



I prefer my information on the same screen. Same reason why I'm not a fan of minimalist UI setups. And having to turn my head to check vital information like health bars and stuff... no.



I'll admit I've never really used dual monitor setups, but the few times I have, I found it to be really annoying. I prefer single monitor setups. Not that I have anything against dual monitor setups, I just don't find them useful in games.

And it annoys me to no end when people run their chat on the second screen. I've had some cases in PUGs where I had to run in front of the tank and yell at him in /say just so he'd notice the text.

There are ways around that.





That's true as well. I've noticed that a lot of players who primarily do PvP have issues reading the chat. I blame Theo and Aeth with their minimalist crap.




Alt-Z immersion time, go!

Two monitors is awesome, the boost in productivity is amazing. I couldn't imagine working with only 1, having just 1 at home is starting to get annoying.

I can hear my instance pop. Also, I have sick APM and can Alt-Tab every couple of minutes to verify that the instance hasn't popped yet.

As for watching a movie on the side while partially paying attention to the game, it's a skill I do not possess. If I put on a movie and run the game on the side then chances are I'll forget all about the movie or the game. I guess I'm just weird like that. Something about my empathy or whatever you call it.

I'm using a 24" Samsung LCD for all my viewing needs.

Did I mess up the grammar or are you referring to my eyes?

Are you really saying you can't see the benefit of having two monitors?

Yeah, extremely annoying.

I just love being able to monitor a bunch of terminal windows at the same time, especially when troubleshooting things. Or reading (or writing) documentation on one screen while messing around on the other. It's plain awesome to have your local machine on one, and your remote desktop on the other monitor.

Only thing that would make it all even better would be being able to turn at least one of the screens by 90 degrees to nicely fit an entire page.

I have a 24" Samsung LED, that's awesome and all that stuff, but I decided to just use this old like, 15" 4:3 Sony monitor as a second monitor, just to see how it would look. Quite frankly, I'm addicted. The monitor is horrible, colors are washed out, but it does what I want it to - lets me see people message me in skype while I'm playing Deus Ex, instead of having to constantly alt+tab. Lets me open up a walkthrough on one screen, while playing The Witcher II on another.
If I had the money, I'd probably buy a decent second screen. Not necessarily 24", because that would be overkill, but at least one that's the same height, both in pixels and in just size.
The only downside is nVidia's drivers prevent my poor 560 TI from downclocking itself with a dual-screen setup, causing it to idle at much higher temperatures than it needs to.