Aspect Ratio (WoW-Windows10)

I apologize if this has been covered, but I've tried searching and couldn't find anyone with a similar issue.

I have a two monitor setup. I've always run two accounts in the past, so one on each monitor was perfect.

Now I'm trying to add a third account and thus using two regions on the second monitor, but whenever I use a profile to maintain aspect ratio, the region shows the game at full resolution. It doesn't "shrink" it to fit the region, instead I get a corner of the game as if it were using the whole monitor, just in the tiny frame as defined by the region. This is the case for what is defined as regions 2 and 3 on that monitor.

There is an artifact to it as well. The video in the region behaves more like a screen cap/freeze frame. It definitely obeys broadcast keys and movement (stuff works as intended), but I just can't see that corner of the screen change (it shows whatever was up the last time I swapped to the main screen as if it was a screenshot).

If I disable the maintain aspect ration, it works fine, but then it breaks the mouse broadcast as expected.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

[MiRai]

If I disable the maintain aspect ration, it works fine, but then it breaks the mouse broadcast as expected.

Are your monitors the same size? I'm asking because I can't find a 3-character multi-monitor layout that is created by the Wizard, and uses the standard options alongside same-size monitors, which doesn't automatically maintain the aspect ratio between the regions, even when the setting is set to "False." What I'm saying is, I don't think the MAR setting should be affecting anything, and really only "Instant Swapping" should be what's keeping your mouse cursors in sync.

However, I personally haven't heard of such an issue when playing World of Warcraft, so all I can offer is a guess at this point, along with some workarounds which are...

1) Ensure the game clients are set to use Windowed (Fullscreen)
2) Revert to driver version 359.06 (assuming you are using an nVidia GPU)
3) Create and use a VFX Layout to avoid scaling the game client(s)
4) Alter the Cursor Positioning Mode in your Repeater Profile (outlined in this video) in order to use a layout with mismatching ARs

Thanks MiRai. Looks like I'll be doing some reading and video watching.

The displays run the same native resolution (1920x1080). I run on ASUS G750JZ with a 880m NVidia, so I do indeed have an nVidia chip.

You are right, it is Instant Swapping that seems to create the funkiness. I normally disable it in my two client configuration because I can just mouse over to the other without needing it to shift to the main monitor. I figured I needed to be able to swap with the three region configuration, but when it's on (I started with the Wizard and the setting looked right), that's when the small regions are wonky. When I turn it off, they work fine, but the mouse broadcast doesn't line up with the main monitor.

Based on what I read and watched from your other videos, I thought this meant region 2 and 3 were running at a lower rez and that's why the mouse was off. Feel free to correct me if I'm off here.

[MiRai]

Based on what I read and watched from your other videos, I thought this meant region 2 and 3 were running at a lower rez and that's why the mouse was off. Feel free to correct me if I'm off here.

Yes, by disabling Instant Swapping (which should probably be labeled "Synchronize Resolutions" or something along those lines), the regions in your Window Layout ignore the Reset Region of said Window layout and render at whatever dimensions they have directly assigned to them.

I ended up going down a slightly different road (based on some other stuff I saw you do in one of your vids). I used swap group 2 for the 2nd monitor and gave region 2 the full screen and region 3 one of the corners (I might add a third monitor later, I'm just trying to get used to handling more than two toons). This way I can do all of my swapping on that screen and the main one is always full screen. I also used your workaround #4 for the mouse issue in the 3rd region.

This, so far, is working for my play style, but my next step is to practice more class mixing (tank and two range dps) and I may have to adjust the configuration as I go.

Thanks again for all of your help. The video tutorials are great. The VFX layout stuff I may look at more if I bump up to more than three toons.