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Terebinthia Horoluth Raider Offline All your cupcakes are belong to me! :D Posts: 2499 Joined: Jan 6^th, 2011	Quick question for playing in windowed mode Apr 7^th, 2012 at 6:02am	Print Post
	Is there any sensible way to resize the hotbars so they don't all squish together? and overlap each other? Is there a skin that does that or anything? I'd like to be able to play in windowed mode sometimes (e.g. soloing a quest while talking to hubby on Skype) but the way the hotbars overlap rather than resize makes it somewhat difficult. I can't see anything in the UI to tick. Any advice?


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Blank Ex Member	Re: Quick question for playing in windowed mode Reply #1 - Apr 7^th, 2012 at 6:21am	Print Post
	Terebinthia wrote on Apr 7^th, 2012 at 6:02am: Is there any sensible way to resize the hotbars so they don't all squish together? and overlap each other? Is there a skin that does that or anything? I'd like to be able to play in windowed mode sometimes (e.g. soloing a quest while talking to hubby on Skype) but the way the hotbars overlap rather than resize makes it somewhat difficult. I can't see anything in the UI to tick. Any advice? Blackbird UI skin is nice. So is resizing your resolution, and/or always playing windowed.


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cdr Horoluth Raider Offline sleetstormer Posts: 2813 Joined: Dec 29^th, 2011	Re: Quick question for playing in windowed mode Reply #2 - Apr 7^th, 2012 at 10:33am	Print Post
	I always play windowed - but I have two monitors and only play DDO on one. Other one is for ddowiki, cubicleninja, forums, etc. There's nothing you can do about the hotbars other than always play windowed.


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Uhgungawa King of the Vault Offline Life sucks, but she won't Posts: 570 Location: Western Mass Joined: Oct 8^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Quick question for playing in windowed mode Reply #3 - Apr 7^th, 2012 at 10:43am	Print Post
	get a bigger monitor

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Cale Abbot Raider Offline Meh.... Drama Posts: 954 Joined: May 9^th, 2010	Re: Quick question for playing in windowed mode Reply #4 - Apr 7^th, 2012 at 10:44am	Print Post
	I swap between windowed/full all the time, and my bars only drift a teeny tiny bit up and to the left.� It's so little that I only need to reset them about twice a month, and it certainly isn't so much that it affects gameplay if I don't do it. Do you have the windowed and full screen resolutions set the same, or did you miss that one?
	« Last Edit: Apr 7^th, 2012 at 10:47am by Cale »

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Hordo High Rabbi Offline Le Douchebag Posts: 2405 Location: Cordova, Tennessee Joined: Jun 30^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Quick question for playing in windowed mode Reply #5 - Apr 7^th, 2012 at 1:43pm	Print Post
	Cale wrote on Apr 7^th, 2012 at 10:44am: I swap between windowed/full all the time, and my bars only drift a teeny tiny bit up and to the left.� It's so little that I only need to reset them about twice a month, and it certainly isn't so much that it affects gameplay if I don't do it. Do you have the windowed and full screen resolutions set the same, or did you miss that one? So, your computer dresses left? But she's a girl...

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someguy Titan Demolisher Offline not really a drama fan Posts: 390 Joined: Jan 12^th, 2011	Re: Quick question for playing in windowed mode Reply #6 - Apr 7^th, 2012 at 2:22pm	Print Post
	ive always used fade2black epic has the thinnest hotbars. better for moving them together. less likely to overlap...blackbird is fancy looking but still covers too much screen for my tastes. see. thin bars. i prefer it a bit over blackbird although if youre using the default UI skin everything will seem better lol


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Terebinthia Horoluth Raider Offline All your cupcakes are belong to me! :D Posts: 2499 Joined: Jan 6^th, 2011	Re: Quick question for playing in windowed mode Reply #7 - Apr 7^th, 2012 at 5:58pm	Print Post
	Cale wrote on Apr 7^th, 2012 at 10:44am: I swap between windowed/full all the time, and my bars only drift a teeny tiny bit up and to the left.� It's so little that I only need to reset them about twice a month, and it certainly isn't so much that it affects gameplay if I don't do it. Do you have the windowed and full screen resolutions set the same, or did you miss that one? I R windowing noob. I think I might be missing this one. So. You go to the windowed mode at the screen real estate you want, and set it to the same as your non windowed mode? (I don't think it's a screen real estate issue, this screen can do 2k by 1k appx)


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NotMyDDOName Waterworks Kobold Offline I Love Drama! Posts: 120 Joined: Jul 18^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Quick question for playing in windowed mode Reply #8 - Apr 7^th, 2012 at 6:08pm	Print Post
	When I switch between windowed and full screen my bars all stay grouped in the lower right-hand corner. I don't recall ever doing anything to make that happen except starting in full screen mode with them there.


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Cale Abbot Raider Offline Meh.... Drama Posts: 954 Joined: May 9^th, 2010	Re: Quick question for playing in windowed mode Reply #9 - Apr 8^th, 2012 at 2:02am	Print Post
	Terebinthia wrote on Apr 7^th, 2012 at 5:58pm: I R windowing noob. I think I might be missing this one. So. You go to the windowed mode at the screen real estate you want, and set it to the same as your non windowed mode? (I don't think it's a screen real estate issue, this screen can do 2k by 1k appx) Under Options, where you choose your game resolution, there's another option for windowed resolution directly below the first.� They both start as 800x600 or something ridiculously small like that.� I'm sure you changed it.� But did you also change the other one? Make sure they match up.� That should solve the vast majority of your problems.
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Nevynn Horoluth Raider Offline Badgertastic!! Posts: 2752 Location: San Antonio, TX Joined: Feb 25^th, 2010 Gender:	Re: Quick question for playing in windowed mode Reply #10 - Apr 8^th, 2012 at 9:14pm	Print Post
	Cale wrote on Apr 8^th, 2012 at 2:02am: Make sure they match up. Check the Windowed resolution occasionally. If you ever drag the window edges, it will switch to "Custom", and can mess with your UI setup.


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Terebinthia Horoluth Raider Offline All your cupcakes are belong to me! :D Posts: 2499 Joined: Jan 6^th, 2011	Re: Quick question for playing in windowed mode Reply #11 - Apr 9^th, 2012 at 2:50pm	Print Post
	Nevynn wrote on Apr 8^th, 2012 at 9:14pm: Check the Windowed resolution occasionally.� If you ever drag the window edges, it will switch to "Custom", and can mess with your UI setup. Yeah, this is what I'd done, so I could see Skype and MSN as well - I've done a bit of toolbar fettling so the windowed mode is tidy - it's not too badly spread out when this is rejigged to full screen.


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