How do I set-up dual monitor support?

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » December 17th, 2007, 17:29

HereComesPete wrote:Go ete cheezeses!!!!111 LMAO ?!

Also, original grammerz fix'd.

Pffft, nice fixing.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » December 17th, 2007, 17:45

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:if it's possible without alt tabbing etc, do share with the class.

I do think it's possible, I remember back in my MTA:SA times there was some dude who played MTA and chatted on IRC at the same time. I think he said he had some solution so if you move your mouse to the right side of screen one, it swaps over to screen two. Of course, it's a little less plausible with games like CoD4 which stick your cursor to the middle of the screen.

Post by **HereComesPete** » December 17th, 2007, 17:51

I can move to the other screen on a lot of games, but if I click on something on that screen, it minimizes the game I'm playing.

I've tried googling this, but as usual, I get a load of bollocks forums of people asking this, then it goes off topic with 'lozomlg, youre f4g! fuccken dickwad!twelve!' and I despair again and give up.

Post by **Dog Pants** » December 17th, 2007, 17:54

Have you tried searching outside 5punk?

Post by **HereComesPete** » December 17th, 2007, 17:59

But on a serious note, I hope we arrive at an answer, because 5punkers, whilst all being weird, are generally erudite or at the very least capable of offering some knowledge beyond the sexual orientation of the o-p. I dislike stepping into random forums, because the youtube crowd has normally got there first.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » December 17th, 2007, 19:45

Another forum wrote:FUK U JOO FAGOT

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What I really like most about many other forums is the signature taking up much more screen space than what was written.

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opps, hotlinking denied. Adds to the effect and it was the dancing banana, you get the idea.

Post by **Dog Pants** » December 17th, 2007, 20:17

Haha, so very true.

friznit · Post by **friznit** » December 20th, 2007, 17:31

Since my last post in this thread, I have changed my setup considerably and experimented with a number of options for multiscreens.

If you have one gfx card with 2 outputs (e.g. 8800 GTX, but most of the newish ones do anyway), then you can happily plug 2 monitors in. nVidia tools has a handy dual monitor set up prog that will even get the gamma & colour temp the same on both, which is nice cos having different shades of white can be a annoying.

You can run stuff on both monitors at the same time, but it must be in windowed mode, otherwise clicking on Monitor 2 minimises fullscreen apps on Monitor 1. You can drag your windowed apps to Monitor 2 in the normal way. Additionally, many games now have an in-built 'maximiser' to make windowed mode look like fullscreen without boarders (e.g. WoW has one in interface options, Evemon or Eve Launcher provides one for Eve).

If you want true fullscreen on more than one monitor, you need to have more than one GPU, i.e. a second gfx card, and you'll also need a copy of something like Multimon or Ultramon to tell the prog which monitor to run on, else they'll always to default to Monitor 1.

Currently there is no way with a single GPU that I have found to run normal fullscreen on M1, and muck up with windoze (TS, IRC etc) on M2 without it minimising the fullscreen app.

Hope this helps.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 20th, 2007, 17:36

Just to add, in my fairly limited playing a while ago, even with 2 gpus each with 1 monitor, setup properly. clicking into the 2nd monitor will take focus away from your fullscreen app.

Post by **Dog Pants** » December 20th, 2007, 17:36

Well it's saved me looking for stuff that don't exist, cheers Friz. My main problem is that my second monitor is always a different resolution from my main. This means in games my xfire and TS windows fuck off to where I can't see them when the game changes both monitors to the same resolution. I also can't move text documents any more because the top bar has vanished off the top of one of them.

Still, better than having just the one.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » December 20th, 2007, 17:47

The only logical way I could think of doing this would be to have another input source pointing at monitor B.

I'm thinking on the lines of the wiimote hax that was posted that makes it into a whiteboard type thing, but perhaps a second mouse.

You'd probably need some controlling program running in the background to tell the computer than the input will only affect monitor B though, which could be a task and a half to code, but probably do-able by someone with the correct knowledge.

This method is limited in functionality though, either would be using the on screen keyboard, taking focus away from the main keyboard, or using another keyboard.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » December 20th, 2007, 19:07

HereComesPete wrote: I can move to the other screen on a lot of games, but if I click on something on that screen, it minimizes the game I'm playing.

I've tried googling this, but as usual, I get a load of bollocks forums of people asking this, then it goes off topic with 'lozomlg, youre f4g! fuccken dickwad!twelve!' and I despair again and give up.

I forgot to say MTA:SA cannot be minimized. That might be the solution there

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » December 20th, 2007, 19:07

Dog Pants wrote:Well it's saved me looking for stuff that don't exist, cheers Friz. My main problem is that my second monitor is always a different resolution from my main. This means in games my xfire and TS windows fuck off to where I can't see them when the game changes both monitors to the same resolution. I also can't move text documents any more because the top bar has vanished off the top of one of them.

Still, better than having just the one.

Why does the resolution change when you run a game? Is it because you're running a game at a different resolution to your desktop? I haven't seen this problem myself, even when I started a couple of games set at the resolution of my older monitor before I changed it to the higher res.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 20th, 2007, 19:16

it seems to happen if you have a monitor to the right of your main screen, it bumps stuff across some random distance.

easy workaround is to set your main screen to the game res, then arrange the windows. to suit.

Post by **Dog Pants** » December 20th, 2007, 19:17

spoodie wrote: Why does the resolution change when you run a game? Is it because you're running a game at a different resolution to your desktop? I haven't seen this problem myself, even when I started a couple of games set at the resolution of my older monitor before I changed it to the higher res.

Yeah. It's not a problem with GW, but I can't run COD at 1920x1200 without my graphics card bursting into flames.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 20th, 2007, 19:19

aaactually.

I think you could get the nvidia drivers to scale the game to suit (so, scale 1680 up to 1920) I suspect that'd be fairly light and do the job nicely.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » December 20th, 2007, 19:26

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:it seems to happen if you have a monitor to the right of your main screen, it bumps stuff across some random distance.

So there was a good reason I put the second monitor on the left, I guess. I wonder why I did it that way round when I'm right handed.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 20th, 2007, 19:27

spoodie wrote: So there was a good reason I put the second monitor on the left, I guess. I wonder why I did it that way round when I'm right handed.

I've never tried to the left, my neck doesn't go that way.

Post by **HereComesPete** » December 20th, 2007, 21:54

Strangely enough, this. My neck is a tad fucked, moving it left requires a small swivel of chair compared to moving it right, which happens in the normal manner.

I also placed my monitor on the right because my case is on the left, I only use the on button on that, and very occasionally the dvd drive, so I don't actually look at it much.