2 Monitors

[KRU Shotgun]

The missus is watching a film on my PC & i want to play some games so the question is my PC has a gtx 780 gfx card connected by hdmi, so could i plug a moniter direct into the PC via the gfx card with a normal gfx/moniter cable & have dual screen as such?

Thx in advance Shotgun

 

[MeMeMeMe]

The bit about your wife using the PC is confusing me a bit, so to be clear, you want to attach two monitors to your PC via the same graphic card?
Yes, that's easily done - just connect them via normal cables and it'll work fine.

 

[Andygully]

i have 2 monitors and have done the same but sometimes the movie stops when i start a game. Purchase a cheap monitor to test it out.

 

[MyBrainz]

If your mrs is using Sky Go for movies then you will have a problem cuz Sky Go uses MS Silverlight and after putting Sky Go in full screen, clicking on another monitor will knock the movie out of full screen if you are using Sky Go in a browser (Sky customers get a pop out player option which worked fine for me when i had Sky). Otherwise you should be fine, you can even hook up the second monitor to your mobo graphics if your CPU has an iGPU on it leaving your 780 to 100% run your games.

Just thought i better mention this as i am a Virgin Media customer and have this problem watching Sky Sports, Sky really need to fix that ****. Im told its 2 minutes of coding in MS Silverlight

 

[KRU Shotgun]

I,m a bt vision customer lol

 

[stooeh]

If your mrs is using Sky Go for movies then you will have a problem cuz Sky Go uses MS Silverlight and after putting Sky Go in full screen, clicking on another monitor will knock the movie out of full screen if you are using Sky Go in a browser (Sky customers get a pop out player option which worked fine for me when i had Sky). Otherwise you should be fine, you can even hook up the second monitor to your mobo graphics if your CPU has an iGPU on it leaving your 780 to 100% run your games.

Just thought i better mention this as i am a Virgin Media customer and have this problem watching Sky Sports, Sky really need to fix that ****. Im told its 2 minutes of coding in MS Silverlight

F11

And to OP yeah it should work but I find some games in fullscreen mode can stop video from playing depending on the playback method.

 

[J.D]

i have 2 monitors and have done the same but sometimes the movie stops when i start a game. Purchase a cheap monitor to test it out.

Right click on the video and un-tick hardware acceleration when this is available. This will help in some situations. If it's in a specific media player then perform a search on removing hardware acceleration and you should be good to go.

I barely watch any TV/Movies but on the odd occasion I've been watching video whilst gaming, doing that above gave me the ability to do both.

 

[KRU Shotgun]

How do u specify wot u see on each screen?

 

[J.D]

In "Screen Resolutions". If you were to use "duplicate", it would render what you're seeing on both screens. If you choose "extend" then you would have independent desktops. So when you start a game, the screen that you've added for your wife to watch would remain on whatever you leave it on while the main screen (yours) will continue loading up your game.

If you have hardware (GPU) acceleration powering the video player/website, it will then stop the video playing when you launch your game. As long as you can disable hardware acceleration, I can't see a problem. The other option is to run your game in a borderless window.

 

[KRU Shotgun]

Thx for the help i,ll have a mess see what i can come up with.

 

[Orcvader]

I would also suggest making the screen the video will be played on as the second screen, games prefer being on the main monitor.

 

[MyBrainz]

F11

Not with Sky Go in a browser for non Sky customers. You have to use zoom and then F11 but it still isnt proper full screen. Believe me, i've tried EVERYTHING

 

[KRU Shotgun]

Does it matter how the screens are connected? HDMI/DVI or does,nt it matter?

 

[J.D]

Doesn't matter. Once connected, right click on your desktop and select screen resolution. It's pretty straight forward from there.

 

[KRU Shotgun]

When i choose the res i,m losing the bottom taskbar on 1 PC sometimes both?

 

[J.D]

Hmm I'm on Windows 8.1 atm and when I extend I get taskbar on both using Nvidia. On Windows 7 I'm sure one window stayed blank when I chose "extend".

When you're going to be playing games and using a video, you will have to come out your game to change video etc so I'm not sure you will need the other taskbar there.

*had a blonde moment there