Dual monitor program

thecremeegg · 26 Jun 2007 at 18:19

whats the best (free) program to manage dual screens?

cheers

fobose · 26 Jun 2007 at 18:31

Nvidia's nview? lol. Just get yourself a copy of Ultramon.

Sinizterguy · 26 Jun 2007 at 18:32

Ultramon is worth the outlay.

thecremeegg · 26 Jun 2007 at 19:06

ah ultramon, heard of that. i'll give that a look, thanks

r6_levi · 26 Jun 2007 at 20:49

does this enable you to run differant resolutions on diff monitors

i have a dell 2407 (dvi-dvi) and a sagem 32" lcd dvi - vga

and i have to keep messin with the resolutions each time....well i mean i have to keep changing which is the primary

shine · 26 Jun 2007 at 22:30

r6_levi said:
does this enable you to run differant resolutions on diff monitors

i have a dell 2407 (dvi-dvi) and a sagem 32" lcd dvi - vga

and i have to keep messin with the resolutions each time....well i mean i have to keep changing which is the primary

Yes - ultramon will let you set individual settings for each display. I run my 20" and 24" monitors in dual display both at their native resolutions.

fobose · 26 Jun 2007 at 22:34

I used to run a 17" 1280x1024 and a 15" 1024x768 before I had ultramon - "dualview" on NVIDIA cards just worked fine.

james.miller · 26 Jun 2007 at 22:39

yes you can do that without ultramon

Sinizterguy · 26 Jun 2007 at 22:40

Ultramon will let you do all that and more.

It will also allow you to switch primary monitors on the fly if you want to.

eXor · 26 Jun 2007 at 23:35

Can you have different refresh rates? I had my retired CRT hooked up to the VGA briefly and tried the extended desktop, but it was stuck on 60 Hz.

ChoÞÞer · 27 Jun 2007 at 01:03

eXor said:
Can you have different refresh rates? I had my retired CRT hooked up to the VGA briefly and tried the extended desktop, but it was stuck on 60 Hz.

tell me about it.. got a 15" tft and 15" crt.. tft is lovely.. but the crt... well lets not go there

shine · 27 Jun 2007 at 08:43

eXor said:
Can you have different refresh rates? I had my retired CRT hooked up to the VGA briefly and tried the extended desktop, but it was stuck on 60 Hz.

You should be able to change it in windows display properties - make sure you click on the monitor that you want to modify before selecting advance properties button.

Azrael1 · 27 Jun 2007 at 09:08

I've always use the inbuilt programs with ati and nvidia.

Mainly use it to play warcraft and a divx on the 2nd screen.

r6_levi · 28 Jun 2007 at 15:19

i tried ultramon its ok...but i wanted mine cloned to my lcd and ive set the resolution on both and works but the fonts look horrible on the lcd and i tried to play a movie and a game and it took for ever to update just a waist of time

shame if i could combine the nvidia one and ultra id be sorted :rolleyes: