Dual Monitors?

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Is there any way to possibly game over dual monitors on games that don't explicitly support it (for ex. Call of Duty, Oblivion, games that I know can support TripleHead2Go etc.), without buying extra hardware?

I used to be able to do it on XP but due to technical changes in vista/XP this is no longer directly possible without creating a second DirectX display, but I know that's possible because iZ3D does nearly exactly what I want.

iZ3D has an option to display the left eye on one monitor and the right eye on the other monitor, except that I want to play over both monitors *and* use iZ3D to make it red/cyan.

Is this possible? I've tried out SoftTH (even though it's for 3 monitors) and set the left monitor ID to -1, but I haven't found a single game that would boot with it.
 
I've used SoftTH sucessfully with a few games, Oblivion, LFS. Just need to be prepared to fiddle till it works.

Using a 22" and a 17", on driving games it works great, you have your normal view on the main monitor, nothing changed, but you can also see out the side window on the other monitor. In Oblivion you might be able to see a wolf sneaking up on you that you wouldnt have before.
 
I dont really see the point in dual monitors for fps but for sims or strategy games that support it then it has its uses.
 
I'm not sure about how to do this, but I don't really see the point in it either, I can't imagine it looking very good with the borders and spaces between the monitors. I remember that Supreme Commander had support for it and worked well, and I think World in Conflict had an option for dual monitors but I was never able to get it working for some reason.
 
iamTakeo, how did you set it up in Oblivion? Is it possible to 'reposition' the centre of the screen, as by default presumably it will fall slap bang in between the two monitors if using the same resolution (which would be annoying when trying to interact with things)?
 
I'm not sure, I was thinking either repositioned center (basically like TripleHead2Go without the left monitor, so I have a bit more room) or racing/strategy games.

How did you get it to work with LFS? I only see one monitor as usual.
 
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xen_ said:
World in Conflict had an option for dual monitors but I was never able to get it working for some reason.
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I used to have this problem as well with it, but have since bought a much bigger single monitor. :D

Personally, having dual monitors only really comes in handy for work involving many windows.
 
Hey guys,
Sorry I don't have the technical details anymore, I dont use SoftTH anymore, but I had Oblivion and LFS set up with the main monitor just the same as original, except with the additional monitor on the side.

I remember having to edit text configs in the SoftTH files to individualy set the monitor position and resolution. Hope that helps, its fiddly! Hence I dont bother with it anymore. but was good to set up and have a go nonetheless.
 
I used to use SoftTH as well for mainly flight simulator. In the end the bezels started to annoy me and it was really just a gimmick. Since switched to bigger monitors.
 
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