Dual screen gaming

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Just a few questions, can you do it with 2x19" ws 1900xt ? if so how :) and what games can you play ? :D

What about using this Hydravision thing from the ati website will that let me dualscreen game ? :D

TIA Foxor-
 
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Why would you want to?
You'll have a nasty 2 inch space in the middle where the bezel is won't you?
Plus it will be a hugely wide resolutuion that the game won't support.
 
no no no no, seriously no. if you want multiscreen gaming for fps's then you need 3 screens. 2 screen games are X3 and MS flight sim.

the problem is the x-hair appears in the gap so you can't see it.

dual screens work great for windows though

daven
 
daven1986 said:
the problem is the x-hair appears in the gap so you can't see it.
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Technically that shouldn't happen, as there isn't a blind spot, just a gap betwen the two screens, so the crosshair will always be visible on one of the screens. Also the crosshair moves in most games these days. Still pretty horrible tho.

Dual monitors are indeed great for windows, but its bad enough getting games which support widescreen let along multi monitor, and its not practical anyway.
 
jdickerson said:
But how do you 'release' the mouse :D
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Alt tab, ctrl alt delete, move it off the primary screen onto the 2nd one and click, move the mousewheel sideways.. You can't play games and control other apps on the 2nd monitor at the same time.

Here's a question... when you're running games on the primary monitor.. what does the secondary one do? sit there in windows?
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Yup, it sits showing the 2nd half of your desktop. I often have temperature and pagefile/ram usage apps running on it so i can keep an eye on things.
Ultramon "hotkeys"
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I tried ultramon and its pretty good, people on here keep mentioning it, is it free? I thought it wasn't. When i tried it there was a trial period and then it ran out, and as the standard nvidia multi monitor tools are quite good i couldn't justify buying it. The only feature i really wanted that it has is multiple taskbars.
If you want surround gaming then the Matrox Triplehead 2 go is the thing, angle the monitors and its great - although only supports 60mhz refresh

surround gaming

Its great
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How is that different or better than a dual head graphics card? As far as i know it does nothing you can't do with dual monitors on a graphics card.
 
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jdickerson said:
Here's a question... when you're running games on the primary monitor.. what does the secondary one do? sit there in windows?
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actualy while im playing source or dark crusade, my misses is watching digital tv on the other (i have 2 sound cards - one for game one for DTV) she can watch what she wants AND i can game, perfect.... + i dont have to wait 25 mins for my conroe 2.9 to encode dvd's stright off the HDD :D (lol 25mins ***)

Infact actualy was that an anti-dual-widescreen-19" comment? thats a condition you know... you should get it checked out :p :p :p :rolleyes:

Foxor-
 
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with two matrox triplehead's you could effectively have 6 monitors running from one dual head card (I am guessing its some kind of virtualisation technique in the tripleheads)

However as stated above there are limitations at the moment like the 60Hz refresh, i think relatively limited resolutions (when you consider the amount of screens you have to cover) and they only seemingly work on nvidia cards atm
 
FrankJH said:
with two matrox triplehead's you could effectively have 6 monitors running from one dual head card (I am guessing its some kind of virtualisation technique in the tripleheads)

However as stated above there are limitations at the moment like the 60Hz refresh, i think relatively limited resolutions (when you consider the amount of screens you have to cover) and they only seemingly work on nvidia cards atm
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60hz is fine tho my 19" cant do more then 60hz @ 1440x900 :S:(:D are they crap?
 
Refresh rate is irrelevant on an lcd i believe, as they don't have a refresh rate as such.

The only reason you would need to buy a matrox dual or triple head is if you can't add any more graphics cards. If you wanted more than 2 monitors on a dekstop system just keep adding graphics cards, far more flexible than the matrox boxes.
 
you can only play MS FS2004 in windowed mode on more than one screen, any other will default to 1 - cant render to more! Thats why I got the TH2G, it allowed full scree*3
 
I believe if you set your screenmode to stretched you could get all apps and possibly games to run across both, but they would probably be stretched.
 
Doesnt allow it to span more than 2 screens, def not 2 different graphics cards - so if you dont want the bar in the middle than the TH2G is the only way. I have played with this problem for ages and didt get a good result until I got the matrox. Does work in desktop mode though!
 
Joe42 said:
I believe if you set your screenmode to stretched you could get all apps and possibly games to run across both, but they would probably be stretched.
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This is true altho with just 2 screens pretty much every FPS and RPG is out the window, the bar in the middle is kinda anoying, but there is hope ;) RTS's (Aoe3 AoM rome/medevil/Total war2 and GTR2 are really good!

:D

Foxor
 
I play gtr on mine and i wouldn't want it stretched with a nasty inch gap down the middle...

That reminds me, supreme commander is going to support multi monitor, which is great. First game i know of to do so.
Not sure exactly what it does, i think you can have command options on one and the main map view on another or something.
 
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