Multiple Displays Delegation?

Soldato
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Howdy,

This post could have gone in Graphics Card, Monitors or Games, so I decided to put it here, move if need be!

Firstly my spec is in my sig, and I have a Dell 3007 30" TFT running as my primary monitor for windows etc etc. But for gaming this screen is a tad too big, and games don't run how I would like at 2560x1600, so I would like to add a second TFT to my grpahics card to have multiple displays.

I have a Dell 2407 knocking about, and that use to run games at 1920x1200 perfectly, so I want to chuck that in. Well I done this, but I cannot figure out how (or if at all possible) to tell my graphics card to plays games in the secondary (2407) monitor and use EVERYTHING else in the primary (3007) monitor? Can I do this? Or will Windows only play the games thru the primary display? I pretty much will only turn the second 2407 monitor on when I play games, I don't feel the need to have a secondary display for windows when my primary runs at 2560x1600 :)

I waded thru the Nvidia Control Panel, but couldn't find anything to let me do this? It asked me what monitor was primary, the order I want them layed out etc etc, but no place where I could delegate each monitor to specific tasks?

Anyone have any ideas? Or would I have to switch primary displays everytime I boot a game up?

ta

Steve M
 
lol. use your 30 and just lower the res the game is playing in ...

Why, that will have to superscale the image and will make it look crap.

Not sure if you can assign profiles to individual apps to make them run on the secondary display, but if any app can do it, ultramon can.
 
Why, that will have to superscale the image and will make it look crap.

Not sure if you can assign profiles to individual apps to make them run on the secondary display, but if any app can do it, ultramon can.

Yeah thats the exact reason I dont lower the res, I do tell my geforce not to scale the image, but its not the same.

I tried ultramon, and it had a option to create a shortcut to a program, and in the option was which display to use, that was useless cos it didnt work :) I created a shortcut to BioShock to boot on monitor 2, it booted on monitor one. I tried it again and told it to boot on monitor 1, it did boot on monitor 1 :) So I uninstalled that!

Hopefully there is another way?

ta
 
not that i have this problem but i know ultramon does this, its probs the best program for multiple monitors, you can assign hot keys and profiles its very advanced, businesses use it and i think its great. only thing is you have to pay for it
 
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