Running games on 1 monitor and music on other

tommy_knockers · 24 Jan 2007 at 10:58

hello all. I have a 2407wfp and a medion 15" tft 1024x768.

Is it possible to actually run a game on one screen and something on the other without it closing the game down.

At the moment It willrun a game on one screen and the desktop (windows media on the other. However If I want to change song it will shut it down.

Any way to stop that happening? Cheers

p.s anyway to get nfs most wanted in widescreen. I know widescreengamingforums has a solution. You have to download software. Unfortunatly i have lost my usb pen

ChoÞÞer · 24 Jan 2007 at 16:12

Nope, well i dont think so... i just nornal turn my 2nd screen off

fobose · 24 Jan 2007 at 16:48

You can stop it by running the game in a window rather than fullscreen (for me its great as my PC is old and my native res is to high for my PC to handle). Handy for MSNing to someone whilst playing a game

You could however bind keys in say winamp for "next track" (I think the default is Ctrl + Alt + Page down and Ctrl + Alt + Page up is previous track), I have binded "pause/break" as pause and if I am running a fullscreen game and I hit that key my music stops/starts. I just tried the next/previous track binds in a full screen game and they work fine so perhaps that will be good enough for you?

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manoz said:
^A keyboard with media controls does it too

Mine never did, perhaps it was a naff keyboard. The mute button on it worked actually - I guess installing the lame drivers that come with it is required to get all the keys to work. Unfortunatly every keyboard I've seen with media controls look rather large :mad:

manoz · 24 Jan 2007 at 17:17

^A keyboard with media controls does it too