Dual Display

[Lazy8s]

I am running an evga Ti4200 wid card right now and I have a CRT in the VGA slot and a CRT in the DVI slot (with DVI-VGA adapter) and I am trying to run dual displays. It works just fine but what I want to do is run Counter Strike on screen one and AIM or a web browser on screen 2. Now I CAN currently do this but my problem is when I click on whatever I have displaying on screen 2 my game minimizes on screen 1. It's REALLY irritating. I was wondering if there was a fix for this or if possibly getting a new/diff card would fix my problem. I was looking at ATI's 9800 PRO using Hydravision but it never really touches this aspect of it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Matthias99]

AFAIK, you can't really do this. "Fullscreen" applications don't like you switching mouse/keyboard input away from them -- at that point they're no longer 'fullscreen' (it's effectively the same as hitting alt-tab on a single monitor setup). I have an ATI card and I get the same behavior, and I don't think there's a way around it with NVIDIA or Matrox either. It's just the way that Windows works (ie, it's all Microsoft's fault. )

 

[Lazy8s]

hehe figures, too bad Linux didn't take over the world first