Dual monitor gaming question

[yh125d]

I game on my 1920x1080 main screen and have a 1024x768 second screen upgrading soon hopefully but I have a problem


I can't have games in my main screen maximized and be able to just mouse over to my second screen, I have to play in windowed mode (which I hate). I seem to remember doing this when I had dual monitors before, maybe it was that at that time I had an nvidia card?

Like I will play a game and have its wikia page or a walkthrough or info page or something open that I want to mouse over to but I can't unless I minimize the game first (which is exactly why I run two monitors) or run windowed (which I hate). It's particularly annoying in games like ME2 which sometimes crash when re-maximizing.

Is there some sort or work-around to get this to work or am I just going to have to put up with windowed mode?

 

[Schmide]

A lot of games allow for a borderless windowed mode. Sometimes you have to edit an ini or something, but as long as you're not running dual cards you see very little performance hit.

 

[Lonyo]

That's the way most games (sensibly) work. They work in such a way that they catch the mouse (often even in windowed mode).

It's just the nature of the beast. If you want control over a second monitor at the same time as gaming, run it on a different computer.

The annoying thing is when games DON'T catch the mouse and you can go over the edge of the screen/window and screw up your game (mainly RTS type games more than FPS type games).