Dual monitor n00b setup questions...

[garetjax]

I'm trying to obtain a cheap ass LCD monitor to display my BF2 server admin client and TeamSpeak while I play on my other monitor, a 19" CRT. The videocard that I have is a BFG nVidia 6800Ultra OC AGP. It has dual DVI inputs and one S-video. Do I need any special adapters, or is there anything I should know before getting an LCD and finding out that I'm missing a part to have a dual monitor setup?

I guess the question to be asking is if it is even possible for me to play BF2 on my CRT, and have my server admin client and TeamSpeak running on the LCD, all on the one same computer? If so, how would I go about making it work, and what would I need?

 

[moonboy403]

i don't think you can....unless you can run your game separately

 

[unfalliblekrutch]

i think the second monitor is disabled when runnign full screen d3d applications.

If you get a second physical video card however, (some old cheap $10 gf4mx or whatever), then you can do what you need.

 

[dug777]

what are you people talking about?

The second monitor will run fine & display whatever is running on that screen while you are gaming (i always have MSN up in the second monitor, often task manager/temp monitor program running too). You cannot click on anything on that screen whil gaming or it will loose focus on the game and go back to the desktop is all..

 

[moonboy403]

the guy wants to run battlefield on both monitor with each having their game

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: moonboy403
the guy wants to run battlefield on both monitor with each having their game

i get ya...

no then because i doubt you can run two copies of BF2 at the same time...

 

[Vinnybcfc]

Originally posted by: garetjax27
I'm trying to obtain a cheap ass LCD monitor to display my BF2 server admin client and TeamSpeak while I play on my other monitor, a 19" CRT. The videocard that I have is a BFG nVidia 6800Ultra OC AGP. It has dual DVI inputs and one S-video. Do I need any special adapters, or is there anything I should know before getting an LCD and finding out that I'm missing a part to have a dual monitor setup?

I guess the question to be asking is if it is even possible for me to play BF2 on my CRT, and have my server admin client and TeamSpeak running on the LCD, all on the one same computer? If so, how would I go about making it work, and what would I need?

Yes you can do it, I ran Natural Selection (Half Life Mod) set on OpenGL on one monitor and Phantasy Star Online (DirectX) on another worked fine (although laggy).

So a game and a Teamspeak client + server will be fine although dual core would be nice as you can put the game on one and Teamspeak on another.

The only converters you will need is DVI to VGA ones if the second monitor is VGA

 

[garetjax]

Originally posted by: moonboy403
the guy wants to run battlefield on both monitor with each having their game

No. What I want is to run BF2 on one monitor (my CRT) and my BF2 server admin client and TeamSpeak on the LCD. I want all this to run on one computer, with one videocard, without my BF2 game that I am playing on my CRT minimizing when I click on the LCD screen and accessing the server client and TeamSpeak.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: garetjax27

Originally posted by: moonboy403
the guy wants to run battlefield on both monitor with each having their game

No. What I want is to run BF2 on one monitor (my CRT) and my BF2 server admin client and TeamSpeak on the LCD. I want all this to run on one computer, with one videocard

That will work fine.

without my BF2 game that I am playing on my CRT minimizing when I click on the LCD screen and accessing the server client and TeamSpeak.

This will only work if you run BF2 in a windowed mode (assuming it supports running in a window). 'Fullscreen' applications will minimize if you take mouse/keyboard focus away from them.

 

[garetjax]

Originally posted by: Matthias99This will only work if you run BF2 in a windowed mode (assuming it supports running in a window). 'Fullscreen' applications will minimize if you take mouse/keyboard focus away from them.

Well that's not good. What can I do to avoid this from happening?

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: garetjax27

Originally posted by: Matthias99This will only work if you run BF2 in a windowed mode (assuming it supports running in a window). 'Fullscreen' applications will minimize if you take mouse/keyboard focus away from them.

Well that's not good. What can I do to avoid this from happening?

Nothing that I know of. It's part of how Windows works with 'fullscreen' applications. For an application to properly handle not having mouse/keyboard focus, it has to set itself up with the window manager.

Keep in mind that at the time this kernel and DirectX were developed, almost nobody had more than one monitor hooked up to a system.

 

[Unkno]

one solution is running it in windowed mode