Dual Monitors and Full Screen issues

bigtm135

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I've recently got dual monitors, and it's great! But, whenever I full screen an application (which uses only one of the monitors), I cannot access any other application on the second screen unless I alt-tab out, such as counter-strike. If I'm watching youtube or something of the sort, the full screen stops and it goes back to being embedded if I click any where on the second window. Is there a way to stop this from happening?

Also, when running applications on the second monitor, I've noticed the FPS drops considerably. Using counterstrike as an example, I get 60 fps on the left (primary) monitor and 13 fps on the right (secondary) monitor. Is there a way to fix this as well?

Thanks in advance.
 

bigtm135

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oh, if it matters, i'm on a 8800 ultra with two samsung 305t's running XP, i usually do work on them, but sometimes I like to indulge myself =)
 

aka1nas

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If you want to be able to access the second display without alt+tabbing, you will need to run the game in window mode if it allows for it. You generally will take a performance hit for this. Some games will allow you to move the mouse to the other display while fullscreened, but this usually causes problems.

In the Nvidia Control Panel, set your acceleration to Multi-Display Performance mode under the 3d Settings section for your latter issue.
 

bigtm135

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sigh, windowing games wouldn't be a problem, but if i try to play at my max resolution + windowed, it'll stretch over to the other monitor and the fps won't just take a hit, it'll go from 60fps to 10fps because it's on the second monitor. Also, youtube video's don't have windowed mode :( lol
 

aka1nas

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Originally posted by: bigtm135
sigh, windowing games wouldn't be a problem, but if i try to play at my max resolution + windowed, it'll stretch over to the other monitor and the fps won't just take a hit, it'll go from 60fps to 10fps because it's on the second monitor. Also, youtube video's don't have windowed mode :( lol

That's fine, you would probably want to step the resolution down a setting anyway due to the performance hit. Multi-display performance mode should resolve some of the issue with windows spanning two displays, especially if they are on the same card. As you are on XP, you might want to play with Nview, also.
 

bigtm135

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I'm just wondering why when it's on the left screen, it runs at 60 fps, and when i drag it to the right screen, it's at 10 fps., same game windowed, just dragging left and right
 

aka1nas

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Originally posted by: bigtm135
I'm just wondering why when it's on the left screen, it runs at 60 fps, and when i drag it to the right screen, it's at 10 fps., same game windowed, just dragging left and right

Did you enable Multi-display performance mode yet?