How exactly does running Dual Monitors work?

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
is ultramon free?

most features i need come with the free ati software. anyways, its nicer to have identical res because it makes it easier to move from one to another. well.. as long as they are close. it seems the gap to drag stuff between is 1:1 pixel. but u can tell apps to jump to monitors through taskbar anwyas

i'd recommend single agp. less likely to have something totally mess up

no its not free but you cvan make it free if you want to. i paied for mine. and yes haveing a single app is better cause less stuff can fuk up. BUT if ultra mon fuks up it just makes the taskbar go away and you loos teh ability to jump things around. and when it does that its easy to restart the program and it all comes back.

 

[murphy55d]

I use a dual output card as well.. .don't know what different it would make to use 2 diff video cards.

 

[thawolfman]

Thanks for the help guys!

Now I just need to find a video card that supports Dual Monitors. My Ti200 can't do it.

 

[murphy55d]

Originally posted by: thawolfman
Thanks for the help guys!

Now I just need to find a video card that supports Dual Monitors. My Ti200 can't do it.

Get a Matrox PCI card from the For sale forum... will work fine as a 2nd video card.

 

[thawolfman]

Originally posted by: murphy55d

Originally posted by: thawolfman
Thanks for the help guys!

Now I just need to find a video card that supports Dual Monitors. My Ti200 can't do it.

Get a Matrox PCI card from the For sale forum... will work fine as a 2nd video card.

Thanks, I'll give it a look!

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: murphy55d

Originally posted by: thawolfman
Thanks for the help guys!

Now I just need to find a video card that supports Dual Monitors. My Ti200 can't do it.

Get a Matrox PCI card from the For sale forum... will work fine as a 2nd video card.

i second that Matrox makes excellent PCI vid cards

 

[AnimeKnight]

Originally posted by: TheEvil1

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: TheEvil1

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: thawolfman
When a program is opened and moved to the second screen, would it be on the second screens taskbar or on the main taskbar?

There is only one taskbar.

WRONG!!! ultra mon allows you to have a second one

and if you are running it then the app appears in the taskbar on teh monitor it is running on

as you can see here

My apologies. I did not use attention software when running my dual and tri monitors. I see no reason to have additional resources being used.

its ok didnt mean to sound mean
ultra mon is only useing 3.4 megs of mem on my system. out of a gig i can spare that

and i like haveing 2 taskbars

another vote for Ultra Mon! makes using dual monitors so much easier

by the way is GapBabe4 cute ?? I would edit that screen shot of yours

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: AnimeKnight

Originally posted by: TheEvil1

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: TheEvil1

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: thawolfman
When a program is opened and moved to the second screen, would it be on the second screens taskbar or on the main taskbar?

There is only one taskbar.

WRONG!!! ultra mon allows you to have a second one
and if you are running it then the app appears in the taskbar on teh monitor it is running on
as you can see here

My apologies. I did not use attention software when running my dual and tri monitors. I see no reason to have additional resources being used.

its ok didnt mean to sound mean
ultra mon is only useing 3.4 megs of mem on my system. out of a gig i can spare that
and i like haveing 2 taskbars

another vote for Ultra Mon! makes using dual monitors so much easier
by the way is GapBabe4 cute ?? I would edit that screen shot of yours

yea shes cute ill leave it at that. and im not gonna worry about editing it. ive been posting in teh desktop threads for a long time and have never edited the list out. BTW im the one at the top

 

[TJN23]

i'd like a setup like this at some point

 

[onza]

do you think an ATI 8meg AIW would do dual? its PCI btw..

so i can have tv on my desktop....

 

[Garion]

Originally posted by: onza
do you think an ATI 8meg AIW would do dual? its PCI btw..

so i can have tv on my desktop....

Sure, I use a PCI Voodoo Banshee for my second monitor and it works great. I just make sure to run anything that needs graphic horsepower on my main display.

- G

 

[arod]

Thanks for the users who pointed out Ultramon... Ive been looking for a prog liek thsi so I could switch between inputs on my ti4200 (from my computer to the projector)

 

[0roo0roo]

what app displays the system stats in the screen shot?

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

I'm trying out UltraMon as well...

Before use: thought Nvidia NView was enough to get by.

After use: I was wrong...this is a neat little app.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

btw..anyway I can get videos to play on both (when stretched across both screens?)

right now it will just show have the video in the screen where most of the window is located.

 

[arod]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
I'm trying out UltraMon as well...

Before use: thought Nvidia NView was enough to get by.

After use: I was wrong...this is a neat little app.

I agree... I have each of my "settings" finally how I like it on and each on a hot key. 1 for just the Main monitor (most of the time) and I have a different hotkey to turn off my main monitor and turn on the projector (DVI port) so I can play DVD's games or surf on the 100 inch screen... With Nview I had to go in the properties and disable the main monitror and enable teh secondary and back after I was done. This is so much better.

 

[MeanMeosh]

Originally posted by: murphy55d

Originally posted by: thawolfman
Thanks for the help guys!

Now I just need to find a video card that supports Dual Monitors. My Ti200 can't do it.

Get a Matrox PCI card from the For sale forum... will work fine as a 2nd video card.

i have a ti-200 as well, the problem is that if i add a less powerful pci video card, then i cant play games on the second monitor =( it might be time to upgrade to a dual output agp card

 

[thawolfman]

Originally posted by: MeanMeosh

Originally posted by: murphy55d

Originally posted by: thawolfman
Thanks for the help guys!

Now I just need to find a video card that supports Dual Monitors. My Ti200 can't do it.

Get a Matrox PCI card from the For sale forum... will work fine as a 2nd video card.

i have a ti-200 as well, the problem is that if i add a less powerful pci video card, then i cant play games on the second monitor =( it might be time to upgrade to a dual output agp card

That's probably going to be what I'll end up doing.

Radeon 9000 Pro > Ti200?

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

they're about the same

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
btw..anyway I can get videos to play on both (when stretched across both screens?)

right now it will just show have the video in the screen where most of the window is located.

overlay problems i think, i can't do it either. non video works fine of course

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

dang, I wonder if there's a work around...I'd like to try out some ultra widescreen