Question about dual display

[evilbix]

I just tossed on an extra old crt for my research work, and I realised how much this rules. So now it's a week later and I'm completely infatuated with the idea of having two monitors. I just have one question about this, is there anyway to make it so the secondary monitor can display windows while the primary is playing video games?

Thanks in advance.

 

[evilbix]

bringing it back to the front page

 

[Tu13erhead]

It's possible, but not very practical. There are ways to do it, but generally if you're playing a game and you move the mouse off to the side of the screen (to the windows) the game will pause, minimize, whatever. Not fun.

 

[Randum]

depends on the game. I cant stand just using one monitor, i can run a movie on one and game on the other-or watch downloads.
With guild wars I can window the game and use the 2nd monitor just fine.

also for multitasking like that(fps game and movie) best to have hyper threading

 

[doanster]

How do you set it up so that you can game on both monitors at the same time? For my Radeon I can only game on one display or the other, never on both. I'v seen gaming across 2 monitors on nVidia cards before, though, but no clue how to do it.