Screensavers for multiple monitors

[yukichigai]

I'm currently tweaking my new dual monitor setup to my liking, but one of the things I'm not liking is how my screensaver is working. At the moment I have the Matrix screensaver that was posted here a while ago (by the way, it's dope) but the only option it really has for dual monitors is to stretch across both monitors, and the second monitor has no 3d card so it can't render it. I've seen screensavers that use both monitors to display separate things, but I was wondering if there's any sort of free screensaver add-on that would let you pick two separate screensavers to run on each monitor. (I have a feeling AfterDark might do that but I'd rather get the free one if it's out there) Anybody know of such a thing? I'll pick up a retail program if necessary... and if it's cheap .

 

[GrumpyMan]

Ultramon will. Google for it.

 

[yukichigai]

Oh hell yes. Thanks... too bad it's only the trial version. Who knows though, I might actually buy it. The description seems pretty dope

 

[Confused]

Ultramon is absolutely brilliant

I use it mainly so that I can easily enable/disable the second monitor, and for having a different background on each


Confused

 

[yukichigai]

Well I have nVidia software that does the wallpaper thing for me already, but Ultramon does indeed have a lot of nice features. Unfortunately for some reason I can't seem to get both of my screensavers to run at the same time. :| My second monitor uses a whopping 2 meg vid card so I don't know if that has anything to do with it, but it'll show the second screensaver for about 2 seconds before my primary monitor starts showing my Matrix 3D screensaver, at which point the second monitor goes blank. Grrrrrr... not cool. Any ideas what's up with this?

 

[GrumpyMan]

Maybe your second vid card won't support opengl screensavers maybe? Or maybe opengl screensavers will work only on the primary monitor, which I'm not too sure on to be honest.

 

[yukichigai]

Yeah, my second vid card doesn't support OpenGL but the screensaver I'm running on it isn't an OpenGL screensaver. (It's actually just the standard Windows Mystify screensaver) Would that be a problem somehow?

 

[GrumpyMan]

Mystify runs just fine on my second monitor when I had it hooked up to a second vid card which was a Banshee, the other one was a G3. But since I now use a 9700 Pro I don't have that problem. Maybe it's just your vid card that can't handle it. Sorry I can't be of more help to you in that regard.

 

[yukichigai]

I don't think it's a problem with the vid card; for about 3 days my second monitor was my only monitor and Mystify was my screensaver. It worked just fine. I'm thinking it's some kind of configuration issue... geehhhhhh, damn, this is so frustrating.