What can you do with dual monitor setups? (1 AGP card and 1 PCI card in WinME)

[Nullity]

Title says it all.

Oh yea..I have an Evil Kyro 64mb AGP and a Creative Labs Blaster Exxtreme 4mb PCI that I am planning on using.

Thanks,
Null

 

[Scratches]

I myself am fairly new to the setup (within the past week). I find it most useful for coding or web browsing, because that's when you can really get a lot of windows going. Other times, I find myself dragging windows onto the second screen just to justify having it.

As for gaming, OpenGL doesn't seem very happy about dual monitors (I have to disable "Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor" the second to play OpenGL games), but some Direct3D games are great about it. Star Trek Armada, for example, uses the second monitor with a cool "find coolest camera angle possible" algorithm to provide a cinematic view while you play. It'll get you assimilated every time if you get distracted by it.

Also, while using anything that goes full-screen on one monitor, clicking on the desktop in the other monitor causes the full-screen app to shell out. So don't expect to be able to check your mail while watching your peons build a farm or something like that.

Let me know if you find any more cool uses.

 

[SUOrangeman]

Whenever you find yourself flipping back and forth between two applications, realize that you can run each app *maximized* on it's own display when you've got dual/multiple monitors up and running.

Also, power surfing is somewhat special. You basically can surf two pages at once just by moving your eyeballs.

-SUO

 

[Nullity]

I wanna try a 9 monitor setup. =D

Null

 

[Mday]

with games like MS Flight simulator, you can have the secondary display have the map, or the controls and junk =)

i do that =D

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i can program with various source codes in front of me. and test and junk.

i can do HTML with the code and browser display =)

i can have two monitors displaying pr0n ;-)

anyway...

you should see spread sheets =)