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I'm lucky to have my PC set up with dual 19" TFT monitors, my graphics card 64mb MSI 440 has DV and VGA outputs, So have one monitor running on DV and one on VGA.
Works perfectly on most programs except windows media player (trying for the wide screen experience) and games. These either use just one monitor, or show only half the movie image when spread across the two.
Anyone know why and what I can do to get both working at the same time? Are any games compatible with dual monitors? I am using the latest drivers & Nvidia media centre but makes no difference.
paul
Works perfectly on most programs except windows media player (trying for the wide screen experience) and games. These either use just one monitor, or show only half the movie image when spread across the two.
Anyone know why and what I can do to get both working at the same time? Are any games compatible with dual monitors? I am using the latest drivers & Nvidia media centre but makes no difference.
paul
I doubt you'll get media player to span both monitors.
AFAIR Microsoft flight will drive both monitors so you get the world view in one and all the instruments in the other.
Now about embedded PCs Active Sync, Serial and USB ports... you know anything about those?
best
Ex
Edited to say - I just dragged Windows media player over both my monitors and half the image appears in each monitor - complete waste of time as it's not especially pleasant to watch, the women just don't look right, but yes it does work. You can definately tell the difference between the two graphics cards tho, one being an NVIDA jobby and the other being an aging Matrox Millenium.
>> Edited by TheExcession on Tuesday 17th August 18:56
AFAIR Microsoft flight will drive both monitors so you get the world view in one and all the instruments in the other.
Now about embedded PCs Active Sync, Serial and USB ports... you know anything about those?
best
Ex
Edited to say - I just dragged Windows media player over both my monitors and half the image appears in each monitor - complete waste of time as it's not especially pleasant to watch, the women just don't look right, but yes it does work. You can definately tell the difference between the two graphics cards tho, one being an NVIDA jobby and the other being an aging Matrox Millenium.
>> Edited by TheExcession on Tuesday 17th August 18:56
I've seen quake played on multiple monitors.
Basically you need a matrox video card which supports triple monitor displays.
(surround gaming)
Basically you set the res to 2400 x 600 ( 800x600 X 3 monitors ) and set the FoV (Field of view ) to 150 degrees and the display stretches across three monitors. Ideally all three monitors will have the same spec.
When I originally checked years ago not many games supported this feature but the list has grown now !
When I originally checked years ago not many games supported this feature but the list has grown now !
visit this url for more : www.matrox.com/mga/3d_gaming/surrgame.cfm
Adds a certain something to quake and F1 games
(wish I had the time now !)
Regards,
Ramesh
>> Edited by robertuk on Tuesday 17th August 22:23
Basically you need a matrox video card which supports triple monitor displays.
(surround gaming)
Basically you set the res to 2400 x 600 ( 800x600 X 3 monitors ) and set the FoV (Field of view ) to 150 degrees and the display stretches across three monitors. Ideally all three monitors will have the same spec.
When I originally checked years ago not many games supported this feature but the list has grown now !
When I originally checked years ago not many games supported this feature but the list has grown now !
visit this url for more : www.matrox.com/mga/3d_gaming/surrgame.cfm
Adds a certain something to quake and F1 games
(wish I had the time now !)
Regards,
Ramesh
>> Edited by robertuk on Tuesday 17th August 22:23
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