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dual screen issue - machest - 14-10-2007

howzit people.

i recently upgraded my computor and have an invidea 8600 gt graphics card and have the ability to us two screens, now i have it all set up
and get the screens to show my desk top but the second sceen shows desk top even when i go into the flight simulater program then
when i try to right click on the second screen the fs game gets minimised can eny one offer some advise on this please especially to get
the game to show up on both screens.




Re: dual screen issue - Joeflyer - 15-10-2007

This may help you...I'm making a stab at it:

Games with multi-monitor support
There are only very few games with explicit multi-monitor support, some examples are Microsoft flight simulators and Star Trek: Armada
II. Some games were released with dualhead support exclusively for Matrox cards, see Matrox enhanced games.

If a game has a windowed mode, it is usually possible to play it on multiple monitors either by placing additional views on secondary
monitors, or stretching the game window across multiple monitors. You might have to use software rendering for this to work. For more
information, see the gaming-related links.

Microsoft flight sims support putting additional views on secondary monitors. To put a view on a secondary monitor, choose 'Undock
window' and move it to the desired position. Starting with Flight Simulator 2004, views on up to 4 monitors are hardware accelerated,
previous versions only used hardware accelerated 3D on the primary monitor. See Multi-Monitor Support in Flight Simulator 2004 for
more on this
.

With dualhead video cards or the triplehead Matrox Parhelia (surround gaming), it is also possible to play some games stretched across
all monitors by using a stretched (spanned) display mode. This way, the game sees a single wide monitor instead of 2 or 3 monitors
(the game needs to support widescreen display modes). For more on surround gaming with the Matrox Parhelia, see the review.

I got this information from this site:
http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/faq.asp

Scroll down to almost 3/4 of the way down to see the above information. Apparently the links did not work when I copied over the information.



Post Edited ( 10-15-07 22:08 )