Dual Monitor System...

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Rubber Bullets

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I am thinking of setting up a dual monitor system, I have a GF 4 Ti4200 card with dual output and 2 monitors, one coming back from the menders tomorrow (I hope).

Does anyone else run 2 or more monitors, what problems are there? When a game states that it doesn't support dual monitors (GTA III) does thgat mean that the 2nd monitor has to be disabled to lay it, or just that it can't display on both?

Is there anything else that you can tell me, that you think I ought to know?

Thanks

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Scooba Da Bass

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Make sure you have a big enough desk?

It's dead handy for most work type stuff, but it does get weird if you have your desktop spread across two screens when you move the mouse between them.

I only ever use mine when I have some work to do, tracks on one side, mixer,plugins etc.. on the other.

I'll turn it on and try playing some games and tell you what happens :)
 
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WPKenny

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I tried it. It freaked me out loads. I got an old 14" which I thought I might just run IRC on or something but cos of the shitty refresh bug with NVIDIA and win2k/xp it screwed things around. I eventually got it working but for games it just turned out to be a pain in the arse when it wouldn't do what I told it to.

Nice for having a larger desktop but when it comes to games it's a bit poo. If you think about it, you're crosshair would be split over the middle of the two screens. Odd. Unless you had the second monitor set up like some sort of rear view mirror. But I tried to do this and it never worked. Everyone I asked about in the Q3 IRC channels told me to fuck off and stop cheating. Miserable fucks.

Anyway, it depends on the game but some blank the second monitor, some just change the res and make things look a bit odd.
 
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Embattle

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Once you've had it, you'll always want/need it.

Nview does have a few minor niggles but overall it works well.
 
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Rubber Bullets

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Thanks for those.

TBH I like the idea of the set up for design type work etc. and not for gaming, I think the type of games that it is best suited are flight sims, where it is possible to have dials/controls on 1 screen and an uninterupted view on the other.

One of the C.T. scaners at work has a dual screen setup for controls and view etc. so I am used to using it, but the machine isn't windows based so I'm just not sure about the practicalities of nView etc.

Thanks again, I'll give it a go and see how it works out.

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Summo

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I tried it for a bit with my main 19" monitor and my old 15" one. It works well for standard desktop stuff, and so is deffo worth a shot for what you'd want it for. I think you might be reaching a bit far in that flight sim example, unless the app is particularly designed to run with two independant displays. I've not seen a game that is so far.

I found nView easy to set up and had things like ASE running in one monitor launching a game on the second. Two visible web browsers is handy and so on.

My 15" one suddenly stopped displaying the colour blue, though so I stopped using it. Plus it was taking up far too much space on my desk. I don't miss it.
 
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Scooba Da Bass

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Flight Sim 2000 + deffo supports dual monitors, I've used it, and it's very lovely
 
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old.Jas

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As I keep reminding people on here I run two 19" Trinitrons at 3200x1200.

This is mainly for coding and a little designing - but even doing stuff like writing emails is much easier.

Heres a photo

Speaking of monitors - I've got a tasty 19" Samsung TFT on my desk at my new job. Defo made my mind up to save my pennies for a couple at home.
 
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S-Gray

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i take it you will need either a Dual Headed Card or a PCI /and/ AGP graphics Card to do TwinView?
 
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Embattle

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Originally posted by old.Jas
As I keep reminding people on here I run two 19" Trinitrons at 3200x1200.

This is mainly for coding and a little designing - but even doing stuff like writing emails is much easier.

Heres a photo

Speaking of monitors - I've got a tasty 19" Samsung TFT on my desk at my new job. Defo made my mind up to save my pennies for a couple at home.
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I had the Samsung 181T but didn't like it as much as my iiyama 454.
 
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old.Jas

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Indeedy - I've got an AGP card and a POS PCI card
 
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old.Jas

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Originally posted by Embattle
I had the Samsung 181T but didn't like it as much as my iiyama 454.
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Yeah - its the one up I've got. The 191T
 
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Embattle

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Yeah the 191T is exactly the same bar 1 extra inch, they're all right but I still prefer the picture produced by CRTs...although the 181/191T both look a lot sexier.
 
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Rubber Bullets

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In my general quest for knowledge on this subject I cam across this gallery of multi monitor set ups.

Only two monitors? pfffft

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S-Gray

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Hmm.. im seeing more than Two Computers in that piccy
 
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Rubber Bullets

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It's not just that 1 picture gray. Have a look through the gallery, there are some great set ups. (and some really bad photos, considering people claim to have multi monitor systems to help with image manipulation)

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Embattle

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Originally posted by PR.
3x Dell FP 20" screens! They are £1200 each :eek:
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Not if you're a yank ;)

BTW They are very good monitors.
 
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