sniperchang

slow down black screen pop-up? what popped up? did the games slow down or did you get a black screen? What you wrote is unclear.

Either way, adding another screen to your computer will not be any different. Your computer doesn't magically become more powerful. Your computer is the same accept it has another screen.

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Marcuz

For example I am on first account when I press alt-tab click on second account, there is a black screen that looks like freeze on the game, but it is not. It makes slow until the game pop up. You know what I am trying to say?

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sniperchang

yes, running two games doesn't usually work very well.

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Marcuz

So, I am asking you think need other PC or might work on dual monitor?

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mkjaekmi

I guess you'll need 2 comps. Because if you have 2 games running, it'll both be showing on your main monitor. I think the 2nd monitor can be used for like internet browseing, and music players so it's easier to use.

I'm sorry to ask, but can you please clear up what Span means? and How do I get it?

Thank you again

mkjaekmi

Sorry to ask but can you explain what a Span is? and how do I get it?

Thank you again

ronpaulamI

Say you're running two operating systems on the same computer and switch to something like linux. If Windows is handling the primary assignments would that mess with the dual monitoring?

[quote=sniperchang;840939]Windows automatically assigns one monitor as your primary monitor. This is the monitor in which full screen programs will appear. Most likely when you first plug both your monitors, only one will be active. If you go to display settings, you can activate your second monitor and/or set the second monitor as primary.

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pip1011261

I have included 3 links to show you different views with multi display.

Click Here: This image shows a screenshot of my desktop (3 screens)

Click Here: This image shows Internet Explorer running across 2 screens and CorelDRAW on the third screen.

Click Here: This image shows Internet Explorer "SPANNED" over 3 screens. Span is like maximise but it will maximise over all your active screens. You will need a program called "UltraMon" for this.....it is easy program to use and small.

Have you got your second screen working yet?

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sniperchang

Yes exactly. There's a way, however, to have one game run on the primary, and one game on secondary, but it's just like any other time you play two games at once: your computer performance is greatly degraded, and resources conflict, it just doesn't work. Also, most game that lose focus will minimize and pause, so on one game, your other game is minized, switching to the next, that game will minize as well. So it won't even matter if you have two screens or not.

Span mode is a program controlled mode for your dual-display setup. The NVIDIA software provides this, ATI I believe does too. Anyway, the program makes windows believe that the monitors on the same video card is just one big monitor. So all the multi-display behavior we were describing goes away, and your monitors act as one big monitor. This is the best method to span* games across all monitors, and it works well if the game support widescreen, or proportional resolutions.

*SPAN: As well as the span mode, this word is also used for stretching a window or program across multiple screens.

No problem. There's not much information about multi-display systems on the internet!

In windows, that's how windows handles multi-displays. Linux will handle multi-display the way Linux handles multi-displays.

The primary assignments in windows is just the way windows works with multi-displays. Linux might handle multi-displays differently (I have no experience with Linux so I don't know how Linux handle multi-displays.) When you load on windows, windows will handle it the way it usually does, if you load up Linux, it will handle it the way Linux does.

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mkjaekmi

few more questions and i'm done.

First is, if I do dual monitoring, won't that kind of mess up gaming the fact that the outer screen case will be in the middle of the game screen? Do you get what I'm saying? Like if you connect them together, the outside case will be attached to the other outside case, so you have a screen+outercase+screen.

Second question is, Is span included in ultramon? Or only in nvidia/ati softwares specifically for span?

Thank you