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Originally Posted by 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.
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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.
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Originally Posted by mkjaekmi
I'm sorry to ask, but can you please clear up what Span means? and How do I get it?
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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.
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Originally Posted by mkjaekmi
Thank you again
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No problem. There's not much information about multi-display systems on the internet!
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Originally Posted by 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?
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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.