dual monitoring

Aastii

Aastii

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I am wanting to dual monitor so that i can go on WoW and do other stuff aswell without switching and missing stuff (to be precise, watching over servers). Now this may sound stupid, but i have never done it before so have a couple of questions.

I have 2 cards in SLi, so I know that i can only have 2 monitors, but would i be better running them seperately and having one monitor per card or would it make no difference?

I have heard you can't have full screen stuff, only windows, is this true?

How does you mouse/keyboard know which screen it is working on?

thankyou :)
 
I think you run both monitors off the SLI system, not one monitor per card (becauase that wouldn't be SLI, it'd just be two video cards supporting one monitor each).

You can have full screen stuff, but full screen gaming would limit your mouse to just one monitor, so if you want to pop over to the 2nd monitor to do something, you'll need to alt tab out.

You can move your mouse from one monitor to the other, your keyboard works on the window you're currently in.
 
diduknowthat said:
I think you run both monitors off the SLI system, not one monitor per card (becauase that wouldn't be SLI, it'd just be two video cards supporting one monitor each).

You can have full screen stuff, but full screen gaming would limit your mouse to just one monitor, so if you want to pop over to the 2nd monitor to do something, you'll need to alt tab out.

You can move your mouse from one monitor to the other, your keyboard works on the window you're currently in.
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alright cool, so if i have my cursor for example on the left screen and i drag to the right, once it is at the far right of the screen and i carry on pulling over, it will go to the right monito?

What i asked about SLi, i know that if i ran each independantly it would not be SLI any more, what i mean is would i see better performance having both cards run together in SLi, seperately as 2 cards, or would there be no difference when running 2 applications at once?
 
diduknowthat said:
You can have full screen stuff, but full screen gaming would limit your mouse to just one monitor, so if you want to pop over to the 2nd monitor to do something, you'll need to alt tab out.
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With WoW you can set the game to run in windowed mode, then set it to full screen. It puts more stress on your processor, but it allows you to use the other screen without minimizing the game. Thats what I did when I used to play WoW.
 
Dropkickmurphys said:
With WoW you can set the game to run in windowed mode, then set it to full screen. It puts more stress on your processor, but it allows you to use the other screen without minimizing the game. Thats what I did when I used to play WoW.
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yea it is what i do now, but because i will be looking over CoD servers, which can't be windowed, then that is a possible issue
 
Dropkickmurphys said:
With WoW you can set the game to run in windowed mode, then set it to full screen. It puts more stress on your processor, but it allows you to use the other screen without minimizing the game. Thats what I did when I used to play WoW.
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Could you elaborate on that a little more. I'm currently using a dual monitor setup with an EVGA 9800 GTX+.

Whenever I turn on WOW - I can't use my mouse on to navigate on the other screen. I'm locked on my game screen. Are you saying - there's an option where I can run the game in windows mode - and have functional use in 2 screens to use my mouse like any normal application on my satellite screen?
 
Jamin43 said:
Could you elaborate on that a little more. I'm currently using a dual monitor setup with an EVGA 9800 GTX+.

Whenever I turn on WOW - I can't use my mouse on to navigate on the other screen. I'm locked on my game screen. Are you saying - there's an option where I can run the game in windows mode - and have functional use in 2 screens to use my mouse like any normal application on my satellite screen?
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if you press esc when in game, go to video and sound, under the first video tabe it has on the right column full screen mode, windowed mode, full screen windowed mode.

Just tick windowed mode and low and behold, it is now windowed :D
 
Aastii said:
What i asked about SLi, i know that if i ran each independantly it would not be SLI any more, what i mean is would i see better performance having both cards run together in SLi, seperately as 2 cards, or would there be no difference when running 2 applications at once?
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You would see better performance if you ran in SLI, because it will be two cards dedicating the majority of their power to render one game.
 
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