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Multiple monitors on 1 card

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  • 26-09-2006 12:08am
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    TerrorFirmer
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    I'm using 2 17" tft monitors on my 7600GT. Desktop is fine but When I play video content the picture only appears on one half of the display - media player is black on the other side. Games result in one of the screens going into standby. Is this normal, and do I need another card in my machine to watch video across the two screens or how do I go about this.

    Thanks.


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    8T8
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    For games yes that is normal. You can try and workaround that if the game supports running in windowed mode I think.

    As per the media player issue I take it this is a spanned desktop yes ?

    And that you are trying to play a video over the two displays, my memory is a little foggy on this but in NVIDIA's {old} control panel with multi-monitor support enabled you should find a "full screen video" section whereby this allows some control over video playback over multiple screens I think the auto selection worked under spanning but I'm not sure. Try messing around with those settings and see what happens.


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    DemonOfTheFall
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    You'll deginitely need to use special ful screen video settings, because you can't normally stretch an overlay across 2 screens afaik.


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    TerrorFirmer
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    thanks lads, will give it a go later :)


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