Author Topic: Dual Displays (Read 269 times)

bandit752 · « **on:** March 17, 2006, 06:47:53 PM »

Wanted to Know if anyone has dual displays with aces high or any game in fact! I have a PCI express X800 board and it is zooming!!! The dual display function works great on the desktop! You can move a window to each display! But what about extending it into one ! I been reading the instructions but only on pageXXX!
Did anyone do this already???

Thanks!
AMD 64 3400
MSI MOBO
pci express
1GB ram
ATI x800 pro

Schutt · « **Reply #1 on:** March 18, 2006, 05:02:45 AM »

I am not sure about this but i think you can get the directx 3D functions only for one display, maybe skuzzy knows.

Appart from that i would stay with one display since with 2 you would have a bar in the center of the screen where you always look at which probably is kind of annoying.

Callisto · « **Reply #2 on:** March 18, 2006, 12:03:13 PM »

Maybe this might help.

http://firingsquad.com/hardware/matrox_triple_head_2_go_preview/

bandit752 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 18, 2006, 02:04:06 PM »

Thank you for the reply and the web site for the Tri diplay!
I did configure my x800 card for One MOntior to extent over the two
monitors! It works great on the windows platform! Each of the screen corners is extented over each monitor! So that the lefty corner is on the left monitor and the right corner is on the right monitor!
The problem is that when you start up the Aces high it defauts to a cloned monitor meaning that each monitor is showing the same thing!
I tried it with Silent hunter game and the same thing happens!

Probably that most games dont support this!
I was looking of anyone did try this and have a left and a right views! Same thing as the web site you described above!!

Thanks again

Callisto · « **Reply #4 on:** March 18, 2006, 03:49:17 PM »

AH doesnt support dual monitor display.
Games have to be programed to support multi monitor display.

Too bad, plenty of spare monitors around these days.

Some of the games that support multiple monitors are :

Flight simulator 2004
X2 - some space trading game