Multiple Monitors

RustySpoon

So I just bought this flatscreen TV. It's about the size of a book cover.

What I wanted to do is make it a nother monitor, eg, have MSN and IRC on it while playing wow.
Now what I did was connect it to my TV-Out and now what I see is obviously my PC screen.

How would I go about doing it? I heard hydravision does this.

TychoCelchuuu

Wait, what? You connected it and it shows your PC screen and you want to know what to do next? Right click on desktop and go to properties, and set up a couple monitors.

SLizer

I dunno. But I saw about year ago pic where guy was playing iwth six monitors looked kinda scary

RustySpoon

Yea I kinda figured that out.

What I want is a program, that for example allows me to switritch focus between monitors without going to desktop on the main one.

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Or allowing me to increase the font size of everything on the other monitor.

Afr

When i played wow while using two screens i noticed a huge fps drop.

And i have a x850xt and a amd64 3500+.
But it probably depends on your video settings.

Caboose

Only way to switch between screens is WoW is to run it in windowed mode, which I do, and I have thottbot/irc on me other screen <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Mad_Man

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The 6 moniter setups are good for flight sims I think

Confused

in winXP one can do what you are asking to a ceratain extent i run two windows one lcd for irc, aim, email, browsing and the other for gaming.

there are a few draw backs. first among them that the cursor will happily leave the game window onto the other monitor in nearly any game. so, being a commander is a bit harder, as the mouse will go drop med packs on the desktop. it ameks srcolling right hard in many rts games for similar reasons. ( note that you can make the second monitor smaller in resolution to partially remedy this situation)

second many game s like to center themselves on your destop before tehy maximize on teh firstt monitor which means that the second monitor will also center. the means that you will end up looking at the awkward section of you desktop between the two halves.

that and ini win2k its a bit of a paing because maximize doesnt work properly. but that is neither hear nor there.


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yeah.

RustySpoon

*Bumpity*

Is there any way to increase the DPI on the other monitor?
What about the sharpness? The text is much harder to read on AV than it is if I watch TV on it. Irreprable or am I just a f00l?

Caboose

TV video is filtered to look rite on TV. TV is not supposed to display high resultuions like a computer monitor can.

You'd be best off geting a second monirtor if you want to use a second display. The only thing I have ever used my TV for in relation to my computer was to warch movies.