Dual Monitor Support

L3onL3on Join Date: 2002-10-24 Member: 1589Members, Constellation
in Tech Support
<div class="IPBDescription">Is this a HL or NS problem?</div> I have a GF4 4800ti and 2 monitors hooked up to it, 1 17" Hansol 700F monitor and 1 15" Mitsubishi DiamondPoint M55LCD.

When having both monitors on with the built in "Exten my desktop to this monitor" feature enabled in XP and I load NS some strange color discrepancies appear. The console and the main menu are fine, but in game colors that would typically be gold/yellow such as the Kharaa team names appear as green. Im running NS at 1280x960 OpenGL.

Anyone have any ideas on what would cause that?
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  • AlcapwnAlcapwn &quot;War is the science of destruction&quot; - John Abbot Join Date: 2003-06-21 Member: 17590Members
    i dont think Half-Life supports dual Monitors.

    It an old game. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    more precicely NS don't suport 2x moniters (If you have 2 pluged in unplug one or else you get bad stufF)
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  • EnemyWithinEnemyWithin Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5572Members
    Umm...I play NS with 2 monitors connected to my ATI 9800 and everything is fine. The alien text IS green, but beyond that, I haven't noticed any issues in game. I can read IRC on my second monitor, while I'm playing on my first <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • L3onL3on Join Date: 2002-10-24 Member: 1589Members, Constellation
    yeah whats up with that green text? the other monitor displays everything perfectly fine, when i get home from work I'll check other mods for color discrepancies, perhaps its because of 32mil colors?
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  • ElvenThiefElvenThief aka Elven Thief (ex. NS Programmer) Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8754Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    OpenGL itself does not support multiple monitors. I tried dual monitoring offa an agp geforce and a pci radeon (bad combo), but got a crazy error when attempting to play halflife.

    I traced the error to nVidia's website and they specifically stated that OpenGL does not have dual monitor support, especially for gaming. Odd are, you'll probably have to do DirectX to successfully dual monitor.
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  • L3onL3on Join Date: 2002-10-24 Member: 1589Members, Constellation
    ah, thats most likely the cause then, i'll see if directx displays the colors properly although it may be not worth it

    if it ends up looking like crap again i'll probably script something that when HL launches it disables the 2nd monitor
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    if you can right a nice little script like that upload it here there are many people who could use it
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  • EnemyWithinEnemyWithin Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5572Members
    Post a screen shot of what you are seeing in-game L3on. Like I said, I am using dual monitors under XP with OpenGL, and I haven't noticed any issues (besides the green alien text).
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