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Eric T
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Posted: 16th Mar 2006 02:57
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Yo,

I am on a computer right now running 2 monitors using the catalyst 6.3 on a Radeon 9550...

Its nice and all, but I am curious as to how I would set it up so I could have MSN on one monitor while playing a game on the other. The way I had it, it was sorta possible but when i did anythingnon the other monitor, the game would minimize it... twas a bitch.

Any help appreciated.

-Eric

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DSG
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Posted: 16th Mar 2006 03:08
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I think the only option you have is run your games in windowed mode (if the option is available). Otherwise there isn't a lot you can do about it.

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dark coder
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Posted: 16th Mar 2006 07:29
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well i have an nvidia setup and i tried dual monitors once and it was pretty cool i guess, main snag is you cant use it with sli which is rather annoying, but i think i tested it by playing battlefield 2 and i think it was fine but i couldent figure out howto get the mouse to the 2ns screen with any fulscreen app on, i tried all the shortcut things :/.

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SirFire
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Posted: 16th Mar 2006 07:41 Edited at: 16th Mar 2006 07:41
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I run dual screens, and it depends on the game you have fullscreen. Some games will allow you to click your mouse on the other window and do things with other programs, and some games will detect that their focus has been lost and minimize. I wish more developers would get on the dual screen bandwagon and take multiple displays into consideration.

Videos playing that are full screen have that problem too, if you click on the other screen, the video leaves fullscreen mode and goes to windowed mode.

Let us spread the gospel of multiple displays, and maybe more programmers will code around them so that undesirable behavior doesn't occur when trying to enjoy our multi-taskingness.

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mm0zct
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Posted: 17th Mar 2006 20:59 Edited at: 17th Mar 2006 21:01
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i have my main icons and everything on the left of the left screen (primary) where you'd expect them and run any games i can in windowed, i keep my taskbar on the right so i can still toggle between apps and things without windows menu effects coming over my game window stuttering the pc to 0.5fps. i generally have my right monitor full of msn windows and do everything else on the left, ie the more important it is the further left of my screen goes.
having the taskbao on the right also means windows apps can fill the whole screen, nit just down to the taskbar, and i can still see the taskbar.

there is no way i am aware of to prevetn a fullscreene app minimizing when it loses focus, just use maximised windowed games where posible, if you have to run at a lower resolution that you normally have the screen it isn't much hassle to drop the resolution to make the window fill the screen.

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