i have 2 monitors both are 1440x900 and when i run a game it only shows on 1 monitor. what am i doing wrong? do they both need to be DVI or something?
this is on my 8800 not my 570
this is on my 8800 not my 570
how do i enable dual monitor for games?
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i have 2 monitors both are 1440x900 and when i run a game it only shows on 1 monitor. what am i doing wrong? do they both need to be DVI or something?
this is on my 8800 not my 570
this is on my 8800 not my 570
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You have to enable nVidia surround in the control panel, which quite often doesn't work unless the monitors are identical (they need to have the same sync polarity, which is quite often not the same)
Besides, gaming on two is crap. The middle is divided by a bezel, so crosshairs will be split by it in FPS, you're not gonna see directly in front in racing and 1st person RPG games, in MMOs the character will be split in two, etc.
Just use one unless you have 3 displays. It's one or three or five. Not two or four or six.
Besides, gaming on two is crap. The middle is divided by a bezel, so crosshairs will be split by it in FPS, you're not gonna see directly in front in racing and 1st person RPG games, in MMOs the character will be split in two, etc.
Just use one unless you have 3 displays. It's one or three or five. Not two or four or six.
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will that work on an 8800?
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thats lame.. back when i had my 4870 i did this. oh well forget it then
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It won't even be worth it, you'll end up with a big ugly gap in the middle of your view. Unless you're using a racing sim that puts the driver off to the side, it won't look good.
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Aand it would require softTH with some tweaking to get games to go on 2 monitors.
Though XP did have span function. If you were still on XP at the time, that might've been it. But I didn't fiddle with monitor settings back when I had it, I wouldn't know.
Oh, on that note. Try softTH. Though you will have to make it work on 2 monitors, which requires some tweaking. You should be able to find some guides on how to accomplish that on google.
EDIT: Also some games, like just cause 2, codemasters new driving games, DAO, allow you to play in windowed mode and just stretch the game window on both screens. But these kinds of games are rare.
How did you do it? The ATI eyefinity which also allows this was introduced on the 5000 series.
Aand it would require softTH with some tweaking to get games to go on 2 monitors.
Though XP did have span function. If you were still on XP at the time, that might've been it. But I didn't fiddle with monitor settings back when I had it, I wouldn't know.
Oh, on that note. Try softTH. Though you will have to make it work on 2 monitors, which requires some tweaking. You should be able to find some guides on how to accomplish that on google.
EDIT: Also some games, like just cause 2, codemasters new driving games, DAO, allow you to play in windowed mode and just stretch the game window on both screens. But these kinds of games are rare.
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Eyefinity is for displaying 3+ monitors off of one card (they make special Eyefinity edition cards with 6 display ports). The 4870's could display 2 monitors natively.
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Though the definiton of eyefinity is to have 3 or more monitors in one ATI or AMD card, you can monitor group just two monitors in an eyefinity group. That's what I call 2 monitor eyefinity, because that's kind of how most people talk of it on the internet. The official meaning is not as popular.
The 4870 still couldn't monitor group though.
Well, I always replace the more formal naming "monitor grouping" with "eyefinity".
Though the definiton of eyefinity is to have 3 or more monitors in one ATI or AMD card, you can monitor group just two monitors in an eyefinity group. That's what I call 2 monitor eyefinity, because that's kind of how most people talk of it on the internet. The official meaning is not as popular.
The 4870 still couldn't monitor group though.
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Is it possible to play a DvD movie on one 1440x900 screen, and game on my main 1920x1080 screen? At the same time of course.
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ATi Surround i ran 2 off my 4870 and 1 off my onboard
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Running a game across two monitors is not 'surround' or 'eyefinity' and has been supported by many cards for a LONG TIME (although, it's been LAME for like 95% of games for just as long, for the above mentioned reasons).
I remember doing it on my 8800GTS back in like 2007. For about 2 minutes, before I realized it's totally un-workable with any game I played. I think it would work for like a flight sim where you can have the cockpit display on one monitor and the view out the window on the other. Aside from that, though ... no.
I remember doing it on my 8800GTS back in like 2007. For about 2 minutes, before I realized it's totally un-workable with any game I played. I think it would work for like a flight sim where you can have the cockpit display on one monitor and the view out the window on the other. Aside from that, though ... no.
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you mean like this?
download a program called softth if u need help using it let me know.
download a program called softth if u need help using it let me know.
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