here's the scenario. i have an ati radeon 9600 witha dvi and dsub port. i've had my widescreen 17" hooked up the dvi for a while but tonight i hooked up my old 17" to the dsub in hopes of a dual monitor setup. what i ended up with was not quite was i expected.
i want to be able to play counterstrike (pc game) fullscreen on my widescren monitor then be able to interact on the 2nd screen while im waiting to play. however, when i click on somethin on the second screen, counterstrike minimizes on the first screen.
anyone know what i should do?
2006-07-31 20:55:56 · 5 answers · asked by ekimollidrac 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Monitors
Both monitors need to be the same size and same resolution for it to properly work. You should also make sure you're running the latest ATI Catayst driver on your system as well.
Although I don't do any gaming with my setup. I'm running a dual monitor setup with the same video card as you. When I first tried to setup my monitors I could only get one to really work and the other would be way out of whack. Once I downloaded the latest ATI Catalyst driver, everything ran fine.
Also, with the Catalyst driver you can assign certain programs/windows to open up and run on a specific monitor.
2006-08-03 07:56:58 · answer #1 · answered by Serious Business 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have dual monitor and have played shoot em up games on my setup. 99.9% of the time my games will only play in the primary screen if your monitors are set to dual view. Not sure if this will work with clone view for your two monitors. Playing a game in clone view or horizontal view will only slow down your pc and over run your video card. The only games I have seen work in clone view for me is the Mame32 games lol. If playing a game your better off using one monitor. Dual monitor to me is only good for programming/web design.
2006-08-01 14:11:03 · answer #2 · answered by technigalnz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
coz dual monitor is really only extended desktop
great if using programs and want 1 on each open
but yea, cs if you do something on 1 screen itll affect both.
2006-07-31 21:06:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure, this may properly be done. i ought to represent that you purchase a video card from XFX. A GeForce 8600 or better ought to do the pastime. you merely choose one card to have twin video reveal instruments yet when you're heavy into gaming you could get 2 playing cards and tie them which includes SLI mode. regrettably, at the same time as the SLI mode is on you could merely use one video reveal for gaming. yet you could choose which video reveal to apply if one is better than the different. at the same time as SLI mode is off, you may have a pastime or action picture occurring one video reveal at the same time as surfing the web and checking your digital mail on the different.
2016-11-27 05:31:14 · answer #4 · answered by peirson 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
then open two separate counter strikes acct to both played on 2 monitors.
2006-08-01 14:32:57 · answer #5 · answered by lepactodeloupes 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋