Loki Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 My question is simple: I want to run dual monitors on my computer but I would like to know how this would affect gameing or if it would even affect my gameing in any way. Part of what I would like to know is would the game immage be split to both monitors or would It play normally? Thanks in advance, Loki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Whats your graphics card like? I've only got a Nvidia 6200 256mb agp card, but it appears to be enough to drive gaming on both a monitor and a TV at the same time. This was on X-Plane, I had an external chase view and a cockpit at around 30fps on both, at 1047 by 768. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 I don't have the card yet because I was wondering how it would affect my gameing such as would the image be displayed on bot monitors or would it be displayed normally. I just wanted a little information before I go buying anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 I run dual monitors off my dev/game pc using a radeon x850xt plat. and it doesnt inpact game performance. games start in the primary monitor and get great frames. i play most of my games in a window with irc in the secondary monitor so that i can quickly switch back and forth. good stuff. oh, and if you're going to go dual you might want to google for the program "ultramon", it's really nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 The nvidia drivers allow you to have a single stretched virtual monitor on both screens, 2 individual monitors or cloned displays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 yeah i just use the built in windows stuff, extended desktop. works nice. ive played with the nvidia stuff before too. once a long time ago i got really bored and setup a machine with 3 video cards (one agp, two pci) and ran unreal tournament across all 3 in software rendering mode. it ran pretty bad but looked awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 Thanks for the help, really cleared things up for me. well it looks like im going shopping tomorrow. This sucks i just got paid and im going to be broke before tuesday oh well its worth it 8) thanks again, Loki Edit: I will be ordering the radeon x850xt from newegg tomorrow I should have it in about 3 or 4 days i can't wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpt Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 I know this is slightly off topic, but I just went to a dual monitor set up, and it is great. Take a look at Ultramon or Multi-mon. I've been using ultramon (free for ~30 days) and it provides a lot of multi-monitor support that is missing from XP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted October 19, 2006 Author Share Posted October 19, 2006 Ive changed the card I was getting so now i have a new question, If I install the dual monitor card is there any way that I can use both the Dual monitor card and my onboard graphics so that I can have a total of 3 monitors? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Yes, windows should be able to do this no problem (thats the advantage of windows, it's easy to configure... relativly). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari6502 Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 One problem. Most on board video uses the agp bus and is inactivated when you plug something into the agp slot. If it's a pci-e I would imagine it works the same. What model motherboard is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 For a turnkey solution you might want to look into Matrox cards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeGrijze Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 All do i do'nt play game i can tell you that working with dubbel (or more) monitors on a windows box is sweet. On my workingstation i have 2 monitors on a some what older matrox G400 dual monitor (AGP) card. Gerard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted October 19, 2006 Author Share Posted October 19, 2006 The card is PCI express I don't know the exact model at the moment right now, Im away from my home computer at the moment so when I get home I will post my system specs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted October 19, 2006 Author Share Posted October 19, 2006 Okay, now that Im back in front of my PC: My onboard video is an intigrated ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 the dual monitor card I want to buy is: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16814150189 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari6502 Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Looks like a nice card. Fanless, quiet, nice. It looks tall though. Hope you have room in yer case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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