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Playing games on Dual Monitors?
Hi, I had a simple question that I just can't find the answer to. I have two
monitors, a 32" LCD and a 19" CRT. I am running a dual monitor setup (extended desktop) and I want my primary to be the CRT and secondary the LCD. I know how to do that. However, what I wanted was to play my games in the LCD, but everytime I try I can't get them to play in the LCD. They always play in my CRT. The only way to play is to use my LCD monitor as a primary, and I do not want to do that. Is there a way to get the games to play in your secondary monitor? PS- I'm running vista 32Bit |
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Playing games on Dual Monitors?
Can't you reduce the screen size of game and drag to other monitor? I can
here. "Helpmeplease!!!!" wrote in message ... Hi, I had a simple question that I just can't find the answer to. I have two monitors, a 32" LCD and a 19" CRT. I am running a dual monitor setup (extended desktop) and I want my primary to be the CRT and secondary the LCD. I know how to do that. However, what I wanted was to play my games in the LCD, but everytime I try I can't get them to play in the LCD. They always play in my CRT. The only way to play is to use my LCD monitor as a primary, and I do not want to do that. Is there a way to get the games to play in your secondary monitor? PS- I'm running vista 32Bit |
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Playing games on Dual Monitors?
"Helpmeplease!!!!" wrote in
message ... Hi, I had a simple question that I just can't find the answer to. I have two monitors, a 32" LCD and a 19" CRT. I am running a dual monitor setup (extended desktop) and I want my primary to be the CRT and secondary the LCD. I know how to do that. However, what I wanted was to play my games in the LCD, but everytime I try I can't get them to play in the LCD. They always play in my CRT. The only way to play is to use my LCD monitor as a primary, and I do not want to do that. Is there a way to get the games to play in your secondary monitor? "Spirit" wrote in message ... Can't you reduce the screen size of game and drag to other monitor? I can here. It depends on the game, some games don't let you go to "Windowed Mode" and move the window around and on a lot of systems your primary monitor (Assuming you're using 2 different connections on the SAME video card) has the majority of your graphic processing power, and the secondary monitor is just there for basic use like extended desktop stuff. If you have a really powerful video card then you might be able to do this on SOME games, but MOST games that use DirectX you have to run on your Primary monitor. Short Question: Is there a way? Short Answer: Depends on the game, but usually No. |
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Playing games on Dual Monitors?
On just a bout all of my games i have i can window them.. as a matter of fact, out of about 18 games or so everyone i have got windowed ones like MW2 and COD4 those were more difficult though because they didnet give the option i went into my profile folder and put in the cfg_map or something like that /r_fullscreen 1 (sorry for spelling guys ) -- Coryrbk |
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Playing games on Dual Monitors?
Helpmeplease!!!!;381845 Wrote: Hi, I had a simple question that I just can't find the answer to. I have two monitors, a 32" LCD and a 19" CRT. I am running a dual monitor setup (extended desktop) and I want my primary to be the CRT and secondary the LCD. I know how to do that. However, what I wanted was to play my games in the LCD, but everytime I try I can't get them to play in the LCD. They always play in my CRT. The only way to play is to use my LCD monitor as a primary, and I do not want to do that. Is there a way to get the games to play in your secondary monitor? PS- I'm running vista 32Bit Hey! I've been having the same exact dilemma! I've been looking for some kind of software that can allow you to choose which screen to play a game on, even if the game doesn't support it from in-game options. I think.. the ONLY way i see this being done feasibly is to have some kind of launcher that changes the primary display to the 32" screen before launching the game, then resets back the settings once you exit the game. i'm sure someone with basic programming skills can devise this kind of app!? ... anyone? -- kuwlij |
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Playing games on Dual Monitors?
kuwlij;1241872 Wrote: Helpmeplease!!!!;381845 Wrote: Hi, I had a simple question that I just can't find the answer to. I have two monitors, a 32" LCD and a 19" CRT. I am running a dual monitor setup (extended desktop) and I want my primary to be the CRT and secondary the LCD. I know how to do that. However, what I wanted was to play my games in the LCD, but everytime I try I can't get them to play in the LCD. They always play in my CRT. The only way to play is to use my LCD monitor as a primary, and I do not want to do that. Is there a way to get the games to play in your secondary monitor? PS- I'm running vista 32Bit Hey! I've been having the same exact dilemma! I've been looking for some kind of software that can allow you to choose which screen to play a game on, even if the game doesn't support it from in-game options. I think.. the ONLY way i see this being done feasibly is to have some kind of launcher that changes the primary display to the 32" screen before launching the game, then resets back the settings once you exit the game. i'm sure someone with basic programming skills can devise this kind of app!? ... anyone? There is no really easy way to do this. The only way that it could feasably be done would be to pass keyboard signals to the computer, to open up Display Properties and make the necessary changes, all through the automated keyboard. Richard -- niemiro If you are expecting a response from me, and do not have one within 24 hours, PM me. |
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Playing games on Dual Monitors?
niemiro;1244139 Wrote: kuwlij;1241872 Wrote: Helpmeplease!!!!;381845 Wrote: Hi, I had a simple question that I just can't find the answer to. I have two monitors, a 32" LCD and a 19" CRT. I am running a dual monitor setup (extended desktop) and I want my primary to be the CRT and secondary the LCD. I know how to do that. However, what I wanted was to play my games in the LCD, but everytime I try I can't get them to play in the LCD. They always play in my CRT. The only way to play is to use my LCD monitor as a primary, and I do not want to do that. Is there a way to get the games to play in your secondary monitor? PS- I'm running vista 32Bit Hey! I've been having the same exact dilemma! I've been looking for some kind of software that can allow you to choose which screen to play a game on, even if the game doesn't support it from in-game options. I think.. the ONLY way i see this being done feasibly is to have some kind of launcher that changes the primary display to the 32" screen before launching the game, then resets back the settings once you exit the game. i'm sure someone with basic programming skills can devise this kind of app!? ... anyone? There is no really easy way to do this. The only way that it could feasably be done would be to pass keyboard signals to the computer, to open up Display Properties and make the necessary changes, all through the automated keyboard. Richard You're thinking as in some kind of macro playback thing?.. hmm.. well since my post I tried fiddling about with a program called Ultramon. a feature of this prog is that it can save a kind of customized display setting to a file which changes to it upon double click (or run).. so what i did was set 2 profile settings, one with TV as primary then another with 19" monitor as primary.. then in notepad typed in something like this: c:\(path and filename to TV as primary) c:\(path and filename to game exe file) c:\(path and filename to monitor as primary) save this as a .bat file and use it as a launcher of the game you wanna see full screen on the TV :-D i guess, this is the closest we'll ever get. -- kuwlij |
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kuwlij;1244689 Wrote: niemiro;1244139 Wrote: kuwlij;1241872 Wrote: Hey! I've been having the same exact dilemma! I've been looking for some kind of software that can allow you to choose which screen to play a game on, even if the game doesn't support it from in-game options. I think.. the ONLY way i see this being done feasibly is to have some kind of launcher that changes the primary display to the 32" screen before launching the game, then resets back the settings once you exit the game. i'm sure someone with basic programming skills can devise this kind of app!? ... anyone? There is no really easy way to do this. The only way that it could feasably be done would be to pass keyboard signals to the computer, to open up Display Properties and make the necessary changes, all through the automated keyboard. Richard You're thinking as in some kind of macro playback thing?.. hmm.. well since my post I tried fiddling about with a program called Ultramon. a feature of this prog is that it can save a kind of customized display setting to a file which changes to it upon double click (or run).. so what i did was set 2 profile settings, one with TV as primary then another with 19" monitor as primary.. then in notepad typed in something like this: c:\(path and filename to TV as primary) c:\(path and filename to game exe file) c:\(path and filename to monitor as primary) save this as a .bat file and use it as a launcher of the game you wanna see full screen on the TV :-D i guess, this is the closest we'll ever get. The problem is that there is no official API for the job. Some people have reverse engineered an API, but these go out of date and are often riddled with bugs. I will look into that program and see how it works. Richard -- niemiro If you are expecting a response from me, and do not have one within 24 hours, PM me. |