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Bishop_Six · Posted: Fri May 25, 2001 6:24 pm

Can someone explain to me or point me in the direction to find out how having dual monitors works. It baffles me.

8105 · Posted: Fri May 25, 2001 8:22 pm

Well Dual Monitors is actually quite simple, You need windows 98 or ME, 2 Video cards, one AGP and one PCI or 2 PCI, and 2 monitors, once you have em all setup and installed goto the Display settings in Windows, Right Click on your Desktop and go to Properties, once in you click on the Settings tab and you should have two monitors and you can arrange em in any way you want, Cool?

8105

Frankie V · Posted: Fri May 25, 2001 11:07 pm

If you are using Win2000 browse to display.chm under winnt/Help

All others (MS) look for the file display.txt under the os directory. This file will inform you on what video cards are compatable.

Also get this program.
http://www.entechtaiwan.com/ps.htm

Else for complete info
http://www.google.com/search?q=multi+monitor

Frost · Posted: Sat May 26, 2001 7:20 am

note: Some cards nowadays can power 2 monitors, so you don't need 2 video cards.

Bishop_Six · Posted: Sat May 26, 2001 9:25 am

Do you know what any of these cards are, frost?

koshime · Posted: Sat May 26, 2001 9:41 am

well, I have a nice 3D Labs Oxygen VX-1 card on Win2K. What appropriate card would complement it in PCI and how the world deos one install it, so you can have a nice setup of Rendering in one monitor, and digital output/photoshop in the other?

Koshime

Eudaimic · Posted: Sat May 26, 2001 9:59 am

It's worth noting though, that the if you're using a PCI and an AGP card in unison with Windows 2000, the Bios has to be set to boot the PCI card first. The reasons for this are technical, and to be honest I haven't really taken the time to figure out why they could do it with win98, but not W2k... oh well.

The cool thing though, is that after 2K starts it brings the AGP to be the primary card again, which is really really nice.

One of the reasons this is nice, is because OpenGL doesn't work if you're in multimonitor mode (at least not on most systems anyway, I don't know about dualhead gfx cards though). So for you to play an OpenGL game you have to shut off multimon. support. And if your PCI card (in my case an S3 Virge) is the primary card, you wouldn't be able to play, as the AGP card is the secondary, and thus would be the monitor you shut off... Not making much sense am I... well it's late

I suggest getting UltraMon 2.0, it can be reached from
here.

And a little info on wallpapers

Hope that helps a bit

Eudaimic · Posted: Sat May 26, 2001 11:33 pm

Here's some more multimonitor fun:
A MultiMonitor Forum
DAMN!! Multimonitor Gaming like you wouldn't believe it!
And some wallpaper info and downloads.

Jaysin · Posted: Sat May 26, 2001 11:34 pm

Bishop_Six: Some cards that can do Dual monitor off on card are the Matrox G400/G450 line with "Dual Head" and the GeForce 2 MX with "Twin View". Now if you're going out to buy one of these make sure it has the Twin View or Dual Head option since there are some models that don't.

Eudaimic: I had the same problem with Win2K and needing to have the PCI card listed first in the BIOS, but it's not always that way. More than likely whatever card you're using in your PCI slot is an older model and is not properly supported by Win2K (mine was an ATI All-in-wonder [first gen]). Once I upgraded my PCI card to a TNT having my AGP card set to primary was no problem.

The Dude · Posted: Thu May 31, 2001 1:46 pm

WARNING:

I had the Matrox G400 Dual Head and it worked wonderfully in W98 with 2 separate displays, however when I upgraded to W2K Pro I could only have one large desktop which stretched across both screens.

Matrox support told me that this is because the G400 only has one processor chip or something and 2K only recognizes it as one display.

At the time there were no plans for MS to fix this, but maybe they have now, I dunno.

Good luck.

[dude]
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