AC on dual monitor system? Possible?

[CheezeFace]

Does anyone know if this works? I have a dual-monitor system at work, and it's
very nice to have one display on one screen only. That way, I could have AC
Explorer, et c, constantly open on the second screen. Anyone know if this
should work?

[Greg R]

You can have it open, but you can't do anything with it. The main screen
takes over, so unless you alt+tab out you should be able to see what on the
second screen but not change it. Also if this is Windows 2000 a lot of the
time when you have the second video adaptor enabled AC acts weird and you
get the view screen all messed up. I think it depends on the video cards
being used.

Greg

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[John J. Case]

I don't think it's possible yet as to the way DirectX works. So unless
you play in software mode it might be impossible.

JJC

[MSweeney]

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if you are going to try it put AC in windowed mode and try.
all i got to say about that

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[Mike]

On 10 Sep 2001 11:56:50 -0500, MSweeney <mswe...@gcronline.com>
wrote:

>cheez...@aol.com (CheezeFace) wrote in
>news:20010910075058...@mb-de.aol.com:
>
>> Does anyone know if this works? I have a dual-monitor system at work,
>> and it's very nice to have one display on one screen only. That way, I
>> could have AC Explorer, et c, constantly open on the second screen.
>> Anyone know if this should work?
>
>if you are going to try it put AC in windowed mode and try.
>all i got to say about that
>

Well I don't have it in my active system (and DON'T plan on installing
it again) BUT my Matrox G400 Dual head worked just fine DISPLAYING a
second screen of whatever I wanted when I was playing Diablo 2. I was
using D3D mode but I couldn't interact with the stuff on the second
screen unless I alt-tabbed, another BUT, I never tried running D2 in a
window, it was always full screen. So if you are looking for a
PASSIVE second screen I'm sure you could find a solution. If you're
looking for a way to just actively move from the game to the other
screen without alt-tabbing, that would be much harder to achieve
without either a lot of research or buying stuff and just trying it.
Also the Matrox cards are NOT known for their blazing graphic speed
:^)
I had bought it to play with the dual head feature basically, I found
in my case it's NOT needed, YMMV.

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[-judas-]

Yes it does work - to a degree.

You can't use AC Explorer unless you alt-tab out, but if you have AC
Explorer Pro with route tracking enabled it's very handy for keeping track
of where you are and finding your corpse :-)

-judas-

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[Extell]

cheez...@aol.com (CheezeFace) wrote in
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> Does anyone know if this works? I have a dual-monitor system at work,

This does work. I read that one of the AC Dev team does this

[Nick Krapf]

I do it by running ac in window mode

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[Kraine of Frostfell]

yup... it works. but you still have to alt-tab to use acexplorer or
whatever

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I'm going to use my laptop to display the acexplorer window :)
Thats the good thing about client/server software.

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