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 Posted: Thu, 20th May 2010 18:01 Post subject: How to split games over 2 monitors |
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Is it possible to split my games over 2 monitors ?
I did a bit of google but it didnt really answer my question so far.... just want to know if it's possible to for example play a game in split screen mode and use 2 monitors ?
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Ankh
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| Posted: Sat, 22nd May 2010 10:48 Post subject: |
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Nope.
You can use dual monitors on any gfx card - but to get a game to split into several screens you need either an adapter for it or the game need to support it.
Unless you mean that you want to play two copies of a game on 1 pc but two screens? That can be done - but it's not really recomended in anything apart from mmorpg's and such. I used to play a full group of players exping in Dark Age Of Camelot myself. Nerdish - yeah...but it was fun.
shitloads of new stuff in my pc. Cant keep track of it all.
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fisk
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| Posted: Sat, 22nd May 2010 10:53 Post subject: |
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Most games look like shit if you split them between two screens, due to the center of the screen always ending up in the middle (at the edges).
Yes, yes I'm back.
Somewhat.
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| Posted: Sat, 22nd May 2010 11:42 Post subject: |
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| fisk wrote: | | Most games look like shit if you split them between two screens, due to the center of the screen always ending up in the middle (at the edges). |
hehe, i have no idea if your kidding there fisk to be honest  but...
I think he meant one player on screen 1 and the other on screen 2
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Werelds
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| Posted: Sat, 22nd May 2010 16:05 Post subject: |
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Yes you can, might require a bit of fiddling though and it will require an ATI HD5xxx card. Turn on Eyefinity, and it should split the screens pretty nicely 
Alternatively you could go for two NVIDIA GTX4xx cards, but those are way too expensive, and I don't think the driver is ready yet. Their crappy alternative to ATI's Eyefinity is called "NVIDIA® 3D Vision Surround™". Also not a hardware solution, but a software solution.
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Ankh
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| Posted: Sat, 22nd May 2010 16:13 Post subject: |
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Then I stand corrected.
shitloads of new stuff in my pc. Cant keep track of it all.
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| Posted: Sat, 22nd May 2010 21:07 Post subject: |
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Guess i still have to wait a bit then
Thanks for the info anyway
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TSR69
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| Posted: Sat, 22nd May 2010 22:29 Post subject: |
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is anyone actually listning to the OP ? lol
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Werelds
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| Posted: Sat, 22nd May 2010 22:53 Post subject: |
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Pretty sure Eyefinity would do the trick to be honest. If you can give me a game that has split screen, and isn't a piece of shit like Split Second (I bet that one will crash if I try to run it through Eyefinity, seeing as it doesn't even support having a second monitor in the first place), I'll give it a try here.
Don't know what kind of a PC you have right now Lathieza, but you can get an HD5770 for around 130 euros, and that'll run most games flawlessly
Any specific game you want to try?
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| Posted: Sat, 22nd May 2010 23:03 Post subject: |
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Yeah.. Split second
I don't understand why everybody has that much issues using dual monitors with this game. I don't experience any at all. I'm thinking to upgrade my computer anyway in the next couple of months so i won't buy a new card atm.
Guess i have to wait a bit then
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