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zer0
24th July 2005, 05:33
ok i want to play a movie in full screen mode on my tv and still be able to do something elts on my monitor like play a game or serf the web.

if anyone can give me some pointers on how to do this i would be very happy.
fivecheebs
24th July 2005, 11:40
Nview for Nvidia cards

Hydravision for ATI cards.

secondary monitor = TV then span desktop

Its pretty simple, if the card / driver supports it. I have however found some cards that d ostupid things. Nvidia's are generally better at multimonitors IMO
Starbuck3733T
24th July 2005, 19:02
I hated nview when it would only do multihead w\ two monitors by doing one giant virtual monitor. it was bad. I did some sort of BIOS hack to give me two seperate outputs (as it should be!) and then it was much better.

What tv tuner?
fivecheebs
24th July 2005, 19:14
hmmm ... i havent seen nview do it but i have had an ATI card do that (the 9000 in my HTPC). Big time pain in the rear with one virual monitor :/
dutchcedar
24th July 2005, 19:51
I don't understand the aversion to a large virtual monitor. Personally, I love it and can't imagine it any other way.

It was kinda tough with two monotors in the beginning because things opened in the center, where the monitors touched and with wide CRT bezels, that suxored. UltraMon software fixed the opening in the center thing.

With triple LCD's and thin bezels, its much better. <_<

http://207.104.48.209/Misc.WizDStuff/screeny.jpg
mrplow
24th July 2005, 20:00
ultramon for the win, deffo.

hydravision is arse.

just two screens here :( i feel so inadequate :lol:

http://www.techangel.co.uk/~mrplow/desk1107.jpg

they're even CRTs! :o)
zer0
24th July 2005, 20:24
well i have tryed a span with my tv however WMP and others tend to stretch the video to take up both screens
zer0
24th July 2005, 20:51
ok i got ultramon and it does what i want however i would realy like my tv to be above my monitor because it is physicly above my monitor and going sideways to get to the top screen is kinda annoying.

thanks for the recomendation tho.
jaguarking11
25th July 2005, 06:00
Dude if you want full screen vido on the scond monitor on a nvidia card enable video overlay. I have overlay permanently setup so it projects full screen video on my second monitor witch is either my tv or my ps1lcd isid my case. It acts as a second monitor as well as my samurise display monitor. I find that nvidia drivers are very good at this, some disagree but I have been running with nvidia since my old geforce2mx years back. I guess im used to nvidia drivers.
mrplow
26th July 2005, 18:49
ok i got ultramon and it does what i want however i would realy like my tv to be above my monitor because it is physicly above my monitor and going sideways to get to the top screen is kinda annoying.

thanks for the recomendation tho.

oh thats easy, you just drag the display in the normal display properties box into the place it really is.
zer0
26th July 2005, 22:15
oh thats easy, you just drag the display in the normal display properties box into the place it really is.

yeah easy for you but i didnt even know that was possable...

thanks

and jaguarking11 i just set that up thanks man (i put it to display on both)http://wizdforums.co.uk/images/smilies/thumb.gif