Playing SRO on Dual Screens

Kamakura · Post by **Kamakura** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:09 pm

I using a dual screen atm with my laptop since my old comp got fried....

How do i choose which screen I can play sro on, I try draggin the icon, the start menu, etc onto my other screen but it keeps loading on my smaller laptop screen. I wanna play on the big one!! >< help!

TyeMaiShu · Post by **TyeMaiShu** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:46 pm

Kamakura wrote:I using a dual screen atm with my laptop since my old comp got fried....

How do i choose which screen I can play sro on, I try draggin the icon, the start menu, etc onto my other screen but it keeps loading on my smaller laptop screen. I wanna play on the big one!! >< help!

um i think you have to right click on the desktop on the bigger monitor, then go to properties>settings. then click the drop down menu and change the display: to the first slot on the graphics card (the one that doesnt say secondary) then you check extend my windows desktop onto this monitor and also "use this as my primary monitor". I've never tried this but it should definitely work.

PsYch008 · Post by **PsYch008** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:20 pm

TyeMaiShu wrote:
Kamakura wrote:I using a dual screen atm with my laptop since my old comp got fried....

How do i choose which screen I can play sro on, I try draggin the icon, the start menu, etc onto my other screen but it keeps loading on my smaller laptop screen. I wanna play on the big one!! >< help!

um i think you have to right click on the desktop on the bigger monitor, then go to properties>settings. then click the drop down menu and change the display: to the first slot on the graphics card (the one that doesnt say secondary) then you check extend my windows desktop onto this monitor and also "use this as my primary monitor". I've never tried this but it should definitely work.

this is correct.

ghostslave · Post by **ghostslave** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:13 pm

Can you help me out, I tried something similar and it did not work.

I have an extra monitor and the cables to make my screens connect but I cant play 2 games at once.

What I wanted to do was play SRO on one screen then Halflife/9 dragons/ browse the web whatever on the other.

But everytime I try to dual screen it stretches my desktop to the other one (Like half my wallpaper on monitor 1 and 2) or its only a clone.

How do I make the second monitor an extra window to do stuff in and can I play 2 full screen games with one graphics card?

PsYch008 · Post by **PsYch008** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:18 pm

ghostslave wrote:Can you help me out, I tried something similar and it did not work.

I have an extra monitor and the cables to make my screens connect but I cant play 2 games at once.

What I wanted to do was play SRO on one screen then Halflife/9 dragons/ browse the web whatever on the other.

But everytime I try to dual screen it stretches my desktop to the other one (Like half my wallpaper on monitor 1 and 2) or its only a clone.

How do I make the second monitor an extra window to do stuff in and can I play 2 full screen games with one graphics card?

cant play two games at once... unless you run them both in window mode, but my guess is they would run like shit.

Beaver · Post by **Beaver** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:19 pm

make your bigger monitar the primrary monitar

ghostslave · Post by **ghostslave** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:33 pm

Ah BINGO.

Window mode will have to do, except sro has none...I will figure something out.

But for making the extra monitor an extra screen I have to make the bigger monitor primary or is it suppose to stretch?

PsYch008 · Post by **PsYch008** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:37 pm

SRO does have window mode, i forgot the f key you push, but it is one of the f keys or something like that, i d k.

[SD]happynoobing · Post by **[SD]happynoobing** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:37 pm

ghostslave wrote:Window mode will have to do, except sro has none...I will figure something out.

yes it does, press window key + shift + enter for window mode. im pretty sure that's the combo.

PsYch008 · Post by **PsYch008** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:39 pm

to make it work, put one of your monitors as primary, and one as secondary, and set it to "extend my windows desktop to this monitor" on your second monitor. then you can window mode two games and put one on each screen by draggin one over to the other screen.

but unless you have a SCREAMING computer... this will lag like no other.

also, the way to get it to work the best... my guess anyway... would be to have 2 separate hard drives with each game you want to run installed on a different hard drive so that the drive wont have to load two different games at once.

good luck.

Priam · Post by **Priam** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 7:42 am

one screen doing Teh SRO thing, and the other for example on MSN, IRC would work lagfree right?

Kamakura · Post by **Kamakura** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:42 am

thanks, i c exaclty what you mean except when i do that it grays out the option to "use this as my primary monitor" T_T..

still need help

heres an image i uploaded..the img might look weird since the dimensions of my screen arnt 4:3 like most of urs ><

Kamakura · Post by **Kamakura** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 12:19 pm

bummpp

Kamakura · Post by **Kamakura** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:04 pm

bump..

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