Full view across two monitors?

falcon409

falcon409

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I've had a dual monitor setup for a long time now and normally use the secondary screen for pop ups, etc. Now I'd like to experiment with a full view across both monitors. I've done some searching on other forums and every one I find has a different take on how that is accomplished. So I'm coming to the one place I figure I may get a straight answer. Both monitors are plugged into the same graphics card, an NVidia 9600GT w/512RAM. . .both monitors run at the same resolution (1440x900).

Is what I want to do possible with what I have, or will this cost me "big time"?
 
Have a look at this Falcon409


Span mode (also called stretched mode): in this mode, all the monitors connected to a single video card form a single large monitor. Windows thinks that you are using a single monitor instead of 2 or more, and each monitor needs to use the same resolution and color depth settings, and usually also the same refresh rate.
This mode is mainly useful for forcing applications which have no native multi-monitor support to use all available monitors. For example most games will only run on the primary monitor, and in span mode all monitors form a single large primary monitor.
When using span mode, Display Properties will usually show the primary monitor running at a widescreen resolution, for example 2048x768 (2 monitors at 1024x768 each), with the secondary monitor disabled.
To enable video card-specific multi-monitor modes, you usually need to disable the secondary monitor(s) connected to the video card, then open advanced display properties for the primary monitor, select the video card manufacturer's custom settings tab and select the multi-monitor mode you want to use.
For more on the multi-monitor modes supported by the various video card manufacturers, take a look at one of the following reviews: ATI review, Matrox review, Nvidia review.
 
Harleyman, that's something I noticed with the latest drivers I'm running for my NVidia 9600GT, the NView options tab is no longer available. Now the only options I have for my two monitors is to designate which is primary and which is secondary. I used to have options for "Dualview", "Clone", "Horizontal Span", etc. but not any more. Bummer!
 
Wow...No Kidding......


Just gotta love Nvidia at times....

Thats crazy of them to leave that option out....Man..What next... Might need to roll back that driver.....
 
harleyman said:
Wow...No Kidding......Just gotta love Nvidia at times....That's crazy of them to leave that option out....Man..What next... Might need to roll back that driver.....
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Did some more checking and those modes are only available in XP, not Vista. So does Vista have another "built in" way of accomplishing this or is it just not able to span horizontally?

I am so very close to dumping Vista for XP
 
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