Multi-Monitor Support

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May 23 2007, 8:27 am
I just plugged in an old monitor, and I got it to split screen quite well... (my main screen is on my laptop, and the secondary on the monitor)

ONE problem! If I'm running a full screen game on one of the monitors, if I click on the other monitor that's just playing the game, the monitor that's playing the game gets all funky (because it thinks I clicked off the game into another window)

Is there a way to fix it to where I can play a fullscreen game on one monitor, but do stuff on the other monitor without them disrupting them?
May 23 2007, 9:09 am
Flame Sage wrote:
I just plugged in an old monitor, and I got it to split screen quite well... (my main screen is on my laptop, and the secondary on the monitor)

ONE problem! If I'm running a full screen game on one of the monitors, if I click on the other monitor that's just playing the game, the monitor that's playing the game gets all funky (because it thinks I clicked off the game into another window)

Is there a way to fix it to where I can play a fullscreen game on one monitor, but do stuff on the other monitor without them disrupting them?

try running the game in windowed mode.
May 23 2007, 9:10 am
In response to Shlaklava
The thing is, I want it in Fullscreen Mode :(
May 23 2007, 9:51 am
In response to Flame Sage
The thing is, I want it in Fullscreen Mode :(

Then no you can't because clicking outside the full screen is making the program lose focus which is essentially the same thing as an alt+tab. So exactly how well the game handles it depends on how well it handles a task switch. Though I know some games do have a full screen windowed mode which looks just like full screen only done in a window which makes them handle task switching much better.
May 23 2007, 10:19 am
In response to Theodis
Theodis wrote:
The thing is, I want it in Fullscreen Mode :(

Then no you can't because clicking outside the full screen is making the program lose focus which is essentially the same thing as an alt+tab. So exactly how well the game handles it depends on how well it handles a task switch. Though I know some games do have a full screen windowed mode which looks just like full screen only done in a window which makes them handle task switching much better.

That reminds me. Why do some people who make flash games make the screen bigger than the actual window can handle? You have to scroll around just to play the game, and some games look like the wont even fit in full screen.
May 23 2007, 10:29 am
In response to Evil-Inuyasha
Most of us aren't using 800x600 resolution anymore, Evil-Inuyasha.
May 23 2007, 11:02 am
In response to PirateHead
I have seen games that go off the screen in 1024xwhatever. I just don't remember them being up for long.