Second Monitor

adt · 17 Jun 2010

Hi guys,

I now have a second monitor and I need to set it up. I've connected it and it's working. I would like to use my primary monitor for gaming and the secondary for IM applications such as MSN. I've tried moving MSN into the secondary monitor and running a game on the primary. Everytime I pause the game, then click on MSN the game I have running on the primary monitor minimizes. Is there any way I can stop this from happening?

Looking forward to your suggestions :)

Product FRED · 17 Jun 2010

There's no way, unless you run the game in windowed-mode, maximized. Also, if you want your signature to show as a picture instead of a link, wrap [ sigpic ] [/ sigpic ] (no spaces) around the link.

adt · 17 Jun 2010

Thanks for the reply, Fred. I will have to run my games in windowed mode from now on.
And yeah I had the signature as an image but for some reason it got changed into a link.

archie123 · 17 Jun 2010

short answer...........no mate there isnt , you still have only one desktop its just spanned over two monitors , just imagine you have the one monitor and wanted to send an IM , it doesnt work any differantly because you have 2

Lordbob75 · 17 Jun 2010

I wish it was different, but as archie said, it must be windowed.

I have gotten quite used to this constraint with my dual setup, but its not too bad overall.

~Lordbob

archie123 · 18 Jun 2010

and the problem with windowed mode is it affects your framerate , which is another pain in the rear , i remeber getting a second monotor a few years ago thinking i could game on one and do stuff on the other , i was in for a shock

the wife bought a new laptop , i now have her old one sat next to me when im gaming

Its usefull as we have out own gaming servers so i can run the admin software on the lappy and kick people as i see fit without leaving the comfort of my game , but thats an expensive solution unless you have an old steam powered laptop like this one

Lordbob75 · 18 Jun 2010

archie123 said:

and the problem with windowed mode is it affects your framerate , which is another pain in the rear

Never seen that... What do you mean?

~Lordbob

Product FRED · 18 Jun 2010

Lordbob75 said:

archie123 said:

and the problem with windowed mode is it affects your framerate , which is another pain in the rear

Never seen that... What do you mean?

~Lordbob

Me neither. Aero (if activated) is still running in the background, as well as Explorer itself, whether or not the application is running in fullscreen.

zzz2496 · 18 Jun 2010

Lordbob, ProductFRED, some games drops framerate when ran in Windowed mode, not all... I have a Korean MMORPG, an old game, still stutters and drops framerate when ran in windowed mode (average FPS in windowed mode is around 30-40fps with stutters every now and then) but ran butter smooth in fullscreen mode (this game was released in 2002 or something..).

zzz2496

Lordbob75 · 18 Jun 2010

zzz2496 said:

Lordbob, ProductFRED, some games drops framerate when ran in Windowed mode, not all... I have a Korean MMORPG, an old game, still stutters and drops framerate when ran in windowed mode (average FPS in windowed mode is around 30-40fps with stutters every now and then) but ran butter smooth in fullscreen mode (this game was released in 2002 or something..).

zzz2496

Odd indeed.

~Lordbob