Dual monitor support?

[box124]

Hey guys i'm not quite sure where to put this thread so i took a guess.

Anyway i have 2 22" LCD Monitors and when i plug them in. Windows 7 does this weird thing were when you select the option to extend the desktop spanning from left to right. Instead of simply scrolling from the left screen to the right screen with your hand as you usually would with any OS, Windows 7 BETA somewhat reverses it were you have to scroll to the left from your 1st monitor to get the 2nd monitor.

(sorry if this is really confusing im having a differculty writing this also haha)

And if you select your monitor on your left to be your primary monitor, it will wont do that it will move the it to your right monitor instead so i decided to physically switch the monitors around on my desk to get it normal. but i don't like the idea of my computer telling me what to do hahaha.

I know its a beta OS but its still based somewhat on vista.

ive got the latest drivers for my graphics card and my graphics card is a NVIDIA 260GTX so its pretty meaty and it can do dual monitor fine on other os's

any of your input would be great guys

thanks

 

[LePoilu]

Hard to understand what you mean.. and if there's a question in your topic ...

But for what I understand. Windows don't know the physical position of your monitors on your desktop. By default it use "video output 1" for left monitor and "video output 2" for right monitor.
But if your left monitor is plugged on the "video output 2", you will have a windows desktop which doesn't correspond to the physical configuration.

I'm not at home so I can tel you exactly the way to do. But as under Vista and as under XP, you can change this settings under the "display settings" You just have to revert the "logical" position of your monitor, so the windows desktop will match to your physical configuration.

If nobody else help you before tonight (GMT+1 here) I'll tell you exactly what you have to do.

 

[z3r010]

In the screen resolution settings, just grab the monitor and move it to the other side.

 

[julian nold]

I, I am not quite sure what he is asking but I have a quite simmiliar question so I try it here frist.

I don't want to use my second monitor as a second "windows screen", I want both monitors to be used as one. :sarc:

I don't want a clone, but I want to see the task bar go from the left side of the left screen to the right side of the right screen

Now I have windows extend on the second screen.

THX 4 HELP

Greetings
Julian

 

[copernicus]

I, I am not quite sure what he is asking but I have a quite simmiliar question so I try it here frist.

I don't want to use my second monitor as a second "windows screen", I want both monitors to be used as one. :sarc:

I don't want a clone, but I want to see the task bar go from the left side of the left screen to the right side of the right screen

Now I have windows extend on the second screen.

THX 4 HELP

Greetings
Julian

You'll have to use a third party up to extend it, search the forum, there's two being developed currently.

 

[y0himba]

You'll have to use a third party up to extend it, search the forum, there's two being developed currently.

Question is, what would a newbie like myself search for? I blame old age for my lack of knowledge.

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[Lee]

Actually there is a simple answer to the question. . .simply plug in the left monitor into the left side video out on your video card, then do the same for the right side monitor. It works for me, and has since NT 5.0.

 

[y0himba]

You have obviously figured out the secret to spanning multiple monitors. Or did you not read the thread explaining the issue with no spanning support in Windows 7 and decide to give an answer that is not helpful, but looks incredibly cool?

If there are a couple of utilities being developed here, I am not finding them. I did a search for "span" and found 55 results, none of which mention a utility being developed.

I am very interested, so any help would be much appreciated.

 

[smarteyeball]

The closest your going to get to spanning is with ultramon. And that is only with windowed mode and not fullscreen.

Fullscreen H-Span is dead in Vista and Seven

 

[Antman]

You have obviously figured out the secret to spanning multiple monitors. Or did you not read the thread explaining the issue with no spanning support in Windows 7 and decide to give an answer that is not helpful, but looks incredibly cool? ...

Lee is a highly respected member of this forum. He does not have a reputation for playing games. Show some respect - did you test his proposition before you posted? If you did, report your results, not your opinion.

Anyway, the OP reversed his video ports. Moving the monitors instead of the cables was one solution, albeit a misunderstood one. Had the OP simply reversed his video cables, he would not have a problem. Seems to me that is exactly what Lee said.

 

[Night Hawk]

Precisely what Lee was pointing to there. When you look at the back of the case at the video card itself if it provides a primary and secondary port your left monitor would plugged direct to the primary for the usual desktop you would expect to see.

The seocnd monitor then goes to the secondary port. As far as stretching the taskbar over across both screens the one included in Windows won't be able to while a 3rd party toolbar RocketDock will continue to strech across both as long as you continue to add shortcuts to it.

 

[Lee]

Thank you fellow members for emphasizing the point I was attempting to make. Maybe he was having a bad day, oh well. Hopefully he will find a way to make his work.

DisplayFusion Pro I believe has the ability to extend the Task Bar across two screens. DisplayFusion can be found here.

 

[Night Hawk]

Display Fusion works great. There's one thing to point about it however is that mainly for any problems seen while gaming or with some tv tuner card apps. Simply right click on the icon to exit it once you have the wallpapers set and you won't have worries later!

 

[swarfega]

What sort of problems?

 

[Night Hawk]

Nothing major by any means. Most this is something you would tend to see with older programs, older games, etc. there while the newer programs supporting higher resolutions and multiple displays wouldn't even notice this.

I would have to recreate the same circumstances again in order to grab a few screens of how the display seems to shift from the first over to the second a bit. Once you exit Display fusion everything is instantly back to normal like nothing ever happened.

 

[swarfega]

Might be worth reporting this to the program's author. Ive not experienced anything myself while gaming.

 

[y0himba]

I am sure this has been asked, but I am old and searching through a billion posts is just beyond the patience of an old man.

Will multiple monitor spanning ever return to nVidia's drivers or to Windows Vista/7?

I miss playing games in 2880x900 and so forth. I am seriously considering downgrading to XP just for that reason.

 

[Night Hawk]

One of the two items noticed was not being able to close out the tuner card's application if the Display Fusion was active for an unknown reason there. When you went to click the X for closing that the X itself would simply flash each time until you were finally able to see that close on it's own. It's like the DF program was trying to set that as wallpaper.

Without DF running it then closes up instantly. The other was seen with an old 98-XP compatible pc game that otherwise still runs normally on the 64bit 7. I still have to reproduce the same circumstance I ran into when first try the DF program out to be more specific while that was also a minor problem likely from both wanting the same resources and not any real bug with DF itself.

I'm still trying to find a program that will stretch any game or program over full screen onto both which would good for some action titles or simulators for the full dual screen effect. DF is mainly for customizing your wallpapers between the two for seeing one stretched out or two separate background. The display settings in the control panel will only clone the first desktop onto the second which isn't quite the thing there.

In the windowed mode you can easily stretch WMP or most other windowed apps over with ease. For seeing this with full screen viewing that would be the plus for some 1st person as well as auto racing, flight simulator, and others there.

(I think two of us ended up on the same page for that! )

 

[Lee]

yOhimba,

Why down grade, use a Virtual Machine, hence, the best of both worlds.

 

[smarteyeball]

Will multiple monitor spanning ever return to nVidia's drivers or to Windows Vista/7?

No. At least not in the foreseeable future. Horizontal support was disabled when Vista introduced WDDM 1.0 (Windows Display Driver Model)

It's a Windows limitation, not drivers.

The was talk of H-Span support returning with WDDM 2.0, but nothing definite.

Like I said in a previous post, fullscreen H-Span is dead.