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Dual monitor issues
Hevach
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I ran a few searches here, and turned up a couple threads, but they failed to help me with this one issue.
When I have a full screen program on my main monitor, any change in resolution also effects the second monitor. It stays at 1024x786, but windows and icons on it are thrown around and sometimes end up off screen to the right or on the main monitor behind the game. It's a pain to get offscreen icons back where they belong sometimes, too. Is there some way to make them stay where I put them? I found some links here on G&T for dual screen software, but so far they all left this problem in place.
My current setup: nVidia 8600 GT with my big monitor, nVidia 6150 LE (onboard crap - almost incapable of gaming) with a small monitor to the right of that.
When I have a full screen program on my main monitor, any change in resolution also effects the second monitor. It stays at 1024x786, but windows and icons on it are thrown around and sometimes end up off screen to the right or on the main monitor behind the game. It's a pain to get offscreen icons back where they belong sometimes, too. Is there some way to make them stay where I put them? I found some links here on G&T for dual screen software, but so far they all left this problem in place.
My current setup: nVidia 8600 GT with my big monitor, nVidia 6150 LE (onboard crap - almost incapable of gaming) with a small monitor to the right of that.
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Ultramon has a save icons position feature that will repply icon positions on startup, but I've never heard of icons defaulting back to the primary monitor when a fullscreen application is being run. Try setting your desktop icons to non-Auto Arrange?
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muh.
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SonicTK: http://www.kvms.com/dual-monitor-kvm-switch.asp
One of those should work for you, but they aren't cheap. Maybe some more searching would turn up something affordable. Alternately, a cheap second KVM might work too - make sure it's one that will work with just the monitor (I've run into some that won't work at all unless all their ports are connected, and others that will just switch what you do plug in).
I'm not sure that getting a 2nd Flip will work, that's why I don't want to try unless I know it will, but I have never heard of anyone with my setup before, so...
And as far as gaming goes, I can still snipe fine in BF2 and most recently TF2, so I don't really notice any lag here. Of course, I am a non-twitch gamer (sensitivity 0.001) so yea, maybe I might not notice it.
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