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CRT vs LCD 70% surfing, working & 30% games which is better
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: pointdablame on July 27, 2005, 12:52:45 pm ---Chad - I won't be much help with a dual vid card setup, but Ultramon does a lot of stuff for you, so it just may help.
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pointdablame:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on July 27, 2005, 12:54:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: pointdablame on July 27, 2005, 12:52:45 pm ---Chad - I won't be much help with a dual vid card setup, but Ultramon does a lot of stuff for you, so it just may help. You may also have to do something in your BIOS to allow PCI video cards??? not sure but it might be worth a look.
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I did make the bios change... but all that did was specify which one took control, I didn't find a way to make it use them both.
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In my experience, windows won't enable the second monitor until you tell it to. That might have been it.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: pointdablame on July 27, 2005, 12:56:01 pm ---In my experience, windows won't enable the second monitor until you tell it to.
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quarterback:
--- Quote from: pointdablame on July 27, 2005, 12:26:17 pm --- its just one big desktop across two screens.
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pointdablame:
--- Quote from: quarterback on July 27, 2005, 01:41:51 pm ---
Hey pointdablame,
I've got a dual monitor setup on my editing workstation but I use the ATI untility that was included with my dual-headed video card. I remember it took me a while to get it up and working, but now it's good to go. Honestly, I'm a little leery about messing with it, because it's working now. But, how much 'better' is "Ultramon" than everything else? You think it would be worth my while?
Thanks
qb
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Well, in theory, Ultramon isn't really much more than an 'updated' form of the ATI utility or Windows Display Properties. Changes made within Ultramon affect the windows display properties, so by installing it, you should still be up and running with no problems since it should use the settings you already have set.
If all you want is two screens, then you don't need Ultramon. Really you never "need" Ultramon, it just has a lot of nice features I enjoy. It brings all your options to a taskbar icon. You can set up different profiles for different times (gaming, work, browsing, etc) which will automatically change your resolution and preferences for those situations. You can add and remove those buttons I mentioned to span two screens and pop to the other screen. You can add a task bar to your second display and tell it to be independent or a mirror of the normal task bar. There are just a lot of nice little tweaks that are very easily controlled because of Ultramon.
It is very simple to set up screensavers and backgrounds independently in Ultramon. Again, you can do this without Ultramon, but it's just very handy. You can disable screens with a mouse click, make shortcuts, etc.
I'd say its worth a shot. I doubt very much it'll mess with your current setup, and you just might find it useful. If not, uninstalling it doesn't affect any previous settings either to my knowledge, so you won't break anything.