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Title: Sharing computer? (between 2 monitors)
Post by: Demon-Seed on January 16, 2015, 04:38:12 pm

Hey Guys
I have a games room and want to have a computer with hyper spin and wireless game pads connect to my LCD tv. I know video cards now have HDMI out so that is not an issue, but I want to have an arcade cabinet beside it, can I share the computer between the arcade and the tv?

Title: Re: Sharing computer? (between 2 monitors)
Post by: nexusmtz on January 26, 2015, 08:33:14 pm

Do you mean that you want to use one computer to run independent hyperspin instances on both monitors?

With Windows, you'll run into more frustrations than you might initially expect because of screen mode changes, exclusive full-screen modes, active window limitations, and single-instance program design.

If you just mean that you want to be able to switch the video between the two without cable swapping, that's possible with Windows 7's displayswitch.exe, NirSoft's nircmd setdisplay (http://nircmd.nirsoft.net/setdisplay.html), or 12noon's DisplayChanger (http://12noon.com/?page_id=80)

You can also clone your display output to both monitors using those programs, or, if both monitors are hdmi and have the same native resolution, you could use an hdmi splitter to clone the display.