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Title: Vertical Windows
Post by: SteveJ34 on September 28, 2004, 12:46:21 am

At one point in time many moons ago I thought I ran across a method of modifying some version of windows for those that were running a vertical monitor setup so that windows itself was rotated 90 degrees

I thought it was something other than what is some times available with some video card settings.

I've searched for that without success this evening.

Anyone remember where I have seen this before or am I remembering something that doesn't exist?

Title: Re:Vertical Windows
Post by: Dave_K. on September 28, 2004, 12:55:11 am

Was it Pivot Pro?

http://personalcomputing.portrait.com/us/products/pp_overview.html (http://personalcomputing.portrait.com/us/products/pp_overview.html)

Title: Re:Vertical Windows
Post by: Howard_Casto on September 28, 2004, 12:57:34 am

Forget that low-performance software junk.  Do you have an ati radeon card or a newer geforce card?  You have hardware rotation then assuming you install the right drivers.  (Catalyst for ati, i'm not sure for nvidia cards).  

Unlike pivot pro this will actually work well.  

Title: Re:Vertical Windows
Post by: rchadd on September 28, 2004, 07:26:32 am

The ArcadeVGA (ATI radeon 7000) driver supports rotation by  +90, +180 and - 90 degrees.

I use the +180 because my monitor is upside down - it works like a dream!

Title: Re:Vertical Windows
Post by: daywane on September 28, 2004, 09:26:26 am

some thing every one takes for granted. to flip your screen with your video card (at least for mine) right click on the ati icon and a menu pops up to flip... I have had my card for some time before I found that I could do it  :-[
I had no problems with pivot pro. I do have over kill on memory maybe thats why or also the vertical games I play are the oldest games and are not CPU hogs

Title: Re:Vertical Windows
Post by: Minwah on September 28, 2004, 10:18:08 am

I actually found PivotPro worked surprisingly well on one of my old (333mhz) systems.

Of course, hardware rotation is much preferred...

Title: Re:Vertical Windows
Post by: rchadd on September 29, 2004, 12:23:32 pm

Quote from: rchadd on September 28, 2004, 07:26:32 am

The ArcadeVGA (ATI radeon 7000) driver supports rotation by  +90, +180 and - 90 degrees.

I use the +180 because my monitor is upside down - it works like a dream!

help!

correction - i thought it did...until i rebooted and then it reverted back to no rotation  :'(

any ideas on how to make the setting stay selected?

maybe edit the registry?

Title: Re:Vertical Windows
Post by: Lilwolf on September 29, 2004, 12:51:00 pm

I posted the registry entry needed to enable it ages ago.  Search and you should find it.  There is a chance that it changed in the latest ATI drivers with the new interface.  I don't rotate mine, so I didn't care.. .just when I found it (looking for other options) thought others might want it.

btw, its default enabled in XP and disabled in 98.  But works in both.  

This is only to show the rotation tab itself.

Title: Re:Vertical Windows
Post by: SirPoonga on September 29, 2004, 02:08:08 pm

Quote from: rchadd on September 28, 2004, 07:26:32 am

The ArcadeVGA (ATI radeon 7000) driver supports rotation by  +90, +180 and - 90 degrees.

I use the +180 because my monitor is upside down - it works like a dream!

The current arcadevga runs off a radeon 9200.