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Holy Crap! Dual Monitor Mame!
Howard_Casto:
Tried the rage 128, doesn't work.
Apparently on both the nvidia and ati end, it has to be the same card (dual headed). However, on other oses it appears that spanning is possible on different cards. It leads me to believe that what needs to be done is to write a generic driver or shell extension that simply modifies the "get system metrics" call to return the spanned res instead of two individual ones.
Any ideas?
Howard_Casto:
Tried hydravision (ati's dual monitor assistant) to see if it would help, the answer is "sorta".
Hydra vision allows the spanning of apps via software regardless of what your secondary video card is. The only problem is it supports the spanning of WINDOWED apps. I tried mame and in windowed mode it spanned quite nicely. The catch is it's in windowed mode (but the border can be easily removed via an api call. ) and it's doing the stretching via software. I got a whopping 7 fps on punchout doing this on two monitors at 1024x768. My guess it'd be playable at lower resolutions.
Hydravision also allows you to set individual app profiles, so it'd be possible to have mame automatically startup in this spanned mode upon each run.
This might be a more universal solution for using things like the avga, which should be supported by hydravision.
Hoopz:
MikeQ, relatively new on the forums but doing some awesome stuff with RandyT's Led-Wiz and PowerMame, works for ATI and writes drivers. Perhaps getting him involved here may help out. He has a lot on his plate now but maybe he can shed some light on this.
Dizzle:
Tried it last night with nView on the Playchoice and Punchout games. Very nice. I've got a compact cab, so I always wanted to mount another monitor (a smaller one, 15 inches or so) on the wall right above my cabinet maybe angled down slightly. The main thing I wanted to use it for was to display marquees of the game I was playing (swapable marquees!) as well as other artwork.
Alas, I have zero programming knowledge, so I guess I'll be dreaming about it unless dual monitor support really catches on. If anyone has any other ideas, it'd be great to hear 'em!
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