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The cranky hermit:
I have one computer and two monitors, connected to a Geforce 6800nu AGP 8X. It is set to dualView mode, which is necessary because the primary monitor is widescreen, and the secondary monitor is 4:3. Both are LCDs. MAME32 is set up so that the front-end runs on the primary monitor, and the game runs on the secondary monitor.

I would like to use a lightgun with the secondary monitor, but my worry is that when I fire it at the secondary monitor, the hits will only register on the primary monitor. Is it possible to get the LCD Topgun to behave correctly on a secondary monitor, and if so, what do I need to do?

kagem:
From what I understand of the Topgun, the monitor has nothing to do with it at all.  All the gun sees are the led stands which you place at the sides of the monitor.  So it should work fine for you, but since I don't have one and I'm basing this only on what I've read about it, you might want to wait for confirmation from someone else.

Lilwolf:
Yup... it would work with 4 monitors stacked if your video card handled it...  Or a picture frame on the wall (cant think how you could use it).  But more useful is projection screens or some other non-standard monitor.

The cranky hermit:
I don't think my question is understood. I know that I won't have any problems firing at my secondary monitor and having it register a hit. My concern is WHERE the hit is registered. I assume that if I mounted the led stands on a picture frame and fired at the picture frame, it would register hits on my primary monitor. If that is the case, why would it be any different if I mounted the led stands on the secondary monitor and fired at the secondary monitor?

Silver:
I see what you are asking.

The issue is actually an OS/Mame one - you will be able to calibrate the topgun so just "see" the 2nd monitor. I assume when using a mouse in windows, you can move across both monitors in one motion (ie the mouse spans both monitos - I'm guessing here as never used dualview). How this is interpreted by mame - while mame has focus - is the key.

If I recall, when using a mouse in lightgun games on a dual monitor setup, while mame has "focus", all movements of the mouse are restricted to the second monitor where mame is - you physically can't get the mouse pointer to appear on the primary monitor. I would *guess* that as such, the gun(s) would perfectly.

I'm sure someone with the topguns has 2 monitors (I don't otherwise would test). But they need to test when in a similar "spanning" mode, not just a screen cloned mode.

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