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Ummon:

--- Quote from: headkaze on April 01, 2008, 02:37:46 am ---I have two LCD's sitting next to each other and my desktop stretches across the two screens. This means I can browse the web on one monitor and watch a video on the other. Dual monitor is actually really handy. Most video cards have a VGA out and a digital out. I have the digital out converted to VGA so I can have two of the same model LCD's running side by side.

There are some good uses for dual monitor setup in Mame as well. For example GameEx has a feature called "Game Extender" where you can display the Mame artwork of the selected game on the secondary monitor. There is other software that can do this too like CPWizard. Some people have dual monitor setup's in their cabs.

There are different modes for dual monitor. First is clone where the second screen shows a clone of the first. The second extends the desktop across two monitors (the one I use) and the other will stretch the display across both monitors effectively doubling your horizontal resolution. The interesting thing about the last one is running games. With a fast enough video card you can play Far Cry stretched across two screens. Only problem is the cross hair is where the two monitors meet. So really it would be better to have 3 monitors for something like that.

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Okay, I messed around with it a bit. I was thinking more about two different displays, for example using Mame on one and something else on another, but once Mame starts it co-opts the mouse arrow. Plus, to get it set up, I had to drag screens from one to the other. Is there some way to automate this for future runs?

Afterburner:
Some video card drivers for dualview mode allow you to specify that certain applications get sent to certain displays.  You might check and see if yours allows that.

It is amazing how much productivity increase there is with two monitors.  I would never have believed it was as much as it was until I did it.

At work I used to have two 19" LCD's.  At some point I was lucky and acquired a 30" Dell widescreen with the idea that it was equivalent to the two smaller displays.  It wasn't.

So now I have a 30" and a 19"!   ;D

headkaze:

--- Quote from: Afterburner on April 05, 2008, 08:04:09 am ---Some video card drivers for dualview mode allow you to specify that certain applications get sent to certain displays.  You might check and see if yours allows that.

It is amazing how much productivity increase there is with two monitors.  I would never have believed it was as much as it was until I did it.

At work I used to have two 19" LCD's.  At some point I was lucky and acquired a 30" Dell widescreen with the idea that it was equivalent to the two smaller displays.  It wasn't.

So now I have a 30" and a 19"!   ;D

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I totally agree, two monitors is great like that. And you also look like Captain Kurt on the star ship Enterprise ;)

Ummon: You can edit mame.ini (if it doesn't exist run "mame.exe -cc") and change the screen option to have Mame start on your secondary display by default.

leapinlew:

--- Quote from: headkaze on April 05, 2008, 08:55:35 am ---I totally agree, two monitors is great like that. And you also look like Captain Kurt on the star ship Enterprise ;)

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I'm going to pretend that I didn't read that.

Ummon:

--- Quote from: headkaze on April 05, 2008, 08:55:35 am ---
Ummon: You can edit mame.ini (if it doesn't exist run "mame.exe -cc") and change the screen option to have Mame start on your secondary display by default.

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Yeah, I tried that and it blanked out the other screen. I'll check it out again. I don't know if I'll use this feature, I'm just playing around.



--- Quote from: leapinlew on April 05, 2008, 10:26:35 am ---
--- Quote from: headkaze on April 05, 2008, 08:55:35 am ---I totally agree, two monitors is great like that. And you also look like Captain Kurt on the star ship Enterprise ;)

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I'm going to pretend that I didn't read that.

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HA.

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