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2 monitors?

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Sun June 20 2004, 11:53 AM
Socks
2 monitors?
Hey, I got a new video card that supports 2 monitors and i was wondering is there anyway to make it so i can extend my view onto the other monitor?
Sun June 20 2004, 02:31 PM
Socks
I mean extend the view of Rune.
Mon June 21 2004, 07:25 AM
the_Licker[1.01]
is it a matrox, if it is i i had one once they are great cards. u cant play rune over 2 monitors but its great for programs so u can shove tools on one monitor and your work on the other.
Mon June 21 2004, 10:35 AM
Socks
No, Actually its an ATI 64mbDDR 300mhz I got it cheap for $50. Its all that will work on this old motherboard anyways. But yeah I'm lovin this 2 monitors thing. That sucks I cant use them both for rune Roll Eyes
Mon June 21 2004, 05:47 PM
Ministration
You may be able to find some sort of program that will let Rune run on two screens, but everything would be stretched.

Rune thinks it is only responsible for updating x by y pixels, so if you are operating on a resolution different than 1024x768 (or anything of the same scale) it won't supply additional information to the video card.
Mon June 21 2004, 08:09 PM
Socks
I hate streched images. So I guess 1 monitor for rune is gonna have to do Roll Eyes
Wed June 23 2004, 01:16 PM
Pencil
If you saw my picture of the parent's PC in the "Desktop Part II" topic, you'd notice that I have dual monitors on there. The program I was using was UltraMon... I would not have needed it had the video card been able to handle dual monitors. I was running one monitor off of a 64MB GeForce4 MX440-SE PCI; the other monitor off of a 12MB shared Intel chipset. When this thing was running, Rune was just plain impossible to play. Like 2-8fps max at 640x480 and low textures. You'd need something like my current card (Radeon 9600PRO) if you even hope to play a game with dual monitors. Even then, it'll be low-res and low textures. Maybe if your desktop is already stretched right now with ATI's tools and you manipulate Rune's resolution in the 'Rune.ini' to be something like 2056x768 then it could work. Just don't expect it to be very playable.
Thu June 24 2004, 05:12 PM
Socks
Ah Thanks Pencil (lol I liked that "My eraser assed friend")But I took the Video card back got my money back. I started getting lines going up my monitors then the bottom of my monitors started turning gray. Then everything was shaking around so I got my money back. Gonna wait to get some more money so I can get something better.