Game on Secondary Screen

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 saigneur -
Hello,
I have a little problem.
For a few months, I have had 2 screens in dual screen. The first one is a 4:3 with a low resolution and the second one is a brand new 16:9.
The issue is that the 4:3 has a resolution that is too low to run most of the games I would like to play, while they run perfectly on the 16:9...

You might tell me to set my 16:9 as the main screen, but for various reasons, I want to keep the 4:3 as the main one.

Do you happen to know a solution to my problem??
Thanks in advance!!

Configuration: Windows 7 / Firefox 3.6.8

1 answer

Krysstof Posted messages 1659 Status Member 295
 
3 solutions :

the game supports multi-monitor (like EvE Online) and allows you to choose in the options menu which screen displays the game

You play in windowed mode and move the window to screen 2 (if you're lucky your game supports optimized windowed mode like World of Warcraft and you can make it fullscreen on the screen of your choice)

You go to the graphics driver options before launching your game and switch screen 2 to the main screen for the duration of the game. (Nvidia allows this, I've never had an ATI, so I don't know)
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saigneur
 
I thought about doing that, the only problem is that it messes up my desktop and all my icons end up upside down...

My main issue is that my primary screen refuses to display games due to the excessively high resolution requested...
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Krysstof Posted messages 1659 Status Member 295
 
hum... so you only have windowed mode to help you... it's not very pretty, but I don't see any other solution besides having 2 identical screens.
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saigneur
 
Is there no software that allows me to manage this??
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Krysstof Posted messages 1659 Status Member 295
 
Uh... yes, it's the graphics driver... but you don't want to use it :D

or maybe you didn't explain well enough what you wanted to do (or I understood very poorly.)
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saigneur
 
arf ... well, thank you anyway ...
It's going to be a mess on my desk again ...
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