Dual Screen Mode

CaptainMaim · Post by **CaptainMaim** » 29 Dec 2006, 21:41

I'd like to know why dual screen mode doesn't stretch passed my original screen. It just splits my first monitor in half and leaves my second screen alone. Is that what it's supposed to do?

aGorm · Post by **aGorm** » 30 Dec 2006, 00:09

You have to type in a custom resolution thats equal to both your monitores... so if you have to 1024 x 768 screens, use 2048 x 768 as your resolution...

You could ofcorse always do this from teh begining, ticking the box just ofsets the perspective (so it looks right) and shoves the map on one half.

aGorm

CaptainMaim · Post by **CaptainMaim** » 30 Dec 2006, 01:22

OH! That makes sense! THANKS!

<After trying>

It says it can't set the video mode. Now what?

I'm trying to set it to 2560x1024

It works under windowed mode. But the mini map won't go to the left side, so I reversed my screens with the desktop properties. There's got to be an easier way to do this.

1v0ry_k1ng · Post by **1v0ry_k1ng** » 30 Dec 2006, 13:02

you can duel screen on one monitor?

Comp1337 · Post by **Comp1337** » 30 Dec 2006, 14:10

well.. it doesnt do much good tbh, dualscreen mode just changes the FOV/perspective afaik

Lippy · Post by **Lippy** » 31 Dec 2006, 21:52

You have to change your display options so that its horizontal span instead of Dualview (nvidia) so that the computer treats both your monitors as 1. This is one of the annoying things about dual display in spring, as dualview is far better in day to day use.

NOiZE · Post by **NOiZE** » 01 Jan 2007, 11:59

Lippy wrote:You have to change your display options so that its horizontal span instead of Dualview (nvidia) so that the computer treats both your monitors as 1. This is one of the annoying things about dual display in spring, as dualview is far better in day to day use.

Exactly!

Someone should fix it :)

Post by **Kloot** » 01 Jan 2007, 13:28

sure, if you buy me a second monitor :]

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 29 Jan 2007, 00:13

I just got a second monitor, but it is smaller than the main one and current dual screen mode doesn't work too well. Ideally some supercool dev would program it so that the minimap could be rendered simply on one screen (using less graphics card resources) while the viewport could be rendered on the main screen.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 29 Jan 2007, 00:26

I hate that we cannot get a screen shot of the whole thing. We can only get a screen of the main one...

otherwise I love it.

DemO · Post by **DemO** » 29 Jan 2007, 02:49

I think it is possible to render the minimap on one screen and your normal view on another. I remember [NR]Nicklg03 talking about it on vent how it was cool and he'd set it up alright.

Perhaps give him a pm or something next time you see him around and he can help you out..

Ishach · Post by **Ishach** » 29 Jan 2007, 05:39

DemO wrote:I think it is possible to render the minimap on one screen and your normal view on another. I remember [NR]Nicklg03 talking about it on vent how it was cool and he'd set it up alright.

Perhaps give him a pm or something next time you see him around and he can help you out..

[SmuG]Steven just told me on MSN he would be happy to help people with this issue as well, just send him a PM

Lolsquad_Steven · Post by **Lolsquad_Steven** » 29 Jan 2007, 05:47

Isaac...

CautionToTheWind · Post by **CautionToTheWind** » 29 Jan 2007, 16:18

smoth wrote:I hate that we cannot get a screen shot of the whole thing. We can only get a screen of the main one...

otherwise I love it.

Here's a screenshot of the dual screen mode, rendered on 2 sides of a beryl cube. There's also a thumbnail view on the task switcher in the 2nd desktop that shows exactly what it looks like.

http://spring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=8338

Masure · Post by **Masure** » 30 Jan 2007, 15:30

Hi,

I'm also interested in playing spring dual screen but not in "extended mode". As many players, I have different size/reso screens that's why it would be fantastic to render minimap and playground on 2 screens independantly.

I think if we all PM Steven, it'll be annoying. So what would be the best solution to submit that feature request ?

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 30 Jan 2007, 19:08

CautionToTheWind wrote:
smoth wrote:I hate that we cannot get a screen shot of the whole thing. We can only get a screen of the main one...

otherwise I love it.
Here's a screenshot of the dual screen mode, rendered on 2 sides of a beryl cube. There's also a thumbnail view on the task switcher in the 2nd desktop that shows exactly what it looks like.

http://spring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=8338

since there was a topic split:

I don't need beryl, I have 2 monitors and dual screen works fine for me. I just want the whole thing to show up in my screen shots.

I would love an option for it hell, I'll crop the picture if I gotta I just want to take a few shots of the expanded screen.

CaptainMaim · Post by **CaptainMaim** » 08 Feb 2007, 07:21

Wow! This is a lot more discussion than I anticipated on this subject. I just wanted to know how to make it split onto both monitors. Heh...

However after using split screen myself on two monitors, I noticed I hardly looked at the other monitor so all kinds of stuff happened on the radar map that I wasn't noticing.

I think it's a nice feature but it's not one that works well for me. (Might be cause my monitors are at right angles to each other and so I can't see both at once. Other than that it was great to see things happening in real time on the big map. I like classical view better IMHO.)

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