Dual Monitors
 

Hi everyone! I have used Marine Aquarium Time 2.0 for quite awhile. I recently upgraded my video card to support dual monitors. I then downloaded the new Marine Aquarium Time 2.0 MD so I could have the aquarium on both monitors. The secondary monitor is just a clone of the primary one. Is it possible to get it to be one big aquarium? You know like have the fish swim from screen to screen. Thank you for your help in advanced!

Welcome to the forums!

Unfortunately, this is not a feature of Marine Aquarium MD.

Run it in span view and they will go from one tank to another. That's how I run it.:TU:

Thanks for the welcome! How do I enable span view? I didn't see it in the settings.

..and end up with the tank proportions stretched, right?

It's not as bad as what a lot of you think. As for the settings, first off, what kind of card do you have?

Ed, - It really is time you pressed that [Print Scrn] button! ;)

Show us how much cropping/stretching/distorting is, as you put it, "... not as bad as what a lot of you think."
Remember though, to some people, any distortion might be unacceptable! :)

GenKekoa, - I have found that Aqua Garden is the only decent aquarium screen saver for spanning two monitors the way you request, though I have stopped using it because I don't like span mode and it has a lot of fish 'pass throughs'. - But I still consider it one of the few realistic fish screen savers currently available.
DreamAquarium is the best for the way it implements dual monitors, IMO. - And it is developing into a super product! - Give it a try if you havent seen it!

If/when SereneScreen adopt a similar system to DA, (for dual monitors), then we will have the best of both worlds! - Come on Prolific, how many more hints do you need? !!! :)

Would [PrintScrn] work in this case? He may have to physically take a picture of his setup in order to portray what he's actually seeing.

I don't see why it shouldn't, Jim. - Do you mean because he has dual monitors or because he uses span mode? - In both cases [Print Scrn] works for me, just the same as it does for a single monitor in 'Single display' mode.

Here's a screen shot in 'Horizontal span' mode of Aqua Garden, made just a few moments ago. And there is one of DA made a few months back, before the recent changes, on this page.

16:9 (widescreen) aquarium stretched to 24:9 (4:3 x 2).

You've lost me there. What point are you making? - (Or disagreeing with! ;) )

Someone asked how you're getting the Aquarium to span 2 monitors without looking disgusting. The mathematical explanation was my answer.

Would you not agree that your answer implies stretching? - I went to some trouble to show that stretching is avoided, but only by cropping the height.

Aqua Garden is as supplied. It's total size is approx 11x3. The arrow keys pan along it. When displayed in horizontal span mode, you can chose any 8x3 section of it. - There is no stretching as far as I know.

Similarly, there is no stretching in that screen shot of DreamAquarium. As I said in the original post in April, "Here is a screen shot of the two-screen-wide DA, in span mode, (ie. cropped top and bottom, but correct proportions)."

If you've got the primo solution, I'll step back and let you give it.

Just 'cause you only managed to draw with Italy, and you're bottom of your group, - don't try to take it out on me! ;);)

Yeah, but we managed that tie point with only 9 men on the field! :p

Hmmm. I am not on the field, so I didn't manage to do anything...lol

Cliff - I don't know for a fact that what Ed is seeing on his monitors would be different from what he would capture with a video grab, but it's possible. I'd like to see an actual photo.

By the way - How did you manage to capture two pass-throughs in one pic, even with such a sparse number of fish in that tank?

I'm with Jim, a PrintScreen wouldn't be of much help. A photo of both monitors would however be great.

prt scrn should do the job just fine, it'll capture what's on both screens all at once and when you view them on one screen you'll just scroll left and right to see it... Like I did with this shot of Civ2 across three screens:

http://photos.dr_fish.speedymail.org...creenthumb.png

Unless I'm missing something I don't see why that wouldn't be good enough...?

I don't know for sure what Ed is seeing either, you'll both have to ask him nicely for a photo! :) - He's been promising to take one for months! ;)

As for the pass-throughs, I hadn't noticed the second one! - I simply wanted to get a quick screen grab, and noticed that I had caught a neon/barb 'coming together'. - It just goes to show how frequent the occurrence is with Aqua Garden. I don't understand why they haven't improved things after all this time. Until Dream Aquarium came along, I considered AG the best freshwater screen saver, with lots of potential once they fixed the ridiculous number of pass-throughs!


ps, - They might believe you, Doc. - They don't seem to want to believe me! ;)

Because we're trying to establish what proportions (and level of cropping) W is actually seeing on his monitors! If he has adjusted the settings on his monitor to distort (I mean stretch) the tank it won't show up on the screenshot when displayed on a properl proportioned monitor...

So you're thinking he has it running across both of them and then stretched vertically until the top and or bottom are off the screen far enough to make it look normal? And not that he thinks that the distortion is just not a big deal? If Ed doesn't have pics up by the time I get home I'll try to settle this myself... ;)

Yes, Tiny has it exactly right. I didn't want to go into too much detail for fear of effending Ed, but I've seen so many instances of otherwise perfectly normal, intelligent people putting up with the most outrageous stretching on their TVs, that I just wanted to make sure.

I should put that in my sig... ;)

I don't think W will be offended. He has thick skin, a positive nature and also, to each his own if nothing else.

It's even worse over here, Jim. - The TV companies themselves can't get it right either! - It drives me mad, - ITV transmit a F1GP 4x3 picture on their 16x9 digital transmissions!!! ... We therefore get Formula One racing cars going around the circuits with oval wheels! :rolleyes: ... And nobody bothers! :mad:

You think you've got it bad? We get Nascar with round wheels... ;)

F1 I could watch, but this round and round in an oval makes me nuts.

My point was that Nascar would be more interesting if they used oval wheels... :lol:

You can have it Doc, I wouldn't watch it if they had square wheels. ;)

To be sure there's nothing that could make me watch it, but it might be fun to look at until everything blew up.

Edit: If they made the track just right it might just work.

I've lost some interest in F1 in the past few years. Partly because of the change over to ITV, but also because the so called sport has shot itself in the foot with all its rule changes, and qualifying changes. - It's now fast becoming a boring procession.
Last sunday, because of the football, I didn't even switch it on! ... That's a first!

The thing that makes F1 so boring is the extreme use of tele-lenses. All sens of speed is lost when the cars just keep growing so slowly. The difference in sense of speed with the onboard cameras is amazing! Alpine skiing is another sport suffering heavily from this.

/Tiny Change, Please

Hey everyone, I promiss to post my pictures of SS with the dual monitors. Plus the other fish savers I have. I just can't do it right now because of problems here. And today is a bad one. But I promiss I will. :TU:

take your time ED, I know how problems go................best of luck. :TU: