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Innovan · 03-10-2002, 06:51 PM

Multimonitor support was always scheduled for XP Professional. Allegedly MS changed their minds and let it stay in XP Home as well. (Probably was too much trouble to disable)

Previously you'd have to place in two different video driver cards to drive two monitors. I've seen demos of the new GeForce Ti 4600 and their engineers told me also about using dual monitors during development, I didn't think to ask them if they had to use two video cards still.

I don't belive Jim you have to do anything on your end except enable people to scale the window edge wider until it extends over two monitors. Or more likely just double the X. So if they're at 1280x1024, to do doublescreen you'd open a 2560x1024 window and the OS takes care of which pixel goes to which screen for you.

Very popular with graphics editing folk. Drag and size the output screen to one monitor, and drag all the control and editing pop-ups to another, saving you the trouble of flipping screens to see things.

03-10-2002, 06:51 PM	#5
Innovan Registered Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 13	Multimonitor support was always scheduled for XP Professional. Allegedly MS changed their minds and let it stay in XP Home as well. (Probably was too much trouble to disable) Previously you'd have to place in two different video driver cards to drive two monitors. I've seen demos of the new GeForce Ti 4600 and their engineers told me also about using dual monitors during development, I didn't think to ask them if they had to use two video cards still. I don't belive Jim you have to do anything on your end except enable people to scale the window edge wider until it extends over two monitors. Or more likely just double the X. So if they're at 1280x1024, to do doublescreen you'd open a 2560x1024 window and the OS takes care of which pixel goes to which screen for you. Very popular with graphics editing folk. Drag and size the output screen to one monitor, and drag all the control and editing pop-ups to another, saving you the trouble of flipping screens to see things. Last edited by Innovan; 03-10-2002 at 06:57 PM.