Help with dual monitors

cerebus

cerebus

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So I have a 20" widescreen and a 17" 4:3 lying around and I thought in one of my more lucid moments why not hook them up for dual-monitor fun? Did that and then decided I could never go back to single monitor tedium.

However I'm wondering a few things: If I want to watch a movie, it won't normally seem to stretch it fullscreen across both monitors. Either it gives huge black borders on either side or it goes fullscreen to the primary display. How can I align a movie so that it will stretch in gloriosity at maximum displayness? Also with games. I managed to make a 1080 copy of one movie stretch all the way so I know it is possible but nothing else seems to work.

Thanks!!
 
XP doesnt handle rendering both screens at once very well,get vista :)
 
As there isn't an official for sale release i cant imagine aftermarket driver supporting any nice features...but good try

Now go ahead and load vista
 
Let me wing it for you in a practical way,you want a demo version of an OS to do things that only its predecessor could do with aftermarket drivers that will _maybe_ work on win 7...be practical in your thought process ;)
 
Well the RTM version of win7 isn't a demo. But ok let's say I installed Vista64 on a partition - could I expect it to handle dual monitors with nary a hiccup?
 
cerebus said:
Well the RTM version of win7 isn't a demo. But ok let's say I installed Vista64 on a partition - could I expect it to handle dual monitors with nary a hiccup?
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If there are WDM certified win7 drivers for your display card you could expect win7 to handle it,builtin drivers arent meant for anything more complex than testing and office applications - which seem to be "working as intended"


http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/wi...ows-7-has-been-released-to-manufacturing.aspx

RTM doesn't mean **** except they're ready to polish and finalize before selling,it's a demo with most features enabled
 
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Hm i really don't want to revert back to Vista. I've become enamoured with win7 by now.
 
You know it might well be a driver issue related to the fact that I can't make the CCC install properly. Ever since 9.9 came out it has given install errors and I cant find it on the system.
 
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