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Postby excession » Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:47 pm

Any idea if you can hook up 2 monitors running at different rezzes - I have just got a Dell 20" 1900x1200 as a main monitor - if I got another 19" one (running at 1600x1200 or whatever they max out at) would that be an issue?

I would only use the 2nd to surf the bet or to run extra Stars SnG's (rez doesnlt matter with Stars/Party so much as they are re-sizeable).

I really don't feel the need to splash out £500 or whatever on a second Dell 20" monitor when I can get a new Dell PC with 19" screen for about the same money...

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Postby GodlikeRoy » Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:52 pm

Yeah you can. If you do I suggest you get Ultramon: . It's a great program for using multiple monitors, even of different sizes. Helps with things such as getting a taskbar on both, resizing wallpapers to fit, resizing a window (ie moving a fullscreen window from your big monitor to your smaller one, normally it would be cut off over the edges, bu this program adjusts it proportionately), things like that.
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Postby Molina » Mon Aug 07, 2006 5:53 pm

Yes, you can, right click the desktop - properties - settings - click on the monitor and tweak

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Postby TheMoose15 » Mon Aug 07, 2006 6:09 pm

Ya, as molina said windows will do it for you. However, I find running monitors side by side at different resolutions very distracting just my opinion.

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Postby Marm » Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:16 pm

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