Second Life Forums Archive - You CAN use dual monitors

Cat Fratica

Miaow...

Join date: 28 Dec 2006

Posts: 153

01-22-2007 08:35

Hi - I am lucky enought to have 2 monitors at the moment - it's brilliant when using Photoshop because you can have the program open on one monitor, with a full view of your picture, and have all other windows (palettes & toolbars and stuff) on the other monitor!

If only that was possible in SL! It's not, and not likely to be anytime soon - BUT - if you take the SL window out of full screen mode but then manually drag the edges to fill the screen - you can then drag one of the sides (whichever side your other monitor is) partly onto the other monitor. You can't stretch it across both because your avvy would be cut in half by the join (nasty) - but i use about a fifth to a quarter of the second monitor which is pleny of space for your Inventory, History or IM windows (or all 3) leaving you a nice big clear view of SL...

Hope this is helpful to some...

Cat x

Atashi Toshihiko

Frequently Befuddled

Join date: 7 Dec 2006

Posts: 1,423

01-22-2007 10:55

I didn't realize this was a special feat... I've been running SL this way since I joined in December. I have the SL client stretched to fill my 19" screen completely and my 17" screen is available for everything else.

Once you've had dual monitors, you can't go back

Now if only we could drag SL popups out of the client and onto the second monitor...

-Atashi

Maximillian Desoto

Max's Landfall Bar & Dock

Join date: 26 Apr 2006

Posts: 323

01-22-2007 11:12

No, Cat means stretchiing the SL client to use the space on BOTH monitors.

I use the same setup as Atashi, SL on a 19" monitor, and a 15" for web browser, etc.

Max

Gummi Richthofen

Fetish's Frasier Crane!

Join date: 3 Oct 2006

Posts: 605

01-23-2007 07:50

Oooh monitor envy thread...!

My main unit is a 23 inch Sun monitor. I find that running SL at full-screen (about the same res as a standard pair of 17's) produces a heinous frame rate; requests to have floating chat & inventory windows are IME driven by the need to keep the main game window smaller, and the frame rate consequently higher - not to have a game window which subtends about a 179.999 degree field of view and sucks the sim server into a processing hole, rendering things which you then go and hide behind your inventory!

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You CAN use dual monitors - sort of...

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Cat Fratica Miaow... Join date: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 153	01-22-2007 08:35 Hi - I am lucky enought to have 2 monitors at the moment - it's brilliant when using Photoshop because you can have the program open on one monitor, with a full view of your picture, and have all other windows (palettes & toolbars and stuff) on the other monitor! If only that was possible in SL! It's not, and not likely to be anytime soon - BUT - if you take the SL window out of full screen mode but then manually drag the edges to fill the screen - you can then drag one of the sides (whichever side your other monitor is) partly onto the other monitor. You can't stretch it across both because your avvy would be cut in half by the join (nasty) - but i use about a fifth to a quarter of the second monitor which is pleny of space for your Inventory, History or IM windows (or all 3) leaving you a nice big clear view of SL... Hope this is helpful to some... Cat x
Atashi Toshihiko Frequently Befuddled Join date: 7 Dec 2006 Posts: 1,423	01-22-2007 10:55 I didn't realize this was a special feat... I've been running SL this way since I joined in December. I have the SL client stretched to fill my 19" screen completely and my 17" screen is available for everything else. Once you've had dual monitors, you can't go back Now if only we could drag SL popups out of the client and onto the second monitor... -Atashi
Maximillian Desoto Max's Landfall Bar & Dock Join date: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 323	01-22-2007 11:12 No, Cat means stretchiing the SL client to use the space on BOTH monitors. I use the same setup as Atashi, SL on a 19" monitor, and a 15" for web browser, etc. Max
Gummi Richthofen Fetish's Frasier Crane! Join date: 3 Oct 2006 Posts: 605	01-23-2007 07:50 Oooh monitor envy thread...! My main unit is a 23 inch Sun monitor. I find that running SL at full-screen (about the same res as a standard pair of 17's) produces a heinous frame rate; requests to have floating chat & inventory windows are IME driven by the need to keep the main game window smaller, and the frame rate consequently higher - not to have a game window which subtends about a 179.999 degree field of view and sucks the sim server into a processing hole, rendering things which you then go and hide behind your inventory!