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Jamie
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22nd Feb 06 at 10:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

How is this done? Two graphics cards?
Leighton
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22nd Feb 06 at 10:54   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

All you need is a Dual head graphics card.
John
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One graphics card with 2 outputs.
Most i've seen for the past 2 or 3 years have 2.
Tim
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...or you can use multiple graphics cards.
Ian
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Yeah I had added a PCI card along side my AGP one originally.

I now use a single card with multiple output, which was slightly easier to set up.
Andrew
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I run an AGP card and muliple PCI card for mine. Windows XP setup all the required drivers for them and then i just aranged the monitors how i wanted them. Job done
MikeLamb
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I have an agp and a pci, 2 monitors on one, one monitor and a tv on the other
James_DT
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How do full screen games cope with multiple monitors?
Do they just appear on the first one?
Planty02
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you have to set a default monitor - the game will apear on that monitor only
James_DT
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23rd Feb 06 at 17:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Excellent. Thanks.

 
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