Two Monitors

Ive just got back from the school prom sorta thing and i won a 15' LCD
tv/monitor in the raffle. Its well good, it supports up to 1024x768 @
75 Hz as pc monitor, has tv tuner, scart input, s-video, remote and a
few other inputs and outputs. I think its the first time ive ever won
somthing, id say it was a good catch.

What im wondering is whats the best way to set it up along side my
current monitor, they are both 15 inch. My gfx card only has 1 VGA
output and a s-video, should i use the s-video or is there anougher
option. When i done my work experience awhile ago i think they had VGA
adapters that splits into two, are they any good?

You could use s-video or a VGA splitter, but using the splitter, you
would just have two screens displaying the same thing twice (pretty
useless).

I dont know about the s-video, but i'm almost certain you would come
across the same problem, your graphics card may recognise that you have
two diplay adapters connected and give you the option to 'share' the
display between them.

I hate to have to say it, but i doubt you would be able to get the
monitors to share the display - if you have an s-video cable lying
around then give it a try.

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Ive got a s-video somewhere, ill try it tommorrow if i can find it, my
rooms to much of a mess. With the splitter does it not treat the
monitors as one big 2048x768 rather than two 1024x768?

if you had 3 monitors could you set them up like...
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and then when you play CS you could change your FOV to like 180 and see everythign that is goign on.

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Use the s-video. Most graphics cards with an s-video port should have a VGA adapter for it, so you can attach a second monitor. Then it should be a fairly simple matter setting up your new monitor to extend your desktop.

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Preferably, on top of the desk.

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If the S-Video doesn't work out you can get a second (cheap/PCI) video
card of some sort and plug it in. Windows should let you set them up
such that the screen is properly divided and all that.

I doubt you'll be able to play a game stretched on both screens but you
could have the game on one and the rest of your desktop open normally
on the other for IRC/ICQ etc.

The best way to set it up is by keeping your old one and putting the new one in a closet.

You'll need a new gfx card if you want to do this (sounds like it to me) that has 2 monitor inputs, though they may be diffrent (normal pin and a diffrent kind, I dont know the name of) but you can get adaptors to fit your screens into any of the inputs.

Your not going to want to play a game over both screens, infact doul screens is almost usless unless you like to have alot of windows open at the same time OR you use Photoshop alot (you can have all your tools on one screen and a huge blank area to work in). Unless your into that kinda stuff I'd retire the lesser of the two and stick with just single screen.

habboi said:
The best way to set it up is by keeping your old one and putting the new one in a closet.

You could also ditch the old one and use the new one instead. LCD is better for the eyes I think.

My old is LCD too. Ive got it working in a way using a s-video but the
picture quality is very bad on the monitor as a result, ill look across
google and see if a splitter thing will work.

I like the way it works though using nvidea's nview that comes with the
drivers, the left monitor is like normal but i can drag windows across
onto the right monitor and if i full screen the windows it only goes
full screen in the current monitor rather then spreading through all
the monitors. And then if i want to watch tv i just have to
press a button and the second monitor is a tv.

That's because S-Video is a poor quality cable.

If you want the screen accross two monitors and not just doubled, you need another video card either with multi-output or not.

However, if you're using the second monitor as a TV or something as such, using the S-Video portion is pretty ideal, since it'll such poor quality TV will look good. :smile:

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