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Technical forum / Problems with dual screen
« on: April 11, 2006, 01:56:37 PM »
Hi again !
I have a dual screen configuration (nividia 6800 + 2 screens: one on analog and one on digital output) that seems to be causing troubles in Wintermute.
The "Game settings" dialog box shows 2 display devices, but the second one is always set by default.
If I manually select the first screen then start the game everything is fine, either in windowed mode or full screen. The only minor problem is that when i drag the window into the other screen the frame rate drops a lot, i'll explain that later.
If I keep the second screen as selected by default, it's a whole different story: in windowed mode the game opens on the left screen (aka screen 1) and runs at 20 FPS instead of about 800. when I drag the window into screen 2 then i get 800 FPS. In full-screen mode, the game opens on the right screen (screen 2) but the mouse pointer stays in screen 1 and can only move in a 800x600 area.
So what I'd like to know is how to get the device selection screen to select the first screen by default and not the second.
I'm also surprised that there should be such a big drop in frame rate when the game runs in a window on the wrong screen, because I haven't noticed anything like that in other programs. Any ideas ?
Thanks,
Olivier
I have a dual screen configuration (nividia 6800 + 2 screens: one on analog and one on digital output) that seems to be causing troubles in Wintermute.
The "Game settings" dialog box shows 2 display devices, but the second one is always set by default.
If I manually select the first screen then start the game everything is fine, either in windowed mode or full screen. The only minor problem is that when i drag the window into the other screen the frame rate drops a lot, i'll explain that later.
If I keep the second screen as selected by default, it's a whole different story: in windowed mode the game opens on the left screen (aka screen 1) and runs at 20 FPS instead of about 800. when I drag the window into screen 2 then i get 800 FPS. In full-screen mode, the game opens on the right screen (screen 2) but the mouse pointer stays in screen 1 and can only move in a 800x600 area.
So what I'd like to know is how to get the device selection screen to select the first screen by default and not the second.
I'm also surprised that there should be such a big drop in frame rate when the game runs in a window on the wrong screen, because I haven't noticed anything like that in other programs. Any ideas ?
Thanks,
Olivier