Is this even possible? If so, how would one go about switching the keyboard and mouse control between the two?
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Maradon! wrote this stupid crap:
How hard would it be to set it up such that you had a two monitor display where you could have a "primary" monitor that you played games on and such, and an "alternate" monitor that you could chat on and surf web pages and such.Is this even possible? If so, how would one go about switching the keyboard and mouse control between the two?
Well the easiest would be do like me and have two seperate computers, or you could have two computers and one monitor/keyboard/mouse setup hooked up to a switchbox, other than that I don't know.
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Fizodeth who doth quote:
Well the easiest would be do like me and have two seperate computers, or you could have two computers and one monitor/keyboard/mouse setup hooked up to a switchbox, other than that I don't know.
that's specifically what I'm trying to avoid though 
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How hard would it be to set it up such that you had a two monitor display where you could have a "primary" monitor that you played games on and such, and an "alternate" monitor that you could chat on and surf web pages and such.Is this even possible? If so, how would one go about switching the keyboard and mouse control between the two?
As far as I know, you'd need a secondary PCI graphics card to work the alternate monitor, as you'd need a real dual desktop setup.
Beyond that, I have no clue, I just mirror my desktop onto my larger TV when I need to. 
It's not something people hear about.
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As far as I know, you'd need a secondary PCI graphics card to work the alternate monitor, as you'd need a real dual desktop setup.
Yeah I figured that. Would that fuck up performance much on the main card?
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From the book of Maradon!, chapter 3, verse 16:
Yeah I figured that. Would that fuck up performance much on the main card?
No clue. I'd assume not, being on separated buses and all.
It's not something people hear about.
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How hard would it be to set it up such that you had a two monitor display where you could have a "primary" monitor that you played games on and such, and an "alternate" monitor that you could chat on and surf web pages and such.Is this even possible? If so, how would one go about switching the keyboard and mouse control between the two?
If your game is windowed, there shouldn't be any issues. Your keyboard functions should adjust based on which window has focus. Just size your desktop to be one monitor high and two across, and size your game to fit one monitor while your chat stuff is on the other half of the desktop.
Non-windowed, I'm not sure how one would go about it.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
If you want to actively chat and game at the same time, you'll probably need dual computers with a KVM (not using the V) switch. That or you'll need to run all your games windowed. Note that my card (stated in sentence 1) bogs down when running games windowed with DualView active. `Doc fucked around with this message on 08-22-2004 at 11:35 AM.
Then it slowed to a crawl.
However, you can also run some full screened games and alt-tab out of them. This will let you chat as you are playing. Problem is, a lot of games want to take full control of your computer. This prevents you from being able to do something as simple as using mIRC on a second window becuase quite simply, the game won't let you leave.
I belive support for two monitors is native to XP, you just need either cards or one card that has multiple outputs. I've never had the two monitor thing effect performance, but I have had issues with not being able to leave the game to use my second monitor with many games.
If you can't alt-tab out of the game safely or play windowed, you probably can't use a second monitor effectively for non-game purposes.
It looks like, in order to get what I want, I'll have to multi-box. What I wanted was to essentially have a separate monitor dedicated to AIM, chat, and looking up FAQ's for when I'm in a game that abso-freaking-lutely will not allow you to multitask (like Doom 3).
