Multi Monitor Support

[CampbellR66]

I have been struggling a bit with running FGII using a Tablet PC (Allows nice hand drawn stuff) and a seperate 202 Monitor to give sufficient table top for the GM to see bits needed for smooth play.

This necesitates different screen reolutions on the screens in extended desktop mode (Windows XP).

1) FGII often crashes when I move the ui between displays and does not resize to new monitor.
2) Pen stuff does not work unless I started FG on the Tablet monitor

Would you consider a seperate in session window element for DM work so i could have one UI window on each moniter? I could then use the tablet to draw and amend maps which would become visible in the main ui on refresh document command. Each could be tuned to the resolution of the host monitor

[Tenian]

I run multi-monitors at different resolution between my laptop and an extra monitor. I run in windowed mode and stretch the FGII window across both screens.
The only issue I've had is FGII needs to be shutdown prior to any monitor changes (i.e. attaching or detatching a monitor) or it will become a black unresponsive window.
I know some other users have had problems using the mouse wheel on their second screen.

[Invain63]

I tried to run with two monitors on a PC with two graphics cards but performance is dog slow. Does anyone know the minimum graphics card specs needed?

-Kevin McD

[EugeneZ]

I run FG2 on Windows 7 using two 24" monitors (1920x1200 each) on a single ATI Radeon 4870. Prior to version 2.4.0 (or something like that) I was on Windows XP and while stretching across both monitors worked, the performance could be rather dismal at times. Either because of 2.4.0's performance tweaks or my upgrade to Windows 7, it now runs perfectly when stretched across the entirety of both monitors, as Tenian says.

[CampbellR66]

I run FG2 on Windows 7 using two 24" monitors (1920x1200 each) on a single ATI Radeon 4870. Prior to version 2.4.0 (or something like that) I was on Windows XP and while stretching across both monitors worked, the performance could be rather dismal at times. Either because of 2.4.0's performance tweaks or my upgrade to Windows 7, it now runs perfectly when stretched across the entirety of both monitors, as Tenian says.

Nice rig !

[EugeneZ]

Nice rig !

Thanks! Incase you are curious what it looks like:

https://www.eugenez.net/images/wotbs_screen.jpg