Flash1606687761 Posted February 2, 2009 Posted February 2, 2009 I have been reading with interest all the multi monitor threads.. Thinking... Do you really need another monitor for the Shkval and ABRIS? Well a 15'' TFT walked into my car today and has appeared next to my 21' Widescreen. It's very cool seeing the ABRIS and it's much easier to see the tanks on the big Shkval :) I also have a laptop that has the manual open and a 8' touch screen connected to that with touch buddy running.. (Starting to need a bigger desk) I am using Vista and had to use the 'window' mode as everyone said. Now I can't see the frame rate, controls setup and comms. Which I understand is normal? It is better/easier to do this in XP? Can I fix the controls overlay as I find that very handy at to moment. XP is already installed as I have a dedicated 'Falcon' operating system :)
Flash1606687761 Posted February 2, 2009 Author Posted February 2, 2009 By moving the ABRIS and Shkval to the 'left' screen I can now see the frame rate and comms, but still no 'controls' Interestingly I don't appear to have dropped any FPS by running in window'd mode.
scatter Posted February 2, 2009 Posted February 2, 2009 I can't really comment on the vista/windowed as I'm still on XP. You can do fullscreen in XP but only for monitors running with the same vertical resolution (if they're side by side). I believe that the only advantage is less framerate drop (this is probably offset by the use of multi-cores in Vista) - so if you're not experiencing bad framerates I don't see much reason to change. 1 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Virtual Australian Air Force
Flash1606687761 Posted February 3, 2009 Author Posted February 3, 2009 That's what I was thinking after playing about last night.. Cheers.. I have Vista 64bit, 4gb ram and a quad core.. I hope that it should run better in Vista than XP.
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