tdawg_65

Just like the title sayd, I need help looking for a video card that fulfills the need of a 2 monitor system but at the same time be able to get high end games. One catch, like I stated before I live overseas and have pretty much outlet to get it from. They have Radeon 9600xt and the AIW (I noticed the AIW card supports dual monitors but I didnt see anything on the xt.). I am not too familiar with all the specs, I just bought Painkiller and looking foward to getting MxO. Any help would be appreciated. Also, the have the GeForce cards here.

Thanks
DAWG!

j-dogg

I think all the newer gaming cards support dual monitors with DVI adapters. You can't game in dual monitors, last I checked the only cards capable of doing OpenGL over two monitors are the 3DLabs cards.

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tdawg_65

thanks...I guess that was a dumb question right?

aaronrkelly

Quote: Originally Posted by tdawg_65 thanks...I guess that was a dumb question right?

No, seems like a good question to me.

SOME games do support dual monitors - such as MS Flight Sim 2004. This support is built into the game. It allows you to have navigations and instrumentation on the second monitor. There are a handful of games that offer some dual screen fucntionality. I read an article about this recently but cant place it.

As Dogg said, any card with dual outputs will fulfill your dual screen needs. I have boughten cheapy 9600s, fx5900s and a handfull in between - I have not found a newer (within the last couple years) graphics card that did NOT have dual monitor support. Most will require you to use a DVI adaper and most also include the adapter required.....if you need to know more about DVI ports and the adapter just ask.

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Cyno01

All in wonder cards do not have dual monitor support. They have monitor+tv support. So you could have your monitor on the DVI and have a TV as an extension of your desktop, but it would be low rez and out of scale. With my setup i could have quad monitors if 2 of them were TVs because both my cards have TV out. My roomates card, a 9600XT has a DVI and a VGA port. With a $10 VGA adapter he's running dualies. But most newer cards support dual monitors without much hassle.

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tdawg_65

hey thanks alot, new to this game and trying to get all the quirks out of the way b4 I mess something up!

One more thing, b4 I get to that, just wanted to say thanks again... So I installed the card and connected my tv via s-video, what I thought was working the tv just turn black...scenerio: The tv showed the bio screen but when the loggin came on mu monitor the tv turned black. Any thoughts...
I can be a bother... is their a faq area on the site that can help me?