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Ted Evans 2000-02-03 06:22
I am looking to find a game that supports multimonitor. I remember when I was at the Bill Gates lecture (McCormick Place in Chicago) before Win98 was released and they were bragging that Flight Simulator 98 supported multimonitor support. That was right before the computer got the "General Protection Fault" in front of tens of thousands of people which later became millions because it was aired on Tv. Anyway, I bought Flight Simulator 2000 assuming that if Flight sim 98 could, that the 2000 version could also.... well, it doesn't. You can drag a few small windows onto the other monitor when you have the game in windowed mode but that isn't multimonitor support as far as I am concerned... Does anyone have any experience with the Microsoft Flight Sim really supporting true multimonitors? What about any other game? I remember hearing about quake or DoomII supporting multimonitor or something a long time ago...
Ted Evans
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Christian Studer 2000-02-06 01:22
I think the multimon support is quite good, you can easily maximize those additional views, or you could also extend one view across all monitors. The only problem IMO is that performance for any secondary views suffers in windowed mode, so it would be much better if those views could also run in fullscreen mode, with full hardware 3D acceleration.
As for Quake/Doom, those games use OpenGL for 3D, which means they won't have any hardware acceleration at all when running in windowed mode, not even on the primary monitor. You could of course extend a Quake2 window across multiple monitors, never tried it myself though.
Christian Studer
Realtime Soft
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David Britton 2000-03-05 15:07
I'm no expert at flight sims, so i will *avoid* that question (sorry), but as for Quake/Doom, i do know a bit. Doom supported multihead displays, but not in the way you are interested in. You could connect two or three computers into a small LAN, and set EACH ONE up to play in the same game, one giving you the front view, and the other (2) giving you the side view(s). but they had to be seperate computers. quake had no such feature that i was aware of (although it would be easy to do via the idea of spectaing a player).
HTH!
David
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Rob 2001-06-22 09:43
Rob 2001-06-22 15:24 - Posted at http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/forum/messages.asp?tmpl=&Topic=298#1557
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Actually, any game that will run in a window should run on the multi setup. The games you are probably looking for are like quake and so on. Well, there have been some people to get them to work with multiple monitors, but you have to do a little tweaking. Here are a couple of sites you might want to look at.
http://www.planetquake.com/mhg/
and for OpenGL info...
http://www.gameart.com/braindead/opengl/
If you can come up with any other information, please pass it on.
Thanks,
Rob Noe
GraphicComputers
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