No movies while gaming?

[Factorxfiles]

Alright, here's my problem. I've recently gotten back into the MMO scene, and I need some help.

I've got a dual-monitor computer. I want to game on one monitor while watching a movie on the other (it makes level grinding nearly painless). Currently when I do this, the game will be fine, but the movie/video/dvd/whatever will only have audio, the video window will go black. I have an x800GT.

How do I do this? I don't care how crazy the fix is, I just need it to work.

 

[silent-circuit]

You can turn off hardware overlay support -- that might fix it. If not, you need to change the display you want to play the movie on to the primary display, as this will allow it to show a hardware overlay, and thusly, show your movie. The problem is that this may leave your card unable to show the game on the other display. You'll just have to mess around with it.

 

[Factorxfiles]

thanks, I turned off hardware acceleration in WMP and it works, but I have to set the desktop res on the movie monitor to 800x600. Oh well, it's functional.

Heh, and the reply I got from ATI was that it's not possible.