So how does multiple monitors work with differing sizes and resolutions?

[VGplay]

So I'm either going to be getting a 22" LCD or the 37" Westinghouse in the next month (depends on how much money I can save up) and I planning on keeping my 17" Dell LCD for use as a secondary monitor. I'm curious, how does that work?

As school, there's a setup with dual 21" CRTs, and you can just move windows easy between them. How does that work when the monitors are different sizes and resolutions? Is there a "zone" on the side that you have to use to move windows into the other monitor? Or does the computer just interpret the whole side of the bigger monitor the whole side of the smaller monitor?

Just curious. Thanks.

 

[Phoenix '97]

Just a bump as I have a similar sort of question. In particular, I have two LCDs I want to run off the same video card, a 7600GS AGP with a DVI and VGA out. One LCD I want on the DVI at 1600x1200, and the other LCD on the VGA at 1280x800, both being their native resolutions. Running Windows 2000. I want to be able to move windows from one monitor to the other. When playing a fullscreen game, I want to have the game on the bigger monitor and my desktop viewable on the other monitor. How can I do this?

 

[tisb0b]

Just a bump as I have a similar sort of question. In particular, I have two LCDs I want to run off the same video card, a 7600GS AGP with a DVI and VGA out. One LCD I want on the DVI at 1600x1200, and the other LCD on the VGA at 1280x800, both being their native resolutions. Running Windows 2000. I want to be able to move windows from one monitor to the other. When playing a fullscreen game, I want to have the game on the bigger monitor and my desktop viewable on the other monitor. How can I do this?

the game will always play on the primary monitor you've just gotta spend 5 mins setting the primary and secondary monitor and telling the computer where each monitor is very easy stuff

@op: it works the same

 

[Zepher]

There is a "zone" where you can go back and forth, you will notice it when you start to move your mouse back and forth between the screens.

 

[Factorxfiles]

The computer will know what size the monitors are. For example, a 19" (16x12)and a 17" (1280x960) next to eachother, you will only have a 960 border between the two, and you can only drag things across the border. So, basically you are creating a desktop that isn't a perfect rectangle. You can also align the two monitors however you want from display properties so they line up however they do in real life.

Other than being able to drag things across and such, they will still act like individual monitors. You can maximize, move, change settings etc just like you always have.