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Windows 7 horizontal spanning?

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Syndicated_Death

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I recently got my GF playing EVE. she's playing on a 17" lcd at 1280x1024. as far as EVE goes things get cramped in that amount of space real quick. so, since she has 2 of the same lcd I decided I was gonna try to get her rocking dual screen via horizontal span. well since she is using vista that's not possible. from the reading I've done MS disabled horizontal span for reasons of DRM.

so my question is will windows 7 allow it or is it still a thing of the past?
 
I don't know why people go screaming "DRM" every time anything involving Vista happens. Horizontal Span was never a Microsoft feature, it was a Video Driver feature. For some reason Ati and NVIDIA decided it wasn't worth developing a Horizontal Span feature in their WDDM drivers, likely because only maybe 0.0000001% of their userbase ever used the feature.
 
Arainach said:
I don't know why people go screaming "DRM" every time anything involving Vista happens. Horizontal Span was never a Microsoft feature, it was a Video Driver feature. For some reason Ati and NVIDIA decided it wasn't worth developing a Horizontal Span feature in their WDDM drivers, likely because only maybe 0.0000001% of their userbase ever used the feature.
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like I said that's what I was reading. I didn't list it as fact. that's why I'm here asking.

even without nvidia or ati cards horizontal span was an option in the display settings. so it does indicate something that ms cut out. even nvidia and ati list that it's not possible due to vista limitations.

Horizontal and Vertical span modes are no longer available under Windows Vista.
Due to architectural changes in the new Windows Vista Window Display Driver Model (WDDM), span mode cannot be supported in NVIDIA graphics drivers. NVIDIA recommends using the built-in Windows Vista multi-display modes.
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If you play in Windowed mode you can use a program like DisplayFusion or Ultramon to span the window full screen across both monitors. Heck ATI's driver allows that too using HydraVision.. but i doubt it would allow full screen spanning...
 
Do you mean Horizontal spanning as in they basically make 1 big wide screen rather than 2 separate windows?
 
Nope, sorry, it's not possible using the latest 185.85 drivers on my 8800 GTX.



(there is an option to output clone displays, you have to right click one of the monitors... other than that, there's nothing)

I am gonna try installing 182 drivers here later on. If anything changes, I'll let you know, but it seems unlikely if this is a consistently missing feature since Vista.
 
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I'm beginning to think we may never see horizontal span again. it's a shame... those who like to play flight sims (like the one microsoft makes) are fucked
 
I'm sure there is some type of external device that allows you to plug in 1 output, set with a custom resolution, to emulate that size monitor even though your using 2.
 
Syndicated_Death said:
I recently got my GF playing EVE. she's playing on a 17" lcd at 1280x1024. as far as EVE goes things get cramped in that amount of space real quick. so, since she has 2 of the same lcd I decided I was gonna try to get her rocking dual screen via horizontal span. well since she is using vista that's not possible. from the reading I've done MS disabled horizontal span for reasons of DRM.

so my question is will windows 7 allow it or is it still a thing of the past?
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I could get past the EVE part.... how the hell did you manage that? Shes a keeper i tell you
 
bigdogchris said:
I'm sure there is some type of external device that allows you to plug in 1 output, set with a custom resolution, to emulate that size monitor even though your using 2.
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Yeah, it's called TripleHead2Go (or DualHead2Go for 2 monitors) and it costs like $300.
 
shurcooL said:
Yeah, it's called TripleHead2Go (or DualHead2Go for 2 monitors) and it costs like $300.
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that brings to mind a saying I've heard before... FUUUUuuuuuuck that! 300 for something I know should work on a software level is not something easy to justify.
 
Well, I agree the DualHead is pretty useless since you don't need hardware for that. But TripleHead does allow you to hook up 3 monitors to it and your video card will see it as just one huge monitor. This is something you can't do without extra hardware AFAIK because most video cards only have 2 video outputs. It might be somewhat doable with software only if you have 2+ video cards, but I dunno how well it'd work.

So for the hardcore sim guys, TripleHead is a pretty good thing. I do think $300 or whatever it costs is pretty ridiculous, though.
 
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