how to Setup two displays properly?

[doritos]

someone please help me i have an issue. I bought a second monitor to game and have my second monitor to browse. The problem is when minimizing out of game or switch to the game FULL screen, the second monitor either clones it extends the entire game in the middle of the screen.

I just want one monitor for game, and the other for browsing. I was using a program called "ontopreplica" and I was able to game full screen while using the second freely if I hit the minmize button.

Since I restarted the computer, it no longer works, and the computer just keeps switching between extended or duplicate modes. This is windows 10 using amd card and eyefinity.

Another thing, how can I have my new monitor acquire the same sharpness as my samsung in cinema mode? The new 144hz monitors or gaming monitors in general seem to have no option changing in between game modes, cinema mode, vivid. On my old samsung display I can choose between gaming, theatre, vivid modes. If I switch to cinema mode it will show the smallest detail on a picture

[mr_chin]

Originally Posted by doritos

someone please help me i have an issue. I bought a second monitor to game and have my second monitor to browse. The problem is when minimizing out of game or switch to the game FULL screen, the second monitor either clones it extends the entire game in the middle of the screen.

I just want one monitor for game, and the other for browsing. I was using a program called "ontopreplica" and I was able to game full screen while using the second freely if I hit the minmize button.

Since I restarted the computer, it no longer works, and the computer just keeps switching between extended or duplicate modes. This is windows 10 using amd card and eyefinity.

Another thing, how can I have my new monitor acquire the same sharpness as my samsung in cinema mode? The new 144hz monitors or gaming monitors in general seem to have no option changing in between game modes, cinema mode, vivid. On my old samsung display I can choose between gaming, theatre, vivid modes. If I switch to cinema mode it will show the smallest detail on a picture

First of all, what brand is your new monitor?

I'm not very familiar with Win10, but have you tried going through the screen resolution option and setting which monitor is main? Also, in that window, there is a multiple display option, on how you want your monitor to behave (extend, duplicate, etc).

If you've tried these, maybe install the software that came with your monitor. Those usually fixes it and also provides you with the different modes.

[doritos]

Originally Posted by mr_chin

First of all, what brand is your new monitor?

I'm not very familiar with Win10, but have you tried going through the screen resolution option and setting which monitor is main? Also, in that window, there is a multiple display option, on how you want your monitor to behave (extend, duplicate, etc).

If you've tried these, maybe install the software that came with your monitor. Those usually fixes it and also provides you with the different modes.

yes I have tried those methods, I have an acer gn246hl

[geeknerd]

You shouldn't need a 3rd party software to run two monitors. I'd delete ontopreplica and try to make it work with windows screen resolution settings. Myself, I run "extend these displays" and have monitor 1 as my main gaming monitor.

Also, a tip is to run games on "windowed" mode. Most games now have "full screen borderless windowed" mode. It will allow you to alt tab between programs without the game actually minimizing. So if i have chrome on one monitor and csgo on the other, i can alt tab back and forth and the game will still be on screen instead of minimizing.

As for "in cinema" modes, those are just manufacture presets of adjusting brightness, contrast, color, hue, sharpness. You can mess with those yourself to get colors right. Windows also has a calibrating page in their setup somewhere.

[doritos]

Originally Posted by geeknerd

You shouldn't need a 3rd party software to run two monitors. I'd delete ontopreplica and try to make it work with windows screen resolution settings. Myself, I run "extend these displays" and have monitor 1 as my main gaming monitor.

Also, a tip is to run games on "windowed" mode. Most games now have "full screen borderless windowed" mode. It will allow you to alt tab between programs without the game actually minimizing. So if i have chrome on one monitor and csgo on the other, i can alt tab back and forth and the game will still be on screen instead of minimizing.

As for "in cinema" modes, those are just manufacture presets of adjusting brightness, contrast, color, hue, sharpness. You can mess with those yourself to get colors right. Windows also has a calibrating page in their setup somewhere.

I do try with the windows screen resolution settings, the problem is whenever I open a game, and minimize back to the screen, the secondary monitor will duplicate again. Plus when I do run the games in windows borderless, the game is smack dab in the middle between the two screens, I can see the desktop around it, how can i move to the main screen?

Anyways, as for the presets on my Old samsung with cinema, what setting would adjust the sharpness on my acer? You can see a huge difference between the two monitors when the samsung is in cinema mode, there are all the details you cant see on the acer which is bugging me.

[bananana]

Not all games are optimized for multi-monitor setups. Are both screens the same resolution? Same output -- 2x DVI or 2x HDMI? If both are correct try getting the NVIDIA or ATI software for multi-monitor. These will force it to work. If you're running different resolutions nothing can save you.