Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: which is best? slightly OT

c1rcle opened this issue on Feb 22, 2002 ยท 37 posts


TMGraphics posted Fri, 22 February 2002 at 10:30 PM

c1crle - Dual monitors are great, Win98 supports dual monitors if you didn't know. Plug one AGP and one PCI video card into your computer. (Get the AGP up and running first :> then install the PCI) Go to settings and display, the big monitor is for the AGP and you can position the little (PCI) monitor on top, left or right of the big one. This virtual positioning mirrors your physical positioning of your 2 monitors. With this all done, you can 'drag' things from one monitor to another. This is very useful to put your graphic/application TOOLS on the (PCI) monitor and your working space on the main (AGP) monitor. One word of advise though - I used to use this type of configuration, I removed the secondary monitor and forgot to reset the 'tools' in a few programs. Their restore features wouldnt wrk so I had to reinstall the programs, not a hard thing to do, but was time consuming. So, if you can go with 2 monitors, DO IT! Really helps to free up your virtual work space! I have no idea if operating systems above Win98 can do this or not, I assume they can and/or do. Can't wait to hear what you buy for yourself! I hope it screams! TMG