Dual monitor question

[Yumero]

I have a spare moniter that I hooked up to my laptop. It works fine except when I play games. I want to play my game full screen on my primary monitor, which is my laptop, and have other windows open on the other so I can multitask either. But when I move my cursor so to the right so that it will go onto the next monitor, it doesn't go there. It just dissapears off my laptop monitor and comes back when I move it back to the left. Is there any way to fix this?

I'm using ATI Radeon 9700 as my video card if that helps. Additional computer specs are in my signature.

[Xaenn]

I'm pretty sure it's impossible to use a second desktop during fullscreen apps of that sort.

Sorry, it's something I've wanted to do as well.

[polokitty]

on my buddys laptop i did the same thing i dunno maybe its because his video card supported 2 screens like a split 32mb one and 64 mb the other

[EGGO]

I have a spare moniter that I hooked up to my laptop. It works fine except when I play games. I want to play my game full screen on my primary monitor, which is my laptop, and have other windows open on the other so I can multitask either. But when I move my cursor so to the right so that it will go onto the next monitor, it doesn't go there. It just dissapears off my laptop monitor and comes back when I move it back to the left. Is there any way to fix this?

I'm using ATI Radeon 9700 as my video card if that helps. Additional computer specs are in my signature.

It's doing that because it's not supposed to do that. During a full window application (like a game, not like an internet browser) your mouse stays (if I remember, locked in the center basically).

Only time you can fix this is if you press Alt+Enter to window the game and get out of the window by maybe pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del (assuming you're using Windows since you're playing a game).

[sniperrfl1011]

theres no way to use full screen with a second desktop...? Thats so sad...i tried to do this once...spent maybe 10 minutes, then gave up. I thought i was doing something wrong...guess not

[polobunny]

Why don't you get two computers and a KVM switch?
But like EGGO said, you cannot do that with only one compy, it's not made for that.

[sniperrfl1011]

o...thats not good, life sucks .
If no one brought it up tho, i would have forgotten, but now i wanna do that again...and now i know i cant

[Winged 2.0]

Heres a solution. set your games to windowed mode, around the same resolution that the monitor is at. This way it appears full screen but isnt.

[Xaenn]

Yeah but some games like Diablo II behave very poorly in window (like wierd crap).

[sniperrfl1011]

but the problem is, games run slower in windowed mode(since i have a cheap crappy system - a laptop with a cheap IGP 320-m) so if i window it, it will lag like heck (except if i play old old games like...say...starcraft?