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Multi-screens

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DarthNefarius
Minmatar Heavy Industries
#1 - 2012-11-03 01:24:20 UTC  |  Edited by: DarthNefarius
Multi-screens
As more players are expanding into playing Multi-screens on eve, I think it would be useful to talk about it. I point out I am not an expert on this subject and that I more than willing to learn from others.
Things they do not tell you about Multi-screens; it only works with windows Vista, Windows 7 , some versions of lynx operating systems, to the best of my understanding. I do not know about windows 8 ?
But there are still bugs, like the pointer can change from arrow to a line, which can be overcome sometimes by moving the mouse up to the top right hand corner of the middle screen.
As for video cards; I use Asus HD7770 Series, but clearly there are plenty other cards that can run Multi-screen , it would be useful if players would post there video cards. On a personal note The Asus HD7770 Series can used with a motherboard that supports dual video cards, which I hope to use one day . But Eve works ok with just one card for now, but gives me chance to upgrade more cheaply later.

As for monitors, I have three monitors; I use 2 different sizes as I picked them up from a car boot cheap, yes it would be nice to have them all the same size but I found you can adjust for this in the windows settings. But I personally use Displayfusion software as I found that a little more user friendly and have number useful add-ons. I think one biggest faults in a number of games I played in Multi-screen unlike eve is the programme writers thinks we all can afford matching monitors size wise. Noticeably the best answer is use window operating system to run in widows mode which gives the player room for adjustment, game empowerment to adjust clearly a thing to look for in a game design.
Game adds on to eve for Multi-screen playing; I would like to see in game extra video windows for drones and or other objects, so I can watch my drones attacking on a side screen and still be able to see my ship flying in the main screen. Or to be able to watch the space station in a rear window video sub screen. Eve has been show to able to support this feature with window video sub screens like the ship fitting widow , so I think this is more than possible ?
I look forward to your opinions,
-Timedoor
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