Have your workflow program primary and a group-chat client on the secondary. Writing a document on the primary with sources on the second. But plug in a computer monitor in one port, a 40inch LCD into the other, and you have the best of both worlds. In fact, I'm watching last weeks Simpsons episode on Fox On Demand as I'm typing this. Ditto if you need to interact with Ventrillo during the course of play.įor multi-media rigs their nice, it allows you to use them both as a computer and a TV at the same time. Everyone else essentially has to go afk for 30 seconds to a minute to look up some info on a poorly explained quest, you do it nearly instantly. You can be running the game windowed-maximized in your primary monitor, and be having your wowhead/ventrillo/whatever up in the second monitor.
You wouldn't be using the second monitor in any kind of shooter, and sometimes its better to disactivate the second monitor before loading the game (many EA games require you to do this). Ultramon was really nice, couldn't get myself to drop $50 on it after the trial.Ģ monitors isn't really a gaming thing, its a productivity thing. I'd just turn off the second monitor when you don't want to use it. You also can't have one monitor in screen saver but the other monitor stay active. Supreme Commander and Flight Simulator X are the only games I know of that use both monitors and I doubt there are many (though I'm sure there are some) others.Īs for switching between monitors while in games, all you can do is either run the game in windowed mode or alt+tab.
Oftentimes, I'll have Firefox up on both or Word on both, or Word on one and Firefox on the other (for research reports or something).įor gaming, two monitors are pretty much useless. This way I can have Firefox or Word maximized on my primary monitory, and still see the random crap I occasionally use on my second monitor. It adds a taskbar to the second monitor and adds a bunch of other little things.Īs for uses, I fill up my second monitor with random crap like AIM, xfire, Vista's sidebar, digital post-it notes, a media player, and more. Ultramon is a necessity for anyone with two (or more) monitors.
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