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post #41 of 58
11/15/05 at 6:35am
no the extra desktop is created off screen and you move your mouse to the edge to make it pan over...
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post #42 of 58
11/15/05 at 9:21am
mine does that if i change the rez
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post #43 of 58
11/15/05 at 2:05pm
This is just super sweet!! Exactly what I've been looking for for the past couple of years. I use litestep and occasionally use the virtual desktops, but with my recording software you can't separate the daughter windows from the main project window. This allows me to maximize the project window and see everything with a simple pan of the screen; from tracks to mixer to plugins in all their glory. Oh great day. Love it. Good work.
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post #44 of 58
11/15/05 at 3:04pm
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Originally Posted by Coder
I found w/ the latest 78.51 from Dell, you can add the extra sizes in the settings. Don't need to play w/ the INF files, this is cool.

When you are in the GeForce Tab, there's an Add Custom Resolution button.
the 'Add Custom Resolution...' option is in most of the drivers but I wasn't able to use it and add, kept getting some error. Is the 78.51 the only one that actually allows you to add custom resolution? have you added one? I ended up having to use use the Inf file method with 77.70.
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post #45 of 58
11/15/05 at 3:36pm
Yeah I got the same error and was about to go modify the .inf, but I decided I'm happy with what I've got right now which ended up being almost twice as wide and twice as high.

i've posted a link to this post in a music forum I frequent and they've raised the question about the possibility of doing this with a non-laptopvideo2go modified .inf file.

Does anyone know if you can just hunt down your .inf file and make these types of changes. I tried finding one for a computer with the intel graphics accelerator and I couldn't find the .inf file.
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post #46 of 58
11/26/05 at 5:05am
Thread Starter 
The INF mod is easy to do if you decide to give it a shot.

-Doc
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post #47 of 58
11/27/05 at 10:13pm
those wallpapers are awsome. wish i had a acount with them to get those
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post #48 of 58
11/28/05 at 7:57am
has anyone else noticed that if you close the screen and open it again using this trick, if you pan only part of the way, you get strange vertical artifact lines. I see the same bit of the screen doubled, covering other parts.
It's quite annoying
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post #49 of 58
11/28/05 at 8:13am
Thread Starter 
I only get that if I've played a game in a window instead of fullscreen. It is annoying. I pop up my display properties, change the color depth, hit appy, and then click NO when it asks if I want to keep the new settings. That's the fastest way I could find to clear it up. Takes about 15 seconds, but it's a bother.

Other than post-game in a window, I haven't had it happen.

-Doc
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post #50 of 58
3/14/06 at 8:20pm
Great trick, but I find that my objectdock bar is now in the middle of the two displays (running at 3840x1200), and i can't for the life of me figure out how to keep it in the middle of the left side display on the bottom, how it used to be.
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post #51 of 58
3/14/06 at 8:59pm
probably impossible...
it does count as one desktop, so it just centers to that.

quite annoying.

you may be able to figure something out with desktop management though...
like divide the screen in two with an invisible bar..
Just chek your nVidia display settings...

(unless you have an x300)
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post #52 of 58
3/15/06 at 6:05am
hmmm...my windows also maximize to the full 3840x1200...sorry if I missed an answer for this in an earlier post, but I couldn't follow some of the conversations


nvm: read the thing about the gridlines: just hold alt and then click maximize window
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post #53 of 58
3/15/06 at 6:58am
messing about with the gridlines stuff, but I can't figure out what the anchor point is for :/
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post #54 of 58
3/15/06 at 1:12pm
I remember doing this on my old desktop.

I didn't think it was all that great though, haha.
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post #55 of 58
11/18/06 at 8:18am
I'm using an X-Treme G driver that doesn't have desktop management, is there another way to fix the gridlines so when I maximize something it doesn't strech all the way across?
I sure hope so =(
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post #56 of 58
11/20/06 at 11:58am
For some weird reason I can't view the Desktop Management? All I can see is http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/6343/hmmzv7.jpg
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post #57 of 58
11/20/06 at 1:36pm
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Originally Posted by unska
For some weird reason I can't view the Desktop Management? All I can see is http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/6343/hmmzv7.jpg
Try this. Rt-click your desktop...

nvidia display>laptop display>desktop mgt>enable>ok

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post #58 of 58
11/22/06 at 5:04am
I might have to try this. The only drawback I see right now is that I like to actually look at what is on the second monitor. So if you _have_ two monitors, I would setup to use both. Having two monitors is easy with a laptop

Still it could be nice on the road/etc....
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