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Niven Helmer	Posted - 2005.03.31 11:11:00 - [1] I'm experimenting with some software called Maxivista, which lets you use your laptop as an extension of your desktop monitor. This would be perfect for having the map, market, local etc open on the laptop screen without cluttering the main window. Problem is that Eve doesn't seem to want to allow windows to move outside the primary screen. Has anyone achieved multiple monitor set ups with Eve? How did you do it? Thanks
Hellcore	Posted - 2005.04.01 13:48:00 - [2] I would love modal windows but I think you would most likely have performance problems (or it just might not work) running D3D stuff over Maxivista. -- CEO, RCSAS
Coconut Joe	Posted - 2005.09.08 03:12:00 - [3] well, first of all you can change which is the primary monitor to the one you want eve to be on ;) Failing that you can just put eve in window mode and just drag it tothe screan you want. But im not sure if would work that way with this software of yours.
Namo Iluvatar	Posted - 2005.09.08 16:56:00 - [4] I'm running dual monitors on my PC and I can't say that I've ever been able to get anything to open from EVE on anything other than the primary monitor (that's where I want EVE launched anyway). What I do mostly is have a set of spread sheets open on the secondary monitor while I play on my primary. My only problem with that is when I try to manipulate any data on the secondary monitor, EVE will minimize to the task bar. At that point it's a crap shoot on what happens next. Sometimes I can return to EVE without issues, other times I have to force EVE in and out of windowed mode to continue game play, and the best yet... regardless of which of the previous happened... the game will typically crash at no particular time after returning to game play. If you could get EVE to span two monitors, that would be awesome and I would love to hear about how it was done. If anyone knows how to switch between one monitor with EVE and another monitor with something else on it without minimizing EVE (other than playing in windowed mode) then I will be equally happy. Best of luck with making a dual monitor system using the laptop monitor (I know a dual monitor system isn't cheap). * All skill is in vain when an angel spits in the flintlock of your musket. *
Einheriar Ulrich	Posted - 2005.09.09 15:34:00 - [5] Well instead of trying to get 2 monitors to work, which again means you have to buy 2 monitors if your starting from scratch, try looking at this option, it might be a bit expensive, but yu can have several programs open, or watch movies/ TV while you play EVE: This is what i use. Sexy TfT So Say I. Einheriar Ulrich of the Bloodline of Einheriar. **Minion Of VOTF**
Einheriar Ulrich	Posted - 2005.09.09 15:37:00 - [6] Edited by: Einheriar Ulrich on 09/09/2005 15:37:46 Originally by: Einheriar Ulrich Well instead of trying to get 2 monitors to work, which again means you have to buy 2 monitors if your starting from scratch, try looking at this option, it might be a bit expensive, but yu can have several programs open, or watch movies/ TV while you play EVE: This is what i use. Sexy TfT But if money is not an option, you could also go over the top with this one. Guess what im saving for stupid Double post, sorry. So Say I. Einheriar Ulrich of the Bloodline of Einheriar. **Minion Of VOTF**
SengH	Posted - 2005.09.09 22:36:00 - [7] I have a 2405 FPW too but I cant imagine playing EVE on anything bigger... it would just be TOO big...
Allen Miles	Posted - 2005.09.10 07:02:00 - [8] I would also like to know how to make eve work on dual monitors. I have 2 flat 17's. And going into window mode doesn't work for me because EvE doesn't allow me to resize the window. Have Your Own Signature Like Mine.
Kobies Atroci	Posted - 2005.09.11 17:34:00 - [9] Originally by: Allen Miles I would also like to know how to make eve work on dual monitors. I have 2 flat 17's. And going into window mode doesn't work for me because EvE doesn't allow me to resize the window. change the resolution in options, i have 2 17"ers as well, desktop resolution is 1280x1024, to get the Eve window to fit i put the game res at 1280x960 , and the window is as big as it can be( other than fullscreen of course ), leaving my other monitor free to do whatever, without the problem of spontaneously crashing like alt-tabbing has.
Prestidigitator	Posted - 2005.09.19 09:54:00 - [10] A game like Eve is absolutely screaming out for multimonitor support imvho :) It would be coolness personified to be able to have the main viewer, the map, and the market on different screens. Or maybe the normal main viewer, and a extreme zoom-out tactical view on another. I'd love the devs to look into this, but i have to admit that the number of customers that would take advantage of the feature probably isn't worth the huge amount of recoding time it would no doubt take :(

Strathis Mikluk	Posted - 2005.09.19 16:45:00 - [11] I'll vote for that. I think a lot of ppl have the technology lying around these days - spare old monitors and the like - and it would be well worth the investment. Whew... I've come over all funny! Strathis
Divina	Posted - 2005.09.23 23:27:00 - [12] Something that would just allow the app to be run in full screen and for it NOT to be minimised when using an app on another screen would be a VERY sweet option. Thanks
Adrian Steel	Posted - 2005.09.24 16:05:00 - [13] I've been experimenting with a dual monitor setup myself. I can't say I've found any information OTHER than what has been posted above already. If alot of people who are also interested in this post here, CCP could get a better idea of the number of people who want to use a dual setup. Or CCP could make a poll on eve-online.com... I think the number of people using a dual monitor setup will only rise exponentially in the next few years, as more and more people will (a) buy a vidcard that can handle dual setup and (b) realize that it's a real help for whatever work/games their doing and (c) as people move from CRT to LCD, many may have both a CRT and an LCD in their households to use at their convenience. Either way, consider this a bump .
Expert Newbie	Posted - 2005.09.26 00:39:00 - [14] Edited by: Expert Newbie on 26/09/2005 00:40:26 It's very easy to get EVE to run on dual monitors with Nvidia cards but I'm not sure how you would do it with ATI cards. First, go to the Nvidia control panel and change the dual monitor type to 'Horizontal Span'. Make sure it's not DualView or it won't work. Then, just launch EVE Online, hit escape, and change the resolution under the graphics settings and there you go. Too bad your ship is split down right in the middle of the two monitors. You can also use 'Vertical Span' to get a long version of EVE if you want to. Here's 2 screenshots of my dual monitor action: Horizontal Span Vertical Span Alternately, if you only want to keep EVE on one monitor and other applications on the other one but don't want to use Windowed mode, check out this program: http://grismar.net/shiftwindow/ Essentially, you can get a full-screen EVE on one monitor without having to alt+tab all the time to access the other monitor. It does this by keeping the Windowed mode but removes the borders by 'shifting' it off the screen. Also, I would recommend this program: http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/ This program does a number of things but I think the most useful feature is that each window gets their own taskbar and it keeps dialog boxes/windows on one monitor or the other instead of splitting it across both screens. Hope this helps some of you.
Plesuvius	Posted - 2005.09.27 04:22:00 - [15] Thanks, nice links and I also recommend Ultramon. bump for some proper dual monitor support for multiple clients, the kind of thing which would encourage more subscriptions, you know... I use 2 clients on dual monitors with an ATI card and it could be faster, but its certainly workable. What still bugs me is the massive framerate loss when enabling sound, and the inability to pick which monitor the Blue framework will display on. But hell, it basically works. Now, i wonder if i had dual core and set affinity for each client to a different core, would the framerates both double?
Gil Gerard	Posted - 2005.09.28 14:41:00 - [16] Edited by: Gil Gerard on 28/09/2005 14:41:53 For the record, i have an X2 4600+, and an X850XT, i run 2 windowed clients, one at 1600x1200 on my 2405fpw, and the other at 1024x768 on an 18" lcd. both average around 40fps with simultaneous action on both of them, with sound enabled and mp3s playing i can't run a 1920x1200 window for some reason, it will drop to 5fps, regardless of what else i'm doing or how many clients i have open, but 1920x1200 fullscreen makes me leave a mess in my chair it's that pretty.
SnowJack	Posted - 2005.09.30 21:28:00 - [17] Another vote for better dual monitor support. As has been mentioned, changing the nvidia settings to horizontal span works for me - I can go 2560x1024 on my two 17" lcds, and eve looks Great! Also, it's _really_ nice to have that extra screen real estate to expand the chat window and such. All we really need is a way to offset the camera. Instead of having the ship be in the center of the screen (50%), a way to shift it to the left or right (25% or 75%) would be perfect. It's really hard to play with the ship split down the middle.
Sahne MuhMuh	Posted - 2005.10.02 21:16:00 - [18] Same Here. I got a Notebook, which replaced my hole PC. When I¦m at home, a 19" TFT is plugged inside the Book and I run nView Dual Monitor. The 19" TFT is my Primary Monitor and on this I run Eve. The Second Monitor (15,4" Notebook TFT)is displaying mostly Firefox, Skype, Teamspeak ,Miranda etc On my Primary Display I Can run Eve at 1280x1024 in Fullscreen without any Problems. On the Second Monitor I can look at my Browser etc. But just when I click on Somewhere on the Browser Eve minimizes. And this is like... The only thing I can do is to run Eve in Window Mode at a lower Resolution. But thats not the way it has to be. On 1280x1024 in Windows Mode I got an absolutly crappy performance with very low fps. I talked with some peaople about it and all said that this is not an eve related Problem. This is all Windows related. Now I wonder if it is pssible jutst to write a little Tool or Hack (or Maybe an Option in Eve) that just lets eve always on top and not minimized it, when I klick on another Program. And the horizontal Span is not a very good Solution becuase: 1) You need 2 times exact the same monitors. 2) You have to put both Monitors exact to each others 3) You really need a "kaick as Computer to run Eve on such resolutions like 2058x1536 (dunno ;) )
Rundown	Posted - 2005.10.07 13:54:00 - [19] +1 on multiple monitor support. I would love to be able to keep your main montior free of windows clutter. Essentially keeping your normal overview, side bar, and ship control display on your main monitor then being able to pull menus and windows (ie dialog, character sheet, wallet, etc.) to the secondary monitor. I am sure alot of member would GREATLY appreciate it.
Insomniack	Posted - 2005.10.20 08:56:00 - [20] I just started playing Eve last week, and dual monitors was the first thing I wished for. But splitting it down the middle is just silly. I have Windows and Mac machines, and this is definitely one area the Mac has always been better than a PC. YOu can hook up as many monitors as you want on a Mac, just keep adding video cards or use ones with 2 outputs. The Mac OS automatically incorporates the monitors very nicely. Oh well, maybe someday Eve will support 2 monitors. But there are SO MANY other things to work on first....

ERMIS	Posted - 2005.10.21 02:33:00 - [21] Hehehe, I tried multiple monitors myself too,having the game running on my laptop (NVIDIA card) and an external LCD resulting on running EVE on two 17" LCDs having horizontal spawned the desktop on the second monitor. The results looked sweet but IMO people have to consider this : Dual monitor on one VGA increase the load on it thus the temperature on its GPU,plus if the GPU its not a modern one even if it can support the higher resolusions the DUAL mode results, there might/will be some reduction to FPS..Now lets assume you encounter those dirty pirates on a PVP or some other fighting encounter, now add missiles drones etc (yours and your oponents), sit back and enjoy the on screen lag.So either go buy a descent VGA ro forget about it. One other thought i made for my media center pc, is to buy a 30' or bigger LCD ot Plasma display 16:1 and instead of dual monitor (that "cuts" the image in two in the cender of the view of the game window), to have EVE running in full screen in that huge monitor in all its glory.Just imagine the look would be like you are viewing a movie in which you participate in Not to mention that you can have more windows open, chat channels cargo bays overview radar scanner market etc all at the same time. Dual monitor is a good idea but i think that if you are going to put some money on it just consider the option of a 30" lcd wide screen, the viewing experience would be better
Czar	Posted - 2005.10.22 21:28:00 - [22] You know what the REALLY annoying part is? I played this game from just about day one- and back then I just had one screen- but the multiscreen option WAS IN THE GAME! Then I quit for a while- and got 2 screens. Now, getting back into the game- I find the option to multiscreen is OUT of the game!! Grrr... First time I ever thought of getting multiple screens was Due to Eve... I hope it can be reinstated- but I'm not holding my breath.
Xzavier	Posted - 2005.10.29 02:36:00 - [23] /sign I use a 42" Sony Super-WEGA wide screen HDTV as my main monitor and a standard el-cheapo 15" LCD for the secondary. I run the game at 1920x1080 @ 30Hz (standard HD format) in windowed mode and usually spreadsheets on the LCD. Looks absolutely amazing, but it won't allow me to pull any windows out of the primary game screen. Though I also haven't had any problems with the game window minimizing, or any other strangness for that matter, when using any other app's. Guess I'm having better luck with my multi-monitor setup than some others. Would be really nice if I could pull market windows and such over to the secondary monitor tho... BTW, game sounds as awesome as it looks when playing though a home theater system as well... Bose 7.1 surround sound 4tw!!!
Nelix Trist	Posted - 2005.10.29 12:19:00 - [24] I have 2 Account running on one computer (recemtly brought a new one so its now on 2 computers) but while running Eve on the first computer i found that if you have a "Dual Display" once you drag a windows Eve Client onto the second monitor it slowed the "whole" computer down to about 1 FPS. this was fix after i just resized the eve clients to the smallest res availerble. It lag's because it has to render on the second monitor later and will not show you the first untill the second it complete. :D But useing a second computer solved that problem alltogether :D at program called "Sinurgy" (spelt someway like that) also allows you to use a second computer but only one keyboard and now hence you dont need a second keyboard or mouse. i had this runnig for a long time untill i got bored and wanted to have to do a bit more, so i plugged in the second keyboard and mouse ----------------------------------
unit01	Posted - 2005.10.31 06:35:00 - [25] Hi there. Multi monitor support would really enhance the gameplay for a lot of people out there. I personally bought my 2 17''s just so i can get the experience for eve. Now i'm stuck because i really want to get a 3rd lcd hooked up but can't because there's no gcard except the matrox that does it and using that beast just to play eve is gonna leave all my other games feeling like a downgrade. Hate it that in full screen though the middle is in between my 2 displays though. :( Anybody know of any other card except the matrox that does tri view?
Grisina	Posted - 2005.11.02 00:05:00 - [26] Going with what Niven is stating about 3 monitors and i did a quick search through google to find a vga video splitter. 4 port Video Splitter. Here is a basic product that will let you take up to 4 monitors to display as your main windows and if you did a more thourgh search you might be able to find a better suited device to acheive the desired result. I think that if you can do it over 3 screens then it will solve the whole ship being split issue while also giving you a larger window viewing space. Just need to increase the resolution to make it provide actual more space on the computer as well. Its a thought... but then again who has 3 like sized monitors kicking around to use on a windows based machine to run a video game? Let alone the desk space to pull this off as well. my 2 cents anyways
Khaelis	Posted - 2005.12.15 12:02:00 - [27] Proper multi-monitor support would be FTW. Putting the market and other windows like chat and things on other monitors would be... I just cant find a word. But I do imagine that such a change would take a while to code. :( Well, bump anyway.
DrkstHour	Posted - 2005.12.16 04:07:00 - [28] Let me add that i want support for Dual Monitors, infact, support is already there for me, i span the screens and i can run it at 2048x768, it's awesome! but as said before, just really needs to be able to offset the camera, it would be perfect. Or if even, make it so the screen is actually split, the primary screen being the game, and the secondary screen being the modal's. -Drkst
Nosferatu Zodd	Posted - 2005.12.17 18:51:00 - [29] EVE had multi monitor support in the past. The problem was than your ship would be cut in two between the two monitors If the ship would be centered on one screen, then the second screen could be used for property panels, browsers, etc Also the videocards were not powerfull enough ... that's history. A widescreen is an alternative.
slip66	Posted - 2005.12.21 17:51:00 - [30] It would be nice. For the last year I have been running duals. My main is where the eve client is displayed, I use the secondary for forum whoring err.. It starts to chop and become un playabel if I try to drag and 2nd client to the secondary. So I just tend to run in windowed mode and minize between the apps. I use a 9800 pro. My old Nvidia I could run two clients on both monitors that was semi playable. Be nice to get the full deal though.

StreetRat	Posted - 2005.12.28 11:30:00 - [31] Ive used dual monitors in eve for ages, usually having to go horizontal span, and since the max res for one of my monitors is only 1024x768, both clients had to go to that size to have one on each screen ive played with dx8/9 programming and dragging an app from one screen to another and having the frame rate drop heeps seems to be a problem with all dx apps, when i first started eve, i had it in windowed mode, and as soon as a pixle went accross to the other screen, it dropped to about 5 fps, its to do with the adapter that the application is set to use, primary or secondary I did notice though, that under the graphics options, i have 2 selections that i can select for my card. (cant check atm as when i load the game and get to the login screen, i cant see any of the username/password boxes, only the background, but thats a different story) The first one is the main monitor and the second is the secondary monitor, by changing this setting in the graphics option, i can run 2 clients, one on each screen and still get over 50 - 60 fps in standard dual view, im using a Nvidia 6800 gt, not sure if the options still there for ATI or not. By changing this, you could proabbbly also have eve play on the second screen without the fps dropping. Having one client span 2 monitors and having the primary monitor to play on and the second monitor for other ingame stuff would be cool, although might not work to well on different resolutions, and probably not possible in dual view with the dx limitations, unless theres ways around these i havent found yet.
sHERU	Posted - 2005.12.29 09:20:00 - [32] Edited by: sHERU on 29/12/2005 09:21:04 I think I have a small part of the solution. Dualview gameplay is usualy tricky, and in general if the software does not support it, it will NOT work. Examples of software where dualscreen is supported are: Quake3 (1,2 or 3 screens) Flightsimulator (1,2 up to 30 screens) So unless the CCP dev is willing to implement it, I wil not go anywhere. But I have a few things at mind, first of all, take a look at this. http://www.matrox.com/graphics/products/dh2go/home.cfm This is an adaptor that splits the signal, for example 2048x768, into 2x 1024x768. Secondly we should take a look at EVE online self. A we would need to raise the resolution output. And I consider 2 things as a option: A: Edit the EVE Online config/ini files and chance 1024x768 into 2048x768. B: Use widescreen (altho I have no idea how that works) Wil this work? NO IDEA and to be honest, tempering with these files is at your own risk. Always make a backup! And expect the client to become unstable when operating at nonstandard resolutions. At the moment this is all I think of, when I get more, ill post them here.
Lag Hon	Posted - 2006.01.02 05:19:00 - [33] /sign 98% of new Vid cards these days are Dual Monitor capable by default. Id Love to use my second screen instead of everything cluttering one screen
Elric Max	Posted - 2006.01.06 23:37:00 - [34] /sign I currently use on 19" CRT but I've got two 19" LCD's on the way shortly, and I'd love to see this option implemented into the Eve client. The idea of having the map open in one window while flying in the other is just... outrageously cool.
Gordam	Posted - 2006.01.07 00:36:00 - [35] I have two identical Eizo 17" LCD monitors and I'd love to have dual monitor support for EVE. It'd be extremely cool if we could have two individual cameras, one for each monitor, that we could control. Imagine fixing one camera on your foes, or using the map or market etc.
Darekish	Posted - 2006.01.07 11:46:00 - [36] you all seem very clued up on dual monitor stuff and its new to me so can anyone help? I have a 3k Athlon 64 with 1 gb of mem and a Radeon X800 card and 21 & 17 inch monitors, dual monitor setup works fine usually but i REALY want to be able to run my two eve accounts on different screens so i can see both at once. Atm i run them on one (using alt-tab to swap between them) and do other stuff on the 17 inch as if i drag a client to the 17 inch everything grinds to a halt . Anyone know a way to fix this, would a 2nd graphics card (would have to be a PCI as i only have 1 x agp slot) help? I also run 2 instances of the client atm would running 2 seperate instalations help? Thanks, Dare.
StreetRat	Posted - 2006.01.09 08:46:00 - [37] im not sure if its the same with Radeons, but im guessing it would be, if you go to the options (escape) and under the graphics tab, next to display adapter you should have 2 items, probably say the same thing. the first is primary monitor, the second is the secondary monitor, change the setting on the second account to the second device/option it will still load on the default screen, and while its up the fps will go really bad, but just move it accross to the other screen and make sure they are completely on there own screen otherwise itll cause a problem
Naok	Posted - 2006.01.09 18:49:00 - [38] Just a post to say I also would like dual monitor support, or at least, move the ship from the center of the screen
DJCrimson	Posted - 2006.01.10 04:24:00 - [39] GUys who are trying to play on their secondary monitors, try going into prefs.ini in ur cache folder, and setting desktopPrimary=1 basically this tells eve your running it on ur secondary monitor.
Naok	Posted - 2006.01.14 02:43:00 - [40] There is a utility to play in Window mode in one or more monitors. If you are playing with one or more EVEs, you can fit the windows exactly to the bounds of the screen of your choice. You can find it here http://www.orekaria.com/EVE/download.htm

Phoenix1	Posted - 2006.01.17 15:46:00 - [41] /signed I would love to see more support on multi monitors.
Naate	Posted - 2006.01.18 12:27:00 - [42] Edited by: Naate on 18/01/2006 12:32:48 Edited by: Naate on 18/01/2006 12:28:54 Originally by: Darekish you all seem very clued up on dual monitor stuff and its new to me so can anyone help? I have a 3k Athlon 64 with 1 gb of mem and a Radeon X800 card and 21 & 17 inch monitors, dual monitor setup works fine usually but i REALY want to be able to run my two eve accounts on different screens so i can see both at once. Atm i run them on one (using alt-tab to swap between them) and do other stuff on the 17 inch as if i drag a client to the 17 inch everything grinds to a halt . Anyone know a way to fix this, would a 2nd graphics card (would have to be a PCI as i only have 1 x agp slot) help? I also run 2 instances of the client atm would running 2 seperate instalations help? Thanks, Dare. Hey there, I think this may help somewhat.. I'm not at home to test this and I haven't attempted it yet myself only having one account to work with.. But it has some possibilities I think. First of all, with the X800 we are lucky in that we get two devices when both monitors are connected, a primary and a secondary device. You will find that you can run the game well on either monitor provided that EVE is configured to use the monitor/device you're currently displaying it on. My suggestion is this, first of all, configure the game to use your first account with first screen, then make a copy of prefs.ini and name it prefs.pri or somesuch. Reload the game, configure it for your second monitor / device, and copy that prefs.ini file and rename it prefs.sec Then as suggested by Zytrel in that prefs thread you can simply make a batch file to load the clients for you. ie; primary.bat del prefs.ini copy prefs.pri prefs.ini eve secondary.bat del prefs.ini copy prefs.sec prefs.ini eve been a while, but fairly sure copy will function like that and rename the file as it copies. :) Edit to add: I would also like to add my support for full dualscreen support. DS ftw! Edit to also add: You will have to run the clients in windowed mode for this to work, in FS mode they will minimise as you go from one to the other, defeating the purpose of it. You can just click and drag the title bar so it resides in the top of the non visible section of the screen. Just click as low as possible on the title bar and drag up. Wont eliminate it entirely, but it does the trick. :) I do that to get the full 1600x1200 on my main screen without losing any important parts of the client, so can run spreadsheets and IRC on my second monitor.
DuckyWucky	Posted - 2006.01.19 00:23:00 - [43] just do what i do.... i have 3 computers side by side
Vincent Camaro	Posted - 2006.01.22 19:48:00 - [44] Originally by: DuckyWucky just do what i do.... i have 3 computers side by side Nice Idea! I`d be so happy to be able to use my second screen in eve! Please CCD, make it possible
Shedle Nemar	Posted - 2006.01.23 02:03:00 - [45] Hey everyone...new guy here...I got a new free trial and I'm actually gonna go through the tutorial....I've got 2x21in monitors setup to my comp and I would love to do dual view. from a lil googling...it looks like Eve Online was set to have Dual Monitor support.... http://www.gamershell.com/news/5554.html
Naate	Posted - 2006.01.24 12:16:00 - [46] Don't suppose anyone was able to test the method I suggest to see if it worked for them? Would need a card that gives a primary and a secondary device to work, like the X800 does. I don't have a 2nd acct to test with myself, so very curious to see whether or not it actually works.
Paddan	Posted - 2006.01.24 12:37:00 - [47] Edited by: Paddan on 24/01/2006 12:38:42 Wrong post, remove pls
JawsOfDeath	Posted - 2006.01.24 12:38:00 - [48] Yeah i can say, changeing output in video options works very good. I manage to change 1 client long ago, and never got it to work again. After finding this, it worked @ first test. But i do sugest u have 2 copys of eve, 1 for each screen, instead of messing with prefs.ini back and forward...
DrkstHour	Posted - 2006.01.25 08:07:00 - [49] The problem with that is, most cards only support 2 monitors, the reason people have lag issues with 2 video cards and 2 monitors, is the hardware is just not cable of splitting the Video jobs in half to each card. The Matrox 3 head cards WILL WORK. just Span the the Screen Across all 3 monitors. the Montiors CANNOT HAVE A SEPERATE Desktop. they must be one SPANNED desktop. Then load up eve and it will auto detect the Resoultion(you may have to select a new one). I personally, can do this with 2 monitors no problem, because my hardware supports spanning. So if someone wants to buy the 3 head card and try it, you would be doing us all a great service. BTW, the reason this would work good would be, the ship would be in the middle screen, with the weapon activators, and everything else on the sides. another BTW. I'm been using 2 monitors, with Shiftwindow resizing my EVE to the first screen, i can surf on one screen, eve on the other, oooh yeah. DrkstHour
DrkstHour	Posted - 2006.01.25 08:09:00 - [50] Edited by: DrkstHour on 25/01/2006 08:10:30 AHA HAH! Infact, lookie here! Matrox Graphics see that screenshot!? what game is that! AHA!

Nevvyn	Posted - 2006.01.27 09:44:00 - [51] Actually, I've been running eve on a Matrox Parhelia Triple head, three 18.1" TFT setup for a year or so now without problem.. the FPS is a bit sucky in combat, but at 3840x1024 I guess that's to be expected. What I would like to see is support for multiple clients in fullscreen mode.. I either end up running one client (Which, by the way, is FANTASTIC because you can have your main screen in the middle, and assets/chats/gang etc off to the side) and getting neck ache turning my head so much, or running two windowed clients and my mail/web in the third window. S'very funky.. I'll try and put a pic up. ~ some times you're the dog, some times you're the tree.
Ctair Pilru	Posted - 2006.01.29 03:42:00 - [52] Add another to the list of dual junkies. I've been running dual 19's for almost a year now..could never go back to single. Hmm..someday when I'm bored Ima plug up to my 52" HDTV and EVE away. ---------------
Adocious	Posted - 2006.02.16 08:44:00 - [53] I second earlier posters. I think the idea of using dual monitors would raise the bar on all MoM games incredibly. It would suffice, as a poster earlier suggested, with a pure a modal screen. Coming from a developer background I think that the big advantage of a "modal only" screen is primarily is that it would be the far easiest and fastest to implement. Especially since it would let the developers not have to allocate to vast memory and graphic card resources to the other screen, which could stay quite 2D. Another advantage of this solution is that it would not cause any "world"-related issues geom. I recommend that we petition a feature request. All in favour? Yours Sincerly Adocious (j.hagstrom)
Drallia	Posted - 2006.02.22 22:24:00 - [54] /signed Dual Monitor User Wants modal on one side and views on the other.
Jorrd Ceribrius	Posted - 2006.02.28 23:22:00 - [55] Edited by: Jorrd Ceribrius on 28/02/2006 23:24:51 Edited by: Jorrd Ceribrius on 28/02/2006 23:24:10 I have dual 19" screens. I would love it if EVE could be set up to have the information windows on the secondary monitor also. /signed I tried out spanning them but having the ship in the middle like that and the 3" black bar of the screen edge completely ruines it for me. I also tried Start EVE as someone above suggested and that works great for having it not minimize on you everytime you click something out of the client. Thanks for that suggestion.
Ehtok	Posted - 2006.03.04 02:50:00 - [56] this game absolutely would benefit so much from having a second screen for all the windows that come up ... at 1280x1024 i get annoyed when i run out of room to put things and have to start stacking things etc (my only real disappointment with the game). it happens all the time. i run two 17" LCD's to escape that in windows ... it would be great for EVE to be able to use both panels without just panning accross both 50/50.
Silthis Marna	Posted - 2006.03.07 01:08:00 - [57] Matrox have recently announced a triple head version of their DualHead2Go, called, well, TripleHead2Go. I've yet to try it, but Matrox have a page at http://www.matrox.com/graphics/offhome/gxm.cfm
Talae	Posted - 2006.03.21 03:56:00 - [58] Just got a second monitor, I'd love to see this functionality. Very frustrating atm.
Vapid Gallentaki	Posted - 2006.03.24 18:03:00 - [59] I also would like to see not just multimonitor but multivideo support. My current card has two DVI outs, but I will be getting another soon which will have two more. I plan on having three screens for gaming and a fourth for desktop usage. Being able to span across the three screens full-screen (non-windowed) would be a real pleasure.
Mannheim Chong	Posted - 2006.04.02 18:04:00 - [60] This used to work prior to the last patch, but now I can't get the second instance to run without terrible stuttering. Used to be ok. Any ideas? Thanks. Originally by: DJCrimson GUys who are trying to play on their secondary monitors, try going into prefs.ini in ur cache folder, and setting desktopPrimary=1 basically this tells eve your running it on ur secondary monitor.

Saberon	Posted - 2006.04.06 18:53:00 - [61] Does anyone know of a 3rd party util that spans two (or more) monitors into one Desktop? I am thinking of the same feature nVidia drivers have, to create a e.g. 2560x1024 desktop, which would make EVE work perfectly well. (I tried on my old GeForce Ti4200, it was just a bit too slow) - Now I have an ATI X1600, and I want to span two monitors into one big desktop. Anyone know? I am NOT talking about UltraMon, which can add a fake taskbar on the second monitor. My point is to start EVE in fullscreen and thus play across two or three monitors. //Saberon
radon8	Posted - 2006.05.16 01:17:00 - [62] I'd like to see the multi-monitor support too. /signed
Fire Hawk	Posted - 2006.05.16 14:38:00 - [63] Problem is that you cant split a directX environement on 2 screens. Anyways, Matrox got a card that can output 3 screens, but it's slow and buggy. If you really interrested in that, I recommend you to wait for a while, Matrox is launching a new Device that by faking resolutions to the graphic cards can from a single VGA input split picture to 3 VGA outputs. So it allows any top card to display games on 3 screens. I got a friend that just that had that device last week and made a 2x Geforce 7900GTX in SLI mode splitted on 3 19" LCD's and result was damn sweet and fast. No major bug but the camera FOV isnt tweakable and the perspective starts to be hardcore in 3840x1024. Link to that Device : Linkage (It's not the same as my friend has, since his is blue and got 3 outputs) ____________________________________ omgfrenchpwntbh you are in teh pod.
Red Raider	Posted - 2006.05.16 21:44:00 - [64] Maybe we could talk CCP into offering an additional window to open up behind the current eve window. This way if operating in windowed mode you would have your primary HUD window we all know and love, and another window that would represent a workspace for placing anything you want there such as chat or map. This could be greatly expanded upon with upcoming stuff like a fitting screen that shows you a realtime update of your ships systems and status, while still allowing you to overlay map/tactical info/market/chat just anything that opens in the regular view. A happy gamer isnt on the forums, they are playing the game unless they have an idea that they honestly think is helping out.
Nicholai Thomasovich	Posted - 2006.05.31 02:26:00 - [65] Another user that would LOVE multi-display support. I've been using two or more monitors for 6 years now (professional video\film editing, and digital photography processing), and EVE Really is the perfect game for multiple displays...
Sly Raver	Posted - 2006.06.06 09:12:00 - [66] Solution http://www.gamerati.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=123&Itemid=1
Osric Wuscfrea Gallente G0D'S. INC	Posted - 2006.09.24 09:35:00 - [67] It's only a solution if you want 3 x 1024. As I have 2 and both of my monitors run at 1280 x 1024 it's not much use. I would like all the market/chat/mission briefs etc on monitor 2 with the game on Monitor 1. This would be possible if the windows could be dragged out of the game window. Windows mode performance is diabolocal and they don't drag out anyway - so I am limited to fullscreen. Alternative is horizontal span with Camera offset to the monitor of my choice. Wouldn't think that was to hard for the programmers... -- Rgds Mike WWW.Dead-Fish.com Deep Sea Daddies...
Bambi Gallente Existentialist Collective	Posted - 2006.09.26 07:27:00 - [68] Originally by: Xzavier Edited by: Xzavier on 29/10/2005 02:54:37 /sign I use a 42" Sony Super-WEGA wide screen HDTV as my main monitor and a standard el-cheapo 15" LCD for the secondary. I run the game at 1920x1080 @ 30Hz (standard HD format) Man thats gotta hurt your brain... .30Hz!! Gonna give youself some serrious eye/brain strain trying to read text at that refresh rate. personaly dont like anything under 85. But I bet it looks sweet from a distance though... Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Ubersquid Minmatar Culture Twenty	Posted - 2006.09.28 20:47:00 - [69] yes please, better multimonitor support! at least a possibility to change the window-size manually (ie not the few given sizes that allways fit full screens) i got an n-vidia card and run two monitors, one eve(windowed), one browser and irc and stuff, but what if i could resize the eve window to use 1 1/3 of my screens, so i only have the overview for example on my second monitor... the ship and ui wouldnt be split and i'd gain valuable space... i can set the window size to 2560x1024, why can't i set it to 1600x1024, quite easy to implement imho... if i at least could just hack it into the prefs.ini but the variables there just seem to be leftovers from earlier versions and shiftwindow doesnt work either, cause it resizes the window but not the coordinate-system thats used to draw into it (-> view is distorted and mouse doesnt work properly anymore) -- The short span of Culture Fourteen's reign is objective proof that as a way of life, peace is a failure.
Ubersquid Minmatar Culture Twenty	Posted - 2006.09.29 01:14:00 - [70] Edited by: Ubersquid on 29/09/2006 01:14:58 yeah yeah doublepost ftl... -- The short span of Culture Fourteen's reign is objective proof that as a way of life, peace is a failure.

Ubersquid Minmatar Culture Twenty	Posted - 2006.09.29 01:14:00 - [71] HA! actually i CAN set the window size to 1600x1024! here's what i did: switched back to dual-view mode 2x 1280x1024 started eve, went to settings... the resolution dropdown seems to be filled according to your current desktop resolution or something, and there it was, i suppose it's a standard widescreen resolution. after selecting it, i quit eve, switched back to horizontal span and restarted it... voila! -- The short span of Culture Fourteen's reign is objective proof that as a way of life, peace is a failure.
TehJohnus	Posted - 2006.10.11 19:54:00 - [72] Solution for ship-splitting: three-monitors. I use a GeForce 6800 (AGP) for my primary/center display, and installed a dual-head GeForce FX 5200 (PCI) for my left and right monitors. If I really wanted to, I could use the digital port thingy for yet another monitor, but then you'd have the ship-splitting problem again. Three monitors is absolutely wonderful for video and animation work.
Claxon	Posted - 2006.10.28 22:25:00 - [73] Edited by: Claxon on 28/10/2006 22:26:10 Hey TehJohnus (or anyone doing the same thing), can you elaborate on your 3 screen setup please? I've now got 2 graphics cards in my pc a GeForce 6800GT (AGP) and a GeForce 7600GT (PCI-E), both with dual DVI outs. At the moment I have 3 monitors attached, 2 to the 7600 and 1 to the 6800. The 2 monitors in the 7600 are the exact same model (19" TFT) and the one in the 6800 is a different 17" TFT. If I set my desktop to Spanning mode, the 2 screens on the 7600 get recognised by windows as a single (wide) monitor, but the other screen is always seperate. If I load eve and tell it to use the 7600 to display, I can select 2560 x 1024 as the resolution, and span across the first 2 screens, but never the 3rd. It would be so cool to get eve working correctly on a tripple display. Thanks
Dellepse	Posted - 2006.11.08 16:20:00 - [74] Edited by: Dellepse on 08/11/2006 16:20:51 Originally by: Claxon Edited by: Claxon on 28/10/2006 22:26:10 Hey TehJohnus (or anyone doing the same thing), can you elaborate on your 3 screen setup please? I've now got 2 graphics cards in my pc a GeForce 6800GT (AGP) and a GeForce 7600GT (PCI-E), both with dual DVI outs. At the moment I have 3 monitors attached, 2 to the 7600 and 1 to the 6800. The 2 monitors in the 7600 are the exact same model (19" TFT) and the one in the 6800 is a different 17" TFT. If I set my desktop to Spanning mode, the 2 screens on the 7600 get recognised by windows as a single (wide) monitor, but the other screen is always seperate. If I load eve and tell it to use the 7600 to display, I can select 2560 x 1024 as the resolution, and span across the first 2 screens, but never the 3rd. It would be so cool to get eve working correctly on a tripple display. Thanks You can do it with a tool like EVELauncher. I was using two 7600GT cards to drive three monitors and doing that. The problem is that when you stretch across multiple video cards, you no longer get hardware accel - my FPS in that mode was about 15-16. I bought a triplehead2go, and right at the moment I am using a single 7600GT (motherboard doesn't support SLI) to drive 3840x1024 res. I get around 40-60FPS generally, it drops when things get real busy of course. Really thinking about one of those nifty new 8800GTX's at the moment. :)
Gobo Gallente The Scope	Posted - 2006.11.08 23:59:00 - [75] Originally by: Czar You know what the REALLY annoying part is? I played this game from just about day one- and back then I just had one screen- but the multiscreen option WAS IN THE GAME! Then I quit for a while- and got 2 screens. Now, getting back into the game- I find the option to multiscreen is OUT of the game!! Same story for me, any ideas why they took it out of the game? I cant see it making lag for the server. ________________________________________________ Currently flying Brutix.
Alaris Nightshadow Caldari Rogue Arrow Galactic Empire	Posted - 2006.11.09 22:30:00 - [76] Edited by: Alaris Nightshadow on 09/11/2006 22:31:20 I've been running a setup with the following: A Matrox Triple Head2Go and three 19" TFT 8ms LCD displays and an ATI X800 Pro. I plan on upgrading the card eventually but it works great and has hardware acceleration across all three screens. here's a few screen shots from matrox as i'm too lazy to take any, ^_^ ----------------------------------------------- "We fear that which we cannot see... we respect that which we cannot see... thus the blade will be wielded."
Isidien Madcap Minmatar Sparkle Heavy Industries	Posted - 2006.11.10 06:21:00 - [77] I too would welcome real multi-monitor support. This could be as simple as allowing players to specify the rectangle that they want the actual world rendered in in the config file -- no need to even create UI for it. Either absolute or percentage based would work (viewRect="0 0 1600 1200" or viewRect="0% 0% 50% 100%"). This would be a great addition for Kali! :) (Hey, along with the option to bind more stuff to keybindings, but that's worth a whole other post!)
Ptah be	Posted - 2006.11.15 11:36:00 - [78] Multi monitor in EVE would be awesome.
Sarpadeon Freedom Guard Imperium Alliance	Posted - 2006.11.19 07:04:00 - [79] necro is bad mkay? on a relevant note, eve looks absolutely AMAZING at resolutions such as 2580x1024, altho i run it windowed at 2304x864 and just line the right edge up with the far right of my display so my ship isnt cut in 1/2 by the monitor split. i dont see how i ever played at resolutions under 2304x864 though... you can atualy leave windows OPEN while flying, i fit corp, alliance, local, log and scanner in the extra space and still have a huge field of view available. i HIGHLY recommend anyone with a highend PC(ie if you spent $400+ on GPUs recently) to get a second or even 3rd monitor, it changed the way i used my PC completely.
Vari	Posted - 2006.11.21 20:26:00 - [80] Expert Newbie had it correct up there, I use both at window positioner and the all-so-wonderful Ultramon. You can't have one EVE client on both monitors without using Nvidia's span function as Expert Newbie said. Even if it's one pixel over. You can run as many eve clients as you want on whichever monitor you choose, be it the primary (taskbar and desktop icons default here) or secondary monitor. You just have to set the Display Adapter setting to the display adapter that corresponds to the monitor you choose, for all clients. To prevent the window from minimizing when you click outside EVE, run EVE at the resolution of the monitor, set it to windowed, and use either ShiftWindow, sw's buggy brother EVE Launcher, or EVEmon to position the window perfectly. Your eyes don't notice the difference. None of the 3D rendered pixels will spill over and it will run smoothly. With this, I always run my primary eve client on my secondary monitor, and on my primary, websurf or even play another 3D game. And true, EVE does not yet have a good solution for one client on two monitors, so working market while flying around in space without your ship broken in half is a dream for now. Supreme Commander is the only game I can think of that natively supports two monitors. And yes, it does work. Anyone needing help, feel free to convo me. Cheers

Xendrick Calderone	Posted - 2006.11.22 06:49:00 - [81] I vote for dual monitor support. I would love to have my ship on one screen and the overview, chats and sidebars on the other. Right now the main screen is just way too crowded. Please CCP, let me put my other monitor to good use!
TryfanMan Gallente Cevelo	Posted - 2006.11.22 11:53:00 - [82] I also think dual monitor support is a great idea. I don't have two monitors myself, but if EVE offered the facitlity I would go and buy one especially! Supreme Commander supports dual monitors natively, as an example how it can be done. AFAIK one has the action and the other has the map and other handy info. It's the future!
Alyna Shin'tay Amarr Indomita Classis	Posted - 2006.11.27 10:59:00 - [83] /signed
Ackuula	Posted - 2006.11.28 00:31:00 - [84] Signed. Even without true dual monitor support, it would be nice for a cusomizeable UI and camera placement, along with some wider screen resolutions so that we could span it ourselves across more than one screen and put all the controls and ship views where they wouldn't be cut off. Just the customizeable UI would be enough of an upgrade in itself. Currently the only cool multi-monitor thing you can do is run an Eve client on each monitor (windowed) or run Eve fullscreened on one and a video playing fullscreened on the other. I'm running in Dual-View mode with a Nvidia 7800Gt 256mb, it supports 3d & video acceleration at native resolutions on both monitors simultaneously. In other words, no crashing while dragging running games/videos from one monitor to the other, things stay the same scale when moving them from one monitor to the other, and no horizontal-spanning resolution wierdness when wanting to run something fullscreen on only one monitor. I currently have a Dell 24" at 1900x1200 and a View Sonic 17" at 1280x1924 Some time next year I'd like to bump it up to 2 24" widescreens or make the jump up to a 30" if the prices ever dip below $1000.
Marchocias Minmatar STEEL FIST INCORPORATED	Posted - 2006.11.30 13:05:00 - [85] /signed I want it now! The only feature they need is to stop it minimising as soon as I do something else. How hard can that be? ---- Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacoughcoughaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrr!!
MolRob Caldari Destructive Influence Band of Brothers	Posted - 2006.12.01 00:54:00 - [86] I had a performance issue because of useing two displays. If I moved even one vertical line of pixels to the other monitor, or any window was top of the client (like msn ie: xxxx just logged in) I got 1 frame per minute, CPU usage at 100% and this on my core2duo E6400 with 4Gb of memory and a Geforce7600Gt. The keyword is colordepth. I had 32-bit on one and 16 on the other.(because of nvidia omgs*xz0r applys settings from 3rd display to the 2nd if 3rd is offline) Well. Color depth must be the same on both displays if you want to drag the client wherever you want. It was a week for me to figure this out. ps: and multi display support /signed
Oran Sound Crimson Council	Posted - 2006.12.04 05:36:00 - [87] Edited by: Oran Sound on 04/12/2006 05:38:14 http://www.kegetys.net/SoftTH Unfortunately, I can't get Eve to launch. It starts the splash screen for Revelations and than just closes before the login screen. I have tried it on Oblivion and it works.
gordon861 Minmatar Research Associates Intrepid Crossing	Posted - 2006.12.05 16:12:00 - [88] I run two clients at once on my two screens, I found with an earlier nvidia card that one would run extreamly slowly but on the newer cards this doesn't happen. I also run a program Eve Launcher (http://eve.grismar.net/evelauncher/) this will run eve clients maximized to fill each monitor without the borders in windows mode and allow the use of other programs without minimizing the game screens. Recruiting NOW !
Antares Solaris	Posted - 2006.12.05 20:15:00 - [89] I use dualies also. I have a higher end video card for that. I would very much like it to not minimize EVE when I click anything else. Windowed mode - for whatever reason - completely slows down my computer to the point where the cursor skips across the screen and is hard to control.
Marchocias Minmatar STEEL FIST INCORPORATED	Posted - 2006.12.07 21:00:00 - [90] same here.... however, remarkably, its just started to work properly without minimising bet it'll stop when I log in again. ---- Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacoughcoughaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrr!!

Gimpi	Posted - 2006.12.08 19:35:00 - [91] Simple nVidia solutions to a long thread... Dual Monitor: Horizontal Span mode in drivers. Triple Monitor: Matrox TripleHead2Go splitter box.
Dellepse	Posted - 2006.12.09 17:22:00 - [92] Originally by: Gimpi Simple nVidia solutions to a long thread... Dual Monitor: Horizontal Span mode in drivers. Triple Monitor: Matrox TripleHead2Go splitter box. the TH2G is a good solution for 3 monitors. For two, the span mode doesn't solve the issue of having the ship and the status circle right in the center of the screen. An offset of the viewpoint would do it.
RedMage	Posted - 2006.12.12 16:54:00 - [93] I run 2 monitors and have a different problem. Each monitor is hooked up to a seperate card, (128m ATI and a 256 ATI). the 256 is the primary moitor. I am unable to select the 128m to have the eve client dispaly on in either full-screen or windowed mode. If i select windowed mode, it always opens on the 256m card. if i move it to the other screen (running off of the 128m card) it chokes the whole PC. After doing some diagnostics, i realized that even having the window on the 128m screen, it was being rendered by the 256m card, thus causing the whole system to slow down. IDEA: How about an ad-on client that you can use to do non-flying things in eve, like all the stuff on the left (Char, Market,Map,Corp,Wallet,Etc). that should be fairly easy to do.. oh but it will probobly be disasmbled and turned into bots in no-time.
Rigger Tape	Posted - 2006.12.20 02:16:00 - [94] I like the triple monitor idea. I have tried a Radeon chip on the AGP and Rage 128 in PCI combo, it did not work. Looks like it is time to get PCI card with Radeon. Oh joy! More shopping!
Neo Marak	Posted - 2006.12.21 11:42:00 - [95] +2 to the multi-monitor(i have 3 monitors - so each spare one is voting haha). One of the biggest things i noticed when i logged in first(today) is that i wish i could use all 3 monitors like on flight sim x.... i seriously need more room! short of forcing it to spread over all 3 and making some really strange visual effects... im going to try to bang it into windowed mode later, but that will still not help much except let me load up pages with data in them....
Kw4h Dragon's Rage Ascendant Frontier	Posted - 2006.12.24 12:20:00 - [96] I'm able to run it spanned no problem. Though, there's just one issue I have, and that's to be seen in the next image: Linkage Too bad the ship, and the cap/shield/armor/struct block are in the center :( I'd love to hack into the HUD and move it to the left, but CCP will spank me if I do so... ___________ Calling CCP: Give us a face!
Rhivianna Minmatar	Posted - 2007.01.18 20:54:00 - [97] Yeah, here is a vote for true multi-monitor support. I don't know if it's a DirectX issue that is stopping them or what, but it would be awesome to be able to have the ship screen and the ship HUD on one screen and then everything else on another. It would make it so much friendlier and in addition, make it seem more like a real spaceship :) You don't even need the option of seeing "space" on the 2nd or 3rd screen, just the ability to natively open windows or other tools and just have a "nav station" background or something.
Zoe Sedai	Posted - 2007.01.19 15:30:00 - [98] Has anyone found a way to make eve span using an ATI card? I have a pair of 20.1" monitors and I'm dying to try it :(
Pardot Kynes Gallente Neuronal Loneliness	Posted - 2007.01.19 18:57:00 - [99] Maybe no need to have a dual or multi span support ... Just need to unlock and move everything of the UI, even the default point of view of the camera. So we can place everything as we want, in order to use our multi monitors setup.
Leroot	Posted - 2007.01.20 22:06:00 - [100] you're getting into the realm of a World of Warcraft-esque User Interface, with all lua programmed screen components. WoW has probably the best User Interface system that exists, it's a pity it's wasted ;) But that way of doing things is so drastically different to the way EVE does it. Client-programmable controls that have access to a specific, heavily-policed set of system commands that send instructions to the server. EVE just has controls that are rigidly set to send a certain command to the server. The difference means that the interface will never be very customizable, because CCP haven't set it up that way from the beginning, and changing it now is almost inconceivable. If i thought it was possible I'd be in another thread whinging ^^

Gareth Mayne Amarr	Posted - 2007.01.29 11:06:00 - [101] Originally by: Gimpi Simple nVidia solutions to a long thread... Dual Monitor: Horizontal Span mode in drivers. Triple Monitor: Matrox TripleHead2Go splitter box. Although I am a bit late on the reply, but this isn't an nVidia only solution. You can span across monitor's with ATI's CCC as well, problem is just that with 2 Monitors the ship's right in the middle between the both, wich is quite uncomfortable in the long run.
Equipment Warehouse	Posted - 2007.02.15 05:20:00 - [102] I gotto ask .... I'm having problems getting Eve to span monitors. I'm running Vista x64 ultimate on an AMD dual core, with a NVIDIA 6800 GT Gpu with dual monitor support. Desktop os checked to 'extend' onto both monitors. Now, Eve recognises the presence of two monitors on two seperate display adapters, and offers the option of selecting which adapter to run Eve on. However, I cannot get Eve to offer a spanned resolution at all. I've checked the NVIDIA driver and the Vista display setting,s and cannot find any reference to spanning, beyond the 'extend my desktop onto this monitor' setting in display settings. Any advice? EW
Eve Bay	Posted - 2007.02.15 06:18:00 - [103] Well I'm running a 22" WS LSD with my old 19" as a secondardy, so the resolutions are: 1680x1050 with another 1024x768 off to the right. I would rock to just be able to drag some of the windows, even if it was only chat windows off on to the second screeen. I'd even run windowed mode if I had to be be able to do this! It's just when ur in a battle & Start to take fire, you only have this small hole in the middle of the screen to try & find a warp out object in front of you. Here is my current setup: Screen shot this is what I'm currently using but I did have both the ally & gang chats extened out to just short of the ship controls prevously, and that is much better you can see more than one comment at a time. In gangs Intel is so paramount, you not only need to be able see all pilots in local but more than the last comment in any of ur intel channels. idealy I'd like to have a setup simmialar to this but where local runs from the bottome of screen to just under next system for the auto pilot, and then Gang, squad & the 2~3 other intel channels spread over the 1024x738, even if they are 4 separe boxed windows. any way, if you have not got the msg, I would likke to be able to drag chat windows off screen & have them come up as separate windows on my desktop. thanks enjoy.
Axe 2Gr1nd Minmatar Ponymen of Perdition Ushra'Khan	Posted - 2007.02.15 06:25:00 - [104] Well I'm running a 22" WS LSD with my old 19" as a secondardy, so the resolutions are: 1680x1050 with another 1024x768 off to the right. I would rock to just be able to drag some of the windows, even if it was only chat windows off on to the second screeen. I'd even run windowed mode if I had to be be able to do this! It's just when ur in a battle & Start to take fire, you only have this small hole in the middle of the screen to try & find a warp out object in front of you. Here is my current setup: Screen shot this is what I'm currently using but I did have both the ally & gang chats extened out to just short of the ship controls prevously, and that is much better you can see more than one comment at a time. In gangs Intel is so paramount, you not only need to be able see all pilots in local but more than the last comment in any of ur intel channels. idealy I'd like to have a setup simmialar to this but where local runs from the bottome of screen to just under next system for the auto pilot, and then Gang, squad & the 2~3 other intel channels spread over the 1024x738, even if they are 4 separe boxed windows. any way, if you have not got the msg, I would likke to be able to drag chat windows off screen & have them come up as separate windows on my desktop. thanks enjoy. -------------------------------------------------- To be put to the grind stone, To Sharpen One's Skills. -------------------------------------------------- -POP- Fear the pony men.
Doctor Azura	Posted - 2007.05.08 09:38:00 - [105] Except that I'm running Vista Business I've got the same probs as Equipment Warehouse Anybody have an idea? DA
Kidari Tenlos	Posted - 2007.05.11 06:14:00 - [106] /me is running dual 19" screens utilizing horizontal span @ 2560x1024 resolution. running a GeForce 6800GT, I wasn't aware that this was an issue for other setups. never had a problem with it, and I've gotten used to the split down the middle.
aquontium Gallente Fourth Circle	Posted - 2007.05.16 07:50:00 - [107] I use Dell 2007WFP (20", portrait), HP LP3065 (30", landscape), Dell 2007WFP (20", portrait). This gives 1680x1050 (so 1024 wide), 2560x1600 (2560 wide) and 1680 x 1050. So I run 2 instances of eve windowed at 1024x768 in my right hand monitor during work hours, and in the after-hours........ Eve would be ideal as an 'undockable pallettes' game, but they'd need to change the whole UI completely....hopfully this is slated for Eve Vista
CyberJam Gallente The CyberDome	Posted - 2007.06.15 11:11:00 - [108] Dual monitor support 4 me 2 pls... Playing Eve 5 days now, the first thing i looked 4 was dual mon support. Maybe i have 2 hook it up 2 my 42" plasma... mm gonna try that tonight. CJ
Candiman Caldari Fukd up Beyond all Reckognition	Posted - 2007.06.16 04:50:00 - [109] Originally by: Zoe Sedai Has anyone found a way to make eve span using an ATI card? I have a pair of 20.1" monitors and I'm dying to try it :( If you use the Catalyst Control Center, go to Start - All programs - Catalyst Control Center - CCC Wizard , Select which moniters is primary/secondary, then you will get the options for exrended, clone or horizontal stretch, choose the stretch and continue the wizard, next time you start EVE, check the esc menu options, under graphics you should see new screen res options so you can stretch EVE over the 2 screens. ( Dont do it from the CCC itself, i find its very buggy, do it from the all programs list)
Pandya	Posted - 2007.06.18 16:07:00 - [110] Sadly, Horizontal Span doesn't work on ATi cards under Vista (Using ultimate, but I think it's across all flavours). I also don't think it works under Nvidia cards using Nvidia's equivalent system, but I'm not sure about this. I would love proper EVE client support for multimonitor, so that's a vote from me too :)

Oliver Closeoff	Posted - 2007.06.19 07:18:00 - [111] (1)you can run EVE in windowed mode and from the menu wich comes up when you press ESC you can set the resolution to a higher setting wich will incerase the "windowed" size (2)set your main monitor resolution to the same resolution as the windowed version of EVE you will be able to move between monitors with ease and open/run programs on your secondary monitor. personally i am happy with EVE in its native full screen mode, my system is currently in a small area and my monitors consist of 3 ceiling mounted HDTV projectors each pointed at a diferent wall i have cool star wall papers on the sides and keep informational web pages open on them for reference while i am playing. and always have EVE front and center if you can get any closer to actually flying in space let me know because it dosnt seem to cluttered to me especially when each monitor is about 90 inches diagnal.
Adel Sorra	Posted - 2007.06.19 22:21:00 - [112] Originally by: Pandya I would love proper EVE client support for multimonitor I dont think an application could influence that (exept for the worse) if os/driver dont provide the functionality, so i wouldn't blame eve for it . but i don't know inoff about directx to by shure.
e30089	Posted - 2007.06.30 05:06:00 - [113] For ATI dual screen check this post.
sxndy	Posted - 2007.07.05 09:58:00 - [114] Edited by: sxndy on 05/07/2007 10:05:51 I bought a second monitor the other day and had the same problems with low frame rates. I read all the posts and managed to fix it. I wanted one character to display on one monitor and one in the other. Note, the only way for this to work is to have both instances of Eve in window mode (press Esc when the game is running and set it to window mode in the graphics tab) Eve cannot work properly in full screen mode with 2 instances running. HereÆs my spec: Windows XP 1 Eve client running two instances of Eve (two characters) AMD 64 4000 (single core) ATI x1800xt graphics card (just one) 2 x 22ö TFT monitors with a natural resolution of 1680 x 1050 After reading all the posts hereÆs what I did: Right click anywhere on your desktop and left click on properties, click on the settings tab in ôDisplay Propertiesö Set your resolution to whatever you prefer, click on the number 2 monitor icon in the window box and set that to whatever you want too. Tick the box that says ôExtend Windows desktop onto this monitorö Start Eve and open the one that you want to display in your second monitor, press Esc and go to the Eve settings graphics tab, after putting it in window mode, set the resolution to the same as the monitor it will display in. This is the most important part At the top left of the tab there is a drop down menu, set that to secondary (display card). Do the same for the char that you want to display on your main monitor (you shouldnÆt need to alter the drop down menu) Now you are good to go, although a friend did tell me he didnÆt have the option of setting his alt to secondary in Eve settings. We are working on that (probably because he doesnÆt have his graphics cards software installed, just drivers) After doing this my frame rates trebled, I now get around 70 frames/sec on whatever instance of the game I click on and 27 on the other (when in space). As was said in previous posts, when dragging your Eve windows to where you want them to sit, do not allow them to overlap screens as it will wreck your frame rates/sec. To check what frame rates you are getting use Ctrl,F when in game, it will display to the top left of your screen. Good luck and Fly Safe! Edit: I run both instances @ 1680 x 1050, I can get frame rates over 200 if I lower this and overclock my graphics card. Before I fixed I set the secondary in the Eve graphics tab I could barely get 40fps in low resolution on the active instance.
sxndy	Posted - 2007.07.05 10:08:00 - [115] Edited by: sxndy on 05/07/2007 10:08:30 crappy double post :p
guyd	Posted - 2007.07.05 15:15:00 - [116] +1 LOL i've 2 22" 16/9 at this point the best solution is:3 monitor in spam and u'have the ship in the center ;)))) but the problem for me is another at this point... i must buy another table to fit the 3¦ monitor ;((((( CCCP where u are ??? help us ;))))
T'Amber anomandaris demaleon	Posted - 2007.07.05 15:22:00 - [117] Um, yeah there are a few posts everywhere regarding this, this is for dual screen mode only mind you. Doesn't contain information on more than 2 screens. I will post that in separate thread dual screen previous post explanation STRETCHED MODE for 1 EVE over MULTIPLE SCREENS (All screens treated as one desktop, one entity, one resolution) 90% ATI VIDEOCARDS CANNOT SUPPORT ULTRA WIDESCREEN! (ie: 2x22" LCDs @1680x1050 each = total desktop 3360x1050) EXTENDED MODE for Multiple EVES over MULTIPLE SCREENS SIMULTANEOUSLY (Desktop spans all screens, but each is a separate entity and have separate resolutions) EACH Eve Client MUST have Graphics Device defined in Graphics Settings. (ie, 1 on primary and 1 on secondary) Clients must NOT overlap or be on ANY screen they're not assigned to. THIS WILL CAUSE SERIOUS LAG You will have to move the clients when you load to the screen you have assigned them too, or you get 1 FPS :) I still love ATI tho. I can run 6 clients simultaneously with 25fps or more in extended mode with 2x22" LCD There is a better program than MAXIVISTA, "Synergy" can be found @ www.sourceforge.net I use this program and some other programs to run 8 screens :\| and i have fat cheeks
guyd	Posted - 2007.07.05 16:09:00 - [118] at the moment this is the best solution for me ;) http://eve.grismar.net/evelauncher/?page=about
Crow	Posted - 2007.07.15 11:50:00 - [119] By the way, when EVE first came out, on the original releace; it supported multiple monitors. In video there was a drop down where you told it how many monitors you wanted your fullscreen EVE on and what res they were. The Devs were all said to be using dual monitor alienware PCs when they wrote EVE, so the story goes. They took it out because peoples wallets and things kept accedently getting dropped into their 2nd monitor even though they wernt able to see it. The fix for this for ages was to delete your pref.ini and restart. Then eventualy they took it out. However if somebody realy clever out there found out how the original pref looked, well maybe the multiple monitor support is still buried in the client somewhere. Just an idea, beyond my humble ablilites I'm afraid.
Miao Hoteph	Posted - 2007.07.17 15:03:00 - [120] Well, I have two 22" monitors (3:4 , not widescreen), each at a resolution of 1600x1200 and what I do is to run EVE in windowed mode with a resolution that is 1920x1200 - that way EVE fills the entire height of both monitors (they run in parallel view) but seeing as the image only extends about one third into the second one I still have space for a spreadsheet and msn and the ship's menu is not stuck between the monitors. works for me :)

Fifinella Caldari Fringe Exploration And Salvage Trust FOUNDATI0N	Posted - 2007.07.18 10:32:00 - [121] Edited by: Fifinella on 18/07/2007 10:50:28 Ooh, problem solved. never mind. :)
Vladimir Ilych Gradient Electus Matari	Posted - 2007.07.19 11:35:00 - [122] Originally by: Prestidigitator It would be coolness personified to be able to have the main viewer, the map, and the market on different screens. Or maybe the normal main viewer, and a extreme zoom-out tactical view on another. I will add another voice in asking for this. As I happily just acquired a lovely 15" TFT that my work were going to sling out and that now sits beside my main display I was looking forward to see what I could do with Eve and my two screens. Answer is not much. Have to window Eve instead of full screen it so I can use the forums or a spreadsheet on the secondary screen. I am paranoid about using some of the third party apps mentioned in this thread to try and get around the problem. But to have as quoted above, the full screen displaying on the main monitor and then be able to use the maps, markets and other out of game apps in the secondary screen would be truely awesome. I know CCP have bigger fish to fry but this thread is only going to get longer as more peolpe aquire an old second screen to use with the dual video output they have just bought with their new PC. Pleaseeee CCP.....
Ronny Hendriks FireStar Inc FATAL Alliance	Posted - 2007.07.19 23:12:00 - [123] i've been using eve-launcher and haven't found any issues with it really. just boot my client, press the maximize shortcut and i'm all set and ready to go at the same resolution i was playing before my dual screen config. don't know why your paranoid about using these tools, care to explain? about the seperate 'windows' for market etc: that would require a total rewrite of the client because the way it's setup.. seriously thinking i don't see that happening for the few (if 20% of the players have dual-screen i'd be amazed) that have these setups -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
guyd	Posted - 2007.07.22 11:12:00 - [124] eve-launcer is useful if u have more account to launch, if u have only one u don't need it ;)
Buzzkill1234	Posted - 2007.10.07 23:31:00 - [125] I also would like to add my vote for dual monitor support. This nonsense of minimizing when I click outside of the game in full screen mode is driving me up the wall. Also can anyone tell me how to get video to run on my secondary monitor while I'm in full screen mode on the first please. My movies lose the picture when i go back to full screen mode in eve.
MrBramme Gallente	Posted - 2007.10.08 15:41:00 - [126] no problem with my dual monitor setup, iplay both accounts in windowed mode and just drag one to the secondary monitor. or i play with one account on one of the monitor and watch a movie on the other screen (mining made fun ! ). Am using a laptop so that's the laptop screen and a flatscreen hooked onto it. windows XP and if i'm not mistaken an ATI radeon card in it. oh and dual core to make it go smooth :)
Timeodan	Posted - 2007.12.08 17:54:00 - [127] Originally by: Buzzkill1234 I also would like to add my vote for dual monitor support. This nonsense of minimizing when I click outside of the game in full screen mode is driving me up the wall. Also can anyone tell me how to get video to run on my secondary monitor while I'm in full screen mode on the first please. My movies lose the picture when i go back to full screen mode in eve. I don't know if it will work but what I do when this occures is launching the video soft after eve is working. Good luck. And if some of the CCP black ops are reading this : I agree too to what seems to be a general dream : it would be real great to allow an option for multiscreens as it's a technology which is more and more affordable. This would for sure give a great boost (if it needs one) to the Trinity graphics... Thanx Fly safe !
Cipher Venok Caldari State War Academy	Posted - 2007.12.13 19:09:00 - [128] /signed CCP, please add a mode to support multiple GPUs across multiple monitors (ie: NVIDIA's dual-view mode). Or, please give us a feature to offset the middle of the screen (ie: ship, camera focus, and HUD) for those willing to play with a monitor spanning mode. My Blog \| GameRig CPUz \| WorkPC CPUz
RaTTuS BIG Ka-Tet	Posted - 2007.12.14 12:32:00 - [129] Edited by: RaTTuS on 14/12/2007 12:34:55 Warning - I've not read all the posts in this thread, however to use eve on dual monitor systems run it windowed [also if yoou are running it on both screens you may see a performance drop on the other screen - pop up the options and change the display to the other one listed - it may be the same but change it anyway] with nvidia systems you can use the 'Manage Custom resolutions' option in the nvidia control panel - just set a resolution you want and when you boot eve next it will be available in the list. I personal use the userprofile method of launching eve - so I have a batch file for each character - this means I can have different setting for each one - market alt - quite wide and high - no sounds - etc - - corp managment - very wide etc ... I also have a 1920x900 resolution for some stuff [looks tasty] - and if I rotate the monitor I get a 1200x1920 mode ;-P with is more useful than that image shows. another thing to try is Synergy this will allow you to use 1 keyboard \| mouse to control 2 machines [still run in windowed though edit Oh yes - I'd like it to be able to move bits off screen - that would be dead handy ;_p.. the resason why you get a minimised eve if you have dual monitors and it running at full screen is not a ccp problem - it is how windows handles the displays - full screen d3d has to minimize when it looses focus. - - so run it windoed -- BIG Lottery, BIG Deal, InEve [Now Verified] & Recruiting
Cipher Venok Caldari State War Academy	Posted - 2007.12.14 16:34:00 - [130] Edited by: Cipher Venok on 14/12/2007 16:34:29 Originally by: RaTTuS ...to use eve on dual monitor systems run it windowed [also if yoou are running it on both screens you may see a performance drop on the other screen - pop up the options and change the display to the other one listed - it may be the same but change it anyway] Windowed mode is not a feasible solution for many gamers because it will disable the use of AA for NVIDIA cards. I currently use nHancer to get 16x AA with HDR for EVE. Sometimes I use 8x on the weekends to keep up framerates as more ships are around. I just starting running the client with both screens in NVIDIA's horizontal-span mode (2560x1024) for two 1280x1024 screens. It works well except all notice dialogs, the ship, and the HUD is split across two screens, which isn't that visually appealing. At these settings (16AA, 16AF, HDR, extreme all except high shadows), I typically get framerates in the 40s at 2560x1024 on one 8800GTX. I run dual 8800GTX cards, but I can't use the second one if I want dual screen because horizontal-span mode only works if both monitors are on the same card. If I use dual-view mode, have one monitor attached to each video card, there's no way to use both monitors with EVE unless I use Windowed mode, which would kill all of my lovely AA, making edges jaggy (yuck). I don't run 8800GTX cards to just live with jaggy edges. So from CCP, I'd like to see a client that will run natively on multiple monitors across multiple video cards, and also set the middle point (confirmation dialogs, camera view for ship, and HUD) to anywhere someone wants. Then we'd have true dual-screen gaming with EVE. Other game developers have already made this possible, and I am disappointed to see that CCP, supposedly "ahead" of its time in server and client design and technology, is so far behind in dual screen and multiple video cards. My Blog \| GameRig CPUz \| WorkPC CPUz

Ares Nightshade Es and Whizz Hedonistic Imperative	Posted - 2007.12.14 19:43:00 - [131] Edited by: Ares Nightshade on 14/12/2007 19:44:06 For anyone running a single account and wanting to use their second monitor for other things like spreadsheets or browser windows without Eve minimizing all the time, EveMON, the popular skill planning program, has a great functionality built right into it. In EveMON under Tools>Options>General, simply click 'relocate windowed EVE to fill a monitor', select which screen after hitting 'identify screens' and set your resolution in Eve to the same res as your selected monitor and run in windowed mode. I don't know how this works on Nvidia cards, but it was a fantastic discovery for me. Eve basically runs as the desktop of the monitor you selected, though it will hide any toolbars on that screen i believe. Hope this helps someone.
Phoenix Allfire	Posted - 2007.12.15 03:44:00 - [132] Does CCP still hate us multi-monitor folks? Judging by the frame rates, and CCP's refusal to respond, I'd say so. ... Call me jaded, but out of all of the multi monitor posts in the last 4 (yes, FOUR) years, CCP havent responded ... ... ...
Cipher Venok Caldari State War Academy	Posted - 2007.12.20 00:33:00 - [133] I posted an any-size windowed-mode workaround for EVE on multiple monitors here. It still doesn't help with multiple monitors full-screen (without in span mode), or multipel video cards for multiple monitors, but it may help some. :) My Blog \| GameRig CPUz \| WorkPC CPUz
Phane Rielle GoonFleet GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.12.20 04:24:00 - [134] It's pretty awesome to have a company push special promotional deals to get people to purchase multiple accounts, yet have the worse multi-monitor/client support out there. I was fine with using EVE Launcher since it removes the silly default cache location in the users folder, but it doesn't seem to be updated anymore. It still works, but we shouldn't need 3rd party programs to get basic functionality like this. Even WoW added native semi-full screen support, and that's not even a game you would normally want multiple accounts for.
Henry Loenwind	Posted - 2007.12.21 08:16:00 - [135] Edited by: Henry Loenwind on 21/12/2007 08:18:40 Originally by: Cipher Venok I posted an any-size windowed-mode workaround for EVE on multiple monitors here. It still doesn't help with multiple monitors full-screen (without in span mode), or multipel video cards for multiple monitors, but it may help some. :) For the second scenario I created http://eve.j-e-b.net/evemover I run this setup: pic---That is a span over 2 1680x1050s with one EVE, and 2 single monitors (one 1680x1050 and one 1440x900) with one EVE each, so the right half of the photo (yes, 5 monitors) is all one PC. Now EVEMover moves each EVE to its assigned monitor and removes the border, so it does not overlap the other EVEs. And that's all it does. It does not resize the EVE windows, so it is possible to use a resolution that does not fill the whole screen. PS: And its source is available, so if you're paranoid, own some version of Delphi and are willing to google for the third-party components I used (I forgot to write down their URLs and redistribution policies, sorry), you can recompile it for yourself.
Cipher Venok Caldari State War Academy	Posted - 2007.12.21 12:50:00 - [136] Sweet, Henry. I've found your relocation software before, but I only use one EVE account, so I wouldn't take advantage of all its features. Yours does what GWR does, but with more features for those running multiple clients. I wish I could run AA in windowed mode (yes, I use it along with HDR via nHancer). It would solve my only remaining issue. That would have to change with NVIDIA drivers or fixed by CCP with support for multiple monitors and multiple video cards with their client. My Blog \| GameRig CPUz \| WorkPC CPUz
Kashmar Akichu Caldari The Vorlon Empire Skunk-Works	Posted - 2007.12.22 19:06:00 - [137] Originally by: SengH I have a 2405 FPW too but I cant imagine playing EVE on anything bigger... it would just be TOO big... Got the same monitor.. Would love to have the option to run EVE on it with all the Overview, Cargo Hold (mine and target) Item Info etc on a second monitor... ------------------------------------- Bill Gates: What's that?!? Steve Jobs: It's an iHouse! Bill Gates: But there's no windows... Steve Jobs: EXACTLY! HAHAHAHA!
McAltyalty	Posted - 2008.01.04 00:14:00 - [138] I'd like to add my support, I started back when they originally supported it and now after a number of years I've come back after purchasing a second monitor specifically for Eve (nice for other stuff too though) to find they no longer support it leaving me stuck in windowed mode with no AA.
DrBrown	Posted - 2008.01.04 08:56:00 - [139] I'd like to add my support for multiple monitors. That was one reason why i stoped playing one year ago. So i thought i give it a try again, maybe after a year they did some changes. Well they changed some grafics but still no multiple monitor suport, it starts to buging me again.
Vladimirnoffel	Posted - 2008.01.06 22:50:00 - [140] I'd like to add my support for multiple monitors. i realy hate it, al the windows.. and now place to see what actually is happening ingame...

Joseph O'Connor	Posted - 2008.01.16 19:26:00 - [141] Count my vote for dual screen support... Other game developers have managed it very well (Supreme Commander ran fine on my computer dual screened)
Marak Bon	Posted - 2008.01.17 03:46:00 - [142] For those of you who have a spare card running around, i had a bit of luck streaching it across 3 monitors. Had some bugs, and occasionally had a fatal error, but i think that was more linked to the ram module i just popped last week haha. As for support, id vote for even only having the graphics render on one monitor, then throw all your info panels onto the next.
type 22b	Posted - 2008.01.25 15:33:00 - [143] In game support for multiple monitors please. Definitely. Surely it's now very, very common requirement?
BrutusIW Dogs 0f War	Posted - 2008.01.25 16:20:00 - [144] personally i use the evemon technique so it doesnt minimise my main screen when im browsing the forums at the same time. it would be nice to have some support for using the second screen to put chats or something in. would be nasty to code though, as second monitors arent always the same size or resolution as the primary screen. almost needs like irc when you can detach the chat window to move it outside of the main window. so /signed and good luck.
Isaar Galei	Posted - 2008.02.05 10:34:00 - [145] You can count my vote for dual screen support.
Bonxie Minmatar	Posted - 2008.02.07 12:53:00 - [146] Signed. Of course, the odds of getting this coded for myself and both of the other Mac users is even lower than for the rest off us, but still....
Mira Spellholde Amarr Target Practice Inc. Pure.	Posted - 2008.02.07 20:20:00 - [147] I started dual screening about two weeks ago when (24" and 22" respectively) and I'm not trying to do anything fancy with it, but I've noticed that EVE just dies and crashes when I run winamp along with it now with the DC setup. One account I run on my laptop (alt account) my main account is on the 24" and the 22" runs GOM Player for movies/whatnot or just has firefox open for web browsing - but when I run winamp for music EVE just crashes randomly. O.o ----------------- An apple a day keeps anyone away, depending on how hard you throw it.
T'Amber anomandaris demaleon Vaccaei Imperial	Posted - 2008.02.18 09:18:00 - [148] Originally by: Equipment Warehouse I gotto ask .... I'm having problems getting Eve to span monitors. I'm running Vista x64 ultimate on an AMD dual core, with a NVIDIA 6800 GT Gpu with dual monitor support. Desktop os checked to 'extend' onto both monitors. Now, Eve recognises the presence of two monitors on two seperate display adapters, and offers the option of selecting which adapter to run Eve on. However, I cannot get Eve to offer a spanned resolution at all. I've checked the NVIDIA driver and the Vista display setting,s and cannot find any reference to spanning, beyond the 'extend my desktop onto this monitor' setting in display settings. Any advice? EW Hey there! I know what your problem is. I have highlighted them in your quote :) Check out my post for CROSSFIRE, which also has info that applies to SLI. Windows Vista doesn't support strech horizontally or vertically T'Amber a n o m a n d a r i s . d e m a l e o n
FreeBird2k	Posted - 2008.04.30 15:21:00 - [149] My Setup: 1. 3 17" LCD monitors 2. 2 PCI-E video cards 3. PowerStrip software I use powerstrip software to trick eve thinking my monitor running at 3840x900. Do search on powerstrip here on eve forum, there is a guide on how to do that. http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii219/Freebird2k/Triplemonitor.jpg
Ciaphas Cian	Posted - 2008.06.24 14:45:00 - [150] i was looking at the triplehead2go and 3 27'' dell monitors...is it now not worth borthering since eve wont work with it? can anynone shed some light on this?

Jik Tueozy	Posted - 2008.07.09 00:50:00 - [151] Clearly we need an eve "desktop container" similar to Photoshop/etc where the information windows can be undocked from the game window. This would allow those who are looking for a more Flight-Sim style experience where the main game viewport isnt cluttered. It wouldn't be as much of a problem if things rolled up and stayed put (at least for me they don't) but they seem to have a nasty habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Ignoring the fact the overview tabs seem to have a mind of their own as to what they are gonna display each time I log in, despite how many times I save it.
FreeBird2k	Posted - 2008.09.29 21:23:00 - [152] Originally by: Ciaphas Cian i was looking at the triplehead2go and 3 27'' dell monitors...is it now not worth borthering since eve wont work with it? can anynone shed some light on this? TripleHead2Go Will work, it have a setting to make all 3 screen to span into single desktop. The downside is the FPS(frames per seconds) will drop, you may notice a little studder once awhile in certain area. ( I don't mind since it's playable). Note: The Higher the Rez you go the lower the FPS will fall. Spanning far as 3840rez or more will notice a grafx strecth on the left and right monitor but the center monitor will look fine. I think the maximum EVEO grafix engine max at 1280 or 1600rez then beyone that will strecth. (Thats ok for me, I just want some of my in game windows such as local chat, market, contract, etc open on the sides away from main view for action.)
FreeBird2k	Posted - 2008.09.29 21:39:00 - [153] Originally by: Jik Tueozy Clearly we need an eve "desktop container" similar to Photoshop/etc where the information windows can be undocked from the game window. This would allow those who are looking for a more Flight-Sim style experience where the main game viewport isnt cluttered. Desktop Container would be awesome but it will have to be in windowed mode and will lose FPS and all. We will not see this in a very long time. But like the M$ flight simulator that you can assign instrument or views on certain monitors would be awesome as well. This type of program will require heavier PC, as CCP are trying to keep the files small and less power hungry and playable on low end PC instead of us spending large ammount of funds upgrading PC. Right now adding 2 or more monitors is a way to go.
Revolution Rising Venture Research and Resources A.X.I.S	Posted - 2008.10.03 04:40:00 - [154] Synergy Should be mentioned also. allows sharing of keyboard/mouse etc.. between computers over the network - works on linux and windows and is interoperable between os's. I have a windows laptop with 2 monitors on it and a linux machine giving me 3 monitors, 2 computers running 2 clients (no slow-down for 2 clients is also a bonus). You have to run in windowed mode (on windows) with eve-mon and it works beautifully.
FreeBird2k Minmatar Concorde Alliances	Posted - 2008.10.16 15:51:00 - [155] Edited by: FreeBird2k on 16/10/2008 15:53:57 Edited by: FreeBird2k on 16/10/2008 15:51:33 Originally by: Revolution Rising Synergy Should be mentioned also. allows sharing of keyboard/mouse etc.. between computers over the network - works on linux and windows and is interoperable between os's. I have a windows laptop with 2 monitors on it and a linux machine giving me 3 monitors, 2 computers running 2 clients (no slow-down for 2 clients is also a bonus). You have to run in windowed mode (on windows) with eve-mon and it works beautifully.[/quote I have been using Synergy for long time, its an awesome program which control 2 laptops from single PC. Here are the suggest programs that I have been using. > Synergy - http://synergy2.sourceforge.net (for controlling multiple PCs) > PowerStrip - http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/ps.shtm (for adjusting monitor resolutionread carefully may damage your monitor, dont blame me) > Maxivista - http://www.maxivista.com (for using more than 4 monitors, 2nd pc may be required) Thats all for now, any suggestion? link your gamestation on multimonitors 3 or more.
Trent Angelus Southern Cross Incorporated Southern Cross Alliance	Posted - 2008.10.19 00:49:00 - [156] Currently: I run 2 x 19 TFTs at 1440x900, using Nvidia Driver Dualview setting so I can offset the cursor transition from one monitor to the next (I only have one monitor riser.) I use Gamers' Window Relocator and Windowed mode on my two clients, one Premium and one classic will run quite happily on my single 8800GT. For PVP I hit Alt+Enter to toggle to Fullscreen for the FPS boost. I also use Ultramon for the second taskbar and convenient window moving functionality, but this is not essential to EVE. I'd like to run 1 x EVE client, fullscreen, spanned across both monitors. For this to work I need CCP to add a "HORIZONTAL CAMERA OFFSET= # PIXELS" setting to the escape menu, then I'm golden. All the fancy-pants modal solutions in this thread don't help me. I just want my ship centred on monitor 1, and I'll drag everything else to the second myself.
Jiaust	Posted - 2008.11.13 01:04:00 - [157] Well after much trail and error I managed to get Eve to span over 3 monitors without spending a ton of money on the triplehead2go. I already had 3 video cards and three monitors running, with a program called Powerstrip I was able to play in windowed mode at 3072x768. The only drawbacks were that I could not use premium settings and that I had to set Eve at high priority with my processing. Other than that the game plays fine with no problem.
Deaxon	Posted - 2008.11.16 22:20:00 - [158] http://www.dragonsrevelation.net/gallery/v/Eve/Eve+3360x1050.PNG.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=5 I thought the would Be awesome for you guys to see. I started playing eve back in 05 but couldn't afford it. Ive been playing it off and on since. I didn't start paying for it till Oct, 08 Now, I love the game. I got a hold of 2 flat 19" Monitors and they are side-by-side on my desk. I looked for ways to Keep Eve from minimizing when I did stuff on my other screen, till I found a post where they thought it would be cool to have the other screen sued for the overview, Chat, and other things and the other just for the game itself. I thought Id try a Desktop Span, not Independent view. and now My task bar goes from one side to the other. and I have INCREDIBLE space in eve. I have a nVidia 7300 AGP 512MB and 1GB DDR 400 It runs flawlessly. If you want to try this as well and have an nVidia card, Open your control panel and set up and Span. Open eve and set the res of double your Horizontal view. The only Problem with spanning is the wallpaper. But there are Wallpapers for thopse high resolutions, or you can just use paint and save them as PNGs. (loose quality with JPGs & BMPs are HUGE) Want to know more? Ask me, im online all the time.
Kojee DEATH'S LEGION	Posted - 2008.11.17 23:53:00 - [159] Edited by: Kojee on 17/11/2008 23:54:22 IF you don't want to use span and keep your dualview setup (like me), I have a simple solution. ---> The only catch is that you need to be running in windowed mode. If you run in fullscreen, it will put the whole dual-monitor resolution on one screen if you follow my steps. ò Open your nVidia Control Panel ò Add a custom resolution to your primary monitor (mine is 3360x1050: 3360 = 1680 x 2) ò Click the test button. It'll look weird, but click yes to say that the resolution works. It will switch back. ò Run eve, select your new custom resolution and hit apply. Voila! I have no idea how dangerous this is with monitors; it might very well turn your lcd into a heap of plastic ****...but it worked fine on mine :) So try at your own risk. ┌--------------------------------+º Kojee º½--------------------------------┐
Catamarack Minmatar Sebiestor tribe	Posted - 2008.12.18 04:34:00 - [160] I got ultramon a while back to do this and it worked fine....only problem I had was the ship and the hud being split down the center.....now that I can move the hud I can't for the life of me remember how to set it up again....I'm not worried about the split ship but it would be nice if it wasn't..... Let's put the Laughter back into Manslaughter....

Kirk Picardo	Posted - 2008.12.24 10:55:00 - [161] Originally by: Kojee Edited by: Kojee on 17/11/2008 23:54:22 IF you don't want to use span and keep your dualview setup (like me), I have a simple solution. ---> The only catch is that you need to be running in windowed mode. . . . I'm running Vista 64 and there is no span mode in Vista. Kojee's procedure worked great for me, even though I have one 22" 1680x1050 LCD and one 19" 1024x768 LCD. I used the sum of the horizontal resolutions and the smaller of the two vertical resolutions, creating a custom 2960x1024 resolution in the nVidia control panel. In a test run on my system I consistently averaged around 80 FPS, with an occasional dip into the 60s. This was not heavy combat, just a me and my drones ratting in .8 space, but I saw no lag whatsoever. For reference, I've got Vista 64 SP1, 8GB DDR6400 RAM, a Quad core Intel 9450, and an nVidia 8800 GT with 512MB of memory, and just loaded nVidia driver version 180.48. If you are using EVEMon to manage a windowed Eve client, you have to turn that off. I've gotten a sudden itch for a third monitor, but I have no idea if Eve can be split across two graphics cards. Anyone tried this yet using just native Windows & nVidia cards and drivers without any third party software?
Washell Olivaw	Posted - 2008.12.26 02:14:00 - [162] Originally by: Kirk Picardo I've gotten a sudden itch for a third monitor, but I have no idea if Eve can be split across two graphics cards. Anyone tried this yet using just native Windows & nVidia cards and drivers without any third party software? You're going to need either software (powerstrip) or hardware (triplehead2go) to pull that off. Originally by: Signature Everybody has a photographic memory, some people just don't have film.
Cyhawk	Posted - 2008.12.27 19:19:00 - [163] Im putting my hat in for Multiple monitor support. While I currently make do in my setup (3 24" monitors, Center eve, windowed, moved with eve-mon, Left Browser/Winamp/VMs and Right Spreadsheets/Static map) It would be nice to move some things over from the game. (like replace the static map with the actual map)
Juicy Drapsag	Posted - 2008.12.29 14:38:00 - [164] Ok I am running Vista Ultimate 64 bit and i have 2 NVidia 8800 GT's and 2 monitors. It took me a bit to get this to work but the trick to running 2 instances of Eve Premium with everything turned all they way up is: Open one instance of Eve, then go to your display setting. Change your other monitor to be your main monitor. Start the other instance of Eve, and change your monitor settings back to the way you had it. Now you can run 2 instances of Eve (each on their own screen) in Windowed mode with out ANY problems at all. Cheers RWTD Juicy RWTD Corporation Co-Director
Private Langvann	Posted - 2009.01.20 04:58:00 - [165] bump. Just made it work. and I love it :D [URL=http://0o2471.net/8363][/url]
ElementalWind Gallente Corporate Sin	Posted - 2009.01.24 07:52:00 - [166] Hey guys I am looking to run 2 EVE clients at the same time for both of my accounts across my dual monitors. I'm running a Radeon x1950 on a x64 XP Pro OS with 8gigs of memory on a 3.0ghz quad-core CPU. I have ultramon. I cannot quite figure out how to get this to work :( I've tried window mode and full screen mode, and if its in full screen mode, you have to alt+tab out of it and I dont want to deal with that, if it's in window mode, its very buggy when switching between eve and any other windows program. :( Please help guys. Thanks.
Sweetness Sideways Gallente Advanced Planetary Exports Intergalactic Exports Group	Posted - 2009.01.24 12:38:00 - [167] you dont need to use ultramon 1) at client #1 select virtual gfx card 1 2) at cleint #2 select virtual gfx card 2 3) have then both run windowed and drag the 2nd eve client from screen #1 to screen #2 4) done
ElementalWind Gallente Corporate Sin	Posted - 2009.01.24 19:54:00 - [168] Originally by: Sweetness Sideways you dont need to use ultramon 1) at client #1 select virtual gfx card 1 2) at cleint #2 select virtual gfx card 2 3) have then both run windowed and drag the 2nd eve client from screen #1 to screen #2 4) done thats what i ended up doing. I wish there was a better way. gah. heh :)
velmistr Ecco Caldari InNova Tech Inc Ethereal Dawn	Posted - 2009.01.30 20:47:00 - [169] Hi I have nVidia 9600GT, Vista 64-bit, Intel core2 duo E7400, 4GB RAM, 2 lcds, ultramon. When I try to run Eve it moves itself from monitor 1 to 2 and runs in fullscreen. Alt-tab moves fullscreen from monitor 2 (where it is not playable due to mouse desync). Second Alt-tab changes to windowed mode on diplay 1 and runs fine until I loose focus on eve window and try to click to eve window again - then my eve panics and moves to monitor 2 in fullscreen with mouse showing few lines higher then it actually is :( nVidia drivers tested: 181.20, 181.22, Omega drivers based on 169.25. Nothing helps me. Sometimes eve firefox moves to 2nd monitor and is not going back where it belongs :( Quote: Weirdtopia > i need help in eve Bloodspoon > ...you installed eve? Weirdtopia > ya 14 day trial Bloodspoon > did you unistall WoW Weirdtopia > no Bloodspoon > then i can't help ya
Ivanna Nuke Gallente	Posted - 2009.03.23 08:03:00 - [170] Again bump, less gimmicks more useful features please CCP, this really does come under useful.

Shadownius	Posted - 2009.03.23 12:59:00 - [171] How did you get this to work and is this 1 eve client. Originally by: Private Langvann bump. Just made it work. and I love it :D [URL=http://0o2471.net/8363][/url]Please visit your user settings to enable images.
Admiral Frools The Illuminati. Pandemic Legion	Posted - 2009.04.07 23:15:00 - [172] The result of me playing about with vista DWM thumbnailling : http://011000110110111101100011011010110110110001100101.com/eve/live_cutouts.jpg All those windows are live and continue to run even if the eve client isn't maximized - I've used it at some points dual accounting with 2 clients when I can only be bothered to use 1 screen, so I can watch both clients' Shield / Armour / Structure at once / whatever
Wolff Mortez	Posted - 2009.04.08 19:27:00 - [173] These pages span over 3 years, and still no real solution from CCP??? Its funny when I searched on Google I got press releases saying stuff like "Eve to be played across multiple monitors", from years ago. What happened? For the sake of our dual monitor cult, please allow EVE to be played on multiple monitors, it would be amazingly useful. I would hope there are others who are still out there who want this done.....
DaemonExodus Sleeper Industries	Posted - 2009.04.09 17:43:00 - [174] I just found this program when I saw one of the above posters show off Vista DWM thumbnails. Works pretty nice but doesn't seem to be doing click-forwarding correctly. Still will help me avoid losing my ship when I open firefox and forget Eve is running in the background (especially with bugged Eve sound so I cannot hear when I am being shot anymore). http://www.klopfenstein.net/lorenz.aspx/ontopreplica
Qu'in	Posted - 2009.04.11 04:03:00 - [175] velmistr Ecco Caldari InNova Tech Inc Ethereal Dawn Posted - 2009.01.30 20:47:00 - [169] - QuoteReport -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi I have nVidia 9600GT, Vista 64-bit, Intel core2 duo E7400, 4GB RAM, 2 lcds, ultramon. When I try to run Eve it moves itself from monitor 1 to 2 and runs in fullscreen. Alt-tab moves fullscreen from monitor 2 (where it is not playable due to mouse desync). Second Alt-tab changes to windowed mode on diplay 1 and runs fine until I loose focus on eve window and try to click to eve window again - then my eve panics and moves to monitor 2 in fullscreen with mouse showing few lines higher then it actually is :( nVidia drivers tested: 181.20, 181.22, Omega drivers based on 169.25. Nothing helps me. Sometimes eve firefox moves to 2nd monitor and is not going back where it belongs :( ===================== I agree completely with velmistr Ecco on 30 jan, I have exactly the same setup (but with a Radeon 4870 1Gig) and the same problem ???.
omgdutch2005 Gallente Advanced Planetary Exports Intergalactic Exports Group	Posted - 2009.04.12 23:10:00 - [176] run it windowed not full screen and it'll be fixed [url=http://apeocorp.com/alliance/?a=pilot_detail&plt_id=39011] [/url]
Aloron	Posted - 2009.04.13 13:56:00 - [177] This is what I run at top Res with no trouble at .. and there is tons of space to have everything under the sun open up .. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16889234025
Raser Moonstrider Legend's	Posted - 2009.04.13 23:40:00 - [178] Originally by: Sweetness Sideways you dont need to use ultramon 1) at client #1 select virtual gfx card 1 2) at cleint #2 select virtual gfx card 2 3) have then both run windowed and drag the 2nd eve client from screen #1 to screen #2 4) done Thank you! Never noticed that option before, lol. That just doubled my framerate for the inactive windowed client.
Kazini Jax	Posted - 2009.06.13 20:14:00 - [179] Edited by: Kazini Jax on 13/06/2009 20:14:32 They best add multiple monitor/video card support cause games like Jumpgate Evolution are gonna have it
Xechor	Posted - 2009.07.25 20:35:00 - [180] +1 for multimonitor support +1 for this crazy Vista DWM Thumbnailing ability

Snicke	Posted - 2009.09.09 23:29:00 - [181] +1 for more monitors
Akiro Kesh	Posted - 2009.09.10 23:20:00 - [182] Please CCP fix support for multiple displays. Playing Eve at the moment is like looking at a bunch of spread sheets, completely cluttered if you want to know what's going on. What's the point of nice graphics if they are hidden behind tons of windows. Support for a second display would greatly improve the game experience. I could put all my cluttering windows there.
Enraged Stoat	Posted - 2009.09.11 04:58:00 - [183] Multihead support plz! Even playing in 2560x1600 gets cluttered. * Don't care if it means having to play in windowed mode. * Don't care if it means additional windows aren't all fancy and graphical (totally unnecessary for chat windows at least they could go elsewhere). * Don't care if it means having multiple Eve 'master' windows/viewports and a right-click/menu way to bounce chat/market/info/etc windows between them (as long as they remember which one they were on next session). Just get them off the main viewing window and onto another screen for the love of $deity! This is currently Eve's greatest fail feature. Srsly now, Supreme Commander, MS Flight Sim, World in Conflict, Burnout Paradise, X2:The Threat all support it. So did DOOM 1.0! (OK so that used seperate computers over a network but still...). It really is a most glaring omission and would set Eve apart from almost every other game on the market. FYI /me tripleheads Dell's 3007WFP and 2x 2407WFPs
Cayell Alternative Realities	Posted - 2009.09.13 10:24:00 - [184] Would love to be able to have EVE spanning across both displays (with the view made off-centre so my ship isn't cut in half, of course). Either that or the ability to use the second monitor as a 'scratch space' where I can dump all my chat windows etc., leaving my main view much clearer. For LOTS more (13 pages) support on this idea http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=475242 C'mon CCP - are you even reading these threads?
StealthNet Gallente	Posted - 2009.09.18 22:45:00 - [185] +1 here. I use multiple monitors since 1998 and never left it. But afaik, the eve client does not entirely support it (you can start the client spanning 2 monitors, but the game window will be simply split). Yes, CCP MUST (please pretty please?) enable some kind of serious multimon support, so we can drag windows, overview, chat etc to a second monitor and keep the main screen for flying. StealthNet _______________________________________________
Sri Mitsu	Posted - 2009.09.21 03:43:00 - [186] +1 for more monitors
NurseBob Gallente Nu In A Hole Shadow of xXDEATHXx	Posted - 2009.09.21 11:36:00 - [187] Edited by: NurseBob on 21/09/2009 11:39:47 Dual Monitors is a must for any pc user anyway even without eve, i have dual monitors on my desk at home, i have 4 at work and i even baught a new monitor for my nan so i could have dual screens when i visit But with eve its realy easy to setup: at home i have 1 17" square monitor and 1 19" wide monitor and i have eve running on both simply by selecting the other monitor and the screen res and window mode, with the use of WGR i can then push the windows into the corners hiding the to bar. the only down side(realy is the only one) there is a line down the middle there the windows overlap there borders but thats it (edit) Another one i tried was dual span, and i ran eve like that for about an hour, before you could move the capacitor around and it looked a bit like this http://dogg-soldiers.com/uploads/images/huge.jpg which btw is awesome. but i think it would be better with 3 on a span... ____________________________________ You know your an eve adict when you total your car for the insurance payout...
Luke Skyray	Posted - 2009.09.21 16:15:00 - [188] +1 for more monitors
Kenshi Riva	Posted - 2009.09.22 15:03:00 - [189] I had a hard time playing around with two 22' monitors until I managed to find that option in Evemon. It really solves that problem, you should use it.
Bojo Prinz	Posted - 2009.09.28 20:25:00 - [190] bump.

Pharago Gallente Piratas Leprosos Guineanos	Posted - 2009.09.29 14:36:00 - [191] The EVE Windowed Mode Helper was made to address the multiclient-multimonitor issue, check it out, now it allows you to change clients from one monitor to another without closing any eve client window. If you find it useful and care to make any suggestion about new features, feel free to do so. If i like the idea i'll code it in a few minutes. Regards and fly safe (or don't :)
DrefsabZN Caldari Butterfly Effect Corp.	Posted - 2009.09.30 22:39:00 - [192] +1 to this to because id love to be able to drag my chat windows onto one of my other screen's especially now as the new IGB works. Let me have my screen for the game and my screen for the other stuff needed to play the game. Give me window mode if you must with seperate dragable windows for chat box's, or full screen spanned across multiple screens with 1 screen for the ui and one for the windows/map/market data etc.
DrefsabZN Caldari Butterfly Effect Corp.	Posted - 2009.09.30 23:05:00 - [193] Incidentally do's anyone know any other tools that support the dwm thumbnailing? that OnTopReplica one works nicely but the one feature that would make it pure win click forwarding (or even typing etc) doesnt seam to work.
Patrick VanDockerschmidt	Posted - 2009.10.01 23:49:00 - [194] +1 for Multiple Monitors All they need is to put all the overlay windows on one, and use the other for the viewport. They already allow you to switch the monitor that's fullscreen, so that's good. By the way, switching the fullscreen to the other monitor, and then canceling it at the confirm window, crashes the system AND changes the monitor. :)
Sir Question Gallente	Posted - 2009.10.06 13:36:00 - [195] I would like to support the call for multiple monitor support! Thought I saw a twitter about this while watching the fan fest live on streaming - is it actualy something that is due in Dominion? ---------------------------------------- Peaceful Restoration of Political Actuality Guild (also Non Disclosure Accredited)
Captain Xero Gallente 3 Star Industries	Posted - 2009.10.07 12:09:00 - [196] As someone mentioned, there is a short bit on multi-monitor support in the keynote from Fanfest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNhPig8inEY Sorry, I didn't note the time it appeared. What was shown was 3 monitors with some special hardware (Triple head, Matrox thingy?). Hopefully there will be other ways to achieve the same effect with other setups. As I understand it, the work CCP have done is to make the engine fast enough for this to work.
Nisengo	Posted - 2009.10.07 12:40:00 - [197] I've played EVE on dual monitors for a few years now (2x 1280x1024). Nothing to it. The problem is not so much in the client, as it is in Windows' handling of the desktop and screens. CCP can do nothing about the fact that Windows will not allow programs to span both screens simultaneously in fullscreen. NVIDIA has a workaround for this in their drivers, called twinview. Under wine it's trivially easy to set the virtual desktop resolution to your total screen size, and in fullscreen EVE will just add that resolution (2560x1024 for me) to the list of possible sizes. I select it and it works perfectly.
Maximiliam Ciksentmihaii	Posted - 2009.10.07 14:25:00 - [198] I think EVE has all the tech in there already. The simply need to render the game action graphcis in a seperate window. This way you can move it around freely. Having Eve spanned over two montiors would then works well having the action on one side and the chats/information UI on the other.
Gehnster Gallente Boundless Enterprises	Posted - 2009.10.07 14:47:00 - [199] Originally by: Nisengo I've played EVE on dual monitors for a few years now (2x 1280x1024). Nothing to it. The problem is not so much in the client, as it is in Windows' handling of the desktop and screens. CCP can do nothing about the fact that Windows will not allow programs to span both screens simultaneously in fullscreen. NVIDIA has a workaround for this in their drivers, called twinview. Under wine it's trivially easy to set the virtual desktop resolution to your total screen size, and in fullscreen EVE will just add that resolution (2560x1024 for me) to the list of possible sizes. I select it and it works perfectly. Except Supreme Commander had this functionality for who knows how long. In fullscreen.
Krathos Morpheus Gallente Legion Infernal	Posted - 2009.10.07 23:50:00 - [200] They are going to release multiple monitor in Dominion. They said so at fanfest (with a three monitors view). No more than one signature image may be used. Edo

Athena Silk	Posted - 2009.10.09 12:12:00 - [201] Edited by: Athena Silk on 09/10/2009 12:13:41 Originally by: Nisengo I've played EVE on dual monitors for a few years now (2x 1280x1024). Nothing to it. The problem is not so much in the client, as it is in Windows' handling of the desktop and screens. CCP can do nothing about the fact that Windows will not allow programs to span both screens simultaneously in fullscreen. NVIDIA has a workaround for this in their drivers, called twinview. Under wine it's trivially easy to set the virtual desktop resolution to your total screen size, and in fullscreen EVE will just add that resolution (2560x1024 for me) to the list of possible sizes. I select it and it works perfectly. Supreme Commander (Released early '07) can span accross two monitors, full screen, in XP, Vista and In7, on both ATi and nVidia cards, and even supports different resolutions on the two screens. I believe that World At War and a few other RTS games are able to do this too. Multiple monitors is hardly something new, and is something EVE really should get in on. I'm definitely a +1 for multiple monitor support, especially if it can support screens of different resolutions (eg 24" + 22" or 22" + 19"). The Matrox TripleHead2Go option is kinda nice, but it's expensive, and CCP should be able to implement dual-screen support without having to resort to 3rd party hardware. Plus, not all of us WANT 3 monitor.
Xeross155 Minmatar	Posted - 2009.10.10 15:57:00 - [202] Wouldn't using the nVidia span thingie cause everything to be in the center of the 2 screens (So right where they split) afaik you cant move the HUD etc. (Yet). --------------------------------------------- Xeross' ventures into EVE \| TheElitist.net
Sirkus Endelikt	Posted - 2009.10.18 22:02:00 - [203] Edited by: Sirkus Endelikt on 18/10/2009 22:03:14 It is called EVEMover Pretty good program, using 2 19".
Midge Mo'yb Antares Shipyards Phalanx Alliance	Posted - 2009.10.18 23:02:00 - [204] Originally by: Xeross155 Wouldn't using the nVidia span thingie cause everything to be in the center of the 2 screens (So right where they split) afaik you cant move the HUD etc. (Yet). the hud can be moved, click on the centre of the capacitor display and drag left//right -----------------------------------------------
Dan O'Connor Dark Nexxus	Posted - 2009.10.20 14:08:00 - [205] Originally by: Niven Helmer I'm experimenting with some software called Maxivista, which lets you use your laptop as an extension of your desktop monitor. This would be perfect for having the map, market, local etc open on the laptop screen without cluttering the main window. Problem is that Eve doesn't seem to want to allow windows to move outside the primary screen. Has anyone achieved multiple monitor set ups with Eve? How did you do it? Thanks Yes. This is my desk. First of all, spanning on Vista, is not possible, compared to XP. They changed the graphics to the WDDM, which does not allow for spanning so technically running full screen on multi-monitor setups (any game) does not work right away. I made this work by chainsawing one of my available PCI-Express x1 slots to make another PCI-E graphic card fit in (very cheap one, GeForce 8400GS, 30 Euro). I needed to do this since my GeForce 9800 GTX+ only fits two screens. With the other card in, I can now connect up to 4 normal screens, plus 2 on S-Video if I wanted. Next thing you need is a nifty little thing called SoftTH - Software Triple Head. It allows for some configuration options and ultimately forces DirectX applications to use a higher resolution than what Vista normally allows for. SoftTH lets the whole image render on your primary card, then divides the image into three and sends it to their right screens. This is how I achieved it. I can run the game in 5760x1080 without FPS performance loss. ---
Rez Drazdir Minmatar	Posted - 2009.10.27 15:11:00 - [206] Hi guys, I used to run eve on 2 monitors, was easy to setup eve gave me the option with out a big deal. That was with win.xp but no i have win7 and it refuses me to give me the option in eve. All ican do now is switch between monitors by selecting 2 versions of my vidcard. Strange thing is that i keep windows desktop on the other screen. Usualy it turns on black/standby. If got the latest driver for the videocard. Any one out there with the same problem or knows how to help me out? Plz let me know 'cos 1 screen sucks :P o/
Serenalen Caldari HelpMyMissioners	Posted - 2009.10.31 16:06:00 - [207] EVE is awesome. Most important improvement, to me? "Single EVE client, multiple monitors, in Vista." That's what I want.
billybobob Gallente	Posted - 2009.11.03 13:42:00 - [208] I just use my 30 inch monitor...makes it really easy. I can't get the wife to let me buy a second 30 inch monitor. But if she ever does...OHHHHH BABY! :)
Jessica Lorelei Minmatar Decimus Corp	Posted - 2009.11.04 14:52:00 - [209] i was running of a 22" monitor, then i got a projector that was cool but found it hard to read the chat channels, despite being a massive 100" screen, the chat channels were hard to read, but after much messing about i finally settled on 2 monitors, with 2 clients windowed, one in each monitor, having tried just about everything except a triple head, which in all honesty doesn't appeal to me anyway i can conclude the easiest solution for me was the dual monitors, if i need markets open(obviously read only) and chat channels i keep those on my alt who is in the same region as me anyway, that way i just keep local open on main, corpies are getting used to me talking from alts. modal windows would be an obvious feature to add i would think, eve's OS is pretty crap to be honest.
Caelith Caldari Du'uma Fiisi Integrated Astrometrics The Star Fraction	Posted - 2009.11.07 23:49:00 - [210] /signed +1 requesting multiple monitors. 3 Monitors as described earlier would definately keep the ship from being cut down the middle, but at a descreased framerate. So, I might surrender some astetics for multiple displays. [img width=400 height=120] http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/corp/Havohej/caelithsf2.jpg [/img]

Mrs Fastener Amarr Imperial Shipment	Posted - 2009.11.17 21:10:00 - [211] I didn't read all 7 pages of this thread, but I thought it was common knowledge that Eve has always supported multiple screens... I've been playing it at 3840x1024 since 2004... Matrox Parhelia 512 ftw! 1 video card, 3 monitors. I keep all chats and market screens etc., on either side, leaving the center screen totally uncluttered. Works great, 60-90fps all the time.
Mrs Fastener Amarr Imperial Shipment	Posted - 2009.11.17 21:50:00 - [212]
Neutron	Posted - 2009.11.29 16:31:00 - [213] Same here been playing with three 24" Dell monitors using matrox triplehead go digital adapter to run one eve across three screens at 5040 x 1050 and when playing three accounts on seperate screens at the same time one for each screen. Now that ati have released the eyefinity graphics card you don't need the matrox adapter.
Dre UKoppie	Posted - 2009.12.12 17:17:00 - [214] I play with 4 20"inch screens (Samsung) under Windows Vista. Windows recognises the screens easily. EVE is played in windowed mode and you dont really see the difference. With one 5th account underneath I can play soomthly enough. Last few months EVE is more laggy than usual. Will try it under Windows 7 soon. p.s. I play with 2 Geforce GTX 260 videocards. Intel Quad CPU Q6600 at 2.4 GHz
Virylin	Posted - 2009.12.13 16:35:00 - [215] +1 ..checks calendar... yep, 2009, thought I'd slipped into a time-warp to 2004. No (real) multi-monitor support? Come on, that's just lame CCP. But then, the whole UI is ancient isn't it? ...sigh.
Unnamed Enemy	Posted - 2009.12.16 15:11:00 - [216] CCP please improve multi monitor support
Reyar	Posted - 2009.12.24 03:35:00 - [217] Yes, i would also like to get support for a 2nd monitor.
Janitor989	Posted - 2010.01.25 07:23:00 - [218] Originally by: SengH I have a 2405 FPW too but I cant imagine playing EVE on anything bigger... it would just be TOO big... 42" 1080p using a DVI to HDMI adaptor.. it's um.
Elyemak	Posted - 2010.01.26 03:26:00 - [219] +100 to multimonitor support (or at the least, a CCP response to this thread) If eve had multimonitor support I would be more efficient with my play time... this would allow me to have more time for my real life... this would allow me to make more money... this would allow me to have more accounts... then I would buy more monitors... Summary: Multimonitor support = more subscriptions
Xeross155 Minmatar Novadyne Dynamics Veni Vidi Vici	Posted - 2010.01.26 11:55:00 - [220] Hmm three screens is easy to do if you have the equipment, however I only have the equipment for 2 screens. Problem with that is your ship is right in the middle of the 2 screens. --------------------------------------------- Xeross' ventures into EVE

juic3boy	Posted - 2010.02.15 18:19:00 - [221] Originally by: Xeross155 Hmm three screens is easy to do if you have the equipment, however I only have the equipment for 2 screens. Problem with that is your ship is right in the middle of the 2 screens. Running two screens at 2560x1024 no problems at all on nvidia 9400 on an i7. Smooth as you like. Only problem is the damn ship and HUD is split across the screen frames. Anyone got a fix for this?...i.e. shift the focus of the screen to one side?
IcarusNardella	Posted - 2010.02.16 13:39:00 - [222] Originally by: juic3boy Only problem is the damn ship and HUD is split across the screen frames. Anyone got a fix for this?...i.e. shift the focus of the screen to one side? You can move the hud by clicking and dragging the capacitor indicator.
Luxotor Minmatar Sankkasen Mining Conglomerate On the Rocks	Posted - 2010.02.16 22:12:00 - [223] 1+ to official dual monitor support.
Kai Crichton Gallente Red Skorpio Mining and Trading Corporation	Posted - 2010.02.19 23:32:00 - [224] Hi all, Seems like many others play EVE with several monitors. I use two clients, however my problem is that FPS is dropping like ***** when I start the second one. One client is fine with 60 fps all the way. Then I start the second one, and both drops to 15 fps. V-sync is off, and interval default. I have 2x ATI 5770. Which should make this a walk in the park. But no.... its not! Run them both in Window mode, disabled crossfire and connected one monitor to each graphic card. Which seems logic to me, but I might be wrong? I can clearly see each client use its own graphic card but load on the GPU = 0-20%... Please advise. My CPU is [email protected] and are about 40-60% usage with two clients, so should be ok there too. 4GB ram should also be ok I think. ------------------------------------------------ CPU: E7400 - GPU: 2xHD5770 - Monitor: 2x24" Benq RAM: 4GB DDR2 800MHz ------------------------------------------------
Contralto GCHQ	Posted - 2010.02.19 23:43:00 - [225] Originally by: Kai Crichton Hi all, Seems like many others play EVE with several monitors. I use two clients, however my problem is that FPS is dropping like ***** when I start the second one. I have 3 Clients on 3 monitors, if one edge crosses onto another screen, even a few pixels, Fps plummets. I normally use "Shift window to re-size and adjust each client to prevent this. I recently started using Evemon's "relocation" function but though very easy to use on single monitors, I have found it doesn't actually re-size, just moves the original image so it actually moves slightly onto the adjacent screen causing the degraded performance. having said all that Window mode will always reduce your FPS to some degree, and you lose AA as well. Wish there was a workaround for that one!
Kai Crichton Gallente Red Skorpio Mining and Trading Corporation	Posted - 2010.02.19 23:55:00 - [226] Originally by: Contralto Originally by: Kai Crichton Hi all, Seems like many others play EVE with several monitors. I use two clients, however my problem is that FPS is dropping like ***** when I start the second one. I have 3 Clients on 3 monitors, if one edge crosses onto another screen, even a few pixels, Fps plummets. I normally use "Shift window to re-size and adjust each client to prevent this. I recently started using Evemon's "relocation" function but though very easy to use on single monitors, I have found it doesn't actually re-size, just moves the original image so it actually moves slightly onto the adjacent screen causing the degraded performance. having said all that Window mode will always reduce your FPS to some degree, and you lose AA as well. Wish there was a workaround for that one! I have been using Relocation from EVEMON, and that is still caussing issues. What do you mean by "use shift window" to re-size? I can see that EVE client on my primary monitor with relocation is slightly over the second monitor. Even if I make it "fullscreen". Someone advised me to disable desktop composition in the compability view for the eve link. Have you tried that? Should give you a bit more fps. Seems like best I can get now when trying is 40FPS each client. What fps do you have? and which graphic card? ------------------------------------------------ CPU: E7400 - GPU: 2xHD5770 - Monitor: 2x24" Benq RAM: 4GB DDR2 800MHz ------------------------------------------------
Gerrei	Posted - 2010.02.20 13:30:00 - [227] Monitor #1: EVE Monitor #2: Naughty films Never failed me


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