Secondary Monitor Issues

[ariay]

I have a Sony LCD 46" TV and a regular monitor with dual ATI Radeon card. When I am using MCE, it pops up on the Sony like it should. Then when I go to My Games (game Ex) it goes to the regular monitor. I can use gameex on the Sony only if I make the sony my primary monitor, but that's not how I want it. I've tried the secondary monitor configuration and it does not work. How do I change the monitor setting in the mame configuration?

[Ricci]

Hello-

Have you tried on it a secondary monitor, versus your current setup?? I thought is was one or the other, but not both.

[ariay]

I have tried it on both monitors and it works. But only on the monitor I make the primary monitor. I would like to have it so it is only on the secondary monitor. MCE works like this. My primary monitor does not display MCE, but the secondary does. I have read the other posts about adding a line to the mame.ini and I did but it does not work. I also enabled sceondary display in gameex config, but it does not work.

[Dav1d]

I have this issue as well with an nvidia card (seperate from gameex). Video will only display on the screen that is set as the PRIMARY display. So everytime I want to go and sit down in front of my TV, I need to set it as the primary display.

I recall that ATI cards have a setting that allows you to view video on both displays at the same time, no matter which is set as the primary display.

I would review your video setting until you discover this, once successful at displaying video on both, go back and see if gameex will display correctly.

[lingpanda]

I have a Sony LCD 46" TV and a regular monitor with dual ATI Radeon card. When I am using MCE, it pops up on the Sony like it should. Then when I go to My Games (game Ex) it goes to the regular monitor. I can use gameex on the Sony only if I make the sony my primary monitor, but that's not how I want it. I've tried the secondary monitor configuration and it does not work. How do I change the monitor setting in the mame configuration?

Will cloning the monitor help?

[Ricci]

Cloning the monitor?? How the hell does one do that??

[Adultery]

I can 'clone' the monitor (I'm thinking it's called 'mirroring' however) using UltraMon - but I like having the extended desktop so I can watch my torrents while I play games through GameEx. You can also use it to apply a black wallpaper to the second monitor if you're trying to hide Windows entirely for whatever reason...

Haven't tried to mirror MAME however (or any other emulators for that matter), so I don't even know if it works. You can try it though.

If you want MAME to run on multiple screens, there is a command line switch. I find this to be handy for games that used a seperate monitor to display game lists (like NSS or the old NES multi-game cabinets). If it's a single monitor game, like Pole Position for example, it will render the game to both screens. Makes me wish I had put an extra monitor above my marquee for people to watch... I hate people looking over your shoulder.

The way to do this is:

-numscreens <count>

so, if you use two monitors, you would type this in the Advanced MAME Options page in your GameEx advanced configuration:

-numscreens 2

Hope that helps.