Dual Monitor - GameEx/Tv

[NizZ8]

I have a dual Mon setup for my GameEx machine, where i am running GameEX on the primary display and on the secondary was running GameExtender. I was looking to replace the gameExtender setup to show ESPN from the PVR 500 card that is already in my machine. Originally i was going to just have sports scores, highlight videos and other sports related info running but couldn't find any cool software/sites that has anything that was interesting. So my fallback was just to have my TV Tuner software (Vista Media Center / Win TV) running on the secondary monitor in place of GameExtender.

Anyway to to problem: I start up the WinTV software and maximize it to the secondary monitor and then start up gameEx. GameEx then loads fine but the 2nd monitor the TV software 'frame' is still there but the TV feed is blacked out. Anyone have any ideas on how to get something like this working?

Machine specs:

-Dell OptiPlex 745

-ATI Radeon x1300

-Core 2duo

-2 gigs ram

Thanks!

[bkenobi]

My first guess would be that GameEx is taking over the use of the codec when it loads. If you have video snaps running, try disabling them and trying again. Second, try running GameEx in windowed mode. Perhaps it's trying to black out the background and that includes the second screen. Actually, now that I think about it, GameEx has some settings for setting the desktop to black, hiding icons, etc. Maybe one of those is causing problems. Try disabling all of those options.