How to connect another monitor to pc to play 2 player games?

[briovaz]

i have a led 19 monitor and another crt monitor. ineed to connect these two monitors so i can play two player games. hw can i do it?

system specs: core i5 2400
gtx 460 oc 1 gb
4 gb ram

please help!!

 

[AdrianPerry]

I don't think its possible to do.

Nvidia GTX 460 doesn't have native support for multi-monitor gaming. You would need to be running an SLI set up (multiple cards) in order to span the game across two screens. You would also need a game that supports that kind of resolution. Most new games do, however older games tend to have max resolutions of 1024x768

 

[briovaz]

I NEED TO PLAY DIRT 3. but i can dee a vga port, hdmi and a dvi port in my gtx 460! i thought the gtx 460 has multi monitor support! isnt there any way to vonnect another monitor?

 

[AdrianPerry]

You can connect to another monitor using another display port on the card. However this will only display an extended desktop and will only work within windows. If you load a game it will still only display on one screen rather than both and will sometimes require you to disable the second display altogether.

 

[toordog]

I don't think its possible to do.

Nvidia GTX 460 doesn't have native support for multi-monitor gaming. You would need to be running an SLI set up (multiple cards) in order to span the game across two screens. You would also need a game that supports that kind of resolution. Most new games do, however older games tend to have max resolutions of 1024x768

SLI Support only one monitor.

 

[toordog]

Basically a computer is a one player per PC.

 

[AdrianPerry]

SLI Support only one monitor.

Not true.... http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/3d-vision-surround-requirements-uk.html

 

[toordog]

Not true.... http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/3d-vision-surround-requirements-uk.html

Thanks for the info, This is something new, i wasn't aware.

Do you know if they support extended desktop or it's just mirror?

 

[AdrianPerry]

a single card can support extended desktop..... i do it myself with my 560ti. It just cant do it for games only windows desktop.