Dual Monitor Question

s7rYd3r · Post by **s7rYd3r** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 5:08 pm

I am using a Dual Monitor setup right now and I would like to have ZSNES run on my 2nd monitor. The problem arrises when I start the program It starts in the 1st monitor, now normally I can just drag windows and programs onto the 2nd monitor and it works just fine. However, with ZSNES it seems as though I can not drag the window past the border of the first monitor? Is this because of the non-standard window it runs within? Is there any way I can get this program to move over to the 2nd monitor at all? Any ideas would be helpful.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 7:09 pm

I'm pretty sure that you can't, I don't know why or if this will change in the future.

Starman Ghost · Post by **Starman Ghost** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 10:25 pm

Zsnes currently doesn't support running on a secondary monitor, onlt the primary. I believe it has something to do with the way directdraw displays the window. I think I remember MaxSt saying he knew how to fix this, but I don't remember exactly.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:16 am

Megabyte wrote:Zsnes currently doesn't support running on a secondary monitor, onlt the primary. I believe it has something to do with the way directdraw displays the window. I think I remember MaxSt saying he knew how to fix this, but I don't remember exactly.

Yeah, he said something about that. Too bad all the old posts are gone.

Bacon · Post by **Bacon** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:21 am

Does Zsnes start on the primary monitor? What if you set your other monitor to be the primary in the video card's properties?

SquareHead · Post by **SquareHead** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 8:20 am

Megabyte wrote:Zsnes currently doesn't support running on a secondary monitor, onlt the primary. I believe it has something to do with the way directdraw displays the window. I think I remember MaxSt saying he knew how to fix this, but I don't remember exactly.

There is a way around this. Depending on which GFX card you have. Under video overlay options, you can set overlay to secondary device. Then you can run it in monitor 1, and have it show on monitor 2. At least thats how I got it to work with my AIW Radeon 9200, and my GeForce 5200. But this is not really an answer if you need monitor 1 free.

Nightcrawler · Post by **Nightcrawler** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 12:59 pm

Bacon wrote:Does Zsnes start on the primary monitor? What if you set your other monitor to be the primary in the video card's properties?

That would probably work if you can do that.

ZSNES is coded to use only the primary directdraw device as was stated above.

s7rYd3r · Post by **s7rYd3r** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:14 pm

Interesting ideas, Thanks a lot for the information

I guess I could play around with changing my primary monitor. The problem I run into is this; I want to be able to play ZSNES at the same time I am playing a window'd game. So i tryed just switching the game over the other monitor but then it gets REALLY choppy, like its having a hard time rendering the graphics and gameplay while its on the second monitor so I have to keep that on the primary one. Other Snes emulators run fine on either monitor, but I really love ZSNES and would love to be able to run that.

Bacon · Post by **Bacon** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 3:10 am

Why the HELL do you want to play two games at once.

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marvelus10 · Post by **marvelus10** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:54 pm

New guy here, hello eveyone.

I was wondering this myself too I run an ATI AIW 7500 with my Samsung 27" television as my secondary screen. I can drag everything to that screen but the ZSNES.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:03 am

marvelus10 wrote:New guy here, hello eveyone.

I was wondering this myself too I run an ATI AIW 7500 with my Samsung 27" television as my secondary screen. I can drag everything to that screen but the ZSNES.

You should like, read the topic in which you post.

marvelus10 · Post by **marvelus10** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:17 am

I did thank you.
I must be over looking somthing in my settings because I cannot get it to do the same as Squarehead stated or maybe his ATI AIW is different from mine I know the ATI driver etc. for the 9500 are not compatible with the 7500.

thanx eh

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:27 am

You won't be able to just drag the Zsnes window to your secondary monitor or tv.

I will guess that the Rady 9200 AIW is more advance that the Rady 7500 AIW.

If you want to play games on your tv, using zsnes, you'll have to set up your tv as your primary monitor.

CloudRider · Post by **CloudRider** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 12:29 am

Weird, I have no issues dragging my ZSNES window over to my 2nd monitor. I just want to be able to continue to control it when the active windows switches to something other than ZSNES.

I'm using an Asus V9520 Magic (GeForce FX5200) video card on an Asus P3B-F mainboard.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 1:24 am

Looks like I got mixed up. But it's the answer is still the same. Something to do with Zsnes' priorities. I'm quite sure you can't do the two things at the same time.

I don't know if this is going to change in the future.

kevman · Post by **kevman** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 1:36 am

Joe Camacho wrote:You won't be able to just drag the Zsnes window to your secondary monitor or tv.

I will guess that the Rady 9200 AIW is more advance that the Rady 7500 AIW.

If you want to play games on your tv, using zsnes, you'll have to set up your tv as your primary monitor.

I am almost positive the 7500 and 9200 use the same driver set. I have one of each that I use.

I've used ZSNES on a TV just fine on my non-AIW 7500 by cloning the primary monitor onto the TV.

In all honesty, the 7500 is an impressive unit. True dual monitor support (independant rez) and TV support. The 7500 is also capable of more raw polygons than a 9200. It depends on the version, though. The original 7500 had 32meg of non-ddr ram.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 3:58 am

All Radeons use the Catalyst drivers.

kevman · Post by **kevman** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 4:00 am

Noxious Ninja wrote:All Radeons use the Catalyst drivers.

Yes, but the higher end ones use a different set.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 4:19 am

kevman wrote:
Noxious Ninja wrote:All Radeons use the Catalyst drivers.
Yes, but the higher end ones use a different set.

I just see one pack:

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/def ... olderID=27

Catalyst Release Notes wrote:The Catalyst™ software suite is designed to support the following ATI desktop products:

* Radeon® X850 series
* Radeon® X800 series
* Radeon® X700 series
* Radeon® X600 series
* Radeon® X550 series
* Radeon® X300 series
* Radeon® 9X00 series
* Radeon® 8500 series
* Radeon® 7X00 series

CloudRider · Post by **CloudRider** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 4:38 am

Joe Camacho wrote:Looks like I got mixed up. But it's the answer is still the same. Something to do with Zsnes' priorities. I'm quite sure you can't do the two things at the same time.

I don't know if this is going to change in the future.

I've seen an emulator do it before, once long ago...if I can remember which emulator and if it was for SNES I'll be sure to postback with more detail.

kevman · Post by **kevman** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:06 am

Noxious Ninja wrote:
kevman wrote:
Noxious Ninja wrote:All Radeons use the Catalyst drivers.
Yes, but the higher end ones use a different set.

I just see one pack:

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/def ... olderID=27

Catalyst Release Notes wrote:The Catalyst™ software suite is designed to support the following ATI desktop products:

* Radeon® X850 series
* Radeon® X800 series
* Radeon® X700 series
* Radeon® X600 series
* Radeon® X550 series
* Radeon® X300 series
* Radeon® 9X00 series
* Radeon® 8500 series
* Radeon® 7X00 series

It changed. Used to be 2 different driver set, one required .NET and the other didn't.

Odd... And this means that my video drivers are out of date again. And I really really hate the new knowledge base layout.

Noxious Ninja · Post by **Noxious Ninja** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 1:50 pm

kevman wrote:It changed. Used to be 2 different driver set, one required .NET and the other didn't.

.NET is for the funky control panel, and they still offer that.