Dual monitor - Is there a utility that can clone my display and run a program on one of the screens ?

Not funny ? This is a serious question !

That was a serious answer.

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You're seriously annoying me, go spam another thread

Let's make a deal:
-If anybody gives you a better answer, you were right and I spammed and I'll be seriously sorry
-If nobody else does, it's because I was right and you have serious temperament issues

Deal?

PS:  Basically, you want your machine to become 2 PCs..

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I dont want my machine to become 2 pc's, I want my screen output cloned but in a more advanced way than Windows makes possible.

And please, if u haven't got anything usefull to report, dont post at all. There are some people that have other things on their mind than reading useless replies.

You don't want a cloned output, you want your processor to manage a task in one of the outputs but not the other..

I'll assume you have considered that you'll need to manage WHERE is your mouse/keyboard input going to be directed to?

Surprisingly, this sounds A LOT like trying to make your machine to work as two machines..

Nevermind, if the deal is on, I'll apologise when required..

:-)

Again, you're seriously screwing my question. Stop it pls. Keyboard/mouse input isn't a question here, the goal is to be able to change overlay things on the 2nd screen.

To make it more clear:

I've found ultramon (www.realtimesoft.com). This program can clone your screen to a second screen in a "preview" window. This kind of programs I'm looking for.

Most dual output video cards will let you extend the desktop so that you can have a spreadsheet open on one screen and a Word document open on another.  What are you trying to do that extending the desktop won't do?

I need cloning of a opengl app and then mess with overlay

As far as I know, overlays are special cases that don't use the same area that the desktop uses, and DVDs and OpenGL overlays are not supported by video cards on two cloned displays.  For example: http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/reviews/3mon_rad9k/

Well, the reason why I ask is that I hear rumours (more and more) that it is possible to clone the output of a video game to a second monitor and then use some well known ati bugs (e.g. running msn or other like programs) that will allow u to look trough walls in certain games. As I am involved in developing/supportinh an Anti Cheat program I want to double/triple check.

I have heard rumors of cheats like that, but they didn't involve a second monitor - if you can point me to a specific one, perhaps I can decipher if they actually used a cloned overlay with two monitors?

The anti cheat program has a way to catch cheats involving one monitor so imho it's useless to point you to one. It's about the 2nd monitor I need to know.

All I want to verify is if they are actually using a second monitor to do this.  My understanding is that you can't use an overlay on a second monitor and have it work, so if someone is doing this, I would be interested in figuring out how they did it.

I'm not sure :) Just heard rumours from different people. Thats why I posted this question. Altough I'm aware over "single"monitor overlay cheats. If you want more information on defeating cheats, I'ld like to speak to u on msn about it, feel free to add j0epmeloen -AT- hotmail -DOT- com.

Thanks - I'm not looking for info on defeating cheats; just interested in finding out if something new that has happened that is contrary to what I know.

I am running two 19" LCD's at 1280x1024 resolution also known as a Dual Monitor Computer Setup.

Reference Nvidia GPU drivers which can be download (for those with Nvidia graphics chips) at www.nvidia.com.
Your best bet for dual monitor/gaming is to have a graphics card with two video outputs.

A friend of mine is attempting the same type of setup using an ATI dual output graphic card but it seems that ATI has not put forth a lot of effort into dual monitor setups.

The Nvidia application natively supports monitor cloning, monitor spanning and separate monitor settings.
It's your choice how you will setup dual monitors using the nvidia drivers.

I would not recommend using an AGP and PCI video card due to band width issues between an 8x AGP socket and a much slower PCI socket.

I was running an MSI GeForce 5600VTDR 8x AGP video card which has STD 15-pin VGA output and a DVI output.
One display was on the DVI and one was on the VGA. I noticed graphic differences (refresh rates and display colors) between the DVI and VGA output ports.

I have not upgraded to a GeForce 6600GT AGP video card supporting Dual DVI outputs and everything looks and runs great.

I can run applications in either window.
I can run games in one window or span both monitors providing a maximum gaming size of 2560x1024 screen size.
Dual Monitor gaming is the ultimate. If you wish to game in one Display and "Monitor" activities in another monitor then you will use the "ALT-TAB" function built into windows.
Yes, the monitor not used for gaming will be updated but the refresh update will be slow due to the gaming application will be addressing most of your systems resources.


Let me know if you need any additional information on how I set things up and what game modificationa are required for such an awesome setup.

Steve_a_mills is obviousloy copying and pasting stuff ? Pls read my question again, I dont need advice on any videocard, I'm running on a GF4 ti4200-xp and happy with it. Just need a program to mirror 1 certain app or mirror one screen to a part of the other.

I think he just doesn't understand the nature of your problem.  You need an overlay to work on two different displays, with the ability to change settings differently on one of the overlays.

Yup, well seeing th eamount of points and the little response maybe there isn't a program to do it ?