>>>Can anyone offer a nickel overview of what is needed for a two monitor setup? I think a special video card or maybe a second video card is needed and that's all. I know there is a configuration dialog in Windows but that's probably duck soup once the hardware is in place.
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>>All you need is a video card that has two video outputs. They're pretty inexpensive now - you can pick one up for less than $100. I bought a cheap second card from newegg.com for $40. My desktop machine actually has a Y adapter which splits into two monitor outputs, so the other card was for a third monitor. It sounds like overkill but it's really a nice for development. You don't need to do anything special in Windows - just drop in the card, let it detect it/install the drivers. Then go into the video set-up and you can adjust the order of the monitors (which one is the left/right/etc).
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>I used two monitors by adding a separate video card I already had. One monitor connected to the embedded video and the 2nd to the card. Now I have a card with two video outputs, but you can also use two cards.
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>If two cards are used, it is important that both support the same resolutions.
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>I haven't developed using a single monitor since 2001...
How is it developing without monitors? ;-) (sitting in for Dragan)
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