A question from the Spacesimcentral forums

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Straker asked:

Posted 13 December 2012 - 02:33 PM
Can oolite use multiple monitors?


I promised to ask the question here. I myself cannot answer that because I have a single monitor.

[Cmd. Cheyd]

In Windowed Mode, yes. But full screen, no. Least not that I have been able to trigger.

[Thargoid]

I'd depend on what precisely you wanted to do. You can't display different views across multiple monitors (as the game only has one basic window to run in), but you can stretch one window across multiple monitors or put the main window in one and the debug console in another.

But a stretched window looks odd, and as Cheyd says full screen mode is single-monitor only.

[JazHaz]

Somewhere on the BB recently there was a discussion about changing the view angle to as much as 180º, for use in a multiple monitor setup. Tried searching but can't find it.

[Cody]

... changing the view angle to as much as 180º, for use in a multiple monitor setup. Tried searching but can't find it.

That was more to do with a curved screen rather than multiple monitors, I think.

[Eric Walch]

Tried searching but can't find it.

try searching for "180" instead of "180°" and you'll find it as first result.

(Probably second result after I posted this one )

[DaddyHoggy]

Oolite works fine under a Matrox TH2G on 3x 1280x1024 monitors (3840x1024) as this is rendered as a single screen - but it's very "letterbox" by that point.

http://s292.beta.photobucket.com/user/D ... 2.jpg.html

[Diziet Sma]

Oolite works fine under a Matrox TH2G

Nice.. but at AU$200+ for the dual-head unit, and AU$400+ for the triple-head, ouch!

[Diziet Sma]

Ok. I'm officially gobsmacked.


I finally got around to setting up a second monitor on my desktop Linux Mint machine. The graphics card is an nvidia GeForce 6200, with a standard VGA connector, and a DVI connector. I've hooked an adapter on the DVI output so I can connect a standard monitor to it.

I did a bit of playing about with the settings, giving myself a 2560x1024 desktop, and downloaded some dual-monitor wallpapers.

The setup:


Next I fired up trunk. I didn't really pay attention to the far-left-of-R/H-monitor positioning of the small opening window, but was a bit nonplussed when the game opened centred across the monitors, with a big black space either side. Was I going to have to sort this out before I could play?

The first clue that something really weird was going on, though, was when I went to select a game-save.. the ships were displaying much larger than usual, extending outside the BGS frame.



Having the game menus split across the screens was kinda weird.. but when I launched.. oh wow.







There was none of the stretching that Thargoid mentioned, or any distortion.. just a beautiful fullscreen 2560x1024 display. And I didn't even need to buy a Matrox TH2G! Having the sights split perfectly down the middle is a little disconcerting, and takes some getting used to, to be sure. But I'm beginning to get used to it, and the monitor-frame gap between the displays. A pair of identical monitors would be helpful, though, and of course, 3 monitors would be ideal..

Now I just need to reorganise my desk to get better positioning of everything!