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[Suicide Junkie]

Originally posted by Kamog:
I have problems with crashing if I use ALT-TAB to switch between SE4 and other programs during the AI's turns. I'm using Windows ME.

It's not just SE4. Other games also cause crashes when I use ALT-TAB.

Me too, actually.
The second monitor really helps, because switching programs dosen't cause any problems, just the ALT-TAB combo.
Another alternative for single monitor people like me now, is CTRL-ESC (or the windows key) which will force the taskbar above SE4 so you can click on another program.
And yet another is to have the taskbar autohide (right click on bar -> properties). Then it will leave the thin grey line in front of SE4 and a mouseover has the same effect as the previous.

If you're on the main screen you can use the minimize, but not if you've got a subwindow up...

[Atrocities]

You use two monitors? How?

[psimancer]

easy
the windows op sys has been able to accomodate multiple monitors since win 98 zand the card manufacturers have become much more adept at allowing multiple cards to coexist

the best way i have found is to purchase 2 cards from the same company not req to be the same
personally i use a radeon AIW(all in wonder) 9600 and a radeon 9200
gives me 2 monitors or monitor tv from the AIW
and a second monitor from the 9200
but remember the second card must be a pci card
(no computer i know of has 2 agp slots (design limits)

previous to the radeons i used a vodoo3 pci and a generic 8meg agp vid card


its just a matter of installing the card physically windows should do the rest without problems

only one issue the cmos sometimes has a setting allowing to set either pci slot or agp slot as primary video graphics best to make sure thts set for your present card primary before install that way new card doesnt act like replacement for present card (meaning reinstall old drivers too )

[dogscoff]

presumably you could play similar tricks with laptops (ie built-in monitro + external one)?

I know you can choose between the two or you can have them both displaying the same thing at once, but how do you have them displaying different things simultaneously?

[AMF]

What psimancer said. I've been using at least three monitors for years, for a while there I had six attached to my machine. My wife called it "the control center." When I was running a labour intensive PBeM (not SEIV) I needed that many, now I find that three does the trick. Just gives you a really big desktop. Basic vid cards, $30, work fine for me...so long as you have empty slots and monitors, windows makes it pretty easy...allows me to play SEIV, surf the net, and work on a report all at the same time. Now if I could just convince IT at work to let me have more than one then I'd be really happy. Once you've had three monitors, you can't go back...

Originally posted by Atrocities:
You use two monitors? How?

[AMF]

it'd be hard to do with a laptop, unless I misunderstand them, becuase you need to have a video card for each monitor...can;t really see how you'd get another vid card in a laptop...

Originally posted by dogscoff:
presumably you could play similar tricks with laptops (ie built-in monitro + external one)?

I know you can choose between the two or you can have them both displaying the same thing at once, but how do you have them displaying different things simultaneously?

[Suicide Junkie]

The profs at school do it all the time.

The internal monitor is where they keep their desktop, and then when they launch their Powerpoint and other apps they move it across to the external monitor, which goes into the podium and up to the big projector in the ceiling.

[psimancer]

a laptop's ability to "extend" the desktop to an external monitor instead of cloning the existing desktop is a recent ability most laptops could not do this and were actually hardwired as incapable of running more than one at a time a request sent to free email tech support for your laptop company should determine if your laptop can "extend the desktop" onto the external monitor