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ZSNES on second monitor

Post by Zero-Sum »

Hey, I'd like to make play Zsnes on my second monitor, but I can't. I read in another thread that I should change my second monitor(tv) to my primary monitor. The problem is that I'm on a laptop, and can't change the tv to the primary monitor.

So what should I do?
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Post by franpa »

don't use 2 monitors :)
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I'd really want to, because I want to run it in fullscreen, but if I'm running it in fullscreen on my primary, then I can't do anything else!xO Then I'm like.. Invalid..O_O
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What kind of video card do you have on your laptop?
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snkcube wrote:What kind of video card do you have on your laptop?
I have a ATI Mobility Radeon X1600. It's not one of them cheap laptops which you can't do anything on, it's pretty good actually. For a laptop at least.
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Does your laptop have any video outputs for your TV?
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snkcube wrote:Does your laptop have any video outputs for your TV?
Yeah. I am already using my tv as a monitor, and it works fine. I just wonder if it's possible to get Zsnes onto that monitor instead of the laptop monitor.
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Post by fbb »

i have a similar problem
i hook my laptop to a crt tv through a s-video cable
and when i switch to fullscreen...

black screen! :twisted:

and its strange cause when i go to video settings it shows that there is no monitor connected.
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Post by Zero-Sum »

My problem isn't the tv itself(or connection to it or whatever), it's just that I want to play ZSNES on it, but I don't know how, or if it's even possible, because you can't drag the ZSNES window to the second monitor.

Btw, why isn't it possible to drag the window outside the primary display..?
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Post by franpa »

the version of DirectX that ZSNES uses, doesnt support multiple monitors.
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Post by Zero-Sum »

Sooo... It's completely impossible to play it on the second monitor?
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Okay then. Well, thx anyways^^
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Post by Clements »

It is possible to clone the display by setting the TV as the primary monitor. You may need to turn the resolution down as well for it to show correctly. It's what I do with my laptop with an ATi X700. If you can't do this then you haven't played with the drivers enough or haven't installed them.
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Clements wrote:It is possible to clone the display by setting the TV as the primary monitor. It's what I do with my laptop with an ATi X700. If you can't do this then you haven't played with the drivers enough or haven't installed them.
I can clone it, but that's not what I'm after. I want to run it on my tv so I can do other stuff on the primary while i play. But if I clone the display then It's fullscreen on both.
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Post by Clements »

Now that is definitely impossible with ZSNES, so try another emulator that has a D3D renderer and see if that works.
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Clements wrote:Now that is definitely impossible with ZSNES, so try another emulator that has a D3D renderer and see if that works.
Yeah, I understand that. You don't know any other good emulators then?
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Post by I.S.T. »

SNES9x, SNEeSe, bsnes, SNESGT are all good. bsnes is much slower than the others due to aiming for accuracy rather than speed.

When it comes to sound emulation, bsnes and SNESGT are the best, BTW.
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I.S.T. wrote:SNES9x, SNEeSe, bsnes, SNESGT are all good. bsnes is much slower than the others due to aiming for accuracy rather than speed.

When it comes to sound emulation, bsnes and SNESGT are the best, BTW.
Okay! I'll try them. Thx everyone for the help!^^
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