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Message 56272 - Posted: 26 Sep 2014, 23:36:43 UTC

I have 2 display monitors and Boinc only uses one. Is there a way to display on both rather than leaving the second blank ?
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Message 56273 - Posted: 27 Sep 2014, 0:19:01 UTC - in response to Message 56272.  

Do you mean with the screensaver or just the manager? If you're talking about the screensaver, I'm not sure how screensavers work with multiple monitors. If you're talking about the manager, it's just 1 window so it will only show on one monitor.

If you're talking about graphics cards, the 2nd card is either not supported or doesn't have the required driver for projects.
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Message 56277 - Posted: 27 Sep 2014, 1:41:25 UTC

If you're talking about screen savers, then that's as far as I know not possible, because multi-monitor support is only available in OpenGL 2.0 and up. The screen savers are made predominantly in OpenGL 1.0
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