I have two monitors. Many of us do on PC.

So wouldn't it be cool to have an option to open a 2nd Screen and define what was on it on your 2nd monitor?

Like, out of combat, I would want to use my Map view all of the time especially in dungeons where I tend to get lost and require lots of bringing my Map screen up and down up and down every 10 seconds. It would one annoying headache for me in that regard, and be very fun to have that second in-game screen, too! But now, in combat situation, I'd like that screen to switch to my potions and spells, sort of a split-screen view with the top half of my 2nd monitor all spells with a slider, and the bottom half all of my potions with a slider. And now, since my interface is always open, combat could be real-time for those with such monitor support. You could quickly fling your mouse across to monitor #2, click on a potion, and then re-engage combat on screen #1. Or, if no one likes the real-time idea, when your mouse crosses the threshold onto your 2nd screen, your first screen pauses and when you bring it back, it unpauses.

Either way, it makes for some new and interesting in-game choices for how to arrange and play your game.

Fantastic idea, although I doubt it'll be implemented. It's not a very high return on investment for Bethesda to develop a feature that only a fraction of the userbase will use.

I know, I know, but maybe in a patch down the road, huh? Huh, Bethesda? Don't make me go Bruce Lee, on you! :toughninja:

What are you going to do?

Betray your ancestors by sharing their secrets with the rest of the world or slip into a mysterious coma and die?

JK.

Nevermind, misinterpreted what the OP wanted.

nvm - delete please.

If you know more than what you just told me, then please ... DO TELL ... what software does this? I'll get it now for my Nehrim game, which is like a brand new Oblivion only better! I need it.

Wow, between then and now your post changed and now nothing makes sense. (He originally claimed there was software that could make any game play on two monitors without needing that game to do it natively... so I was asking which software that was and then he changed his story.... so now it makes sense, hopefully, what just happened....

I didn't "change my story" you just basically want two game screens so that you can always have your menu up on one screen while playing on the other, which is just meh. I was talking about expanding your view of your game across multiple screens, which you can do with third party software if the game doesn't support multi-display.

Just proves that a lot of people just read the title and hit Reply.

No, I read his OP but I guess it didn't register correctly because that didn't even seem like a reasonable request and then I read it one more time and realized that is actually what he wanted and laughed.

Haha

I'm sorry Roland flamed you, but please don't take it out on me. I was just surprised you changed your post and wanted others to be able to follow what happened. DIdn't mean to cause you some grievance or feel ganged up on. Chillax, yo.

I don't see what's so unreasonable about polling people to see if they're as interested in a feature as I am, that's what the polls are for anyway, and I don't understand why my request is so hilarious that you would laugh. It would be useful and it would let me use my 2nd monitor during the game. Once you actually start using a 2nd monitor, it becomes invaluable and it's so much more pleasurable that, to have to turn it off when these games are running, it feels disappointing that devs are not thinking about such things. Why NOT have the map sitting there on your 2nd screen if you want? Or your Journal? etc....

But each to his own, I guess.

What if you want to turn around and you accidently keep scrolling your mouse over to the second screen? That would be more annoying than opening the map every 10 seconds, because at least your doing that on purpose. Idea exploded. Good day gent's.

Well I have three monitors for my normal display but the problem with having you menus up at all times on the extra displays is because it gives you an unfair advantage in the game that others that don't have an extra monitor or a video card that doesn't support multi-display. Now it does sound fun to do but the development time needed for it for a very small amount of people with multi-displays like us are just not worth it, that's what I meant by unreasonable. Also, I would think it would be a memory hog having your menus up at the same time as playing but it wouldn't affect my computer in the least.

I agree, it's a good idea. Makes for much convenience to have the map up on the other screen.

I'm not interested because I play on laptops and do not own a monitor. That being said it is still a good idea, just not for me.

Naw. This isn't really a game that needs it. I have dual monitors and the only game I've ever played that used the second monitor was supreme commander 1. That had a movable map on the second screen. While it was cool, it didn't really add anything to the game. I found myself just scrolling out on the main monitor.

This is so rare that it isn't worth it. How many people have two monitors? Before you say "lot's of people" I tell you that you are the minority. I don't and never will have it, but perhaps just support eye-finity or whatever nvidia's is (or ati whatever). Just support those massive resolutions. I just use my second monitor for IM and other applications like gpu-z and stuff like that.

Nah, don't care. I would rather the development time be spent on just about everything else. Dual monitor support is a waste of dev time(while it's probably fairly easy to support dual monitors, I still wouldn't use the other monitor for Skyrim) I'm not necessarily against it, I'm just not for it.

Also wanted to point out a spelling error in your poll. Microsoft** or Micro$oft is acceptable. Apple is the shafting one(high price for just a name), but that's off-topic.

I don't really think the "fair" argument works very well in a single player game. That being said, I'm still against it, seems like a waste of resources. Instead they should try to make the map more easy to use for everyone, and yes, I'm thinking farcry2 style here. That way everyone gets the benefit of moving while reading map, not that it is particularly realistic.

Ups, triplepost.

Ups, triplepost.

global warming :sadvaultboy: nobody cares about that.

Why shouldn't someone who paid to have such a cool investment not be able to use it in so many games these days? When most games launch, the 2nd monitor goes dark. I used to hear stories that some games would let you run the game on 2 screens, with different camera angles and such. I never believed that (if done on just one card) but what about if you have a Crossfire or SLI setup and wanted to assign one card for the main game and a 2nd card for a permanent 2nd viewing angle (like see in reverse "rear-view mirror") ? But I haven't seen any game do anything like this even for a dedicated PC-only game.

It just seems there aren't enough tech nerds out there with the love of tech who are able to invest any time in this idea. And most gaming companies don't have the time to add it, concentrating on their main features, etc. And so it would appear that the marketplace for this idea lies completely wide open for some business entrepreneaur to come along and invent a market to exploit this by programming the feature himself and selling it to interested parties such as myself. A renderware middleman between the gaming companies and the players... hahaha...

There are plenty of games that expand your game view if you have more monitors but what your asking for are things that allow you to change the very aspect of the game. Allowing for you to see behind you on one screen while seeing forward on another is an unfair gimmick, basically a cheat for those of us that have the money to have multiple monitors and the hardware to pull it off. The same goes for being able to have the menu up at all times on side monitors. Your basically getting an unfair advantage over those that don't have the money for machines that are capable of multiple displays or the people that don't have the money to buy more than one monitor. This just turns into, "I have money so I deserve it" which just doesn't warrant such a thing. I have three monitors and my TV and I'm not hoping for the extra menus until multiple displays are the norm, maybe in the next gen gaming perhaps? It's a neat idea but it's just not fair for me and you to have the map up and see where we are in real time or check out our journal at all times while Johnny poorperson down the road has to flip in and out of his menu constantly.