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How Do I Set Up A Second Monitor?

theereal
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So I had an old 720p HDTV laying around and I decided to hook It up to my PC. Ive got a few questions:

Will watching a video on one of my screens whilst gaming on the other put much of a damper on the GPU? If so, how much?

How do I configure which side my screen Is on?

When I open an application on my 720p TV, the application only opens up on my primary monitor, how do I fix that? Edit figured It out :P

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something like 5%

go to display settings and move them around

Thats that. If you need to get in touch chances are you can find someone that knows me that can get in touch.

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it will barely effect fps

Go into your nvidia control panal and go to setup multiple displays to configure the position

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You can't really fix new programs showing up on which monitor, for me it's whichever monitor you last closed it on is the monitor it opens on next. 

 

Playing video on your other monitor will of course use the GPU, but (in my experience) it doesn't affect it much even at 1080p.

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So I had an old 720p HDTV laying around and I decided to hook It up to my PC. Ive got a few questions:

Will watching a video on one of my screens whilst gaming on the other put much of a damper on the GPU? If so, how much?

How do I configure which side my screen Is on?

When I open an application on my 720p TV, the application only opens up on my primary monitor, how do I fix that?

If you're using Windows 8.1 or later, press the Windows button and search for "Project to a second screen" - this will allow you to connect to a second screen. There should also be a setting there that'll allow you to configure the sides of the 2 screens

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something like 5%

go to display settings and move them around

"Display Settings" really Isnt telling me much :P

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it will barely effect fps

Go into your nvidia control panal and go to setup multiple displays to configure the position

Did It, worked, thanks :)

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"Display Settings" really Isnt telling me much :P

right click on your desktop

click display settings

move the numbers around

Thats that. If you need to get in touch chances are you can find someone that knows me that can get in touch.

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