I am using this on two 19 inch monitors that I had previously used on 1280 x 1024 each. Now they are a giant widescreen 2200 x 1024 virtual monitor for the game, with space included for the galectopedia to be open 1005 of the time.

Screen shot 2560 x 1024 resolution 2 monitors.

Just did some experimentation. I can get the game to work on both monitors.

I set the resolution manually in the pref.ini to 2560x1024.

The problem with the mouse cursor and slow movement was the anti-aliasing. When I set it to 0 the game worked. When I set it to 6 the problem surfaced. Fullscreen or windowed options had no effect.

On observation, though. The game is very usable over the two monitors, but the dialog screens are exactly in the center of the screen. It would be nice if a setup option allowed them to be placed the right or left side of the screen . That way they would appear on onemonitor or another. I think Win XP default is to have the left monitor your main one.

Flash , movie and setup screens and animations are streched. I noticed this when I was also playing at 1024 x 1280 rotated resolution. No bigge but the animations are squashed and you get short fat aliens.

One weird thing though. I can manually setup 2560 x 1024 in the pref ini file and it plays ok. But As soon as I start the game the resolution resets on the options screen to 1024x800. And rewrites the pref.ini file so that the next time I start it the game start 1024x800. Weird. I have to manually edit the pref.ini file every time I want to start 2560x1024. Just Weird.

The anti-aliasing problem may be just because of the power of my ATI Radeon 256 x800 Dell Graphics card or the fact that I am transitioning from my LCD monitor to CRT monitor, but by reducing it to 0 the problem seems to go away. I have not tried it on the 1 to 5 settings yet.

Hope this helps.

Anyone have a Matrox TripleHead2Go adapter? http://www.matrox.com/graphics/offhome/th2go/home.cfm Can you imagine having it on 3 screens?

2 screens would seem to max out my mousie too.

Not sure if I like 2560 x 1024 more or something less like 2500x1024 or 2400 x1024 so that the monitor gap/split does not occur right along the center as so many things are auto centered. Must experiemt, more excuse to play........

Yeah, the game cut scens stagger now. I can live with that though. Help Stardock....

I grabbed the screen bu hitting the print screen key to capture to windows menory clipboard and I just used MS paint to paste them into a new file and saved it as a JPEG. I then posted them to a goggle blogger blog account I had opened to host the file. Go to www.google.com and click more to find the page where you can open a blogspot.com blog. Other places work very well too.

Link

3 Monitor adapter 299 direct from Maxtor

Hmmmm Must experiment, more excuse to play,,,,,

put 3 widescreens in portrait on that thing. that'd be pretty cool. i'm pretty happy at 1920x1200 on 1 screen. but 3600x1920? that's insane.

my movies have always streatched a bit, and they stagger if i have my anti-aliasing above 1. good thing i'm over them.

from matrox:
"...allows you to add three monitors with a combined resolution of up to 3840 x 1024..."

damn. but the way technology moves these days, i'd save my $ and wait a few more months.

my next step is a graphics card update. i'm looking at ATI's crossfire lines. but i have a compact chasis, so i have to buy x16 cards. and i just quit my job. so it's more of a pipedream.

still, pretty cool set up you got goin there, i got to say.

i was looking at that, and trying to understand how the heck they're doing that. are they carring servers to support that many monitors, or what?

i like how they reference the "X-WALL" hahaha

the nobel prize for chemistry in 2001 went to a team of researchers who discovered electro-conductive polymers by appending iodine to a polymer chain. another team extended the work to include light-emitting diodes at the end of these chains. what this means is, once this technology is fully developed, we'll have screens about as thick and very similar to polyester cloth, equally flexible, and cheap to produce. imagine a projector screen without the projector.

Saw something about that. Possibly "paper", magazines with moving images in the future.

i was looking at that, and trying to understand how the heck they're doing that. are they carring servers to support that many monitors, or what?

Must be something like that.
I would get a bloody lousy refresh rate with my system, I know that.

Later guys the Drengin are picking a fight. (Just by looking at me)

MD

Current favorite is 2200 x 1024

That puts all center panels on t he left monitor, gives room for the galactopedia to be fully open, and allows a 9x 9 large map to be zoomed in and still show edge to edge over the two monitors

and the selected ship shows off enough inside the left monitor so that you can move it easily without crossing over to the right side monitor....

ATI Catalyst 6.5 setup dont know about earlier versions but you should get the latest if possible.
Once you've followed the guide at extremetech.com - Link - then you will need to set your control panal to advanced go into Profiles then Manager
Composition tab check - All control Centre settings
Activation tab - I checked all the manually by buttons so I get a shortcut and hotkeys
Save
activate, then either quit or change other settings so you can have various settings for your desktop. I already have 3 for stretched, extended and single monitor desktops. Im going to do more for different resolutions and keep them in a folder with a shortcut on quicklaunch.
Shortcut name examples:

2560x1024 Ext - Extended Extra windows space . Things maximize in their own monitor
1152x864 Sin - Single screen - Obvious
2304x864 Str - Stretched - Windows stretched across both monitors and acts like a very wide single monitor, when you maximise a window it fills both screens as one and the taskbar is right across the both. I use this mode to play GalCiv2 - Nvidia call this span

Like I said I dont know about Nvidia controls so if anyone finds out please post here.