Question using external monitor with my laptop

so right now im using an external screen with my laptop, and when i open something it goes to the external but tahts fine with me.

Also when i play games it opens on the other monitor again that's not a problem to me but the thing that wonders me is that when i am playing game, i want to go to my laptop screen i still have to alt+tab and my game minimize. Is this inevitable? or can i fix it somehow? thanks.

I'm using a 17" emprex monitor.

 

You can avoid this behavior by running the game in a windowed mode if it supports it.

 

The only downside to running the game in windowed mode is that it kills the frame rates, especially if you have aero enabled.

 

yeah thats what i pretty much just did =/ i'll get use to it i guess.

im running xp pro so its okay no aero. i kinda fix my problem i think, how do you guys that use a external monitor set your multiple settings in Nivida Control Panel thanks.

 

for those who use their laptop with an external monitor what is ur settings with nvidia video card i need help..

 

anyone? help please..

 

I think that you have to set the windowed mode setting in the game, but I'll dig around in Nvidia control panel for you.

 

thanks, well i play cs in window mode but wc3 i can not play in window mode, well i can but because i use mouse instead of keyboard to look around its not very convenient

 

Haha yeah I know what you mean. My friend has a Macbook Pro, and he uses VMware Fusions for his windows needs. I tried loading Sins of a Solar Empire onto it (it was the only game I had on my flash drive), and I use the mouse to move around the map instead of the keyboard. Everytime I moved to the edge of the screen, Mac's Expose came up, minimizing the game. Very annoying.

I did some googling, and apparently, it's not possible to have one screen have a fullscreen game, while the second monitor has something else on it. Windowed mode is the only way.

 

thanks for doing the research but im no just wondering what are people's settings when using mulitple monitor, thanks!

 

so yeah..those settings guys?

 

How can I check whether windowed mode is supported or not? And how to go with it if it's supported?