Playing blurays and games in clone mode

I noticed that i cannot play blu-ray discs or play games such as wow or battlefield when i use clone mode display on both my laptop screen and 50 inch plasma screen. If i used extend desktop i can play the blu-ray on the extended desktop or if i use show only my 2nd display the games up just fine but just wondering why i can't use clone mode to display both. Is it a driver issue or the hdmi cables i'm using? Thks in advance.

 

I kinda had trouble doing that, I mean getting it to display the sam thing on both screens, in the end i just gave up

 

Ya from the look of it, it looks like the drivers are garbage. Wish new drivers would come out cause right now they suck. Oh well i'll just extend desktop to watch blu-rays and use only one display at the moment to play games until new drivers come out.

 

I'd think it would be more of a GPU thing, not saying the GPUs arent capable, but it would have to produce 2 frames of pixels not instead of one. One for your laptop monitor and one for your screen, I can see it being a huge resource hog doing that for gaming. Not entirely sure how clone mode works exactly but thats seems to me to be the likely problem.

if anything you shouldnt be running both anyways, all monitors have a life span on them, might aswell have your laptop screen not in use to save it some hours of use later on down the road.