I have my laptop running to my TV via VGA…I’d like to run World of Warcraft on the TV and other stuff on the laptop screen. Is there a way to “lock” my mouse in the Warcraft screen though? It’s nearly impossible to move around since my mouse always moves from the warcraft screen to my laptop screen.
I assume you’re running Windows, and Windows itself won’t do it. There may be some utility out there that will do it (what make/model video card may provide us with a starting point)
As far as I know there isn’t anything that will let you do it. But I stopped running dual screen a long time ago.
I have an nVidia GeForce Go 7400 running on a dell XPS M1210 laptop.
Terminus: I tried that using the supplied nVidia Control Panel software as well as the built in windows interface…My laptop’s native display is 1280/800 where as my DLP TV’s native is 1280/720. i’d be ok cloning both at the 1280/800 resolution as the DLP would only be used to display games…but the nVidia forces both displays to 1280/720 and that just skews things too much on my laptop for non-gaming purposes.
<rant>it just seems like dual monitoring is more complex than it needs to be…all I want is the the same freaking image on 2 displays at the same time with their proper resolutions.</rant>
Technically, yes. But 1280/800 or 1280/720 isn’t available within WoW when I have WoW displayed on my DLP…What’s weird is that last night it WAS displaying 1280/720 just fine…but today it won’t (before bed last night i set my laptop display back to 1280/800 and disabled the DLP in the windows display properties. But when I go back to JUST my laptop display and run WoW again 1280/800 and 1280/720 show up and work just fine.
You can do what you want with Ultramon, a utility that lets you do some cool stuff with multiple monitors.
Ultramon lets you ignore a monitor, and once you do this, the mouse will only work on the non-ignored monitor. Then, when you’re finished with your game, a few clicks lets you bring both monitors back online.
There are also a bunch of other handy features. It’s $40, but a good investment for people running multiple monitors.
I’ve got a few program recommendations for you that may help. I’ve used ShiftWindow, but not UltraMon. I’ve heard great things about UltraMon, but don’t use it for my dual setup. I use the nVidia dualview.