dual monitor

Is it possible to use two monitors in a game?
If yes, how can i configure this?

I aint sure whether it helps/works, but you might wanna make sure "DualScreenMiniMapOnLeft" is set to 1.

For ZKLobby: SETTINGS -> Adv. Graphics -> Edit engine settings
Or: Spring\springsettings.cfg

I just found this thread searching to see if anyone had gotten this to work. I'm on Linux with an nvidia card and 3 displays which requires the use of xinerama (actually, I have two triple head linux setups one with a NV GTX 770 card driving 3 displays another other two NV NVS 290 cards with one card driving 2 of the displays -- it doesn't work on either setup)

I suspect that the issue is spring's dual monitor support only works in full screen mode and due to the way X R&R + xinerama works "full screen" is inherently limited to a single X display. I suppose I should try disabling xinerama and testing just NV twinview across two displays.

What I'd ideally like is to be able to pull the minimap off into it's own window so I could still use one display for lobby + irc + etc, one for an enlarged minimap, and the 3rd for a maximized spring window.

As a side note, stretching a spring window across multiple 1920x1200px displays really kills performance. I suspect something is doing software rendering (even with LUPS/etc. disabled) that is sensitive to raw resolution.

I haven't had dual monitors for a while, but if you specify your two-screen-wide resolution in the spring config and use twinview, you can just resize the minimap widget to take half the screen :)

quote: because of politics outside of the Spring engine (something about SDL).

SDL2 has been released on 13th August, 2013 *. Engine 96 just might accidentally a working doublescreen**.

* unfortunately, not a Friday
as in, it is possible, but don't really go expecting it