Matrox Electronic Systems LE G450 User Manual

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Matrox Graphics Card – User Guide

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2

Select the

DualHead Multi-Display

option button.

3

Click

OK

#

Yes

to restart your computer and for changes to take effect.

4

Access the Matrox PowerDesk

Settings

property sheet (

see “Accessing PowerDesk

property sheets”, page 9

).

5

Click

Multi-Display Desktop

(

).

6

Move the

Desktop area

slider to adjust your multi-display desktop, then click

OK

to

accept your changes.

Other DualHead features

If your Matrox graphics card has a second monitor connector, you can also use these features:

Windows 98/Me/2000/XP or NT 4.0 –

!

DualHead Clone

– View a copy of your main display on your secondary display. Each

display can use different monitor settings (refresh rates).

!

DualHead Zoom

– Use your secondary display to view a zoomed-in portion of your main

display.

Windows 98/Me/2000/XP –

!

DualHead DVDMax

*

– Play digital video in a window on your main display and, at the

same time, view that video full-screen on your secondary display.

Note:

In multi-display mode under Windows NT 4.0, the same display resolution and color

palette is used for each display.

* If you have a PCI G450-based graphics card, this feature may not be supported with computers that don’t have Intel chipsets.

Note:

You can also use your main and secondary displays for two distinct views in games that

use the DualHead Multi-Display feature. For more information on games that use this
feature, see the Matrox Web site (

www.matrox.com/mga

).

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