yes and no.  How's that?

I believe you can run the game in such a way that the game will occupy partsof both monitors. 

But there's no way to just plop a map on the other monitor (not easily anyway).

The whole DesktopX interface modding has been mentioned several times -- would that work?

Under Windows XP, multi-monitor support is fairly straight-forward, but it would still require some non-trivial effort to get it going.  However, the problems really start to appear with older versions of Windows, especially Win2K.  While a multi-monitor feature would be cool, there are lots of other yet-to-be-implemented features that trump it.

I have a ati X850xt on windows xp and would love to know how to get the game to "horizontal span"
XP lets me extend the desktop but I cannot get the game to expand even with fullscreen turned off
Do I need any other software. or is it something with the game I have to change. Like reinstalling it after the second monitor is connected?

Just did some experimentation. I can get the game to work on both monitors.

I set the resolution manually in the pref.ini to 2560x1024.

The problem with the mouse cursor and slow movement was the anti-aliasing. When I set it to 0 the game worked. When I set it to 6 the problem surfaced. Fullscreen or windowed options had no effect.

On observation, though. The game is very usable over the two monitors, but the dialog screens are exactly in the center of the screen. It would be nice if a setup option allowed them to be placed the right or left side of the screen . That way they would appear on onemonitor or another. I think Win XP default is to have the left monitor your main one.

Flash , movie and setup screens and animations are streched. I noticed this when I was also playing at 1024 x 1280 rotated resolution. No bigge but the animations are squashed and you get short fat aliens.

One weird thing though. I can manually setup 2560 x 1024 in the pref ini file and it plays ok. But As soon as I start the game the resolution resets on the options screen to 1024x800. And rewrites the pref.ini file so that the next time I start it the game start 1024x800. Weird. I have to manually edit the pref.ini file every time I want to start 2560x1024. Just Weird.

The anti-aliasing problem may be just because of the power of my ATI Radeon 256 x800 Dell Graphics card or the fact that I am transitioning from my LCD monitor to CRT monitor, but by reducing it to 0 the problem seems to go away. I have not tried it on the 1 to 5 settings yet.

Hope this helps.

I set the pref.ini file to 1920 x 1024 and that moved the screen to all of my leftside ( LCD) monitor and half of my rightside monitor. That moved the dialog boxes over to the left side. Cool.

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What speed is your CPU? I find that the windowed game is more stable because it stop having the game stop and freeze everytime I use another program or hit the windows key. Using windows mode you can use the excellant galactopedia in the open space on the right side.

I am going to exepriment to find a setting that works best.


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No font size change I can see.

Just tried 2200 x 1024 ( and 2048 x 1024 and 2000 x 1024)

Current favorite is 2200 x 1024 windowed, no anti aliasing.

The Civ manager (planet colony list) screen splits across the two monitors between the approval and builing columns (sweet) and the domestic policy screen splits nicely between income and expenses! The Diplomacy screen spilts between your race and the Ai, and the Ttreaties Circle Line Diagram is all on the left monitor.

And the centered popup screens have all their text all on the left monitor.

The only thing that is irratating is that the ships rotating on the ship design screen are half on one monitor and half on the other monitor when they are rotating.

That setup uses all of my left side monitor and 75% of my right monitor, with room in that other 25% of the right monitor for the galectopedia to stay up all the time.

Actually I think I like the game now fully spread out on two monitors. The planetary fleet battles at half speed now look more epic in scope, especially free cam mode and orbit and center out. Cimematic is nice too.

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I wanted to add a little to Dystopic's issue. I believe he is on DA and I also have that exact same problem with DA on a dual monitor setup. I have had dual monitors the entire time I've had DA so never knew that might be the cause. This does not happen with DL, only on DA. I haven't checked to see if TA retains the issue yet, but I will next time I play it.

Anyone that is not having this problem with DA on dual monitors, please be so kind as to let us know what setup you are running like:
Desktop. Horizontal span, dual view or other?
Game. Windowed or not?
Resolution. Matched to desktop or independent?

Thanks for any help you can provide as I would like to find where the problem lies and eliminate it if possible.