Andre Southgate 2005-06-18 17:27
Hi There!
I have found only a limited number of decent screensavers that work with both monitors. Its either 1 or the other which is frustrating. I love my aquatic themed fishtank savers, but with them only working on a single screen, my poor other screen gets left to fend for itself.. Is there such a thing as an fishtank saver that works on both screens? Can something be done in the settings to make them work?
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Christian Studer 2005-06-19 07:44
Unfortunately most 3D screen savers don't have a working preview mode, which is required in order for UltraMon to run the screen saver on a secondary monitor.
Marine Aquarium MD has multi-monitor support.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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andre@sapphiresolutions.co.nz 2005-06-19 08:42
Any tricks to make this work? if I click the preview mode I get 2 black screens, and without it ticked it won't run at all, when I click preview.
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Christian Studer 2005-06-20 08:52
To run Marine Aquarium via UltraMon, assign it to the primary monitor, make sure that 'preview mode' isn't checked, and that no screen saver is assigned to the secondary monitor.
You might also need to configure settings for Marine Aquarium, under Marine Aquarium settings make sure Black is unchecked for each monitor.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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andre@sapphiresolutions.co.nz 2005-06-20 11:57
Have done what you have suggested and it still leaves 2nd screen black.
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andre@sapphiresolutions.co.nz 2005-06-20 13:21
Was being dumb. In the Screensaver config, I had to pull down screen 2 and deselect black.
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diego 2005-08-14 03:06
Christian, I did exactly what you explain :
- Assign Aquarium 2MD to the Monitor 1
- Preview mode is unchecked
- No screen saver for Monitor 2
- Configured Aquarium settings and
- Black Unchecked for both monitors
and I have 2 Marine Aquarium , one for each monitor!!!
What is Wrong ? Because I would like to have only one large Aquarium on the 2 monitors?
My video card is ATI All in Wonder 9600.
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Christian Studer 2005-08-14 09:21
UltraMon does not support stretching a screen saver across multiple monitors, and as far as I know Marine Aquarium itself also doesn't support it, but I would recommend contacting Marine Aquarium Support to verify this.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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diego 2005-08-14 19:35
Yes, the Marine Aquarium 2MD version is a special version that supports Multi displays :
"A new special version of Marine Aquarium now supports multiple displays. Dubbed Marine Aquarium 2.0 MD (Multi-Display), you can now view your favorite fish on multiple monitors, and widescreen monitor aspect ratios are now supported. A special anamorphic ratio allows you to adjust the widescreen displays to appear correctly on your PC Screen without losing image quality due to stretching. Marine Aquarium 2.0 MD is free to anyone who owns Marine Aquarium 2.0"
dixit http://www.serenescreen.com/product/aquarium/
Do you have an idea Christian? Is it a problem of resolution ?
- Monitor 1 is Sony 19' 1280x1024 32 Bits
- Monitor 2 is Sony 17' 1152x864 32 Bits
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Christian Studer 2005-08-14 23:10
Marine Aquarium does support multiple monitors, but as far as I know it doesn't support stretching a single aquarium across multiple monitors, you can only have the same aquarium on each monitor.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Diego 2005-08-16 00:54
Thank you so much for your details.
My english is not enough good to understand all the subtilities .
And you are right , the picture on the Web Marine page is a litle bit "false" ...
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