Trainz With Dual Monitors

[kittycraft]

I was instailling my TRS 2010 on my dad's dual monitor computer & after I installed it, it started locking up, plus the screen minimized & the mouse was off by about five inches, will this be fixed if I get all the service packs? Please help me!

 

[itareus]

I doubt if the service packs will make any difference - but I would get them anyway, just to be up to date!

Check out this forum thread:

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=55056&highlight=dual+monitor

and see if the posts in there give you any ideas.

Also try running Trainz windowed (at a lower resolution that either monitors Windows resolution setting) and see if it runs.

To set Trainz to run in a window:

• From the Launcher (startup) menu select "Options"
• Then "Display Settings"
• Uncheck "Fullsceen"
• Set "Display Resolution" to a lower setting than the operating systems display resolution.

 

[JCitron]

The problem you mention has nothing to do with dual monitors. The problem is the program is not running at the same resolution that the display is set at.

1st go to your display control panel for Windows, and record your display settings. Should be something like 1600 x 1050, 1280 x 1024 as examples.

Close this, and open up the folder where Trainz TS2010 is installed.
Usually c:\Program Files\Auran\TS2010.
Note: If you're using a 64-bit Windows, the path is similar, except it will start with C:\Program Files (x86)\...etc.

Open up the trainzoptions.txt file.

Enter in the following information.

-width= <-----Put in your width setting such as 1600
-height= <----- Put in the height setting such as 1050

Save the file and close the folder.

Start Trainz.
Open up the Options item on the Launcher screen.
Change to the Display Settings and set this to the same settings as your video card, and the same as those you typed into the trainzoptions.txt file.

Now to get the program to span two monitors, I can't figure this out, and I was hoping your post had the answer.

Good luck,

John

 

[kittycraft]

It started perfect just with your insturctions, thanks!


P.S:How do I change the game to the other monitor.

 

[shaneturner12]

I was reading in a Trainz manual (TRS2006 I think it was) that it is possible to run Trainz one two monitors by adding -dualhead to the trainzoptions.txt

(Be aware, as I only have one monitor at the moment (it's a laptop) I am currently unable to test this, so proceed at your own risk.

Shane

 

[Electro]

:wave: After putting in -Deulhead this is what i got



I run 2 LCD's on a 1GB Nvida card and allso 2 LCD's on a 512MB card

I have had trainz running on 2 LCD's but not since TC3.

 

[shaneturner12]

I guess they changed something in the graphics engine for TS2009 and TS2010 - either that, or the monitor is not in the correct configuration for dualhead.

Shane

EDIT: Here is the description for -dualhead (from http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=20986)

-dualhead
Enables support for dual-display mode. This will only work if you have two
displays attached to a single video card acting as a single, large display (i.e. single frame-buffer). This wont work if there are two displays on different video cards or configured to act as independent displays. Currently dualhead support is only utilized in the Driver module. This option requires that a dualhead resolution is selected (ie. 8:3 ratio) and that Trainz is run in fullscreen mode. On some video cards this option may require you to switch to the appropriate resolution prior to launching Trainz.

 

[saintjimmy]

Sounds like it would work with ATI Eyefinity (most high-end ATI 5000 series cards can run 3-6 displays at once, acting like one big display). Maybe I should try 3 monitors!

 

[Mike10]

It works fine with Eyefinity. I have had TS2010 running at 4800x1200 across three monitors on a 5850.

Mike.

 

[sniper297]

Deuling duals

"After putting in -Deulhead this is what i got", you have the JPG spelled "duelhead". "Duel" is a fight between two people, "dual" is two of something, "deul" isn't an English word. If you actually used "-Deulhead" or "-duelhead" in the extension you should probably try "-dualhead" and see what that does.

 

[Electro]

:hehe: Good eye sniper297 :hehe:

 

[sniper297]

So did it work? Lot of people think computers are "smart", when they first appeared the ignorant paranoid types were afraid computers would become smarter than people and "take over the world". Altho what a computer would WANT with the world...:hehe: Anyway, computers are really retarded, iff i spel sumthgn worng a huemin cann figgur owt wot i meen, but a program has to be designed with all the potential misspellings in advance, otherwise it don't have a cloo.

 

[cascaderailroad]

Yes it would be kool if you plugged 3 PC monitors to your PC, and the PC automaticly configured that you wanted a 3 screen wrap around monitor...but then why would a computer want to play with Trainz ?

 

[cascaderailroad]

Running TRS2006 CMP-DHL & TRS2004 Black Pages DLS & running TRS2006 Trainz Surveyor, at one time, all together.

I just found something out that I had never tried before.

I can run TRS2006 Surveyor, and the TRS2006 CMP-DLH and download assets at the same time from the TRS 2004 Black Pages DLS http://www.auran.com/TRS2004/DLS.php ... of course you have to go back to your Surveyor route start page and go back into the route in order for the newly downloaded asset to show up.

Possibly on a two monitor setup this would work out great !

 

[Iced8383]

Now if someone could figure out how to do this...