question about dual monitors

[survivalhero]

right now i have one monitor and its 17" no very big i want to buy another 17" maybe even find the same monitor dont ask what it is all i know its a samatron piece of junk but hasnt let me down yet, anyway i have a 6800 and i have the connecter thing, but do i need a driver to have dual monitors cause i tried it once before with my step dads monitor and only on 17 samatron worked the other one didnt, reason why i want dual or a bigger monitor is cause i do alot of stuff in photoshop and maya
and well need more room and bigger res cause 1280x1024 isnt cutting it anymore
well any help would be nice thanks

[Alrededor]

if you search, I think there should be quite a few older threads on dual monitors...maybe. I posted a couple questions before, I know that.

since you're using a GeForce card, the drivers it came with should be enough. I'd download the latest ones though (I suppose that's a given). As it is, even w/o the 2nd monitor, you should have a program called nview in your task tray. Once you hook up the second monitor though, there should be an option to install the dualview drivers (I think you can have horizontal/vertical span, and cloning mode w/o extra installation, but for what you want to do, it sounds like dualview might be the thing...dunno, you'll figure it out). Nothing separate though. Pretty simple. Then the rest is up to you...

[Valtelino]

Yep. Just enable the 2nd display in your display settings.
Trust me. Once you've tried dual monitors, you'll never want to go back.
(And "nine out of ten men who've tried camel......... prefer women")

[Gait_Keeper]

I'm running Dual monitors from a FX 5200 card, one vga port one DVI port, had to get an adapter to change the DVI to VGA ( 2 CRT monitors ) 15" compaq, 17" CTX

windows supports Dual monitors and so does Nvidia, just right click your desk top, then properties, then settings.

I suggest setting the refresh rates to the max for each monitor, optimal is usally 60Hz, gofor 75 to 85Hz if you can

read the help file also, there is a difference between twinview and dual view

dual monitors rule!!!!!!!!!