Re: [pygame] I can handle more of a one monitor?

[Fred Burton <flbl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 05:21:38PM -0700, Jasper wrote:
>   
> > I had a friend try my game on a dual monitor system once, and it 
> > wouldn't work.  I recall at the time someone here said SDL just didn't 
> > support dual monitors, so there was no way to make it work short of 
> > extending SDL.
> >     
>
> My experience was that pygame.display.list_modes() returned the
> dual-head desktop as the largest mode (2048x768), which then caused an
> SDL crash if I tried to pass it to pygame.display.set_mode with the
> FULLSCREEN flag.
>
> Single-head modes (1024x768 or lower) work just fine, but you get the
> same picture on both monitors.
>
> Marius Gedminas
>   
I guess it depends on how your video card is configured.
When using set_mode with FULLSCREEN, it shows fullscreen on the 
'primary' screen on mine (and on a friend's).

If you set your video card to 'span' across two screens, I think it 
should be able to use the combined resolution (both screens as one 
surface) without crashing.