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Message 39872 - Posted: 26 Aug 2011, 7:01:05 UTC

Is there any way to get the screen saver to run on multiple monitors, or would that require an update of the BOINC software?
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Message 39873 - Posted: 26 Aug 2011, 8:46:07 UTC - in response to Message 39872.  

The limitation lies in the OpenGL used, that's OpenGL 1.0 and 1.1, which can't do multiple monitors without multiple videocards, or a videocard with multiple RAMDACs.
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