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Message 45945 - Posted: 11 Oct 2012, 21:51:02 UTC

I have a system with Multiple Displays. Currently the screensaver only uses one display. Is it possible to change this?
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Message 45951 - Posted: 12 Oct 2012, 5:22:12 UTC - in response to Message 45945.  
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Only when:
1. Either you have multiple videocards.
2. Or you have one videocard with multiple RAMDACs.
3. Or both BOINC and every project doing graphics of sorts re-releases their screen saver as OpenGL 2.0 minimum.

It's a limitation of the OpenGL 1.1 that's being used. It can send the video-overlay to only one monitor attached to each RAMDAC. Therefore, if you have multiple RAMDACs or multiple videocards, the video-overlay can be sent to all monitors.

Now, before you say let's do 3... who is paying for that?
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