Is it in any way negative to have a full screen game running on one 27 inch screen whilst the second screen?

(24inch) displays info from Windows such as temperatures, fan speeds and GPU load via Catalyst Control Centre?

I'm running a new HD6970.

I'm guessing that since the card can handle massive Eyefinity resolutions that it shouldn't be an issue but one screen will be in game and the other will be showing the desktop and a few open apps|||Cooling has nothing to do with it.

You can imagine that it takes a lot of resources for your to computer (especially your videocard) to drive 2 different displays.

That is at least, 2 different displays with 2 different resolutions.

It will drag down your overal performance when gaming.

But if it doesn't influence your framerate or makes the game stuttery, you can just leave it.



But to answer your question more exactly, no.... it's not negative but it will take some amount of resources :)|||you shouldn't worry at all if it works fine !!!

by the way you need not wanted to mention you are using a 24 inch monitor because the size of the monitor doesn't matter but its the size of pixel assigned to it will definitely have an affect.

suppose you are running on 1280x800 pixels in the 24 inch monitor and your second monitor is at a resolution of 800x600 will not be having much affect on but it really does matter when both of your monitors are having 1280x800 or at higher resolution.

The main resources used will be your vram(video memory of your ati card).If you have a single display it will use just the memory required for it.But if there are two outputs(monitors) it is definite that it will use more vram and therefore slow down your game.

Note: it is up to the games video memory requirement.

Also catalystControll center is known to eat up your prcoccessor speed !!!

If you have an old game that doesn't demand much it should go well.

so keep thinking|||There really shouldn't be anything negative, so long as they've both been formally introduced and understand that they need to get along for the sake of everyone involved...|||Not a problem, if you have a decent cooling system, or if your computer is inside a freezer.|||Two computer screens running at the same time??!?!

Pftttttt.....now you're just showing off Doc!! *giggles*|||Not at all. And women thing they can multi-task.