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So i've played in triple modes often enough, but now i'm going to do dual and put a second monitor onto my second computer, so they are both dual.

Anyway, it seems that SoftTH will not work with dual monitors, it will not let me only have 2 monitors; either the deviceid is already is use when it tries to add a 3rd monitor because it tries to use one of the two existing ones for the 3rd or there is no deviceid because there is no 3rd monitor.

I've skimmed some posts that say stuff about dualing with monitors, but since this is the tech support there is nothing that mentions how to stop SoftTH from forcing the usage of a 3rd monitor.

Is there a way to use only two monitors with this software, and if so how can I do it?

...SofTH (Software Triplehead) is for use with three monitors, not two.

Plug both monitors into one graphics card and enable spanning.

Actually softth works with 2 monitors, have to set either left or right to something like -1 or disabled for it's ID or something.

And make sure that on 2 monitors you're using, the center is primary in control panel.

Spanning might work, but if you're in vista, the option isn't there Dem Pyros.

Actually softth works with 2 monitors, have to set either left or right to something like -1 or disabled for it's ID or something.

And make sure that on 2 monitors you're using, the center is primary in control panel.

Spanning might work, but if you're in vista, the option isn't there Dem Pyros.

Who ever said he was in Vista? I usually presume the OP to be using a decent operating system.

SofTH does "work" with only two monitors, but that's not at all what it was designed for and so it takes a bit of back-foolery to get it to work, and honestly it should work much faster with a driver-enabled solution rather than one that looks to offload frames to another card before outputting them.

Who's to say it wasn't under vista?

Regardless, help how you want, I help as I see fit.

Who's to say it wasn't under vista?

Regardless, help how you want, I help as I see fit.

Who's to say it wasn't wasn't under Vista?

Alright, well i'm a tech head so obviously vista is my choice of OS for multiple reasons, so yeah.

I'll give it a shot at using -1 or disabled for the monitor that's missing, but under vista you cannot use a 'horizontal span' mode for the desktop, you are limited to; Single (one monitor), Clone (second monitor is clone of the first) and Dual View (configured independently), so while you can expand your desktop onto another monitor like an attachment you can't use both monitors as a single desktop.

Both my computers have individual setups, where one has 3x cards; GPU+GPU+PPU and the other has 2x cards; GPU+PPU. The one i'm using atm is GPU+PPU so only 1 card is being connected to monitors where the other one is being used as a physics processor, so I don't have to worry about

and honestly it should work much faster with a driver-enabled solution rather than one that looks to offload frames to another card before outputting them.