Widescreen Gaming Forum

[-noun] Web community dedicated to ensuring PC games run properly on your tablet, netbook, personal computer, HDTV and multi-monitor gaming rig.
It is currently 08 Nov 2024, 03:16

All times are UTC [ DST ]




Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 22 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2, 3
Author Message
PostPosted: 14 Mar 2008, 18:09 
Offline
Editors
Editors
User avatar

Joined: 06 Mar 2008, 17:20
Posts: 3424
Best TH2G-DE review I've read. You really know what to expect when you get the product.

As for taskbars and stuff, that's not Gaming anyway. Discussing this has a lot more to do with Windows and apps than the device itself, so it's only legitimate that this review doesn't go into such directions imho.

I was glad to see some criticism too, mostly about PowerDesk. (Other reviews typically simply summarize the features and judge the product based on the few games they try.) PowerDesk is oddly pretty slow to react to a right-clicking, that's a fact. I realize I don't understand half of its features, didn't really experiment yet though. However I think on-the-fly Bezel Management works great, as far as you use it on the desktop and not in game. I'm getting used to loading Windows, surfing the web, then using the hotkey to turn on BM before I launch a game, then using the hotkey again one I'm back on the desktop. If your game allows Alt-Tabbing it's the best way to compare graphics with and without BM.


Top
 Profile  
 


PostPosted: 06 Apr 2008, 17:05 
Offline

Joined: 06 Apr 2008, 16:13
Posts: 76
I posted this bit in another discussion so please forgive me if this counts as spam but the best solution I've found for windows issues is GridMove (link). I even made grids for it here: (link). I like this way better than Matrox's software (which I no longer use).

Also, some games that only do vert- (like Guild Wars) are not too bad in a window. I was running Guild Wars two screens wide but centered. This left space on either side for: the taskbar (on the left edge rather than the bottom), Skype (using the first half of the left screen) and a browser window showing GuildWiki on the right screen (which only partially covered my game screen when the browser was in the foreground). (See the above link to my Grid file)


Top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 22 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2, 3

All times are UTC [ DST ]


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 10 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  




Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group