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Two monitors & video?

Dr_Spectre

By Dr_Spectre,
Posted on: 2009-07-14 06:21 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

Posted

Has anyone had any luck playing a movie at the same time as CoH on a second monitor?

It works fine, except when I click on something in CoH (bringing it to the front, so to speak) the video on the other monitor stops. I suspect it's because the video player 'thinks' that because another application is now active (even though on a separate screen) that it should shut up.

So far I've tried winamp, windows media classic, vlc, and itunes and they all do it. I think it might work if I played CoH in windowed mode, but I hate the title bar.

Thanks for any suggestions.

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Posted

You are correct. When in full screen mode, other applications get idled when a new full screen app is foreground, even if on a separate monitor.

You can force process to not idle in this condition by not allowing them to degrade priority (all normal or below-normal) under any condition. This isn't advisable because it can cause processor timing issues, but is possible.

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