Changing Win7 taskbar position messes up screen?

[Mobhack]

Dual monitor, I have never tried but others apparently have had it working (XP and 7 both). There may be problems if the 2 monitors are not equal in resolution, or the game is not run on the primary monitor perhaps. You will have to experiment.

Taskbar at the bottom of the screen in the default position is the preferred option. In Windows seven, I use the "Classic XP" theme - but it works with the default large buttons as well as far as I recall. (The default theme did not last long on my W7 laptop - too kindergarten for me )!

XP allowed the taskbar at the top on some monitors (or perhaps video cards?), but it may have been back in the 4:3 aspect ratio days that I tried that last. It was certainly well before we developed "desktop" resolution for larger and especially wide-screen monitors, i.e. before windows seven.

basically - you may have to play about with the set-up. But start with task bar at the default position at the bottom, At its default height (one level of buttons), at native screen resolution, no auto-hide and just the one monitor.

cheers
Andy

[Gurachn]

Originally Posted by Mobhack

...basically - you may have to play about with the set-up. But start with task bar at the default position at the bottom, At its default height (one level of buttons), at native screen resolution, no auto-hide and just the one monitor.

cheers
Andy

Thanks Don/Andy,
Interesting problem.
Using your recommended settings I continue to get the diagonal tearing on desktop res (1680x1040) on the external monitor, as so:

I can run it on the laptop with no external at desktop res (1366x768) just fine. I can even plug in the external mid-game and it runs fine on the External (which is the default display if available) though still at 1366x768.
Exit and restart the game with the default setup though, and I get the diagonal mess again.

Odd, because when I originally set it up on the new laptop it worked flawlessly with the dual setup from the start, and until I decided to move the task bar to the top position.


Its not a major problem and I can live without the desktop res (though it is particularly sweet!), but I thought you guys would want to know.