I recently bought two Acer 19" 700:1; 1440x900; 5ms; DVI monitors and i was wanting to know some dual monitor tips and tricks, and of you can stretch a video or Game across both monitors?
Yeah man. When you hook it up, it will give you some options. One will say: Use as one monitor or something along those lines. My suggestion: keep all gadgets and widgets on one monitor and work on the other.
You can create a single stretched view as long as your GPU supports it. You would need to go into your GPU settings and find the multiple monitor displays wizard and select horizontal span to stretch it across both displays.
A second look shows a 8600gt as your GPU so it should support that. Check out the Nvidia control panel and give it a try. I just run extended mode and put my gadgets on the 2nd display.
They give you a prompt to run it in extended mode. If he wants to stretch one image across both screens he would have to set it up in the Nvidia control panel.