Overview
What is CSMMT?
ComroeStudios Multi-Monitor Tool is a universal end-all solution for a very common problem that plagues a Multi-Monitor computer users' experience in games and applications designed for single monitor computers. Using CSMMT you can run almost any single monitor program on a Multi-Monitor computer without any hassle.
CSMMT finally provides a salvation for Multi-Monitor computer users. Gamers (especially Real-Time-Strategy gamers) and business users alike can finally use their favorite games and software on their Multi-Monitor PC with ease!
Why do I need CSMMT?
Many Games, Graphics Applications, and 3D Viewers operate in full-screen mode and use edge-scrolling (where moving the mouse cursor to the absolute edge of the computer screen moves your view in either the image you're viewing or the 3D world you're in). Since the vast majority of computer users today still use computers with a single display, software has been and continues to be primarily written with single display computers in mind. Whenever you're using a Multi-Monitor computer the edge of your desktop spans across multiple physical displays, yet despite this many applications only use one of your many displays. In essence, you have a computer with multiple screens and an application running full screen on only one of them (your primary display). The problem with this comes whenever that full screen application requires scrolling on the screen edges..
The following is an example of the most common Multi-Monitor layout with 3 screens. The center display, "Monitor 1", has an application running in full screen on it. Monitors 2 and 3 extend the desktop space to the left and right so that applications can be stretched across in a panoramic style representation to the viewer.
Taking the example from above, what exactly happens whenever you attempt to scroll your view in the single display application? Well, up and down will work fine since there's no monitors configured to extend the display in those directions. However, can you scroll the screen in that application to the left or right? The answer is no... Most likely your cursor is going to go right off of the application's screen and over into your desktop space on the next. To make things worse, if you click in the desktop on the left or right of Monitor 1, you will cause the full screen program to loose focus, thus minimizing it! This can be worse than just a nuisance. Restoring a 3D program that's minimized often causes display corruption or crashes altogether (due to driver problems or improper software implementation). You might lose/die in that game you're playing … or you might even lose hard work in your CAD or Visualization software. Obviously this can be quite unacceptable and more than just annoying.
So, what solutions existed before CSMMT?
-You could wait:
Some applications get patched eventually to support Multi-Monitor scrolling, yet many don't. You may be waiting weeks, months, or even years before your specific application finally gets support for Multi-Monitor. Heck, it may never get supported! Multi-Monitor users are seen as a minority, and thus supporting Multi-Monitor computers has been and still is an extremely low priority. If it's an old program that's no longer developed you're completely out of luck with the waiting solution.
-You could stop using whatever applications don't work properly:
Not really solution, yet many people are forced into this due to the sheer inconvenience of changing Monitor orientation or settings non stop.. Multi-Monitor computers should not be second-class systems that cannot run everything!
-You could remove your monitors every time that you use an application that doesn't work:
This may let you use the application, yet it's an extreme inconvenience. Removing your other monitors from your active display configuration will cause shortcut placements on those displays to be lost (all icons tend to get tossed on your main display and need to be moved back later). Removing your other monitors also of course renders them unusable. Unfortunately you may want to focus on your main display for whatever application you're running ... you might also want to watch television on the second or third display at the same time or watch streaming video, or perhaps you're managing a network or other system and want to have active data displayed on those screens while you work. Clearly this isn't a real solution.
-You could change your display orientation so that the mouse cannot easily move from one screen to another:
Many people have changed their monitor orientation to play their favorite games and software on their Multi-Monitor computers since there was no better solution out there. Changing monitor orientation they do not have to remove their other monitors from their display configuration, and thus don't loose their shortcut positions or anything like that. However, in using an orientation like the above you loose a very important aspect of Multi-Monitor [the ability to stretch and move your applications from monitor to monitor]. Using a diagonal orientation you're pretty limited applications existing on a single display. Also, your physical arrangement of monitors likely will not be diagonal, which makes it awkward to work with.
-And now you can just use CSMMT:
With CSMMT you don't have to sacrifice anything...
*Maintain all the benefits of using a Multi-Monitor computer without giving up the ability to run single monitor software.
*Work with any Multi-Monitor orientation you choose (such as the classic horizontal panoramic) while still playing your favorite games and using your favorite applications without problems.
*Smoothly play your old games (such as ancient Real-Time-Strategy games) that will never natively support Multi-Monitor officially.
*Seamlessly switch between single and Multi-Monitor mouse modes instantly with hotkeys.
*Be ready for future software. With CSMMT you can run future software without input problems, even if the software doesn't support Multi-Monitor.
*And best of all, using CSMMT is the easiest and most convenient Multi-Monitor solution there is!