2 Weird 8500 Things

adamkmiec

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Nov 3, 2001
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MY only real issue with it is the same issue I have had with every dual head card except my old Matrox G400: the hardware accelration on the 2nd monitor just sucks. With the G400 I was able to watch DVDs on the 2nd monitor, Quicktime on the 2nd monitor, and where applicable play games across both monitors. The MX400 was just horrible for watching DVDs on the 2nd monitor, you could hear sound but could see no picture and quicktime movies just acted more like slideshows. I have the same issues with the Radeon 8500. Any thoughts on this?

one last weird thing, under adapter information for 2nd monitor, the information is unavailable for"

Chip Type
DAC Type
Memory Size
Adapter String
Bios Information

although it disaplys all the correct information for monitor 1, listing:

Radeon 8500 AGP (QL)
Internal DAC
64mb
Radeon 8500/Radeon 8500 LE
long number didnt want to take the time

Any ideas on that?
 

Theslowone

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Jul 30, 2000
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I have the same problem with my 8500, I hope that future drivers will fix this problem.