Asrock 775 DUAL-VSTA Dual View Issue

[Jon Shannow]

Hi all

I have recently just upgraded my rig to a shiny new Core 2 Duo E6600 and Asrock 775 DUAL-VSTA board.... and overall I am impressed (previous chip Athon 3000+ Barton).
However, there is an issue that is really bugging me..

I am used to running Dual-View mode (on 2 TFT's) with my 7800GS card (1 DVI and 1 VGA) with great performance. However, since I have moved over to this motherboard Dual-View seems to be a *lot* more sluggish at windows operations. In particular window refreshes, resizing etc.....

Has anyone else encountered this? In single view mode performance seems okay....

Cheers

System Spec in my Sig... (I think)

 

[Jon Shannow]

No takers? Anyone else come across this problem?

Or am I clutching at straws....?

 

[Gary Key]

Originally posted by: Jon Shannow
No takers? Anyone else come across this problem?

Or am I clutching at straws....?

If you can wait a couple of days I might be able to tryout your configuration.

 

[Jon Shannow]

Cheers... I can wait... its not life threatening... just irritating. Seems odd that it was nice and fast on my old system (Asus A7N8X-X & 3000+ Barton) and well, not so fast on my new system....

 

[nzimmers]

I'm a little curious - Is your 7800GS card AGP or PCI-E?

 

[munim]

Is the bios optimized for the card? Meaning the settings reflect the card (agp and what-not). Also, I'm sure you did a re-install of windows and drivers, right?

 

[orbiter]

Jon Shannow,

Your not alone with this problem, I have issues with single view also. I use a 7600GS (agp) with the VSTA mobo and have the same problem regarding the slower windows refreshes and slow-motion video sometimes when using Media Player 10 (small screen.) I've tried a re-install of Windows XP Pro, all drivers are cleanly installed and I'm using BIOS 2.10 all set to correct settings. I also get a low video performance warning at PC Pitstop (however PC Pitstop only tests the 2D graphics performance capability) 3D performance running games and AquaMark3 are fine.

I am ruling out a hardware problem due to the following...
When I go to display properties and fiddle around with stretching and centering the desktop image (or even leave it blank) it seems to clear the slow redraw/refresh of windows screens temporarily.

I am hoping that this problem is related either to a video driver issue, registry adjustment or that maybe even a further VSTA BIOS update is needed beyond 2.20 to cure it.
I know that Nvidia have had problems regarding the drivers for the GS cards when using the likes of media player 10 and they are listed here in the release notes.. http://download.nvidia.com/Windows/93.71/93.71_ForceWare_Release_Notes.pdf

I have asked everywhere for a answer to this problem but have not yet had a succesful result