Configuring Nview?

[stinkypete]

ok i know questions regarding nView have been asked already but none of the threads (at least the ones i found) had the answers i was looking for. just a couple days ago i upgraded to a PNY Geforce4 4600. one of the things i wanted to give a spin was using dual displays. i've been tinkering with nView for a few hours and i have yet to figure out if this thing can do what i want which is to play a game on my main monitor (19" viewsonic) and surf the web or run other small appz (e-mail,aim,winamp) in my other monitor (15" flat screen) at the same time.

so far the only thing i have done after messing around with different settings is that i can run, say Q3 on my primary display and then my other monitor will turn off while i'm in the game. another thing is, i want to keep my main desktop resolution at 1280 x 1024 and keep my 15" at 1024 x 768 (as high it will go). nView doesn't seem to want to do this (can it even do this?). in horizontal mode nView sets it to some weird resolution which screws up my wallpaper and makes my desktops smaller even at max setting and only a small bit of my wallpaper will show up. so far the "clone" setting isn't what i'm looking for..the horizontal seems to be my best bet if i can just get it to work how i want i'll be a happy
so...any suggestions? thanks in advance.

 

[chickendinner]

with my radeon you just drag the window to the left or right( whatever monitor2 is on) and it is displayed on it.

 

[Marmelaki]

Hi there.
I'm using a GeForce4 MX 440 and I'm using nView to watch DVDs on my tv.
I've managed to have my tv at a set resolution independent of the one on my monitor (background's screwed up, but I don't care).
I can watch DVDs on my tv while surfing on the net on my monitor.
I think it has to do with which output (monitor ot tv) you set as default. I set the tv as default.
See what happens if you do that.

Cheers.

 

[osmononame]

Hi Marmelaki. How did you manage this? i got my card yesterday and have been trying to do that ever since. Do you have 2 different desktops on the 2 screens or do the 2 screens just make up a larger desktop?

 

[Marmelaki]

Hi osmononame,

It's actually one desktop (since I can drag windows from one to another) although the taskbar only shows up on the monitor and does not expand on the tv screen.
I think there's a checkbox in the nView settings (or the nView Wizzard I'm not sure) where you treat the two monitors as separate devices.

I spent the whole day trying different settings to finaly get the damn thing to work.
I think nVidia should have done a better job helping users setup the nView function.

 

[osmononame]

I still can't find that option. The furthest I am so far is doing the horizontal set up and I can open up windows in either monitor 1 or monitor 2. however when i say try to make windows media player fullscreen the entire image splits across the monitors. ie doesnt maximise on only one screen.