DUAL MONITOR....whats the difference?

[tkim]

ok..is there a diff if you use 2 vid cards or one vid card to do dual monitors?

i have a 4200 and i am running 2 monitors with a 3200x1200 resolution. but when i maximize a window, it spans both screens.

however, at work, the servers have dual cards and dual monitors are used. i can do the same things like i do at home. the curson moves back and forth from 1 monitor to the other. however, when i maximize, it stays within one monitor.

is there a way for me to do this with my home setup?

Thanks.

 

[BurnItDwn]

in your display properties

under Desktop Utilities ... you should have an option for
"Enable Dualview" (treat multiple outputs on an NVIDIA GPU-based card as seperate display devices.)

Check it off
Reboot

problem resolved

 

[tkim]

burnitdwn... u are the MAN!!!!!!!!!

thanks a million.... i wish i found out sooner...now i have to rearrange my desk back the way it was. 🙁

 

[BurnItDwn]

Your welcome 🙂

I remember back in the early days of Win2k ... I dont thing that option was available .. so i used to use an old 8mb PCI card .... but nowadays ... the Drivers on vidcards kick butt

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Your welcome 🙂

I remember back in the early days of Win2k ... I dont thing that option was available .. so i used to use an old 8mb PCI card .... but nowadays ... the Drivers on vidcards kick butt

Some older ATI cards still have that problem with Win2k (but not XP, fortunately). Actually, I think the problem was more of Win2k's fault, and it was up to the video card manufacturers to come up with a workaround - something that Matrox and nvidia did, but ATI didn't.