Dualview on ti4400 with VGA and TV???

[kawboy68]

Is it possible to get nView working with my TV as an entirely separate monitor?

I can get it working as a clone or as a vertical or horizontal extension, but I'd like to be able to pop in a DVD and run it fullscreen on the TV and still be able to do work on my computer. I can use the horizontal span and watch a DVD or VCD in windowed mode, but hitting fullscreen stretches it out over both my TV and Viewsonic (and punches my monitor down to 60 hz for some reason). Selecting dualview disables the TV option as a second monitor.

Anybody have any success doing this? Will a (gasp) Radeon 9500 or 9700 do it?

Kawboy

 

[Lonyo]

Yes you can.
On the "desktop utilities" tab of your card setting (under display properties -> settings -> addictional stuff -> GF4 tab -> desktop utilities, check the box that says "treat multiple outputs on the nview capable board as seperate display devices"
You'll then have to reboot (possibly twice), and under "settings" it should have monitor 1 and 2, 2 being the TV.
This is assuming you have something like the detonator 30.xx or 40.xx drivers, and Windows XP/2K.

This works for me, and I can have TV at 800x600, 16 bit, 60Hz, monitor 1600x1200 @ 32bit, 85Hz

 

[kawboy68]

OK, got your post, thx, but couldn't find the option you mentioned anywhere. I'm using Det 43.45 under XP Pro. Where exactly in the desktop utilities section is it supposed to be? What Det version are you running?

 

[Lonyo]

This is for 30.82's It should be under the same tab on the 43.45's, I'm gonna upgrade to them in a few minutes anyway, and will post a pic if you want/if it's still there.
dualmon2.jpg
For 43.45's (under Win2k)

 

[kawboy68]

 

[kawboy68]

Well, guess what? My Ti4400 desktop utilities tab doesn't have that option in it. I have the "display media center" and "enable desktop manager" options, but where yours has the "enable dualview" stuff, mine just has the "restore defaults" button with no additional writing or checkbox!!!

We've got different videocards (mine's and Visiontek and yours is Creative, right?), but we even have the same TV encoder and I think we both have reference design cards. In fact, Visiontek used to make the reference cards for Nvidia, but I can't remember if they did the G4 stuff or not.

I wonder if it's a Win2000 vs XP thing? Remnants of old drivers hanging around? Differences between vidcard manufacturers? My bad luck?

Thx for taking the time to post those pics, they really illustrate my problem perfectly.

Does anybody else have the same settings as Lonyo?? He posted some great pics of exactly where the checkbox should be.

 

[kawboy68]

Lonyo- got another update- someone on nvnews has your EXACT (Creative Ti4400 anyway) card and he has the same problem I do. The spot where the enable dualview checkbox should be is blank and he just has a "restore defaults" button there. There HAS to be a way to enable it somehow via software. I'll look into it some more after supper and see what I can change. Dloaded Detonator Destroyer, too, so maybe that'll work. There's a proggy out there to remove elements from uninstalled det 30 drivers that stick around and foul up Det 40 drivers. I had it and I thought I ran it, but maybe not...

 

[Rankor]

Display Properties/Settings/Advanced/GF4 Ti 4400/Overlay Controls/Full Screen Device Set to Secondary Display. Be sure to set the Secondary Display (TV) as Clone under nView Display Mode.

 

[kawboy68]

Rankor, everything in my "Full Screen Video Mirroring Controls" box is greyed out so I can't change that.

 

[kawboy68]

Well, I uninstalled 43.45, ran Detonator Destroyer (which removed two files and then crashed- guess it doesn't like XP...), reinstalled 43.86, and still no dice. I skipped 43.45 on the advice of a fellow with a GeforceFX who had nView working properly with his TV before 43.45 and then had it stop after installing them.

Guess I'm doomed to using the cumbersome Windows monitor switching software to watch videos on the TV while working or surfing on my monitor. Grr...

Better than nothing, I guess, unless someone else has had this problem before and solved it??