nView problems

[Muse]

I've never used multiple monitors but am trying to set it up. I have been using an NEC FP2141 22" CRT and just got a Planar PX191 19" LCD. I have a BFG ti4200 128 MB video card with DVI and VGA connections and am running nVidia 4.0.7.2 WHQL certified driver. After attaching both monitors, I booted the system and the nView configuration utility started running automatically. I accepted most of the defaults, but enabled transparent windows when dragging and Windows Explorer extensions support and maybe a thing or two besides.

I shortly rebooted for some reason and got a little dialog saying:

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RUNDLL
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Error loading nView.dll. A dynamic link library initialization routine failed.

OK

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Rebooting, surprisingly, I didn't get that. Instead I got this dialog:



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nView Transparent Drag Perfornance
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nView has detected that dragging transparent windows larger than 390 by 390 pixels may be sluggish on your system. Do you wish to disable transparency while dragging windows larger than this?

Yes No

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I don't know what to make of this and haven't yet answered. The machine is Baby Rigzilla in my sig. Thanks for any help.

 

[jiffylube1024]

I'm pretty sure you can enable 390X390 transparent window dragging without any serious performance problems. However, I found running dual monitors on my GF4 made Windows performance a bit slower in general, so you might want to disable transparent window dragging altogether if you don't need it.

You also may have an easier time with newer drivers like at least the 44.03 (WHQL) or a more recent WHQL certified one.

It seems you only had one error with nView; the second pop-up was just a built-in warning about performance. Just to be safe, you might want to update to a newer (WHQL) driver, such as the 44.03 or a 45.xx one.

 

[Muse]

Nview is giving me fits so far, so much so that I find myself reformatting my OS partitions!!! For instance, I'm running Windows 98SE and Windows 2000 SP4 multiboot. Right now I'm in the Win98 and see Windows only on my CRT, not on the LCD. If I had to use just one it would be the LCD for sure but I can't find a way to change this. I've poked all over. What happened a few seconds ago is just goofy. I'm comuting here and suddenly my mouse cursor jumps over to the other display. This happened 1/2 hour ago and the only thing I could do to fix things was Ghost back a previous image of Win98 from a few days ago. This is nuts! But right not, the mouse jumped to the LCD display for maybe one second and then jumped back to the CRT. If I can't find a way to get Win98 to show on my LCD I'm going to reformat the Win98 partition and install from scratch, and you better believe I will Ghost just before messing with nView at ALL... If anyone can help I'd appreciate it.

 

[Muse]

I finally figured out a big part of the problem. The left display was on the right and vice versa. I had to drag to the right edge of the right display to get an object on the left display! Well, what I want to do now is make the left display the primary display instead of the right display. How do I do that?

 

[Rankor]

There should be a setting under Display Properties/Settings Tab when you have the left monitor selected to "Use this device as the primary monitor".

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Rankor
There should be a setting under Display Properties/Settings Tab when you have the left monitor selected to "Use this device as the primary monitor".

I didn't have anything like that, trust me. Right now, I don't have nView configured, but I'm going to Ghost before I do. I think (hope) I can configure it this time. I figure there must be a way to switch between your two displays which one you want as primary. Another confusing thing: There's different things that come up as possibilities. Something called Dual View (or something like that), and then there's nVidia display driver (or something like that), and I've seen differing options available. I was able to get things working OK with the Dual View option.

I'm dual booting and on my Windows 98 the right monitor (CRT) is primary. Left one is the LCD and I see no way to make it primary instead. This sucks. I just installed version 45.23 driver for Win98, no difference. WTF?

 

[Supa]

I just got my 1901FP today, set it up and play a little with Nview. I have the same config as you where left one is the Primary.

Display Property > settings > click on your secondary monitor and you'll see option (no longer gray) to make it your primary.

Then to swtich left to right or left to right, just drag one of the monitors then move it over to the other side (the graphic will change), it's that simple.

If you still can't do it, then it may be Win98 as this is done on WinXP.


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[Muse]

Originally posted by: Supa
I just got my 1901FP today, set it up and play a little with Nview. I have the same config as you where left one is the Primary.

Display Property > settings > click on your secondary monitor and you'll see option (no longer gray) to make it your primary.

Then to swtich left to right or left to right, just drag one of the monitors then move it over to the other side (the graphic will change), it's that simple.

If you still can't do it, then it may be Win98 as this is done on WinXP.


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I am running Win2000 and W98. Nview appears to work far differently in W98.