TV-out on Geforce 2 Ti

[kilmanjaro]

Just purchased the card to replace my ATI card with tv out. My question is if there is any way possible to have both the tv out and the monitor enabled at the same time? My ATI did this automatically. Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm about at my wit's end trying to mess with my computer right about now and would appreciate any help you guys could give me. All I'd like to to is have my TV be an exact copy of my monitor. I can have one or the other enable, but I'm not seeing how to do both at the same time. I would really appreciate any info you guys can offer. Thanks.

 

[Rankor]

The only (GeForce 2) cards I believe to have Twinview (nView) multiple display support are the GeForce 2 MX line of video cards, either the original MX, MX 200, or MX 400.

The entire GeForce 4 line (MX/Ti) are also capable of multi-display support.

 

[AnAndAustin]

Yup, generally with GF2 and GF3 cards the TVout is a very botched half-implimented solution. Since most of these cards only sport 1 RAMDAC you have a LOT of limitations. Other gripes include general poor image quality, black borders around TV image and sub-standard TVout implimentation which often needs the manu driver rather than the usually much more recent nVidia driver. GF2TI is still a very decent 3D card and not far off GF4MX440 speed.

With prices of the better all-round GF4MX cards and certainly the MUCH better Radeon9000 cards being pretty low, they're certainly worth considering as upgrades.

 

[kilmanjaro]

The problem is that my ATI card is somehow incompatible with my 19" monitor (NEC FE991SB). It works awesome at any resolution with 1 display and at 640x480 w/ tv out. However I need 800x600 and at that resolution I get a bad picture on the monitor (tv looks great). The monitor has a greenish tint to it, it's in general way too dark, and a dark stripe on the left side. Here's a really bad pic of what it looks like. Those horizontal dark lines aren't an illusion, they're actually there.

So, if anyone's got any info on this problem, I'd appreciate it as well, then I'd just return the Geforce card.

 

[AnAndAustin]

Certainly pretty strange. You can try playing around with the monitor settings (on the monitor and in Windows) and esp altering the refresh rate settings. It may be that the monitor has to revert to the same refresh rate as the TV when it's enabled and at 800x600 it is this which causes problems for the monitor. I'm afraid that's all I can think of at the mo.

GF2TI is a very cost effective 3D solution esp an economical purchase with TVout, just so long as you don't need simultaneous TV and monitor displays. If you want a card with decent 3D but improved image quality, TVout and dual display the GF4MX420 (GF2GTS DX7 speed), GF4MX440 (GF2Ultra DX7 speed) and Rad9000/9000pro (pro near GF3 speeds and both are FULL DX8) are certainly worth considering and they cost from about $60-80.

 

[kilmanjaro]

Certainly not my day...I exchanged the Ti for a MX420. I was pleseantly suprised when inside the box was an mx440 (promo PNY is doing). Unfortunately, I get no video when I plug the card in. Apparently the card isn't compatible w/ my MSI board (yeah yeah, it was free). So I'll likely exchange it for a 9000 pro, I'm just hoping I don't have this same monitor problem with the 9000.

Anyone else have the same problem with their ATI VIVO cards?