Dual monitors

I am running dual 20" monitors off the nVidia Quatro4 980 XGL video card. Dual monitors are great if you are working with assemblies. nVidea includes a nice program that can control how programs are displayed on the two display's. A program can be displayed on one monitor or spanned accross both. It's also nice to have an Excel sheet (design tables) open on one display and a SW part on the other. I would feel like I'm working in a dog house if I had to back to one display.

Don

i program while waiting for solidworks rebuilds

yes, after have dual's for 4 month, I can not go back

Never mind, I think I understand your post better now. I had never used "Spanvue" so it took a minute to sink in what you were saying. Thanks.

'Sporky'

Sporkman wrote:

just to contradict myself ! - if you look on the NVIDIA open gl settings tab you will find 'multidisplay hardware acceleration' options-this is greyed out on mine since I use span mode, so I never noticed it before- according to the PDF users guide this option is available except for NT cheers

Ummm . . . so you're running NT? Otherwise the option should be available?

'Spork'

neil wrote:

no I run XP with graphics in span mode so that option is greyed out automatically-my monitors are identical 19". The multi display accel options are accessible for dual view only but according to the blurb not for NT -that is if you have 2000 or XP you should have this option available and if you have different monitor sizes,resolutions you can still have open gl acc in performance/compatibility modes I suggest you visit the nvidia site and download the PDF Detonator users guide to get a handle on things and also see- for this bit specifically - additional features and enhancements/open gl settings/other opengl options/multi display hardware options. hope this helps if it doesn't get back to me and explain what you are trying to do and ill see if I can help you in the right direction cheers

Thanks. Well, I'm not trying to do anything yet, except trying to figure out what I might be ABLE to do once I get a new system, which I plan to do fairly soon.

'Spork'

neil wrote: