Dual monitor strangeness

[krizrox]

I've been through at least 4 video cards in the past few months trying to solve a variety of problems but this one has me stumped.

I have two monitors. One is an Acer 1916 (19 inch) LCD display and the other is an Acer 1917W LCD display with is about an inch wider than the 1916 display. I have Scope on the wider display and it works fine for displaying the entire 4896 mixer except that occasionally a part of the mixer will get cut off. It seems like everything about an inch and a half from the edge of the monitor sometimes disappears. I can make the missing section reappear by moving and clicking around but I was wondering if there was something I might be doing wrong. I have the display resolution set to 1440 x 900 (which is the maximum width this monitor will display).

I have had two NVidia cards and they both do the same thing. I had a Radeon card and it did not do this but it had other problems (both displays would flicker momentarily every so often). If it ain't one thing it's another.

Anyone have any idea what might be causing this? I've tried just about every setting in the software drivers and nothing seems to help. Thanks.

[minipax]

I've been through at least 4 video cards in the past few months trying to solve a variety of problems but this one has me stumped.

I have two monitors. One is an Acer 1916 (19 inch) LCD display and the other is an Acer 1917W LCD display with is about an inch wider than the 1916 display. I have Scope on the wider display and it works fine for displaying the entire 4896 mixer except that occasionally a part of the mixer will get cut off. It seems like everything about an inch and a half from the edge of the monitor sometimes disappears. I can make the missing section reappear by moving and clicking around but I was wondering if there was something I might be doing wrong. I have the display resolution set to 1440 x 900 (which is the maximum width this monitor will display).

I have had two NVidia cards and they both do the same thing. I had a Radeon card and it did not do this but it had other problems (both displays would flicker momentarily every so often). If it ain't one thing it's another.

Anyone have any idea what might be causing this? I've tried just about every setting in the software drivers and nothing seems to help. Thanks.

i get something like this aswell, part of the mixer disappears and say i'm changing a gain pot, the gain will change, but the screen won't update. if i move the mixer to my 17" dell LCD it updates fine.
i'm using a fairly old 21" CRT to display scope and i thought the prob was with its refresh rates or something.
I'm using a Geforce 8800 GTS 640MB videocard which has dual outs, so i'm pretty sure that can drive 2 displays no bother.... problem lies with XP or maybe scope?

[garyb]

both scope and xp handle dual screens quite well, usually. don't know what the problem is here, could be any/all including the monitor....

[manfriday]

IM pretty sure the issue is the monitor that is set up as the "primary" monitor.

If you set the "primary" monitor to the monitor you keep the scope stuff open on, I am about 95% sure that those graphic issues will dissapear.

[krizrox]

IM pretty sure the issue is the monitor that is set up as the "primary" monitor.

If you set the "primary" monitor to the monitor you keep the scope stuff open on, I am about 95% sure that those graphic issues will dissapear.

Actually, this is probably true. I've been playing around with this a lot more and the problem does seem to go away if I switch my wider monitor to primary. However, I didn't have this problem with the Radeon card which is odd. I would consider going back to Radeon but the last one I had had an intermittent flashing problem. Every so often both monitors would flash (not at the same time). It was annoying enough to pull the card. The nVidia card is not doing that so I assume it's the card or the drivers. It's amazing. Doesn't matter what I buy. I have the ability to find a problem within seconds of installing anything. Software. Hardware. Doesn't matter.

Even when I'm not worrying about the cut off graphics, I still get annoyed every time a pop menu or window opens in the wrong monitor. I don't get it. Dual monitors aren't new. They been around a while. I guess the answer is to put all my Scope stuff on the primary monitor and my sequencer on the other monitor which I'm sure is just going to create another set of problems

Thanks guys!

[hubird]

I recognize that Krisrox, at least It says what I fear, as I hate to solve those problems.
On OS9 there were a few problems, mainly with VST effects, nothing serious tho.
Now that I'm on OSX, my digitally connected TFT behaves weird.
If graphics are active, like fader leds in Cubase, I get very high clicks in the sound.
It get's terrible if I move the whole arrangement around.
If I move it completely to the other, analog, monitor, I can move it around all night.
Ati Radeon here...

[garyb]

i use scope in the secondary monitor with nvidia. it's ok.....

[manfriday]

I think it depends on the graphics card and how much juice it gives to the secondary monitor...

My Nvidia graphcis card was ok too until I stuck a matrox dualhead2go on one of the outputs and pushed it too hard..
I got the same issue with graphics tearing..
So I made that one the "primary" monitor and it was groovy again.