Horizontal span?

[Team Squishee]

I am now running dual monitors but cannot set up horizontal span.

I suspect this is because my monitors are either 1) diffent sizes (17" and 21" ) and/or different resonlutions (1024 x 768 ) & (1280 x 720)

am i correct or is there something i am missing?

[Khazrael]

I'm fairly certain that can cause issues for you. What I do know for a fact is, at least with my 7600 GT's, having multiple graphics cards would not give me the option. I had to ditch one of my graphics cards and move down to one before it would give me the option to use horizontal span.

[Tamu]

I once tried horizontal span across a 17" & 22", but the 22" was forced to the same res as the 17" and performance was terrible. I ended up removing the 17" and just used the 22". When I tried this I was running the 7600GT card.

[Team Squishee]

I am using a single 9800GTX card - the large screen on a DVI-HDMI adaptor and the smaller screen on a DVI-VGA adpator if that info helps at all.

[Ozbert]

Horizontal span effectively widens a single desktop across two monitors, so the vertical resolution of the screens has to be the same.

The alternative is dual-view, which effectively gives you two separate desktops which can be different sizes, but Direct3D performance will be crippled using this mode with Windows XP. Vista handles it better.

[Starlord]

nonsens
Horizontal and Vertical span modes are no longer available under Windows Vista.

Due to architectural changes in the new Windows Vista Window Display Driver Model (WDDM), span mode cannot be supported in NVIDIA graphics drivers. NVIDIA recommends using the built-in Windows Vista multi-display modes.


what u get is wow only running on one singel Monitor thats all u get under Vista...
second monitor just displays desktop and on top of that u cant do anything on it.. only happly view it..
Really I`m not anti Microsoft geek but after buying 2 22 inches monitor, new
HDD and Vista Ultimate 64bit and NVidia 280 card and after desperate search I found out
that horizontal span gone!!! You are joking. All cost me a lot of money and I
did it because of MSFS X and Dirext X X shit . All product legal and paid. What
disappointment, Microsoft!

[Wilbur]

Stop thread necroing shit from *FUCKING AGES AGO* and using the same reply.

[zanthor]

nonsens
Horizontal and Vertical span modes are no longer available under Windows Vista.

Due to architectural changes in the new Windows Vista Window Display Driver Model (WDDM), span mode cannot be supported in NVIDIA graphics drivers. NVIDIA recommends using the built-in Windows Vista multi-display modes.


what u get is wow only running on one singel Monitor thats all u get under Vista...
second monitor just displays desktop and on top of that u cant do anything on it.. only happly view it..
Really I`m not anti Microsoft geek but after buying 2 22 inches monitor, new
HDD and Vista Ultimate 64bit and NVidia 280 card and after desperate search I found out
that horizontal span gone!!! You are joking. All cost me a lot of money and I
did it because of MSFS X and Dirext X X shit . All product legal and paid. What
disappointment, Microsoft!

For those who happen to search and find this, I'd like to add some accurate information rather than the BS above.

Span modes are no longer available in Vista, this is because they are no longer needed. In my experience using cards ranging from the 7600GT to the 8800GT your performance will be identical on either monitor. Both support Direct3d applications with hardware accelleration unlike the XP issue where the 2nd monitor doesn't work well for games.

[triplef]

ahahahah iand i just got vista out the door.. bad osund driver support and bad crap all together..

[Starlord]

works only on Desktop...
xp worked fine in Games..
Vista sux displaying 1 Game on 2 monitors.. cuz it cant display it...
stupid dual mode works only on desktop..