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All right so i have two acer p221w lcds hooked up to my 8800gt. What i want to do is configure the card so vista sees the two displays as one. By that i mean that instead of having two separate displays the picture will be stretched across the two monitors at a resolution that is both of them combined (sorry if thats confusing). I remember being able to do this with two crts and xp, i could run my desktop and games across the two (aka i could play cod4 at 2560X1024 and have one montior take half and the other take the other half. I dont see and option that will let me do this in the nvidia control panel anymore :??: . Does anybody know how i can get this to work? I would like to be able to use both of my monitors for games. Im running 178.13.

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I think what this is called is a multimonitor span. Im downloading 178.24 right now, so ill see if that fixes it.

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178.24 is for xp :(, now im getting 181.20. (sigh)

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You shouldn't have a problem, i also used that config under xp. I can't remember if i did under vista though.

Once you finish installing the latest drivers, go to the nvidia control panel. You should be able to find what you need under "setup multiple displays."

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Grrr.... just installed 181.20 and i didnt get a span option, im still stuck with dual-view, clone, and single. This took me under 15 seconds to set up with xp, why cant i do it in stupid vista (oh and ps this works fine for me in linux ;) )

 

Here is another tread of people with the same problem
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=21267

 

Are there any custom drivers that give you a horizontal span option?


Message edited by EAZY-E on 01-18-2009 at 01:11:57 AM
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Well now im starting to get pissed off. Apparently nvidia DROPPED support for horizontal spanning in vista because of "incompatibles with dwm". REALLY? :fou: . Apparently ati and matrox cards have no problem with spanning in vista. This is complete bull, my 240$ monitor is now useless for gaming, all because of nvidia being too lazy to fix their friggin drivers :fou: :fou: :fou: :fou: :fou: :fou: :fou: :fou: :fou: :fou: :fou: :fou: :fou: :fou:

Im not happy.......................


Message edited by EAZY-E on 01-18-2009 at 01:54:29 AM
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That's totally lame. The only thing i can think of is either revert to xp, or check this little thing out.

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/

Horizontal span will just have to be another thing MS fixes in sp2


Message edited by Lucuis on 01-18-2009 at 03:07:00 AM
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You can return the card and get a Radeon. Or you can sell the 8800GT and get a Radeon if you really want that in vista. But that costs a lot so the best option would be install xp and play the game under xp.

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