March 26, 200719 yr My System: Xeon-3060 Processor (Similar to E6600), 2GB Memory, GeForce 8800GTS, ATI Raedon XE300, 19" Widescreen monitor, 19" Monitor, 17" MonitorMy 19" Widescreen is new, so I'd like to use that as my main screen and have the 17" and 19" off to either side. I wanted to run the main and one side off of my 8800GTS, and the other off of the ATI card.Will this work?I'm running Windows Vista (Had I known it would be an issue I would have bought XP!) and FSX.I ran into issues earlier with 2 monitors off of my 8800, but I think that was due to an earlier driver.Do / can you run in full screen mode, or do you need to do this in windowed?TIA! Building a full scale 737-800 Simulator running P3D v5.x 210 degree wrap around screen Jason Lohrenz (@lohrenz737) • Instagram photos and videos Lohrenz 737 Simulator Project (lohrenzsimulator.com)
March 26, 200719 yr Yes it can be done.If you're using more than one card you will have to run in Windowed mode. You can only span monitors in XP and then only across one card (unless there's a new nVidia driver out that will now do this). Even if nVidia do span across more than one card I seriously doubt that you'd be able to do it across a mixture of nVidia and ATI.Also as your 3 monitors are all different sizes I doubt that they all have the same native resolution..certainly the widescreen will have a different resolution to the 4x3 screens. So windowed mode is the only sensible solution.It will be possible to create a VC view, undock it and drag and stretch that across all 3 monitors...but I can't predict how it will look. It should be half-decent if you set all 3 monitors to have the same vertical resolution (with a different horizontal on the widescreen) What are the native resolutions of your 3 monitors? I'm guessing 19W = 1440x900 19" = 1280x1024 17" = 1280x1024Which means that you'd probably have to run your two 4x3 in sub-optimal resolution.Personally I think you're asking an awful lot to try to run both nVidia and ATI drivers on Vista when nVidia still haven't got their drivers right yethttp://www.nvidia.com/object/vista_driver_news_022207.htmlMy advice..get another Hard Drive get XP and create a dual-boot PC!Jim
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