Re: OT: Multiple monitors on one card

Date : Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:03:39 +0200
To : XSI(at)Softimage.COM
From : Tauno Ööbik <tauno(at)joonisfilm.ee>
Subject : Re: OT: Multiple monitors on one card
With dual head card everything works very well but I think that the performance hit is just way too big for animation work. I have seen animators really love the extra workspace but all the xsi refreshing issues wil get exaggerated which makes them pretty fast to forget dual display setup :)
Everything except animation work of course is very welcome when we talk about dual displays...

-T

Thiago Costa wrote:
I just use one card 2 monitors.
You can change the settings on the nVidia drivere to accelerate just one monitor or both. (It's "hardware acceleration" in the advanced settings of the driver)
So If you put to just single monitor, you'll have better performance for sure (I have a quadro 4500)... but your other display will not show OGL at all so if you put an OGL view in the monitor that is not being accelerated, it will not draw that view at all. This means image clip viewer, animation editor, dope sheet... everybody just working in one monitor.

On 20/03/2008, Byron Nash <byronnash(at)gmail.com> wrote:
Will using two monitors on my QuadroFX 4600 slow it down much? I've used both single and dual head setups over the years but have always wondered that. Does anyone use one card per monitor?

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Byron Nash


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