Two Displays

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-11-28 07:06pm

I've connected my new TV to my PC, so I can lie in bed and output my video/games/whatever to that, rather than sitting at my desk. The problem is that nView insists on making the desktop on my TV pan, rather than simply making it fit the screen. Anyway I can disable panning completely and have the TV show the full desktop at once? (disabling auto-pan in nView doesn't do it, it simply locks the screen to that one part).

andrewgpaul · Post by **andrewgpaul** » 2004-11-28 08:28pm

Wild stab in the dark, but you might need to drop the resolution down?

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-11-28 08:34pm

andrewgpaul wrote:Wild stab in the dark, but you might need to drop the resolution down?

I tried that, didn't help. Its also not an ideal solution, as I don't really like resolutions lower than this.

Post by **Dalton** » 2004-11-29 01:53am

I think it depends on the max resolution of the television itself.

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-11-29 06:49am

Dalton wrote:I think it depends on the max resolution of the television itself.

Don't see why, as I can get it if I set the TV as the primary display.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-11-29 03:39pm

Run the nView wizard and use the option to "Clone" your display. Then set the appropriate resolution and you're done.

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-11-29 03:48pm

Vertigo1 wrote:Run the nView wizard and use the option to "Clone" your display. Then set the appropriate resolution and you're done.

Thats what I did. The problem is that it insists on making the TV (display 2) pan, rather than fitting it to the screen.

If I set the TV as the primary display, then there's no problem, I get my high res desktop resized to fit the TV, which is what I want. I then have the problem that it insists on forcing my monitors res down to an annoying 1024x768, so that doesn't work as a fix.

I know its possible to get the TV to show what I want, with no panning as I have in the past (using it on its own), and by setting it as primary just now. What nview won't let me do is have it as secondary and fit it to the screen.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-11-29 04:44pm

What driver version are you running?

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-11-29 04:47pm

Vertigo1 wrote:What driver version are you running?

Latest, whichever that is.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-11-29 05:03pm

Sharp-kun wrote:
Vertigo1 wrote:What driver version are you running?
Latest, whichever that is.

Reason why I asked is because I'm running the 61.77 dets and nview works perfectly fine on my end.

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-11-29 05:15pm

Vertigo1 wrote:
Sharp-kun wrote:
Vertigo1 wrote:What driver version are you running?
Latest, whichever that is.
Reason why I asked is because I'm running the 61.77 dets and nview works perfectly fine on my end.

Its quite possible it is working fine here, and its just not possible to have a high res output to a TV set as secondary :\

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-11-29 05:32pm

Bump it down to 800x600 and see if that works. If not, then shoot for 720x480 (DVD movies play at this resolution), or 640x480.