Dual Monitor and performance issues

[Héctor Corcín]

Hi. Recently I put a second monitor to my system Great. But this is my problem: I have one card to the first monitor and since it only has one output I put another old PCI card for the second monitor. Everything works and extending the desktop to the second monitor is ok but.. I've noticed a very very performance degradation in my system.. when opening windows.. is like it has to think in which monitor to put it or something... even showing a dialog box take about 3 seconds to display. when it has to be 0.01 seconds.. I use Nvidia Drivers with NVIEW 2 for dual monitor support. XP pro.
This is quite annoying.. and my question is...

Would this performance issue happen with a new card with two monitor outputs in a single card? maybe this is because installing two different graphics cards...

thanks.

[Itzik Kelner]

Hector,
As far as I remember its best to use one AGP and one PCI card just like you do, but use same chip card, if possible. I use to have A GF2 mx AGP card along with an older TNT pci card. It worked ok, but I liked better the second rig I had back then, which had a Matrox G450 dual head. It wasn't as good as the GF2 in 3D, but overall the system worked better, plus Matrox works really nice as far as separating different resulotions and refresh settings to two different monitors from the same chip. I know that at the time doing that on a dual head Nvidia based chip was impossible.
I'm sure Greg will add to that later on.

[Héctor Corcín]

Thanks..... I think it has to be better only one card with two outputs.. than having two cards. But I need to be sure if buying a new card like that would solve the problem.... [img]redface2.gif[/img]

[Danny Cooley]

Hello
can't comment too much directly
hope this helps
http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/
all about dual monitors
Cheers