Trevor Tizard Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 Hi All, Was wondering about the use of dual screens: What are the advantages How does it work (in essence) Is it advised Any advised you could give me would be much appreciated Thanks, Trev. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecastillor Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 mmmm...it looks cool in movies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesTaylor Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 Basically it just works like 1 big screen - you will need a graphics card that supports dual output, but most cards do nowadays. the advantages are twice the monitor space for your apps, you can have two apps running on differnt screens so you don't have to flick between them etc. or you can span one app across both screens. P'shop is a good example i use a 2nd screen to put all the floating control panels on so not to clutter the work space. its more than advised, its necessity! once you tried it you'll wonder how you coped without! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarp8 Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 Dual Screens is a must! Once you go dual, you will never go back. There are countless reasons why, but here are a few: Have Max open on one screen and Acad on the other. Keep your animation / material browser / render window on one and your modeling on another. Browse multiple webpages So, there are a few reasons... but believe me... Go Dual! After you go dual for a while, you will want to go Tri (that's where I am now ). Dave http://www.got3d.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Tizard Posted November 30, 2005 Author Share Posted November 30, 2005 Thanyou all, One more question: Are both your screens the same size or is that not necessary? Thanks again, Trev. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bully712 Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 Dual Screens is a must! Once you go dual, you will never go back. I agree.. It was different at the start, but once you got use to the second monitor, it worked out great. I got two 21" monitors and I use Viz, and Autocad on them. In fact everyone in our office use 2 monitors. They have a 21" and a 17". They use the smaller monitor for all their Autocad menus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesTaylor Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 no doesn't matter if there not the same, although it is better. i run 2 x 19" lcd's - the thin edge around monitor means less breakage in screen area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbarc Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 The best way to maximise use of that second screen.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Knourek Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 Ive been using dual screens since about the time win2k was released and never looked back, actually working on my laptop drives me nuts with just a single little screen Ive now been using 3 for the past 8 monts or so, this is an older shot of my desk now I have 2x 19" lcd's and the 17" lcd in the middle. -dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Cassil Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 I've been wondering what you have to do to set up three screens... I assume you need two video cards because I've never seen a card that supports three screens. But do the video cards need to be identical? Could I throw a crappy second card in and just make sure I only use it for menu's etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Tizard Posted November 30, 2005 Author Share Posted November 30, 2005 Blimey Dave, I'm a little surprised you haven't burnt out your retina's.............!! Trev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lambros Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 Actually there are graphic cards that support up to 4 screens, mostly for financial software (with lots of graphs etc). But they are not any good in 3d acceleration. Matrox offers a 3 screen support card with decent acceleration, but nothing too close to high end graphic cards. Dual screens do not need to be of the same size, but it feels better when they are! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Cassil Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 So how about my other questions... can I use two different video cards? One that rocks and another that is only so-so for menus and such? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isagreg Posted December 1, 2005 Share Posted December 1, 2005 I'm pretty sure you can. Actually that's what I'm gonna do. I have Quadro (AGP) and going to get another PCI, but I want it to be from nVidia as well. That way there will be less problems with driver incompatibility... I hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy L Posted December 1, 2005 Share Posted December 1, 2005 Does SLi work with two screens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isagreg Posted December 1, 2005 Share Posted December 1, 2005 RE: "Does SLi work with two screens?" No... Just one screen... But with SLI disabled you can have 4 screens... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Posted December 1, 2005 Share Posted December 1, 2005 While I do love my dual setup at work...I set my home office up with a single widescreen 24" from Dell. At 1920x1200 it's close to the resolution of 2-19s or 17s - and it seems to operate better. I've found that the Multi-screen from nvidia slows my system down some and some programs don't seem to work well on the secondary screen (this may be do to my card though) Saying this - I really like both - but the single 24" is what I now prefer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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