Dual Monitor and Maya

[Matt Leishman]

I have the same problem, I don't know how to fix it either!! HELP!

[ntmonkey]

The only thing I can say is check out your nView properties. Somewhere in there might contain a toggle that will let your right-click menus show up. Mine works fine on a GeForce 4 ti 4600.

hope it helps,

Lu

[Saurus]

Is that settings in the video card properties?

Saurus

[ntmonkey]

It a utility that governs your multidisplay options.

Here's the link.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/feature_nview.html

hope that helps too,

Lu

[1000101]

Turn off the windows dual view mode first off.

Secondly I recommend using nvidia's Span mode.

That should solve all of your problems.

[MunCHeR]

I have a dual 19" CRT dispaly with a 128Mb NVIDIA Ti 4200, i have never been able to gey viewports operating in the 2nd screen, I was told this was because of windows openGL support, I usually drag my outliner and other menus over to the 2nd screen, couldnt find span mode in the vview settings, can anyone point me in the right direction?:applause:

Thanks MunCHeR

[Saurus]

Yeah, mine still doesn't work. I tried playing around with nview, but still nadda! Help!!! Anybody out there!!

Saurus

[gaggle]

If your monitors are of equal size only. And this only applies to nVidia cards:
*control panel -> display properties -> settings -> (select primary monitor) -> advanced -> GeForce tab -> desktop utilities.
*toggle "enable Dualview" off.

do the reboot dance.

*repeat first step into GeForce tab, then head to nView Display Mode.
*Set to Horizontal Span, reboot, etc.

Arrr, thar we go. The nVidia drivers will now be in control of the dualmonitor goodness, and there will be no problem with OGL across monitors.

The concepts we're dealing with here is "Dualview", and "nView". Dualview means Windows handles the dualmonitorness, nVidia means the nVidia drivers are behind the wheel. There are advantages to each.
Dualview, for instance, supports seperate resolutions on each monitor. My monitors needs seperate resolutions, so I'm running Dualview here despite Maya not working perfectly.

And on that note:
If you need to use Dualview, but would like OGL acceleration on both monitors, go through the first step again from before, make sure Dualview is toggled on, then proceed to Open GL Settings, and make sure to check the settings of the Multi-Display Hardware Acceleration dropdown. Try Performance, and you should have OGL acceleration across both monitors.
Maya still won't work perfect, the hotbox and rightclick menus still appears on the primary monitor (curse thee Alias!), but at least you can move the Outliner, Graph Window, and whatever over there.

[MunCHeR]

Thanks gaggle, will give it a shot

Cheers MunCH

[Roach]

Thanx Dude!! :beer: I owe u my first born!!

Saurus

[RayRay]

I was having issues when trying to drag hypershade, or graph editor windows over to my secondary. I always thought it was the crappy video card I was running on the second monitor but I recently added more memory (now up to 768Mb) and the problems are gone. Good Luck.

[MasonDoran]

oy Gaggle....i have Geforce4 Ti 4400 and when i was running on windows 2k it was all fine in Span mode.....but then i updated to XP, using the same driver...i couldnt set it to Span mode at all! now i am stuck with the problem mentioned in this thread.


Is it possible to fix in XP?

btw...it is the latest driver

[BadMange]

I've got a GF4 Ti4200 128MB card with 19" (main) and 15" monitors hooked up, both at 1280x1024. When I try and go into dual view Maya blanks out and won't refresh. I've tried gaggle's settings and nothing works.

Should I throw my old GF2 MX card in my system for the 2nd monitor? I've got 512MB RAM, is that sufficient to run two graphics cards? I'd rather run both on the GF4, but am willing to try anything at this point.

For those with dual monitors on one GF4 card, which monitor should be plugged into which port? I've got the main monitor hooked up to the DVI port w/converer, and the secondary monitor on the VGA port. Should I change this, or doesn't it matter? Just curious if that's the cause of any problems.

Thanks,
-Bad Mange

[GrafOrlok]

Gaggle; I don't get it. I don't have the "enable DualView" option in my Desktop utilities tab. My driver versions are 6.13.10.4109...

However I use nView and I think it is set to "Horizontal span". I'm not sure it's the same thing though because I use a different language version...

Still I can't get my RM menus to work on the 2nd monitor.

[MasonDoran]

ok, here is something funny...using the latest nvidia driver i finally got it to work. in 2k it forces u to restart in order to turn off the the settings of having 2 seperate monitors with 2 seperate desktops.

in xp....i had to restart to get it to work but first i had to turn off the display of the 2nd monitor...and then upon restart i set the desktop settings to 2560x960 for the 1 monitor and used the horizontal span option in the advanced settings under NviewDisplay mode

[jscheel]

Horizontal span works for me, but when I move my mouse over any shaders in the hypershade on the second monitor, all of them disappear. Any ideas?

[MasonDoran]

make sure in the dispaly properties that there is only 1 desktop(monitor) that is active...the 2nd monitor should be greyed out in the display.....Maya doesnt like dual view....it can only read 1 desktop

[Huxley]

I've been running my 980XGL in horizontal span mode with no problems - Maya seems to like it! The only annoyance is that windows (and some apps) like to place dialog boxes in the center of the screen which in horizontal span mode means across the divide... has anyone found a way around this?

[MunCHeR]

its not maya that doesnt like dual view, its windows and open GL, maya runs great under linux with dual displays, realtime playback in both viewports, who would've thought:surprised thats where i want to go today Mr Gates:wip:
Horizontal span would be the way to go xcept when you want something in your taskbar!

MunCH

[GrafOrlok]

FINALLY!!
I think I've read this thread about 30 times the last 6 months and I still just didn't get it to work. But since the topic came up again I gave it another try thanx to Huxley, who have a 980XGL just like me, and to 2byts, who made me real confused about dissabling the second monitor, which made me think even harder...:rolleyes:

So by following 2bytes small guide and then finding the "horizontal span" option under "nView display mode" made it work like a charm.

Huxley: If you enable the desktop manager you'll find the "Enable dialog box repositioning" settings under the windows tag where you can choose from "Center on monitor 1a or 1b", Center on cursor's monitor" or "Locate on application's monitor". I think the "Center on cursor's monitor" works best.

Thanks guys
/Staffan

[Huxley]

It took me a while - and quite a bit of internet searching - to figure out how to diable dualview and use horizontal span.

Thanks for the desktop manager tip - I'll give it a try later.

[king21]

you have tu have enabled nviev and in nview propertis ju have tu have spaning mode.

The other way wount work

[jscheel]

The hypershade stopped acting up! But alas, more problems have arisen.

First, I set the gamma on my second monitor lower, which worked fine until I restarted my computer. Now the darkest regions of my screen show up bright green.

Second, is there any way to play a movie in media player in full screen on only one monitor, not spanned accross both? I have one flat panel and one CRT, so they don't exactly line up.

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