Extended Desktop with Different Size Screens

Puppetmaster · 25 Oct 2008 at 17:04

Any issues with having a 24" widescreen as the primary monitor and extending the desktop onto a 19" normal monitor or do they need to be same size / res?

geuben · 25 Oct 2008 at 17:05

No, no problems with different res between screens. Not with XP anyway, don't know about vista

mike gunnz · 26 Oct 2008 at 10:21

I have a 24" and a 21" both diff resolutions and they work fine on XP. If you have an NV card you can figure them separately through the NV control panel. Alternatively just do it through XP.

Lummox · 26 Oct 2008 at 22:23

No probs at all with XP, I've got that set up (24" + 19") and it's pretty fine. (graphics card is an 8800GTX)

Strife212 · 26 Oct 2008 at 22:44

It's fine, I'm extending 22", 24" and 37"

TheOtherOption · 26 Oct 2008 at 22:59

Again no problems here - 20" and 17" coming off an HD3870 - can configure both with ease through the CCC

Vista picked it up with no problems and XP before that was fine too.

richyb_safc · 27 Oct 2008 at 23:09

I've got a 20" sammy and a 32" toshiba hdtv, running the tv as an extended desktop through vista was a bit dodgy at first, no real problems now though! I think these problems came from one being a tv and one being a monitor though, so there should be no problems with 2 monitors!

Pilky01 · 27 Oct 2008 at 23:10

fine with my 24" and 22" on vista.

eiko_magami · 28 Oct 2008 at 00:23

fine with my 24" and 19" on vista 64. shouldnt have any problems at all. used them with both ati and nvidia cards

jim5000 · 28 Oct 2008 at 00:59

Dual monitor are fine whatever the res, the only problem I've found is when you have different aspect ratios (4:3 and 16:9) and want to clone the display.

slowrunner · 28 Oct 2008 at 18:13

I hooked up my old 15"crt alongside my acer 19"widescreen lcd the other day before finally making the descision to bin the crt. That was 1440x900 and 1024x768 running off a fairly rubbish HD3450, and the driver crashed (8.7, since upgraded to 8.10) after half an hours browsing, mind the GPU temp was up to 79c and it's only passively cooled.

GunRunner · 28 Oct 2008 at 19:41

Just a quick question on this subject. Does anyone know if there be any problems running nHancer in Vista x64 and a 24" BENQ LCD monitor (native 1920 x 1200)and a 21" Samsung LCD monitor (1680 x 1050)? I wish to run the the game IL2 forgotten battles on the 24" with Teamspeak and a bombsight table on the 21"!

Sohaib · 30 Oct 2008 at 13:23

No issues at all, but it can become a little anoying!