Second screen blanks out after exiting game, in vista

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Reciedntly i've noticed after playing games on my main screen my second screen blanks out when you exit the game. I can get it working by alt-tabbing out of the game before i exit or changing its resolution once i've exited then changing it back again. XP X64 never had this problem, and now i think about it i never used to have it on vista before, it started when i got GTA IV and it seems to have spread to other games, BF2, CSS, UT3 etc
Just wondering if anyone else has encounterd this problem and if so have
they found any way to fix it other than the afore mentioned alt-tabbing?
cheers,
J
 
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spotter300 said:
Reciedntly i've noticed after playing games on my main screen my second screen blanks out when you exit the game. I can get it working by alt-tabbing out of the game before i exit or changing its resolution once i've exited then changing it back again. XP X54 never had this problem, and now i think about it i never used to have it on vista before, it started when i got GTA IV and it seems to have spread to other games, BF2, CSS, UT3 etc
Just wondering if anyone else has encounterd this problem and if so have
they found any way to fix it other than the afore mentioned alt-tabbing?
cheers,
J
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What are your specs? I used to have a similar problem in vista with 2 monitors.
 
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P (lastest Bios F12 i think)
E8400 @ 4ghz with Freezer 7 pro
8GB of Corsair XMS DDR2-6400 @890mhz
ATI 3870X2 @ 878/955
2x80gb Samsung Spinpoint in RAID 0
Corsair HX 620w
Vista X64
Dell 2209WA 22" (main screen) and Hanns G 19" WS (second screen)

i only just got the dell but it used to do it when i had 2x19" so its not the resolution differance.
 
spotter300 said:
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P (lastest Bios F12 i think)
E8400 @ 4ghz with Freezer 7 pro
8GB of Corsair XMS DDR2-6400 @890mhz
ATI 3870X2 @ 878/955
2x80gb Samsung Spinpoint in RAID 0
Corsair HX 620w
Vista X64
Dell 2209WA 22" (main screen) and Hanns G 19" WS (second screen)

i only just got the dell but it used to do it when i had 2x19" so its not the resolution differance.
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Were the 2 19" screens the same res? I'm pretty sure having multiple screens on a different res can cause this problem
 
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