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Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings Using nView Dualview Mode Note: You must have at least two displays connected to your computer to be able to view the nView Span mode settings. nView Dualview mode treats every display as a separate device. Dualview mode is sometimes called "native mode" because it is the native mode supported by Windows multi‐display configurations; i.e. it is the multi‐display mode defined by Microsoft and supported by Microsoft Windows operating systems. Dualview mode is equivalent to selecting the Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor. . . setting on the Windows Display Settings page, which gives you an extended workspace. When you start Windows 9x or Windows XP using multiple displays, Windows is pre‐configured for Dualview mode. This is not the case for Windows 2000. To enable Dualview in Windows 2000, you need to install Dualview from the nView Display Settings page, as explained in later sections. Sample nView Display Settings pages in Dualview mode are shown Figure 4.2, Figure 4.3, and Figure 4.4. Key Features Dualview support and functionality include the following: • Support for advanced NVIDIA features such as Full Screen Video Mirroring and Overlay. (See "Using Full Screen Video Settings" on page 120 and "Using Video Overlay Settings" on page 118.) Note: Windows NT 4.0 in nView Multiview mode does not support the "video mirroring" feature. • Windows places the taskbar on only one display and replicates (rather than stretches) the background on each display as shown in Figure 4.7 and Figure 4.8. • When you maximize an application, it maximizes only to the single display, and so on. Figure 4.7 and Figure 4.8 show examples of Dualview systems where the left and right displays are running at different screen resolution. Notice that the background is not stretched across the displays and the taskbar appears on a single display instead of being stretched across displays. 47 Quadro Workstation User's Guide