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Using Horizontal & Vertical Span Modes

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Chapter 4 Using nView Multi-Display Settings Note: This also results in nView Span modes being slightly faster than Dualview mode because Windows only has to manage one display instead of two. • Under nView Span modes, Windows "stretches" the background wallpaper out to cover your large "logical" display and it stretches the taskbar out to fill your large "logical" display, as shown in Figure 4.11. If you maximize an application, the application will be maximized to fill the large "logical" display screen - i.e., both displays. • Under Windows XP/2000, you can run nView Span modes with more than two displays. For example, if you are using a Quadro NVS‐based graphics card to which you have four displays connected, you can have two sets of two spanned displays. If you are using a Quadro NVS‐based graphics card, refer to the document titled "NVIDIA ForceWare Driver for Windows Using nView MultiView Modes with NVIDIA Quadro NVS‐based Graphics Cards" Using Horizontal & Vertical Span Modes Note: Span modes do not work if you have only one display attached. In Span mode, the Windows desktop area is spread across both displays. This mode can be set for multiple categories of displays, although display limitations may override the capabilities of your NVIDIA multi‐display graphics card. For example, if the second display is an NTSC TV display, depending on the TV encoder on the graphics card, the resolution may not be set above 800 x 600 and the refresh rate cannot be set above 60 Hz. However, the computer's analog display in such a configuration may have its refresh rate and resolution set much higher. The desktop may be "stretched" horizontally or "stacked" vertically, depending on user needs. Due to operating system differences between Windows 9x and Windows NT 4.0/ Windows 2000, the latter does not currently offer true multi‐display support for Span modes using one NVIDIA multi‐display graphics card5. As a result, size of the actual desktop is limited to twice the smaller size of the two displays. Note: The desktop can be extended either horizontally (Figure 4.12) or vertically (Figure 4.13). 5. If two graphics cards are installed, the Windows 2000 operating system does detect two devices. NVIDIA Corporation 54

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Chapter 4
Using nView Multi-Display Settings
Note:
This also results in nView Span modes being slightly faster than Dualview
mode because Windows only has to manage one display instead of two.
• Under nView Span modes, Windows “stretches” the background wallpaper out to
cover your large “logical” display and it stretches the taskbar out to fill your large
“logical” display, as shown in
Figure 4.11
. If you maximize an application, the
application will be maximized to fill the large “logical” display screen – i.e., both
displays.
• Under Windows XP/2000, you can run nView Span modes with more than two
displays. For example, if you are using a Quadro NVS
‐
based graphics card to
which you have four displays connected, you can have two sets of two spanned
displays.
If you are using a Quadro NVS
‐
based graphics card, refer to the document titled
“
NVIDIA ForceWare Driver for Windows Using nView MultiView Modes with NVIDIA
Quadro NVS
‐
based Graphics Cards
”
Using Horizontal & Vertical Span Modes
Note:
Span modes do not work if you have only one display attached.
In Span mode, the Windows desktop area is spread across both displays. This mode
can be set for multiple categories of displays, although display limitations may
override the capabilities of your NVIDIA multi
‐
display graphics card. For example, if
the second display is an NTSC TV display, depending on the TV encoder on the
graphics card, the resolution may not be set above 800 x 600 and the refresh rate
cannot be set above 60 Hz. However, the computer’s analog display in such a
configuration may have its refresh rate and resolution set much higher. The desktop
may be “stretched” horizontally or “stacked” vertically, depending on user needs.
Due to operating system differences between Windows 9
x
and Windows NT 4.0/
Windows 2000, the latter does not currently offer true multi
‐
display support for Span
modes using one NVIDIA multi
‐
display graphics card
5
. As a result, size of the actual
desktop is limited to twice the smaller size of the two displays.
Note:
The desktop can be extended either horizontally (
Figure 4.12
) or vertically
(
Figure 4.13
).
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5
.
If two graphics cards are installed, the Windows 2000 operating system does detect two devices.