G400 dualhead Windows 2000 PRO resolutions?

[wkulecz]

Installed win2K OEM this weekend. Only minor glitches so far, but is it just me or are the included video drivers generally pretty lame and downright crippled when it comes to multi-monitor support?

I have a G200Marvel-TV which will probably end up as the "primary" display once win2K working video tools are available. Ultimately I'd like to end up with three monitors hence my intrest in the G400 dual head. Although the system becomes useful once I get dual monitor support working.

What display resolutions, color depths, and refresh rates are Matrox committed to supporting on the G400 or G400max dualhead WHEN RUN AS THE SECONDARY DISPLAY ADAPTER?

I wasted lots of time searching www.matrox.com, where I once could find tables of video modes vs cards vs OS, all I could find was useless marketing fluff and self-indulgent, slow to download, graphics.

--wally.

[Strafe]

In WindowsNT/2000, dual head is interpreted as one big monitor, you cannot have different resolutions. This is not a Matrox issue but an NT limitation. The secondary RAMDAC maxes out at 1280x1024x32 @75hz so you are limited to a 2560x2048 resolution (2X 1280x1024). 3 monitors complicates it a bit but your still limited to the lowest common denominator RAMDAC. It's been awhile but I think thats it.



[This message has been edited by Strafe (edited 16 February 2000).]

[Erik Olofsson]

Actually its a G400 deriver limitation. Windows 2000 supports diffrent size / placement of monitors like windows 98. I have a Gefroce a primary and two matrox Mstique as secondary, and I can move them around as much as I want.

[rrmccabe]

So what is the deal. I just installed 2000 and I also have "one big monitor" with my G400 Max. It is nothing like the Dualhead running under 98. When you maximize the program is goes across both screens. Even more annoying is all dialog boxes are half on each screen.

I remember NT 4.0 to be the same way. Is it a video card issue, or a Win 2000 issue. This is not good

Rich

[FaRaN]

Yep I got the same 'problems' too, lets hope it's a matrox related problem.. Or I will not switch to win2k all the way.

[XenoPhage]

Has anyone noticed when using a G400 DualHead in W2K that the frequency settings on both monitors do not match? Thus causing some really nasty looking screens? Anyone found a cure for this?

[rrmccabe]

Well I have decided to disbale the dual head. Since I am not spending 8 hours in one application, it is not worth the grief. The dialog that pops up across both screens, is driving me nuts.

to be honest, the Matrox driver seems to be a warmed over NT driver. It does NOT handle dual video in the "dualhead" manner the card was designed. If it wasn't for the fact that I have loaded Win 2K to the max and it has never crashed, I would take it off. I really hope that Matrox will/can do something about this.

This was the only reason I bough a G400 Max (and waited 4 months to get it) was the dual head function so I could lose one video and gain back a PCI slot.

Matrox. please help