Games Chooses Incorrect Monitor

[MoJoe]

Hi,

After installing the demo for Giants: Sea Reapers, I tried the game. Much to my surprise my main display showed a frame and the secondary display brought up the game screen.

I am using a G450 card.

Also, Earth 2150 - The Moon Project has a test program that checks the performance of both displays.

Rendering with Direct 3D HAL @ 1024x768x16 I get a reading of 33.07 on Display 1.

Display 2 renders a reading of 36.07.

If according to the G450 manual the main monitor is fed at 360Mhz and the secondary monitor at 230Mhz how does one interpret this.

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[dbdg]

You have an Irish G450. (Hope none who is irish is reading this).

I have no idea to be honest but I don't think that the speed of the ramdac in ant way affects the performance of the card on the the resoulutions that it can drive.

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PIII450@504, G400 32MB DH, 384MB, BX2000 MOBO.

[Kruzin]

This is from R0M (for some reason he can't get it to post here...)

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by MoJoe:
Hi,

After installing the demo for Giants: Sea Reapers, I tried the game. Much to my surprise my main display showed a frame and the secondary display brought up the game screen.

I am using a G450 card.</font>

Yeah that is normal, this behaviour occurs since the game is detecting a secondary card originally, ie: Voodoo 2 etc.. so obviously it will pick Voodoo 2, all they're doing is checking for secondary device... What you can do to adjust this is when you select device choose the primary one...

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Also, Earth 2150 - The Moon Project has a test program that checks the performance of both displays.

Rendering with Direct 3D HAL @ 1024x768x16 I get a reading of 33.07 on Display 1.

Display 2 renders a reading of 36.07.


If according to the G450 manual the main monitor is fed at 360Mhz and the secondary monitor at 230Mhz how does one interpret this.

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Ok, here you're mixing apple with oranges, the Ramdacs have nothing to do with your performance. It's how much memory is assigned to each monitor, by default it should be 50-50, but you could adjust that in your Powerdesk, hence the dynamic memory allocation tweak, if you're having problems with that let me know..

Regards,

R0M
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[This message has been edited by Kruzin (edited 23 May 2001).]

[MoJoe]

Hi,

Thanks for response I was on vacation for the past month.

I am using the driver package numbered 6.22.010 and in the advanced settings I have no option to allocate the memory.

Please advise.

MoJoe