Multiple Monitors and the CS

[vandorssen]

From my days of doing Photoshop editing on several different Mac systems over the years, I know the benefits of using a monitor for doing the “work” and another for pallets, toolbars, and everything else. On Mac systems, this has always worked flawlessly, and it has for my PC for the most part too. Working with Houdini, or the evaluation version of 3Ds Max, I can have the object I am working on located in my 21” monitor, and the tools and what not located in the 17” monitor. This really is convenient for me. However, if I try the same thing using the TES: CS, it will immediately crash on me until I disable the extension monitor. Is this something unique to ATI video cards? Has anyone else attempted and been successful in using multiple monitors with the CS? If so, what card or cards were you using?

 

Thank you in advance for the information.

[ohGr]

this is through ATI's Hydra Vision right?

 

well, i tried it on my desktop "really slow pentium 3 500mhz, radeon 9000" and it worked fine with 2 19inch monitors, i had 3ds on one screen, TES:CS on the other, had no problems there, try updating your drivers, that can always fix those little things.

[Marxist ßastard]

Software multi-monitor emulation through Litestep has been working so far, but I had to go through its configuration files to get those hotspots to work the way I want them to.

[vandorssen]

:huh: Methinks I know the problem, or at least part of it… I don’t think Hydravision supports the combination of my card (Radeon 9800XT), my driver (Catalyst 4.3), and my combination of monitors. That or the Hydravision software is just plain useless. At least that is what ATI said.