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Dual monitor support


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By smotsie - Wednesday, April 26, 2006 1:10:20 PM

OK a confession... I've made a big mistake. I ordered two new computers, four new 17\" TFT monitors, and reading the advice here two Matrox G550 cards.

Last night I tried to fit the Matrox cards... only to find my nice cheap quiet HP Compaq computers DON'T HAVE AGP SLOTS!!!

Aaaaarggggghhhh!!!!!!!!!! :cry:

So, my supplier has agreed to take back the Matroxes (Matroxii?) as that is the lesser of two evils.

My question: Is it possible to run Myriad in dual screen mode using a Sapphire ATi Radeon 9250? This one of a very few cards I have found which gives dual monitor and PCI bus support. I DON'T want to buy anything else until I am sure it will work.

Also we will be upgrading to Myriad 3.0 as soon as it gets to \"released\" status (I'm about to start trialling the beta) so if that will work better / worse than 2.6 please let me know.

In abject misery at my failed plan...

Baldrick. No, sorry... Simon West
By Liam Burke - Monday, November 10, 2008 11:54:16 AM

Hi,

There is a work around but not an ideal one.

If you set your system to stretch the desktop across both screens (i.e. not be able to run both monitors independently) then Myriad will see this as a single large desktop and stretch accordingly.

The down side is the split may not be even which means that the Carts and Cart Controls are likely to be split where the monitors join but if you can live with this then give it a bash.