Windows vista multi monitors

[dougy24]

Hi all

Can anyone help, I have just upgraded XP to Vista Ultimate and have a 4 monitor setup, with 2 Nvidia  7800 GTX cards on a ASUS SLI board, have a 3gb cpu and 4gb of memory.

I run FS9 and FSX  (not togther ) on 3 of the monitors giving a front and 2 x 45* views, the textures are fine with excellent ground detail on the front and right hand side monitor, but the left monitor textures are suffering from the blurries.

I have the latest Nvidia drivers installed, and all 4 monitors are the same make. Anyone any ideas on what i am doing wrong, or is it another Vista gremlim?.

Thanks Paul

[richardd43]

I would switch 2 of the monitors around to see if it might be a monitor or cable problem first. Then switch the GPU slots around.

Not a lot of recommendations after that.....

[Politically Incorrect]

I know in XP you can not use multiple monitors with SLi. I thought you could with Vista but maybe not?

[ctjoyce]

Its vista. Vista doesn't get along with SLi at all, and doesn't like more than two monitors. I'm surprised that you are getting more than 5FPS anyway, Vista hates games.

Cheers
Cameron

[richardd43]

Its vista. Vista doesn't get along with SLi at all, and doesn't like more than two monitors. I'm surprised that you are getting more than 5FPS anyway, Vista hates games.

Actually I run Vista in SLI when I am gaming. FSX, Farcry, and F.E.A.R have no problem running at all.

For all other applications I run in multi-monitor mode.

I had to remove one of my 7950 GX2 boards because Vista will not run in Quad mode.

[Ashton Lawson]

lets say Vista doesnt hate games, but it definately is very picky with software and hardware.

[richardd43]

lets say Vista doesnt hate games, but it definately is very picky with software and hardware.

I have not has a software problem yet but other than Office I do not load a lot of software on my computers.

Except for my Oki printer my hardware is all standard stuff so I have not had a problem there yet.

This is not to say you are not correct as I have read about numerous problems people have had.

Back to the topic at hand, has anyone else here actually tried to run more than 2 monitors on Vista.

[dcunning30]

Its vista. Vista doesn't get along with SLi at all, and doesn't like more than two monitors. I'm surprised that you are getting more than 5FPS anyway, Vista hates games.

Actually I run Vista in SLI when I am gaming. FSX, Farcry, and F.E.A.R have no problem running at all.

Try running those games online.  I dare ya!    :D

[richardd43]

Try running those games online.  I dare ya!  

 

LOL, you probably have me on that one. I am not an on line player, but that is interesting, This is the first comment I have heard that actually said anything about on line gaming and Vista.

Is Vista just not fast enough or is the game just quirky with Vista and on-line?

[ctjoyce]

No its because Vista lacks driver preformance driver support for many systems. Take for instance me, my two 7900GTs kept bluescreening Vista, however my 7950 GTX in my laptop works fine. Now when I bench Vista against XP consistantly Vista is faster. So while you may be happy with your 30FPS, I want my whole damn 60.

Cheers
Cameron

PS: Also remember that this verys from game to game. UT2K4 runs at max settings getting 80+ FPS, however Half Life 2 barely ran at all. Same with most of my other games. So bottom line, wait for SP1 before you expect anything good.

[dcunning30]

[quote][quote]Try running those games online.

[ctjoyce]

Ahh too true. Lets talk about getting 400kb down on a Gigabyte connection between two vista laptops. I will say, networking in Vista is so much easier than XP.

Cheers
Cameron

[Nick N]

No its because Vista lacks driver preformance driver support for many systems. Take for instance me, my two 7900GTs kept bluescreening Vista, however my 7950 GTX in my laptop works fine. Now when I bench Vista against XP consistantly Vista is faster. So while you may be happy with your 30FPS, I want my whole damn 60.

Cheers
Cameron

PS: Also remember that this verys from game to game. UT2K4 runs at max settings getting 80+ FPS, however Half Life 2 barely ran at all. Same with most of my other games. So bottom line, wait for SP1 before you expect anything good.

You mean that laptop, which was constructed to Vista specs and has Vista hardware code incorporated into it runs the video fine, but your video cards that do not have a super secret Vista chip or code installed, don't work very well???  [smiley=undecided.gif]  geee  I wonder how that happened.



One of the major reasons why I push everyone to wait before buying ANY hardware for that Vista/FSX box is because the motherboard, video card(s) and other devices need time to get the secret Microsoft Vista decoder ring installed in them by the manufactures, or you can bet your next door neighbor running the same hardware will be doing it faster and smoother than you, and without crashes.

[ctjoyce]

Nah, Vesper (the laptop) isn't running Vista anymore. I just bought her with it preinstalled so that I wouldn't have to buy it down the road. Right off the bat I knew that It wouldn't preform the way I wanted, and wasn't expecting it to.

Cheers
Cameron