By Chris Higgins (Lostsoul) (24.186.51.51) on Monday, January 20, 2003 - 06:56 pm:

I recently purchased Lightwave 7.5, and when i did i decided to upgrade my pc a little bit. I bought this new video card and figured it would be great to have two monitors, especially since lightwave seems to be designed for it having modeler and layout seperately.

O.K. that said, my problem is that on my second monitor, the clone, when i open modeler everything looks fine, the viewports are ok and i can create objects, whatever, but when i click on say the file menu or the modeler menu they open in the center of the screen. At first i thought ok, but then when i scroll over it any option which has another pull down opens in the left hand corner. Also the mode pull down only shows one option and doesn't give me the scroll arrow to use the rest of the menu.

i have called tech support at both newtech and bfg and neither of them have been any help. they just say it is each others fault. I downloaded the most recent drivers, still no luck.

i would even be willing to return my video card and get a different one but no one i talk to seems to know anything about running two monitors.

i would really appreciate a little help with this problem.

By Zafar Iqbal (Zafar) (80.197.222.134) on Tuesday, January 21, 2003 - 02:48 am:

strange.. try this: disable any OpenGL related fancy things in display properties.

hope it helps.

By Zafar Iqbal (Zafar) (80.197.222.134) on Tuesday, January 21, 2003 - 02:51 am:

btw.. im running LW on two monitors, and are experiencing no problemos (thats because i turned everything off in display properties - otherwise i would

Using Ti 4200 and Win2k

By Andrew Morgan (Aegisprime) (194.117.133.118) on Tuesday, January 21, 2003 - 06:19 am:

Try turning off the nVidia "nView" desktop manager (from display properties) and seeing if that helps.

By Joshua Jorgensen (Meatycheesyboy) (209.245.173.57) on Tuesday, January 21, 2003 - 11:25 am:

I'm inclined to agree with everyone else. I think its jus a stray setting somewhere in the display properties.

I'm running dual monitors with an Asylum (the 440mx not the 4200 though) card with no problems.

-Joshua

By Christopher Cosner (Cozfx) (12.148.27.62) on Wednesday, January 22, 2003 - 09:07 am:

Don't use clone. Use the extend desktop setting. I had the same problem with menus and opengl. -Coz