Has anyone tried or is anyone using dual LCD screens with MS. Just after some feedback on hassles, cards etc. Thanks, -- Sean Forward (Bear) http://aussiebear.com http://fishingwa.com ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I live in my own little world, but it's ok, they know me here. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hi, Both dual, triple and quad. No problems whatsoever. As long as you have enough AGP + PCI cards all supporting DVI output, there should not be any problems either ... One thing though -- mixing analog with DVI may end up plain ugly -- the apparent difference in quality can be just too striking in some cases. Cheers, /Chris Z. Has anyone tried or is anyone using dual LCD screens with MS. Just after some feedback on hassles, cards etc. Thanks, -- Sean Forward (Bear) http://aussiebear.com http://fishingwa.com ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I live in my own little world, but it's ok, they know me here. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I found the LCD's to be quite disappointing. One place where I was recently writing accounting software, don't ask, had some in a store room for a client. I asked if I could try one out. Attached it and away I went in 1280x1024 @ 75Hz. Didn't like it at all. I could see the boundary, a little black box, around each "pixel". The "jaggies" for a near horizontal line was shocking. Even the movement of the mouse caused slight "trail" across the screen. I was looking at buying a panel until this experience, instead I went to a mob in Melbourne where I bought a 19" Hyundai, ImageQuest Q910, for $360. I run it at 1600x1200 @ 85Hz. It's rock solid. For what the panel was going to cost me, I could have bought two of the 19" monitors. Probably in 2 - 3 years the panels will have caught up, but until then I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole for serious CAD work - which I think is the opposite of what Chris said....... Regards, Andrew [We'll just snip that nasty little HTML here]
Hi Andrew, I don't think it is fair to make decisions based on one, admitedly cheap or a very old example of emerging technology: This says that you've ran it in ANALOG mode. It is often ugly. I told that before... You need to try DIGITAL (i.e. DVI) interface instead. An old or a very cheap (or both) specimen. I would need a serious magnifying glass or to put my nose against the screen surface in order to see those pixel boundaries on any of my flat panels. Honestly. It is a thing of the past... Enable antialiasing in your graphic card. All modern cards designed for CAD (or games) have this capability. No more sharp, pronounced jaggies. 3 years old thing. It was a real problem on early models. You will not see this on any flat panel being sold today. That's what I do. Albeit on a flat panel ;-) They really did. Counted from what you tried, it is fair to assume that 3 years went silently from the time your flat panel was manufactured until today. Cheap time travels anyone? Cheers, /Chris Z.
Thanks Chris, just what I wanted to hear. What brand have you been using?? -- Sean Forward (Bear) http://aussiebear.com http://fishingwa.com ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I live in my own little world, but it's ok, they know me here. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Hi Andrew, I don't think it is fair to make decisions based on one, admitedly cheap or a very old example of emerging technology: This says that you've ran it in ANALOG mode. It is often ugly. I told that before... You need to try DIGITAL (i.e. DVI) interface instead. An old or a very cheap (or both) specimen. I would need a serious magnifying glass or to put my nose against the screen surface in order to see those pixel boundaries on any of my flat panels. Honestly. It is a thing of the past... Enable antialiasing in your graphic card. All modern cards designed for CAD (or games) have this capability. No more sharp, pronounced jaggies. 3 years old thing. It was a real problem on early models. You will not see this on any flat panel being sold today. That's what I do. Albeit on a flat panel ;-) They really did. Counted from what you tried, it is fair to assume that 3 years went silently from the time your flat panel was manufactured until today. Cheap time travels anyone? Cheers, /Chris Z.
What brand have you been using?? Digital: Dell 2000FP Ultrasharp, (1600x1200) SGI 1600SW (1600x1024) Analog: NEC MultiSync LCD 1830 (1280x1024) And one more thought w/r to: MicroStation seems to have a quirk here -- antialiasing shows up in accelerated views only, and during dynamics only (like rotation). When graphics stand still, there is no antialiasing. Some aggresive antialiasing settings (like Quincunx on nVidia hardware) makes those tiny view icons and view scroll bars disappear. Seems to be a bug in uStn, in all released versions tested to date. However even without antialiasing the picture is crisp, (as opposed to blurry) and most of flat panels have pixel size small enough to disregard the 'jagginess'. Heck, the real high-end panels look more like output from the early laser printers... Best! /Chris Z.
Bear and all, I just received (today) a 20" Viewsonic VP201b to complement my 15" IBM Thinkpad A31p laptop. So far - so good - running both at 1600x1200 in a dual screen config. Older Thinkpads don't offer the video cards for this setup. The Viewsonic is substantially brighter than the brighter than average laptop so turning down the brightness on the big panel evens things out on your eyes. Elevating the laptop so its screen is about in the middle of the big LCD works pretty good for making a workstation out of a laptop... Hey Sir Dickens...have you seen all the recent research on the positive productivity gains in using multiple monitors? (In addition to having a 100-button mouse?) You are probably ignoring this post anyway... ....being stuck on that single 23" unit. Just sharing some rambling, Bill Kemper
I don't believe it for cad except if you are using one for a rendered perspective view. In that case, I'd get that big Mac 23" baby. For Active Trader Pro you can only open 12 windows at a time and that means that you'd have to run another unit... leave one focused on 12 stocks with a 2 day setup. 12 should be enough. Do your rummaging on the other baby... Maybe a Voodoo Envy... green.
Have been using dual Samsung Syncmaster 191T (19") at 1280x1024 with 3Dlabs Wildcat 880 Pro under Win XP Pro with v8.1. No problems. Man is there more room to work! Crystal clear & easy on eyes. Only problem is I found I have to turn monitors on *after* I turn system on. Reverse the sequence and I'll get box on each monitor that says there's no connection. Dunno why, don't care, since it works the other way. Enjoy! R Anderson
