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rwlloyd 2002-02-22 06:37
I am having problems with my GeForce2Pro card in my new Tyan Thunder K7 motherboard because of the AMD-760MP chipset - nVidia driver incompatibilities. I am looking into getting a Radeon 8500 dual-head to replace both the GF2Pro and GF2MX I am running now- BUT- does HydraVision support running different resolutions on different monitors? According to the ATI site, it does not, but they haven't updated that info in months.
I kinda need this feature, because I do web development, and need to see what a site will look like in 640x480 or 800x600- and I run 1280x1024. This is one of the big reasons I went to a multimon system.
Thanks in advance for any info.
My System:
* Tyan Thunder K7 Mobo (dual SCSI, dual LAN)
* 2 x Athlon XP 1800+, ThermalTake Volcano 6cu+ HSFs
* 1 GB DDR RAM
* GeForce2-Pro 64MB DDR AGP primary
* GeForce2 MX 32MB PCI secondary
* Adaptec RAID 2100S card
* 4 x Seagate Cheetah 18GB 10k rpm U160 SCSI drives (2 36GB RAID0 arrays)
* Antec 510W PS
* External PS for fans and drives
* Plextor 32x SCSI CDROM
* HP 9200 8x4x32 SCSI CDRW
* Jaz 1GB
* Hercules Fortissimo II sound card
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hpn 2002-02-26 15:20
Hi, the ATI Radeon 8500 shows a different personality under different operating systems.
The Radeon 8500 will support two independent resolutions/refresh rates under Win XP. I've used it with the 6015 XP drivers, released this February. I'm running a dual P3-866 MHz on an Abit VP6 (VIA 133A) with 512MB CAS2 RAM + RAID NTFS.
However, under Win 2000, the 8500 card treats
both monitors as one large extended monitor, ie, instead of seeing two 1280x1024 you see one 2560x1024 desktop and some popup windows often get automatically stretched across both monitors. You can change the refresh rates of each monitor though. One interesting point, you can use OpenGL on both primary and secondary monitors with the W2K 6014 drivers, unlike with Win XP.
Apart from lockups due to the ATI tuner program for its PCI "Wonder" card, I haven't come across any serious problems with the recent drivers under both windows OS, but then again I use the card primary for OpenGL modeling, and I haven't tried many games.
Good luck,
hpn
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