Published by Arto Jarvinen on 01 Nov 2009 at 09:11 pm
Mixed-up monitors
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Having upgraded my ATI driver the MPC-HC Gothsync got its monitors mixed up. Powerstrip started to report the refresh rate of the monitor on which the MPC-HC window was not playing. This in turn messed up the sync algorithms.
After some troubleshooting I realized that my primary monitor was changed of some reason. Either as a result of the upgrade or (more probable) caused by the guy behind the keyboard. For the monitor detection code to work, the primary monitor needs to be the monitor with the lowest number in the Windows display properties dialog (see the image to the right). You can still have your Windows toolbar on the other (secondary) monitor and consider it the primary monitor for all practical purposes.
Nojevah on 03 Nov 2009 at 13:35 #
Hum… That’s not possible.
I mean it’s not possible to have the taskbar on second monitor, or it needs another software, which can cause side-effects… :/
I’m on 7, but it’s the same for XP.
I think in most cases, HDTV is used as a 2nd monitor (just for movies or games).
In my case, I have this:
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/2353/multimonitors.png
Arto Jarvinen on 03 Nov 2009 at 21:26 #
Well, I have my taskbar on monitor 2 in the picture above and 1 is the primary monitor. Plain vanilla XP. The login screen shows on monitor 1 though when I start up the machine. I haven’t really investigated what happened. In one way or another the monitors got switched when I upgraded. I used to get the login screen on the big #2 monitor with the previous driver so I guess it was actually the #1 monitor pre-update. I haven’t spent much time on investigating this so I might have missed something obvious but I suspect the monitor numbers are hard-coded somehow. -A
Ola Ahlman on 07 Nov 2009 at 16:13 #
What if you use clone mode?
Then it doesnt matter right?
Arto Jarvinen on 07 Nov 2009 at 18:53 #
Clone mode should work fine. It’s just that extended desktop is so much more useful imo. -A