1 Video Card 2 Resolutions

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freddiepm61

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Hi,

I am building a new PC running XP with a 9600gt at its heart.

I am running a 1600x1200 viewsonic, and a 37" panasonic plasma.

I have one the monitor hooked up with dvi, and the plasma via a dvi to hdmi converter. Is it possible to run the monitor at 1600x1200 whilst simultaenously running the plasma at 1366x768 of the one graphics card?

Thanks

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I dont see why not although i dont have much experience with TV's and graphics cards.
 
If you're thinking of running a cloned desktop, then I'd say yes. If you're trying to expand your desktop onto two displays (effectively increasing your resolution to 1600+1366 wide) I'd say you're going have some problems.

What is your objective, to be able to use the plasma as a multimedia display? Movies and such? Or, were you thinking of gaming on the plasma?

S'plain it....
 
I want a desktop for work on the monitor, and then every so often move to the plasma for watching blu-ray movies, however I have heard that cloned desktop is not as good for quality....?
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I'm running a 2408WFP at 1900x1200 and a SP2208WFP at 1680x1050 in dual view mode (configured independently of each other). No problems here.
 
If you try and run clone mode (where the same thing, including taskbar show up on both displays) with different resolutions you'll get tearing and other problems. The problem with dualview is that if the plasma is in a different room it's hard to set up the movie and change options or whatever from the pc, depending on the software.

I have a similar set up where my monitor is 1680x1050 and my tv is 1366x768, when i want to watch a movie i just clone and set both to 1366x768, then most of the time just have it set up as single display 1680x1050.
 
The tv and the pc are right next to each other, so according to IsLNdbOi's post, i can run them using dual view at different res fine?
f
 
I have a 19" and 20" Dell on my desk at work and run each at their native resolution in spanning mode. No problems here.
 
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