Different video cards for different monitors.

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pantzer

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Ok, I have a BFG 7950GT OC and an onboard video setup. I have been running both monitors on the 7950, but I would like to move my second one to the onboard video. Is that a bad idea? If it is not so bad, how do I go about doing that?

When I run a full screen program like wow and watching a movie on the second screen, I get some weird pixles that kinda bother me. With wow and a video going, my cpu and ram usage are 40% cpu and 1 gig of my 2 gigs of ram. So I don't think I will have resource problems if I do that. (Oh and the weird pixles do not show while watching a DVD, just when watching an avi or something else to that effect)

AMD X2 4400+
Corsairs XMS DDR2 800 matched
BFG 7950GT OC
Asus M2NPV-VM
Antec NSK 6500 (430 watt psu)
 
I'd try with a different app like VLC media player or changing your codecs before bothering with trying to get your onboard video and Geforce to 'play nice'. It may be as easy as enabling it, setting it up as a secondary adapter, and you're in business. It may... not.
 
I do use VLC for everything that I can. Mostly I have gotten into joox.net, and well I don't think I can use vlc for that.
 
sounds like a directX issue to me. I'd take silent-circuits advice on this one. You're likely running into something with WMP and a directshow filter that's also being used in the games for something. try changing movie watching to a different player, and/or codec packs.
 
Nah, won't do that. Worst that can happen is you have to boot in safe mode, uninstall the onboard video's drivers, and disable it again in the BIOS. Far from the end of the world.
 
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