Dual View - Bugs / Features?

[Sunin]

I have the following situation happening when i run dual view on my 28 / 19 lcd's. When I open any program in the other window it automatically minimizes the other screen. Is there a way other then pulling that screen out of full screen mode to avoid this? Reason I am going full screen is to keep my fps up.

2nd Q, would my computer be happier if I put in my 2nd GTX and ran each monitor off a seperate card? Or would it be better to SLI the cards and run both of them SLI'd?

Finally, anyone have issues with Dual view suddenly becoming problematic and not allowing you to set one LCD to its max resolution? This happened to me when I made the 28" secondary. The LCD is 1920x1200, but max that would show up in nvidia's control panel was 1920x1080. This was with treat this monitor as a TV set to off.. As I think it tries to force it to HD 1080p which is the above resolution. Thoughts??

Thanks much for all your input~!!!

 

[Blahman]

Hard to say... I think unless you run windowed mode there is no way to prevent the other monitor from being disabled while a full screen app is running. The only exception to this is playing video on the second monitor using the full screen video options. Then you can have a video playing on your second monitor while the first is in a full-screen app. I think.

I don't know if running two cards with SLI disabled would help at all, but I do know that running SLI disables multi-monitor support completely. So I've read anyways.

Finally, it's hard to tell how the new NVIDIA control panel is going to behave. It's just fundamentally flawed in so many ways. If you can, switch to the classic control panel (NVTray can enable it), if it works at all, it works amazingly well.

Otherwise, use PowerStrip or the Windows display control panel to set resolutions.