You're seeing a bug with the ATI 5xxx series where it shuffles the gpu clocks around and causes graphics glitches most likely, had to fix the card at high 3D clocks with a firmware update to fix it here.
On 8 August 2012 14:47, GPL <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm just dipping a toe into multi-monitor use and have some questions. > > I have a 24 inch, and a 17 inch monitor at the moment (have another 17 > and 19 to use if need be later) I have a 5870 ATI card. I have both > monitors plugged into the video card. > > I've noticed when I extend the desktop to both screens I have some > "flickering" on the second 17 inch monitor. Almost like its trying to > adjust itself to something automatically. It only flickers when I > scroll the mouse wheel up and down a page or move a window around, > etc. Seems to happen when one screen has a browser at full screen and > something might be leaking over to the other screen, not sure if I can > explain it better than that. > > When I create an eyefinity group even though the monitors are > different I see no flickering at all, all is well. > > Just wondering if this is some setting on the smaller monitor I need > to look into? Its a Dell 1704FPV. > > ALSO, I am assuming this videocard with two monitors on it may take a > performance hit if I use it while gaming? For example have the 24 inch > be the gamer monitor and have the 17 inch showing the desktop with a > browser window, or teamspeak on it? > > Also, I'm looking through my parts here and I have some older video > cards I may look into adding one just for the second monitor on the > desktop. Thoughts? >
