On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Uwe Frenz wrote:
> Win NT & 2k (no knowledge on XP yet) handle multiple monitors as two > windows to a large and unique desktop, whereas Win9x used to have multiple > independend desktops that just had to share one side with each other. This > might be important, because almost all dualhead cards I know of have an > excellent head as primary head, supporting video bandwidth of up to >250 > MHz (and resolutions of up to 1600*1200). The secondary head is propably > less capabal, supportimg only smaller resolutions. This may result in some > area on the desktop that is not displayed on any of the screens in W2k. > Example: One screen with 1600*1200 left and another with 1280*1024 right > aligned at bottom. The desktop will be (1600+1280)*1200 and there will be > an area of (1600, 1199) to (2879, 1024) that will be invisibel. > On Win9x however there will be just two independend desktops. this is at least not an issue with the latest nview drivers for nvidia with win2k. i can have two separate desktops with two separate resolutions, one extended desktop, copies... everything seems to work very well. a friend says that winxp works very well with this as well. the nvidia card i have also seems to be able to put out 2 beautiful hi res desktops at the same time (GF4). as Uwe states, you cannot fix dead pixels in an lcd... -k
