There is an issue with QC Visualizer 1.4. We have the same issue here with black screens. If you fall back to 1.2 QC Visualizer it should work but QC Visualizer 1.2 seems to crash a lot more often.
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Re: 10.8 monitor trouble (Achim Breidenbach) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:35:24 -0500 >From: Mario Marquez <imagen...@gmail.com> >To: Quartz List <quartzcomposer-dev@lists.apple.com> >Subject: 10.8 monitor trouble >Message-ID: > <CA+9FvKNnas5ans8h3QvEUxr6oowtPsTPx-KRep0==2pefsg...@mail.gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >Hi > >I have a Mac Pro quad core 2012 with two 5770hd ati cards, Mac OS 10.8 >came from factory. I have three monitors connected. >One monitor connected to the top 5770, the other two monitors in the lower >5770. >I am trying to place the QC viewer in full screen mode across two monitors >leaving the third as editor. > >I tried QC visualizer 1.4 but when I start full screen it renders black. >Is >there another way to output full screen across 4 different monitors >without >QC visualizer? >I am thinking 4 QC compositions running in parallel..with synch?..how?... > other options out there? > >My goal is to have 4 monitors for the viewer and one for the editor. > >Another thing I notice is that when I drag the QC viewer around the >extended desktop, only the GPU that has the main monitor (the one with the >menu bar on top) renders the content, when I move to the other monitor >plugged into the other card the QC viewer goes black. If I stretch the >window across the three monitors it renders the content ok. So If I have >two monitors (main and second) in one GPU they both render ok the content, >but the third monitor in the other GPU just renders black. I have moved >around the monitors from GPU and the bug is consistent. Only where the >main >monitor is plugged the QC viewer will render content (the content is a >video photo-jpeg) Any ideas on this? > > >Thanks in advance for your support. > > >Sincerely > >Mario >-------------- next part -------------- >An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >URL: ><http://lists.apple.com/archives/quartzcomposer-dev/attachments/20121001/3 >858b532/attachment.html> > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:21:35 +0200 >From: Achim Breidenbach <ac...@boinx.com> >To: Mario Marquez <imagen...@gmail.com> >Cc: Quartz List <quartzcomposer-dev@lists.apple.com> >Subject: Re: 10.8 monitor trouble >Message-ID: <8f3d07d3-3228-41a4-a4fb-ecff7bed8...@boinx.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > >Hello Mario, > >I think what you are seeing is normal behavior because you have two >graphic cards involved in your setup. > >The rendering can only happen in one GPU and usually if a second graphics >cards is involved the final window contented is (partly) moved from one >graphics card to the other. If the window moves over to the second >graphics card, the application is responsible for moving resources (like >OpenGL textures) to the other GPU in order to run on that GPU too. > >I am not sure about QuartzComposer, but it could be that QC only uses the >graphics card where the main menu bar is located and never let you change >that when running (also not moving window content partly to the other >graphics card) > >QC Visualizer is an app for running the same composition file on two >different computers synchronized via the network. I think this won't help >you too. I guess if you are authoring in QuartzComposer Editor you are >bound to two screens. As fare as I know for playback on more than two >screens, you have to have multiple computers running QC Visualizer. > >best, > >Achim Breidenbach >Boinx Software Ltd. > > >On 02.10.2012, at 00:35, Mario Marquez wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I have a Mac Pro quad core 2012 with two 5770hd ati cards, Mac OS 10.8 >>came from factory. I have three monitors connected. >> One monitor connected to the top 5770, the other two monitors in the >>lower 5770. >> I am trying to place the QC viewer in full screen mode across two >>monitors leaving the third as editor. >> >> I tried QC visualizer 1.4 but when I start full screen it renders >>black. Is there another way to output full screen across 4 different >>monitors without QC visualizer? >> I am thinking 4 QC compositions running in parallel..with >>synch?..how?... other options out there? >> >> My goal is to have 4 monitors for the viewer and one for the editor. >> >> Another thing I notice is that when I drag the QC viewer around the >>extended desktop, only the GPU that has the main monitor (the one with >>the menu bar on top) renders the content, when I move to the other >>monitor plugged into the other card the QC viewer goes black. If I >>stretch the window across the three monitors it renders the content ok. >>So If I have two monitors (main and second) in one GPU they both render >>ok the content, but the third monitor in the other GPU just renders >>black. I have moved around the monitors from GPU and the bug is >>consistent. Only where the main monitor is plugged the QC viewer will >>render content (the content is a video photo-jpeg) Any ideas on this? >> >> >> Thanks in advance for your support. >> >> >> Sincerely >> >> Mario >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. 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