[osg-users] Anyone using OSG in Windows with 3 (or more)monitors on 2 (or more) graphics cards ?

[Wojciech Lewandowski]

Hi Robert & J-S,

You are right. I confused TwinView with HorizontalSpan. Since I have XP this
option is available. But does not work either.

Thanks for feedback,
Wojtek

> Hi Robert, Wojtek,
>
>> I recall a post for Jean-Sebastian Guay in the last couple of months
>> about Vista not supporting TwinView, perhaps I mis-read, but this is
>> what I recall.  Perhaps he'll be able to chip in.
>
> I'm not sure what TwinView corresponds to, as it's more of a Linux/X term.
>
> On Windows XP, we used to have the option to have multiple independent
> displays (say 2 displays of 1280x1024 - I guess that's TwinView on Linux?)
> or one combined display (2560x1024). The latter is called "horizontal
> span" (you can also do vertical span, 1280x2048 for example).
>
> Now, on Vista, that option no longer exists (apparently because of the new
> driver model that Microsoft imposed on the video card manufacturers, but
> that may just be the manufacturers making excuses). The horizontal span
> and vertical span modes don't exist in Vista, only the "multiple
> independent monitors".
>
> Note that my experience is only on one video card, two monitors. I don't
> quite know how that scales to X video cards and Y monitors, and how it
> would work if the cards are of different types. Sorry.
>
> J-S
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