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    Strange Dual Monitor Issue

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by dmacfour, Dec 15, 2007.

  1. dmacfour

    dmacfour Are you aware...

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    I decided to hook an extra monitor I had lying around up to my laptop today. while it works fine, I noticed elevated temperatures in Rivatuner. I checked and found out that my card was running at full clocks, when it should be running at the low performance settings. I already tried a few things and noticed my clocks only go down when I disconnect the external monitor. Why is it doing this? I'm using the 169.04 drivers.
     
    dmacfour, Dec 15, 2007
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    Clairvoyant47 Notebook Enthusiast

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    while i dont have an answer for you, im also interested in why is this happening, something that could explain it is that the graphics card has to process 2 output signals one for the laptop and one for extra monitor, once i connected a monitor to a lappy with x3100, and the monitor looked like it had a really low fps while the laptop lcd was fine.. so that could be the answer, but its just my prognosis, anyway i dont know what im talking about so dont take this too seriously :D :D
     
    Clairvoyant47, Dec 15, 2007
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  3. dmacfour

    dmacfour Are you aware...

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    I did notice a FPS drop when I had dual screens enabled...
     
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    Clairvoyant47 Notebook Enthusiast

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    it would be great if someone who really knows about this stuff to post a reply explaining all of this...

    so **BUMP** DUDES **BUMP** :D
     
    Clairvoyant47, Dec 15, 2007
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  5. Patrick

    Patrick Formerly beat spamers with stiks

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    The fps drop is because windows has to draw two screens instead of one. This happens even when the second screen is showing the desktop.
     
    Patrick, Dec 15, 2007
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    windows has to draw two screens?? or you mean the GPU has to draw 2 screens?
    anyway
    will the FPS on the external monitor rise if we turn the laptop lcd off (i guess turning laptop LCD is possible right?, since i dont have a laptop YET :D im not sure)

    EDIT: so the gpu does have to draw 2 screens one for lapLCD one for external monitor?
     
    Clairvoyant47, Dec 15, 2007
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