Using Horizontal & Vertical Span Modes - Nvidia FX1300 - Quadro FX 128MB Dual DVI-I PCIe Video Card User Manual

Note: This also results in nView Span modes being slightly faster than Dualview
• Under nView Span modes, Windows "stretches" the background wallpaper out to
cover your large "logical" display and it stretches the taskbar out to fill your large
"logical" display, as shown in Figure 4.11. If you maximize an application, the
application will be maximized to fill the large "logical" display screen – i.e., both
displays.
• Under Windows XP/2000, you can run nView Span modes with more than two
displays. For example, if you are using a Quadro NVS‐based graphics card to
which you have four displays connected, you can have two sets of two spanned
displays.
If you are using a Quadro NVS‐based graphics card, refer to the document titled
"NVIDIA ForceWare Driver for Windows Using nView MultiView Modes with NVIDIA
Quadro NVS‐based Graphics Cards"
Using Horizontal & Vertical Span Modes
Note: Span modes do not work if you have only one display attached.
In Span mode, the Windows desktop area is spread across both displays. This mode
can be set for multiple categories of displays, although display limitations may
override the capabilities of your NVIDIA multi‐display graphics card. For example, if
the second display is an NTSC TV display, depending on the TV encoder on the
graphics card, the resolution may not be set above 800 x 600 and the refresh rate
cannot be set above 60 Hz. However, the computer's analog display in such a
configuration may have its refresh rate and resolution set much higher. The desktop
may be "stretched" horizontally or "stacked" vertically, depending on user needs.
Due to operating system differences between Windows 9x and Windows NT 4.0/
Windows 2000, the latter does not currently offer true multi‐display support for Span
modes using one NVIDIA multi‐display graphics card
desktop is limited to twice the smaller size of the two displays.
Note: The desktop can be extended either horizontally (Figure 4.12) or vertically
(Figure 4.13).
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. If two graphics cards are installed, the Windows 2000 operating system does detect two devices.
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mode because Windows only has to manage one display instead of two.
Using nView Multi-Display Settings
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. As a result, size of the actual
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