Which video Adapter supports dual display in Vista?

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Andrea M. Gates

Which video adpater, single card, support dual display in Vista? Prefer low
cost cards.

For office use in 4 buildings, around 200 systems.
Not for game. No need for fancy graphics.
 
Any nVidia or ATi card that has dual ports should work. As long as there
are drivers out there for Vista for that card it will work. I run a nVidia
6800 with Dual Monitors setup easily.
 
~Alex~.:MVP Windows Shell/User:. said:
Any nVidia or ATi card that has dual ports should work. As long as there
are drivers out there for Vista for that card it will work. I run a
nVidia 6800 with Dual Monitors setup easily.
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We have Nvidia GeForce FX5500 in most of these systems already.
But when we add another ATI Radeon X1050 adapter, Vista do not allow dual
monitor display.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/multimonVista.mspx

Please specifically tell me which adpater has dual ports for dual display
that work with Vista?
 
Re-read Alex's post!
He answered your question!

Doing your research for you is not part of this newsgroup's work.
We ar all users like you; and try and help each other.

You have to go to ATI or Nvidia site and find what you want.
 
I have a NVIDIA GeForce 7300 SE which has the feature for connecting a
second display but I have not used it.

P. Jayant
 
ATI 2600 series will support dual monitors in one card.
get the one one need for analog or digital output.



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Which video adpater, single card, support dual display in Vista? Prefer low
cost cards.

For office use in 4 buildings, around 200 systems.
Not for game. No need for fancy graphics.
 
Hi Andrea,

I cannot vouch for ATI, but the Nvidia range from the GeForce FX series
onwards supports Vista with dual monitor support on cards from the GeForce 6
range upwards. You can install more than one video card in your PC if your
motherboard supports this, but best results will come if you use identical
boards from the same manufacturer. Problems can arise when using different
cards, more so when one of the cards is based on the Nvidia GPU and the other
on the ATI GPU. This is because the different graphics drivers can conflict
with each other. In short, you should be able to use cards from both
manufacturers so long as you don't mix and match them.
Dwarf
 
Mick, Yes, I went to ATI and Nvidia web site. I have done my research.
This 2 are only IC makers. They do not make display adapaters.
This 2 web sites do NOT show any dual port display adapters from any
suppliers.
 
Dwarf said:
Hi Andrea,

I cannot vouch for ATI, but the Nvidia range from the GeForce FX series
onwards supports Vista with dual monitor support on cards from the GeForce
6
range upwards. You can install more than one video card in your PC if your
motherboard supports this, but best results will come if you use identical
boards from the same manufacturer. Problems can arise when using different
cards, more so when one of the cards is based on the Nvidia GPU and the
other
on the ATI GPU. This is because the different graphics drivers can
conflict
with each other. In short, you should be able to use cards from both
manufacturers so long as you don't mix and match them.
Dwarf
Click to expand...

Thank you for your response.
But, it would be simple for us if we can get one display adapters with dual
display output driving dual monitors. However, not driving the two monitors
as identical display, but as dual monitors extending the Vista Windows
display. Is there such low cost display adpaters?
 
Most of the current crop of display adaptors have dual output ports and
Windows permits the monitors to run in extended desktop mode. What I think
I hear you asking about would be something like
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102703
or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130085
unless the workstations' power supplies are an issue.

Here is the Windows Vista Hardware Compatibility List filtered for video
adaptors:
http://winqual.microsoft.com/HCL/ProductList.aspx?m=v&g=d&cid=303&f=86p
I would hope that the list includes suitable adaptors for your systems.

This is so straightforward that I feel I must be missing something here.
 
Dave said:
I'm using a nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX with Vista Home Premium 32 bit
Wasn't cheap, tho.
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Andrea M. Gates said:
We have Nvidia GeForce FX5500 in most of these systems already.
But when we add another ATI Radeon X1050 adapter, Vista do not allow dual monitor display.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/multimonVista.mspx

Please specifically tell me which adpater has dual ports for dual display that work with Vista?
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We use Lenovo ATI1300s, not expensive and supports dual monitor in
Vista. Please note that it does not support DX10 though.

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with the ATI and their hypervisor package you can have either 2 displays or one stretched across the 2 monitors.



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Dwarf said:
Hi Andrea,

I cannot vouch for ATI, but the Nvidia range from the GeForce FX series
onwards supports Vista with dual monitor support on cards from the GeForce
6
range upwards. You can install more than one video card in your PC if your
motherboard supports this, but best results will come if you use identical
boards from the same manufacturer. Problems can arise when using different
cards, more so when one of the cards is based on the Nvidia GPU and the
other
on the ATI GPU. This is because the different graphics drivers can
conflict
with each other. In short, you should be able to use cards from both
manufacturers so long as you don't mix and match them.
Dwarf
Click to expand...

Thank you for your response.
But, it would be simple for us if we can get one display adapters with dual
display output driving dual monitors. However, not driving the two monitors
as identical display, but as dual monitors extending the Vista Windows
display. Is there such low cost display adpaters?
 
As does nVidia's manager. Mideyhsd, I have to wonder why Andrea has not been able to resolve this one. The way she keeps describing the business need it looks very straightforward. But this has dragged out for weeks.
with the ATI and their hypervisor package you can have either 2 displays or one stretched across the 2 monitors.



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Dwarf said:
Hi Andrea,

I cannot vouch for ATI, but the Nvidia range from the GeForce FX series
onwards supports Vista with dual monitor support on cards from the GeForce
6
range upwards. You can install more than one video card in your PC if your
motherboard supports this, but best results will come if you use identical
boards from the same manufacturer. Problems can arise when using different
cards, more so when one of the cards is based on the Nvidia GPU and the
other
on the ATI GPU. This is because the different graphics drivers can
conflict
with each other. In short, you should be able to use cards from both
manufacturers so long as you don't mix and match them.
Dwarf
Click to expand...

Thank you for your response.
But, it would be simple for us if we can get one display adapters with dual
display output driving dual monitors. However, not driving the two monitors
as identical display, but as dual monitors extending the Vista Windows
display. Is there such low cost display adpaters?
 
Almost all cards have two output connections which means with Vista and the
card drivers either Clone mode or extended desktop mode can be used with
displays connected to 2 of the connectors,
There real question is if you want 2 displays supported does that mean one
VGA and one DVI or S-Video or does it mean that you want 2 VGA interfaces or
2 DVI interfaces or some other combination.
 
Colin,
Thank you for your reply.
I read both the two NewEgg adapters, but they only said the adapter card has
2 DVI output connectors. Are we assume this two DVI connectors drives two
monitors showing extended Vista screens (not two identical display like
typical laptop display sockets)? I dig everywhere, it never said this
extended Vista screens fact. Because Vista requires both screen are driven
by same WDDM driver. Correct?
 
Because we have tried and found two display adapters will NOT work in Vista.
We have purchased 6 differernt adapter with ATI & Nvida chips.
None works with extended dual screens.
Vista require both adapters use the same WDDM driver.
Otherwise, Vista will simpily disable the other adapter.

Microsoft: "The user could change the graphics hardware configuration by choosing multiple graphics adapters that use the same WDDM driver. " Nobody I know of has been able to do this.
As does nVidia's manager. Mideyhsd, I have to wonder why Andrea has not been able to resolve this one. The way she keeps describing the business need it looks very straightforward. But this has dragged out for weeks.
 
Yes. The two ports provide video output to the monitors but the
configuration of how the displays work together is controlled by Windows.
You set one monitor as the primary and the other to extend the desktop over
it. You can do this with the Vista Personalization/Display Settings or use
the software that comes with the video adaptor (ATI Catalyst or nVidia
Control Panel depending of course on the card you purchase). There are
several configuration choices besides the Extended Desktop.
 
That is correct. You only need one card with two outputs if I understand your need correctly.
Because we have tried and found two display adapters will NOT work in Vista.
We have purchased 6 differernt adapter with ATI & Nvida chips.
None works with extended dual screens.
Vista require both adapters use the same WDDM driver.
Otherwise, Vista will simpily disable the other adapter.

Microsoft: "The user could change the graphics hardware configuration by choosing multiple graphics adapters that use the same WDDM driver. " Nobody I know of has been able to do this.
As does nVidia's manager. Mideyhsd, I have to wonder why Andrea has not been able to resolve this one. The way she keeps describing the business need it looks very straightforward. But this has dragged out for weeks.
 
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