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Chapter 4
Using nView Multi-Display Settings
Windows Display Properties Settings
On the Windows Display Properties Settings page, your can determine the primary
display by placing your mouse pointer on a display icon where the tool tip text
indicates “Primary”.
Using nView Dualview Mode
Note: You must have at least two displays connected to your computer to be able to
view the nView Span mode settings.
nView Dualview mode treats every display as a separate device. Dualview mode is
sometimes called “native mode” because it is the native mode supported by
Windows multi-display configurations; i.e. it is the multi-display mode defined by
Microsoft and supported by Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Dualview mode is equivalent to selecting the Extend my Windows desktop onto this
monitor. . . setting on the Windows Display Settings page, which gives you an
extended workspace.
When you start Windows 9x or Windows XP using multiple displays, Windows is
pre-configured for Dualview mode. This is not the case for Windows 2000. To enable
Dualview in Windows 2000, you need to install Dualview from the nView Display
Settings page, as explained in later sections.
Sample nView Display Settings pages in Dualview mode are shown Figure 4.2,
Figure 4.3, and Figure 4.4.
Key Features
Dualview support and functionality include the following:
• Support for advanced NVIDIA features such as Full Screen Video Mirroring and
Overlay. (See “Using Full Screen Video Settings” on page 120 and “Using Video
Overlay Settings” on page 118.)
Note: Windows NT 4.0 in nView Multiview mode does not support the “video
mirroring” feature.
• Windows places the taskbar on only one display and replicates (rather than
stretches) the background on each display as shown in Figure 4.7 and Figure 4.8.
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