DreamScene on 3 monitors
It don't like it....
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 by bgib | Discussion: Animated Wallpapers
Hey guys,
I understand that DreamScene is in preview right now. However, I had a bit of a problem.
On my work PC I have 3 LCD monitors running off 2 ATI Radeon X1300 graphics cards.
The scenes run fine with only 2 monitors enabled, however, when I enable the 3rd, I get the following error:
Windows DreamScene cannot run because the total desktop size exceeds the primary video adapter's maximum texture size.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Bob
I understand that DreamScene is in preview right now. However, I had a bit of a problem.
On my work PC I have 3 LCD monitors running off 2 ATI Radeon X1300 graphics cards.
The scenes run fine with only 2 monitors enabled, however, when I enable the 3rd, I get the following error:
Windows DreamScene cannot run because the total desktop size exceeds the primary video adapter's maximum texture size.
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Bob
Excalpius
Reply #2 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 8:35 PM
Reply #2 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 8:35 PM
Are these configured as seperate monitors, what nvidia calls DualView, or as one big horizontal span? Depending on how you configure this, it may not be able to create one huge video image in the memory space of one adapter. On mine (dualview config) the video "repeats" on each monitor seperately.
So, does it run fine with two monitors enabled on the SAME card? Or does it fun fine with one monitor enabled on each of the two adapters? That might help.
So, does it run fine with two monitors enabled on the SAME card? Or does it fun fine with one monitor enabled on each of the two adapters? That might help.
adam19
Reply #3 Saturday, February 17, 2007 10:27 PM
Reply #3 Saturday, February 17, 2007 10:27 PM
im having the same problem but with a few differences.
i have vista ultimate and i can get dream to run on a single monitor. if i enable the second monitor it says the needed graphics memory is not available (or something along those lines). i have an x850 and a x1600 on pcie. the x850 has 256mb and the x1600 has 512mb. i have 2 20" dell monitors running 1680x1050. im gonna trying running hydravision and see what i can get (if its anything like nvidias dualview).
any help would be appreciated!
i have vista ultimate and i can get dream to run on a single monitor. if i enable the second monitor it says the needed graphics memory is not available (or something along those lines). i have an x850 and a x1600 on pcie. the x850 has 256mb and the x1600 has 512mb. i have 2 20" dell monitors running 1680x1050. im gonna trying running hydravision and see what i can get (if its anything like nvidias dualview).
any help would be appreciated!
adam19
Reply #4 Sunday, February 18, 2007 12:36 AM
Reply #4 Sunday, February 18, 2007 12:36 AM
as a followup, i could not get hydravision to work with dreamscene. oh well.
Please login to comment and/or vote for this skin.
Welcome Guest! Please take the time to register with us.
There are many great features available to you once you register, including:
- Richer content, access to many features that are disabled for guests like commenting on the forums and downloading skins.
- Access to a great community, with a massive database of many, many areas of interest.
- Access to contests & subscription offers like exclusive emails.
- It's simple, and FREE!
Reply #1 Wednesday, February 14, 2007 6:07 PM
If you're able to run the three desktops without DreamScene enabled on all of them, it may be that you're already close to the limit on texture memory. Running DreamScene may be pushing it over the limit because it probably has to allocate a little more for the animation.