Simviation Forum - 2nd screen

Oct 29^th, 2009 at 12:44am

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Okay I have found a nice little 15" LCD lying around so I have setup a nice dual screen setup thingo, Now I have seen that my 2nd screen flickers, Alot with Windows Aero ON, barely with it OFF, I do not mind this, but is there a way to fix it so I can have Windows looking awesome Grin

BTW, Both screens are running at 75Hz, but Main (19" WS) is DVI and 2nd in VGA Wink

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Reply #1 - Oct 29^th, 2009 at 9:45pm

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flickering in LCD screens can be caused by bad cables... are you using VGA or DVI?

also, maybe the screen is having trouble with the resolution you set it to, or with the color depth (which would be weird, but still in the realm of possiilities)

check to see if the screen is running at it's native resolution (probably 1280x1024, maybe less), and try changing the color depth to 16-bit, see if it helps...

hope this helps

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Reply #2 - Oct 30^th, 2009 at 2:36am

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HarvesteR wrote on Oct 29^th, 2009 at 9:45pm:

flickering in LCD screens can be caused by bad cables... are you using VGA or DVI?

also, maybe the screen is having trouble with the resolution you set it to, or with the color depth (which would be weird, but still in the realm of possiilities)

check to see if the screen is running at it's native resolution (probably 1280x1024, maybe less), and try changing the color depth to 16-bit, see if it helps...

hope this helps

Cheers

My main is using DVI and 2nd is Using VGA, I mean it only flickers when map loading in game, or i scroll fast in web browser, doing nothing it's fine Wink

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Reply #3 - Oct 30^th, 2009 at 8:56am

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Hi Mazza,

Be aware that the resolution you use in multi screen mode is when you have FS in windows mode, that means your resolution etc is not those you set within FS but those set via desktop/properties or via the control panel.

Try dropping aircraft/dynamic graphics down to min then turn them up and check what the monitor specs are and play with the refresh rates.
I occasionally have problems on multi screen depending on which aircraft I use and I think it's because I'm asking too much of the PC, but never flicker but corrupted graphics.

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Reply #4 - Oct 30^th, 2009 at 5:53pm

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I found that flickering can be caused by having one monitor at a different resolution to the other.

Is there a resolution that they both share which you could put them both into (so they have the same resolution) and then try it again.

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Reply #5 - Oct 30^th, 2009 at 8:48pm

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EVVFCX wrote on Oct 30^th, 2009 at 8:56am:

Hi Mazza,

Be aware that the resolution you use in multi screen mode is when you have FS in windows mode, that means your resolution etc is not those you set within FS but those set via desktop/properties or via the control panel.

Try dropping aircraft/dynamic graphics down to min then turn them up and check what the monitor specs are and play with the refresh rates.
I occasionally have problems on multi screen depending on which aircraft I use and I think it's because I'm asking too much of the PC, but never flicker but corrupted graphics.

It doesn't happen when I'm in FS, as i undock the cockpit view and drag it over, and I don't think my 19" (1440X900) would look good at 1074X768 Grin

Doesn't bother me THAT much Wink

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Reply #6 - Nov 3^rd, 2009 at 8:08am

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Hi Mazza,

Ok, flickering during dragging? Could be simply a windows thing, there is an option if your using Win XP only for dragging windows to redraw them as they are dragged, it could be that, turn it off so it only draws it when you've finished moving, mine does that but as you've said, 'it does'nt bother me that much'.

In my case I'm fairly certain its my radeon 9250 512MG card that does'nt cope, cpu is 3.2ghz single and 1 gig of memory, I get the graphics all broken up in multi screen but it does'nt do it with every plane but mainly from memory I think it's only add-on aircraft.

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Reply #7 - Nov 6^th, 2009 at 1:56am

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EVVFCX wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2009 at 8:08am:

Hi Mazza,

Ok, flickering during dragging? Could be simply a windows thing, there is an option if your using Win XP only for dragging windows to redraw them as they are dragged, it could be that, turn it off so it only draws it when you've finished moving, mine does that but as you've said, 'it does'nt bother me that much'.

In my case I'm fairly certain its my radeon 9250 512MG card that does'nt cope, cpu is 3.2ghz single and 1 gig of memory, I get the graphics all broken up in multi screen but it does'nt do it with every plane but mainly from memory I think it's only add-on aircraft.

Thanks, I'm using Windows 7 Wink

I don't mind the flickering, very little, and I have ALWAYS hated the silly little dotted 'window' whilst moving it about Grin

There is no flickering when I turn redraw off, but meh Wink

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