Recently purchased Uru-Ages Beyond Myst and cannot get the game to work - crashes. Short story: tech support at Ubisoft.com pointed out that my DXDIAG file showed I did not have a monitor driver loaded. Got to looking at my Display properties, and lo and behold, I've somehow gotten 2 monitors listed. I don't have 2 monitors. I've got a single Asus v9520 (uses NVidia GeForce FX5200 chipset) with 1 VGA port connected to my Samsung SyncMaster 753DF. Sometime back I loaded the 76.52 NVidia driver, didn't notice then that this was going on. I've now uninstalled and reinstalled various Asus and NVidia drivers and here's whats happening: the very old original Asus driver v44.03 that's on my installation disk loads nicely and shows only one monitor in Display properties. As soon as I update to NVidia v56.72 Display Properties lists 2 monitors, monitor 2 is my SyncMaster, default monitor 1 is a generic "winseset" on FX5200. The generic monitor only supports 60Hz and a few low resolutions. I can't find a way to disable or remove this second monitor, and by the way, it's "really there". If I enable this monitor I can drag items to this imaginary monitor and then back again. Really weird. Can anyone tell me how to either disable this feature, or is there a better driver out there? Any suggestions?
76.52?? (typo?) Those were nice indeed (my favorite was the 43.45) When you "update" do you remove the previous drivers first (or format?) ... to "fix" the problem, you might try and goto Device Manager and delete the monitor devices and reboot. Do you have a TV out on that card?
Yeah, sorry for the typo, I meant 56.72 not 76.52! I have previously removed all drivers via Device Manager then loaded the 56.72 driver. No good, dual monitor problem appears. Don't remember if I rebooted in between, I'll try it again tonight (gotta run to work right now). I have no other display device connected to my computer and never have. Just a single monitor connected to the single VGA port on the graphics card. There is a DVI connector also on the back of the card, as well as an S-video connector, but I've never used either of them.
Update: still no joy. I've been reading posts on the guru3d.com forums. Found a number of detailed descriptions about removing and installing NVidia drivers. I've gone thru several reinstalls (of different version drivers) now without success. Method: I'm uninstalling current driver via Control Panel Add/Remove, then booting into Safe Mode, running Driver Cleaner 3.2 to be certain all remaining pieces of driver are gone, then restarting back to WinXP. Then I load fresh copy of desired driver. I've gotten a hold of multiple different versions of drivers: 44.03 (off original install CD), 52.16, 56.55, 56.72 (off Asus or NVidia webpage) plus numerous "beta" drivers 60.85, 61.36, 61.45, 61.72 (off of guru3d.com). I've installed I think just about everyone of the above drivers. In every single case but 44.03, immediately upon installing the driver I get a screen telling me to set up my multiple displays. No matter what I do, I show 2 monitors in Display Properties: monitor 2 is my SyncMaster, default #1 is generic winseset (actually, I think the software believes it is a TV). If I try to go ahead and set up my “2 monitors”, it shows me different ways to set up a TV and a computer monitor (but I don’t now nor have I ever had a TV connected to this computer! Grrrrrrr!). If I install 44.03 driver I get desired result of only one monitor showing, everything is set up correctly. Unfortunately, Uru doesn't work with the 44.03 driver... I think I've spent over 12 hours on this issue the past three evenings, I'm about to give up. Can't count the number of reboots, installs and uninstalls. Don't know where to go from here. I just feel like there MUST be something obvious that I'm missing here. It just can't be possible that the computer thinks I have 2 displays. Anybody have a suggestion for me? Please, before I go crazy!!
DAMN that *is* wierd .. ive had some funky multimonitor problems but they always go away with a format+newdrivers ... when the ghost monitors kick in, have you tried going to the nView setings and turning the displays off?
I'm not familiar with the NView settings at all. I've mostly been trying to solve this problem via drivers. Can you tell me where in NView I go to "turn off" displays? Is it obvious?
Have a look at the Desktop Management section of your nVidia display settings and enable nView if you have to, if only to be able to "turn off" them ghost monitors
Hi stampede I have the Asus v9520 Magic video card. It has both a VGA video out and a S video out. This at default would trigger a dual display setup. To change - one needs to go to Display Properties - Settings - Advanced - GeForce FX5200 On the Left panel locate Troubleshooting. There is a box for My connected TV is not being detected and it needs to be unchecked I hope this helps
thanks chthomson; went to nView/troubleshooting. The selection box "My connected TV is not detected" is NOT checked and is grayed out, I can't do anything with it. In addition, if I hold my mouse over that section of the menu, a pop up box appears that states "this control is disabled because the TV connected to the graphics card was successfully detected. This option can be used to force detection of an attached TV which does not report its presence to the graphics card". To which I say again, I do not and never have had a TV or second monitor connected... So, bottom line, I need to figure out how/why the card believes a TV is connected. Could I have a "bad card" related to it's circuits, or is this a software issue? HELP!!
Hi stampede Your card is capable of three video outs. It believes that the monitor that is connected is video 2 eventhough it is the only monitor connected. The question is which video out is video one and then connect the monitor to that port. I suspect the DVI to be Video 1. Your card should have come with an adaptor to convert VGA to DVI. Try that and see what happens I hope this helps
thanks again chtomson! I'm at work at the moment, but [bold]I can't wait to go home and give your suggestion a try! I think you might have solved it!! [/bold] YES YES YES, I made a newbie mistake (??, I recall reading the installation guide for the v9520 quite closely, did I miss the instructions to be certain I installed a 1-monitor system on the DVI port??): my computer monitor has a VGA cord, so of course I connected the monitor to the VGA port on the back of the card, which is the middle port on the card, between the DVI and S-video. At the time, I didn't even know for sure what the other connectors were! So if I understand correctly what may be happening, the driver detects my computer monitor on the VGA port and thinks it's a TV, but then installs a "default" monitor on the DVI connector, even though one isn't there, and assigns the "winseset" driver to that monitor. It makes perfect sense to me, and I hardly understand any of this stuff! All I need to do is plug the monitor into the DVI port using the adapter. Do I need to uninstall the driver before I unplug and replug in the monitor, or will the graphics card figure that out on it's own? I may just have to leave work early today to see if that's it....
You shouldnt have to uninstall the monitor or anything ... very odd becuase when i had my Ti4600, it had the DVI as Monitor 1 and the VGA15 as Monitor 2 ... and I never use LCDs so i plugged it into the VGA15 and it was detected as "monitor 1" ... strange indeed
[bold]Hallelujah!![/bold] [bold]Hallelujah!![/bold] Everyone please join along as I sing the Hallelujah chorus... Problem solved! I did in fact come home early, just couldn't concentrate at work today (plus I'm heading out for a week of vacation pronto) and wanted to see if the suggestion from chthomson was correct. Well, it was. I simply shut down the computer, unplugged my VGA monitor cord from the VGA graphics card port, then added the DVI adapter to the monitor cord and plugged back into the DVI port on the v5290. Upon reboot, all display properties go back to exactly what they should be. I see only 1 monitor, proper monitor driver and video card driver are all installed. Now, all that to say, I've not played any games or anything on the computer yet, but I've solved the major problem that I'm pretty sure was causing issues. Thanks to everyone who posted here, I couldn't have done it along. Was too obvious for me, wouldn't have thought of doing it. Learned a lot about video drives, etc. Thanks again! Off on vacation in a few hours. Only interesting issue left in my mind is why the 44.03 driver works just fine with my previous config, but upon updating to newer drivers things change. I'll have to live without knowing....
