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Forums -> UltraMon™ -> Preview of second monitor stops updating
MCCMikey   2005-04-25 20:04
Hi there :)

Using a Laptop which supports two monitors. Laptop runs XP. Teaching Windows 2000 and Office 2000 using VMWare on the second monitor which goes to a projector.

Was hoping to use the preview option to see a small copy of the second monitor on the laptop LCD rather than having to look at the projector image.

Preview works well for a little while (although it slows VMware by about 30-50% on video activity) but then the preview window just stops updating.

Any idea? (Celeron M 1.4GHz, 512M RAM, Intel Extreme video)
Christian Studer   2005-04-26 08:19
Haven't seen this myself, how long does it take until it stops working?

Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
MCCMikey   2005-04-28 13:11
SOrry for the delay in replying. The preview window stops responding anywhere between 30 seconds and a few minutes. This is true even if I'm not running VMWare.

Also, if I resize the preview window, it can crash with an error about reading and writing some memory addresses - I'm sorry I didn't catch the full error message.

Cheers, Mike.
Christian Studer   2005-04-29 07:21
Thanks for the information, I'll try to reproduce this.

Regarding the resize issue: this has been fixed for the next release, 2.6.

Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
Christian Studer   2005-04-30 08:14
I haven't been able to reproduce this so far, monitor preview worked fine for more than 5 minutes. Unfortunately I don't have any idea at the moment what might cause this.

Please note that monitor preview (and mirroring) can't display hardware accelerated 3D graphics and video overlays, you would get a frozen or blank image.

One thing you could check: once the preview gets no longer updated, can you still move the preview window around or close it?

Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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