Singer Monitor Issue

[eben333]

I have a strange problem with the Hoster. This just came up recently. I am running on a laptop and have the extended desktop using a VGA to RCA converter for the singer monitor.

When I start a CD+G, the CD+G section shows up shifted up. I lose some graphics at the top. The entire window, including the singer list at the bottom and the marquee at the top shows up fine, just the middle section where the CD+G information show shifted. Here is the funny thing. If I resize the window a bit, it fills up the screen properly.

Another info. When I play a video format, it never shows that problem. It's getting annoying, having to change the window size with every song. When I fill out the screen, using the double click, it still shows the screen shifting up.

Any clue as what I can do to fix this? Appreciate your help in advance.

[Roy Dennis]

Check your screen resolution hasn't altered on the 2nd monitor I think it needs to be 1024x768 or higher.

Roy.

[eben333]

Thanks for the response. I had a chance to check that last night's gig. The second screen was set for 1280x1024. I had the same issue. However, it did work for me briefly. I usually have the main window, search window and background music window open on my laptop screen. External screen is just singer window.

When I minimized the background music window, the singer window did come up right. Then Hoster crashed and when I restarted it, it went back to cutting off the top portion. I had to adjust the window every song to make it work.

Any other suggestions?

[Roy Dennis]

Try setting the 2nd monitor to 1024 x 768 from the control panel/display/screen resolution.
Are there adjustments on your VGA to RCA converter ?
On mine there are adjustments for vertical, horizontal, zoom & various other settings. I make sure zoom is off.

As you say you have your BA window open all the time, is any part of it stretched over and off your laptop screen, perhaps slightly over and under the singers screen ?

Can't think of anything else at the moment perhaps others can respond.

Roy.

[Roy Dennis]

Just to add to my previous post, what version of windows are you running and what make is your graphics card ?
When you say you have to adjust the window for each song, are you saying that if you select the top, bottom or a corner of the floating screen that puts the graphics section right ? or are you adjusting it some other way ?


Roy.

[eben333]

Hi Roy, thanks for the suggestions. I figured what was causing the problem. Out of my laptop, I am using a VGA splitter, that goes from my laptop's VGA to two sources. One goes to the monitor and other goes to the convert that converts the VGA to Composite video, which I plug in to a TV for the audience. Both are set as 1280x1024 resolution.

When I connect the monitor directly to the laptop and nothing else, the problem goes away. When I connect both, the problem appears. I think I can work around it but it's a very curious error.

To answer your question, yes, when I adjust the singer screen's window size by resizing the window, it adjusts to right.