Hoster Show Nightmare - A 3rd video card was used and dialogs moved to it

[Joe Nieves]

I will give this a try and see if this will resolve the alocated monitor #2 issue in this way, if it does then the problem will be solved, hoping for the best..

Thanks Roy

Joe...

[Joe Nieves]

Hi Roy

Well I removed the drivers then;
1. Rebooted
2. Cleaned the registry.
3. Downloaded drivers from the startech site.
4. Reinstalled drivers.

I made sure the extended monitor was active before installing the new drivers, after the install I check the properties dialog and only the two monitors where present before the program rebooted the computer for the changes to take effect.

After the reboot I checked again and found the USB monitor defaulted to monitor #2 and extended to monitor #3, so back to the same position I was in before.

I also changed the order of the monitor icons to show monitor #3 in second position in properties, but that had no effect either when I played those files in Hoster they still showed the lyrics as before no change at all...

Joe...

[Roy Dennis]

Hmm, I really thought that might work, seems like it takes president over the on-board graphic card.

Have you contacted the manufacturer for any help on this?

Roy.

[Roy Dennis]

Joe, not ready to give up on this yet.

Have you tried having your singers screen coming from the USB card, if so are the graphics still scrambled? If they are not is there any reason why you can't have this as your singers screen and the search screen from your extended video card.

I suppose you would have to use the converter from the VGA output on the USB card. and have the search screen straight from the VGA out.

Or have I got it completely wrong

Roy.

[Joe Nieves]

I believe I tried that idea, but will check it out again, and yes I spent 2hrs this morning with them and was told that windows takes care of the alocation of the video cards..., he also recommended try speaking with Hoster to see what they can do...

Video card www.startech.com

Thanks Roy
Joe...

[Joe Nieves]

Well, when I first started Hoster it went to the #3 monitor, then I moved and resized the singers Display to the USB monitor and closed Hoster so it would default to the USB monitor which it did and it worked Perfectly as expected with no issues on Auto for over one hour all songs played normally.

This is what I've been Saying all along Hoster is programed to monitor #2 and since the USB monitor is Display #2 this is why it plays normally.

The only problem is that my DJ program and other software won't run on the available 16meg of built in memory the USB video card has, haven't tried my controllers yet, but between all the monitors and projectors on the venues that I usually run, it would not be possible using this setup.

Thanks Roy
Joe....

[Joe Nieves]

Just wanted to add the Display Screen View for each monitor, forgot to add in my previous post...

Joe....

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Joe Nieves

The only problem is that my DJ program and other software won't run on the available 16meg of built in memory the USB video card has, haven't tried my controllers yet, but between all the monitors and projectors on the venues that I usually run, it would not be possible using this setup.

Thanks Roy
Joe....

Joe this may be the key to your problem with songs not displaying right. Most internal video cards now have 128 to 256 or more MB of internal memory.
Have you tried getting the display back to the primary and instead of double clicking drag it over to #3 and then double click to enlarge to full screen? That way the main screen and the display would be off of the internal card, leaving the USB to hold the Search and Singers Database windows on #2.

Have you thought about upgrading to a higher memory USB card? Found one at USBgear that had 512MB for only $70.