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

[ddouglass]

Joe, how are you setting up your screens? Are your main and Singers Display both off of the same card and the Search & Singer's database off of the second card?
The reason it is probably the same songs all the time that mess up is mostly likely base on colors used in those songs. I had problems at one time with one producer's song files because of the strange color choices they used and my distance to my monitors. I cured the problem with shielded cables. Probably not your answer but just an example.

[Joe Nieves]

Yes ddouglass you mentioned this before in my other post concerning this issue, I've tested at home with short cables and the singers and preview displays are connected to the internal laptop card, I don't even have to have the search screen opened in the third monitor for this issue to happen, once the USB card and monitor is connected and Active it has this effect.

I think Hoster program gets mixed up because it plays correctly to the extended monitor assigned to Disply #3 with no problems, but when the USB card is activated it get allocated to Display #2 and that is when the issue starts, even though it still renders in the singers display #3 the conflict is evident.

If there is a place in the registry that points Hoster program to the #2 Display and change that pointer to Display #3, I believe this would solve my problem.

Do you think I can get some help with this...

Thanks
Joe...

[ddouglass]

Could be the USB video card is drawing too much power from the laptop and dragging it down to the point that video on the main display is effected. The system I used was a desktop and a special pair of video cards made to work together.

[Joe Nieves]

The USB video card is plugged into a powered USB hub and its working fine with my DJ program, running vob mp4 mp2 mp1 videos scratching, mixing out of my two decks in the program with 5 plugins Active 3 video and 2 sound affects for 6 to 8 hours and no problems at all with the USB video card and monitor plugged in.


I just used it last night on a gig and been doing so for over a month now..,so I don't think its a resource problem at all based on what I have experienced with my setup.

I believe my suggestion will work, all I need is some help..

Thanks ddouglass
Joe...

[Roy Dennis]

As I understand your setup, when you disconect your usb adaptor you are still showing screens 1 & 3 in the properties window and not as the default would have been 1 & 2. If this is right here is what I would try. Uninstall the driver or software that came with the usb devise or restore your computer to the time before installing it. Get your computer set so that it shows extended monitor as 2. Now with the extended monitor pluged in and working as 1 & 2 try installing your usb adaptor while the normal extended monitor is activated and monitor 2 is already alocated, perhaps then it will make the usb monitor 3.

Just an idea, don't know if it will work.

Roy.

[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...