Two Monitors ? Options

[jimmynitcher]

Seems like a good idea - I've increased screen resolution and I'm getting a headache.
I've heard you can use a seperate screen for plugins or have them work as one....as you can see I have no idea
and what are the connections..?
anybody have any experience of this ?
J

[Teiwaz]

For anyone with a DAE/TDM rig who suffers from the "pci bus too busy to communicate reliably with the audio hardware" message:

I get that message occasionally with my profools TDM rig, and I have a quicksilver 867mhz host with the stock nvidia monitor card that came with it, in the agp slot. The PCI slots are taken up with four notools cards.

It drops me out of record from time to time along with the message. Most unpleasant. I actually believe it's a core card and/or DAE code flaw on dodgydesign's part. I never got this message with the cards in my older 9600, but why would I want to carry on with that computer?

Dodgydesign don't have a fix for this error. It would appear that certain "audio/video" cards do produce this, erm..error...



Their tech support were aware of the problem, but could offer no solution to it. Their advice was to say the least, rather thin on the ground and totally ineffective. Hardware problem? ho hum. Lazy coders? DAE has always been a little 'shaky' considering it's supposed to be the defacto audio engine for the most widespread "pro" audio workstation out there!

hmmm

In stark contrast, I never get this "dropping out of record" or "busy pci errors" with my MOTU 2408/dual gig system. Better audio engine code, I presume.