Guest Brandon Sneed Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 You guys may know this already, so pardon me if its redundant. I have a mod to your .inf file to allow Display 2 to be set to primary in the Settings tab of display properties. I was so annoyed that one couldn't do this with a laptop that i beat my head in trying things. Here are my changes... [nv_SoftwareDeviceSettings] ; BKS HKR,, DualViewAllow2ndViewAsPrimary, %REG_DWORD%, 1 HKR,, DualViewAllowNonDFPAsPrimary,%REG_DWORD%, 1 HKR,, DualViewHotKeyPolicy, %REG_DWORD%, 1 HKR,, DualViewMobile, %REG_DWORD%, 2 HKR,, DualViewPolicyID, %REG_DWORD%, 2 [nv_ControlPanelSettings] ;BKS HKLM,"Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak", NvCplDualViewAllowNonDFPAsPrimary, %REG_DWORD%, 1 HKLM,"Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak", NvCplDualviewMoveDesktopIcons,%REG_DWORD%, 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSudlow Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 Thanks, Brandon. I do use those in my custom inf for the Inspiron 5150 and 5160. I'm not sure if Pieter wants to include them in the standard inf, but maybe they could go into his performance inf, or could go into our FAQ section for those who want to enable it. Nice job! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 Thanks a lot Brendan, we actually need more poeple like you who try out settings and publish them here. Good Work. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 Am I lost or am I the only one that thought that you could set a secondary monitor as a primary with Pieter's INF? I thought Dell's drivers were the only ones that wouldn't let you do that. (Another reason Dell's drivers never cut it for me.) I will be sure to keep this info handy Brandon! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 The option is "gray"ed out in Pieter's INF (using 71.20 with 30.44) with intention i think because there were problems with that earlier, but i don't remember exactly what these were. But what i like is that this guy put effort in finding out which of all the NVCXPL values really affect the "2nd as Primary" setting. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Brandon Sneed Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 No problem guys, glad I could help (if i did). I recall looking for the info on google for a long time and only finding people complaining about not being able to do so as opposed to an actual solution. ps. I haven't tested these settings with anything outside of the 66.93 drivers (the latest ver posted on nvidia's site). I would assume they work unless nvidia broke them on purpose in later builds since all the 2D stuff is pretty static, with regards to the driver code, by now i'd imagine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSudlow Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 They work on all drivers, at least since the 4x.xx series. You found the right combination. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nathan Bales Posted August 15, 2005 Report Share Posted August 15, 2005 Thank you, I was bashing my head in looking for this. It didn't work perfectly, after a reboot support seems to have vanished in the nVidia control panel. :) But I can still get it right through the windows control panel. It's actually better this way because the nVidia tools confused my digitizer. Thanks again. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted October 11, 2005 Report Share Posted October 11, 2005 Many thanks for this Brandon. I have a laptop and an external LCD. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but after I have set my external LCD to be the primary, and then restart the laptop, will the display automatically go straight to the external LCD? Bcoz at the moment its so stupid - every time i restart, the display automatically goes to the built-in laptop LCD. I really really really++ never want to use the built-in LCD. I always want to use the external LCD all the time, automatically, without having to change settings every single time i restart. Does this code do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 This topic has some tweaks. http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/index....indpost&p=15253 One of the Dell tweaks mentioned should fix your problem I am guessing, you will have to do the experimintation though to find out which one(s). Some of the tweaks in the post are the same tweaks listed in this thread, but one of the strange ones should fix the problem, I really don't know which one it is, but putting all those in fixed all the problems for me. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted October 12, 2005 Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 You're a legend Bill! Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tomtower Posted October 20, 2005 Report Share Posted October 20, 2005 Oh yeah!!! It's work !! :) Thanks !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamika007z Posted October 30, 2005 Report Share Posted October 30, 2005 Just check out your request and the only line I'm missing is this: HKR,, DualViewAllow2ndViewAsPrimary, %REG_DWORD%, 1 I will add it later on, because I'm not on my laptop as I write this :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 I tried to add these lines to my .inf-file and managed to set my external TFT to primary with the internal display on the laptop as secondary but it also resulted in problems when starting games (NFS: Underground and CS: Source) - problems meaning the games didn't work at all! The graphics card is a GF go 66600 (on a laptop with a P M 1,73 GHz, 1024 MB). I currently use the laptop as a desktop computer with all the standard "external" accesories; display, keyboard, mouse, speakers etc through a docking station and I'm only using the external display - I would really appreciate some help with this - how can I get the dual-view to work?? You guys seem to be the only ones who has the answer to my questions... Sincerely Jocke, Sweden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattman Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 (edited) Is there a way to modify these to do the opposite? I've got an issue on 81.9* drivers where when i boot my lappie on the docking station, it loads the 2nd display as primary, but at some bizzare reso, I imagine the highest it can output (trying to output the 1400x1050 that my laptop uses but not actually capable). There is a toshiba utility to swap the laptop screen to primary which is pretty simple, but it would be nice to get it so I don't have to do that at all since it still turns off the 2nd display and i have to go back in (again) to re-activate the 2nd display at the correct reso. Edited December 12, 2005 by mattman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jason T Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 Thanks for this. I have a new Toshiba portege s100 and couldn't get the external as primary, this wrks like a charm!!! You guys may know this already..... Quote truncated to make thread shorter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 You guys may know this already, so pardon me if its redundant.I have a mod to your .inf file to allow Display 2 to be set to primary in the Settings tab of display properties. I was so annoyed that one couldn't do this with a laptop that i beat my head in trying things. Here are my changes... [nv_SoftwareDeviceSettings] ; BKS HKR,, DualViewAllow2ndViewAsPrimary, %REG_DWORD%, 1 HKR,, DualViewAllowNonDFPAsPrimary,%REG_DWORD%, 1 HKR,, DualViewHotKeyPolicy,[tab][/tab][tab][/tab]%REG_DWORD%, 1 HKR,, DualViewMobile,[tab][/tab][tab][/tab][tab][/tab] %REG_DWORD%, 2 HKR,, DualViewPolicyID,[tab][/tab][tab][/tab] %REG_DWORD%, 2 [nv_ControlPanelSettings] ;BKS HKLM,"Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak", NvCplDualViewAllowNonDFPAsPrimary, %REG_DWORD%, 1 HKLM,"Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak", NvCplDualviewMoveDesktopIcons,%REG_DWORD%, 1 How do I apply this? I tried saving this as a .reg file and running it but it didn't work. Do I need to reinstall my video card driver? What I am actually trying to do is get an external monitor working with my ITC 9300 laptop. I think it is also known as a Sager. It has a 6800 Go Ultra. Some time ago I updated the driver to version 6.14.10.7772 (file date is 15/6/2005). I think the drivers were from Omega. Anyway, I just bought an external display for my laptop and the hotkey to get the laptop to display on the external monitor (Fn+F7) doesn't work. I've been playing around with the control panel display settings but nothing I do can get a picture on the external monitor. I know the monitor itself is fine (I've got it working on my new Dell 9400). I just can't get this laptop to output to the DVI. :) Would installing this .ini file possibly fix the problem? Any help would be massively appreciated. I've been googling and reading for hours with no luck... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 You need to add/change those parts in the mod INF file. Uninstall those omega drivers and get something new like 91.33. http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/index.php?drivers Download the driver, unzip it, replace with mod INF and makes sure those settings are in place, then install. The HKR tweaks you have to re-install to take affect, the HKLM tweaks you can change instantly, such as coolbits, ect. We need to get this put into enhancer. (can mod the INF for you) http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/enhancer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtnman382 Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 You guys may know this already, so pardon me if its redundant.I have a mod to your .inf file to allow Display 2 to be set to primary in the Settings tab of display properties. I was so annoyed that one couldn't do this with a laptop that i beat my head in trying things. Here are my changes... [nv_SoftwareDeviceSettings] ; BKS HKR,, DualViewAllow2ndViewAsPrimary, %REG_DWORD%, 1 HKR,, DualViewAllowNonDFPAsPrimary,%REG_DWORD%, 1 HKR,, DualViewHotKeyPolicy, %REG_DWORD%, 1 HKR,, DualViewMobile, %REG_DWORD%, 2 HKR,, DualViewPolicyID, %REG_DWORD%, 2 [nv_ControlPanelSettings] ;BKS HKLM,"Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak", NvCplDualViewAllowNonDFPAsPrimary, %REG_DWORD%, 1 HKLM,"Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak", NvCplDualviewMoveDesktopIcons,%REG_DWORD%, 1 Excuse my ignorance, I am not familiar with how to implement these commands. I have a compaq presario r3000 with a nvidia ge force4 440 go 64m video card and would like my games to display on the 62" jvc. I have gotten my desktop to display on the tv, and the mouse will show up, so I am assuming that if I could get the second monitor to become primary in the display tab, my problem would be solved. Can you help a newbie get there? Thank you Dan dlwear382@msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
®®® Posted February 13, 2007 Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 This needs to be set in our modded INF which you have to download seperately for each driver release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Don Q Wall Posted August 14, 2008 Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 Thank you! You are a live saver! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Vasilij Posted February 3, 2009 Report Share Posted February 3, 2009 Respect, Brandon, worked just great for ASUS A8jc laptop with GeForce Go7300 video card. Patch applied to the 86.28 (ASUS) WinXP 32-bit drivers downloaded from this site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kt Posted March 20, 2009 Report Share Posted March 20, 2009 Can someone please explain how to implement this? I have pasted these two sections into the appropriate section of nvac.inf in driver 179.48 (XP Pro downloaded from NVidia), and reinstalled but 'use this as primary' is still grayed out. What am I missing? I am totally guessing at which inf to edit, was that correct? (nvac.inf)? I did just reinstall 179.48 on top of itself... I guess I should try uninstalling first. Thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kt Posted March 20, 2009 Report Share Posted March 20, 2009 I did unintall, then reinstall. Also tried changing the NVAM.INF and installing by HAVE DISK and selecting that file. Still no workie! Any ideas please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teraphy Posted March 21, 2009 Report Share Posted March 21, 2009 kt, If your card and system id are listed within the original support of driver 179.48 then you can add in the registry entries. If not you will need to download the modified INF on the 179.48 page and make sure the changes are applied. Before installing make sure there is only that INF located within the directory. For XP 32bit you can give enhancer a go: Enhancer for 179.48 and check the last option. Primary for Dual Display Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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