Multiple Monitors - V 4.12
Swan
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Experiencing some funky issues by making panes undockable so I can move them to other monitors. Panes jump around, sometimes off ALL of the monitors. Only thing I can do then is reset the layout to one of the built-in ones, then rearrange everything to my liking yet again. Never had this issue with 4.10.
Anyone have any fixes?
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Window>Workspace>Off Screen Pane(Tab) Groups will recentre any errant panes. It should not be happening in the first place, however - is your system able to, and does it, chnage which display is priamry from session to session?
Are the panes undocked (just floating, but can still be dragged to a dock area and docked) or undockable?
I tried DAZ's off-screen functions, but nothing shows up.
System never changes primary monitor unless I manually do it.
Panes are undocked. I have to select Make Pane/Pane Group Undockable in order to drag the pane(s) with any predictability and to keep them from simply flying off where they are open yet do not appear on any of my monitors.
For the record, I had these same NVIDIA cards w/ 4.10 which never had this issue. Only differences included I upgraded from Win 7 to 10 and changed my main monitor to a 4K model.
Windows, of every version, has always had some issues with monitors of different resolutions.
As an experiment set all of the monitors to the same resolution and refresh rate. See if the problem persists.
I've set all six monitors to the same res and the problem still happens on DAZ. :(
I've never had a problem with Windows and multiple monitors. No application besides DAZ 4.12 has any problems at all, even when monitors are set to different resolutions. Neither does it occur with DAZ 4.10. It's a bummer, too. 4.12 provides much faster IRAY renders.
I've had this same problem since Studio 4.10 and is has to do with different resolutions on the monitors. I even have all 4K monitors now (3 of them) and there are issues. One of them is portrait and dragging from or to it in Studio produces all sorts of problems. There are also issues with sub-menus and drop-downs appearing in the wrong spot (sometimes off the monitor and I have to move things around to get it to appear), and at the wrong resolution. Some of it is Windows 10. Most of it is the Studio interface programming, which was never built to handle high-resolution or multiple-monitors with different resolutions.
TD
Ouch. All mine are landscape and the same model, but I run a couple at different resolutions to see how things vary. Even so, with same resolutions, still had issues.
Now I know why. I had all of them at 4K res, assuming that DAZ would priortize higher resolutions because it is a graphics application.
I'd suspect that a portrait orientation may well require extra hoops from the driver which may cause issues (at a system level) with reporting mouse coordinates for drags - I certainly wouldn't regard that as establishing that different resolutions per se were the issue.
You're running 6 4k monitors? Off how many GPU's?
It's not the only indicator. Before that, I had 1 4K and 1 1080 and had problems. That said, I do not doubt that the portrait orientation is making it worse.
Two high-end NVIDIA cards. The monitors are on a stand and arranged in two rows of three. My two main monitors (those in the middle) run via displayports while the outer four are HDMI.
You are pushing the limits of both Windows multi monitor support and those cards capabilities. I'm not shocked that you are having issues. Try disconnecting the 4 hdmi monitors and see if just the 2 on dp connections work.
6 seems like a lot, but it's not pushing Windows (which allows up to 10) nor the PC itself (VERY powerful). Neither are the cards highly taxed. They barely break a sweat even while a render is going and I'm working on other things.
Were any of those an issue, other applications would be experiencing problems, too. None do. Just 4.12.
That said, I'll see if disconnecting the HDML monitors helps 4.12. Neither here nor there, though, if it does. I remember what working with DAZ was like with just 2 monitors (having 6makes working with DAZ much faster because there's far less clicks). I'd rather risk having to intermittently reset the layout, to be honest.
Windows may say it supports 10 but my work setup is 3 1440p monitors running off a single 1080. It was a PITA to get the monitors all working properly.
I have dual 2080s. Probably helps that my PC is a beast as well. Setting up the monitors was quite easy and unproblematic. Don't know that I would have tried setting up six monitors with my 980s, though I did run four with nary a hiccup.