Dual Monitor Setup...
onimusha
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I have used DAZ studio with two monitors for years. I just got a new 4k monitor and switched my old monitor to be my secondary one.
I usually have a few panes such as scen on my second monitor so they don't crowd my viewport.
With my new monitor, when I drag panes over to the secondary monitor, they disappear. They're just gone. Toggling them in the tab menu does nothing...
Please help. Thanks.
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You can recover them with the Window>Workspace>Off-screen Pane (Tab) Groups command. I think your issue may be related to having very different resolutions on the two displays, but it's not soemthing I have experience with
So I have tried that, and it didn't work. I have been suspecting the same thing about resolution differences causeing the problem. I feel like the panes are getting "lost" off screen because the machine doesn't know how to deal with them. Probably doesn't help that I have one screen in portrait mode either.
Thanks for the advice, I will keep toying with it and see what happens.
So I came up with a fix. I changed the resolution of my main monitor to match my side monitor. I then set up all my panes. Then I swicthed the resolutions back... voila.
Thanks for the input, it helped me work through the issue.
So when I tried to actually load any duf files, it made DAZ crash pretty hard. I guess I won't be doing much dual monitor work until I can get a second 4k screen.
Windows has many many little quirks with multi monitor setups. It works best with identical monitors oriented the same way. The more you deviate from that, especially with high resolution or high refresh rate monitors the more likely you are to encounter issues.
I had something sort of like that happen when I changed my secondary monitor. Windows by default thought my second monitor was on the right, when it was on the left. When I moved something to the left toward the second monitor, I hit a wall. When I moved it off-screen to the right, it looked like it disappeared, but it showed up on the left side of my second monitor where I wasn't looking. So I moved things around in the display settings and now I'm happy.
The only way Windows knows the layout of your monitors is if you tell it. If you had a monitor on the right and replace it but put the new one on the left you need to go into display settings and redo your layout.
My old monitor was also on the left. But thanks. It's already done.
Keep in mind that any dispalys running off of a card you use for rendering contribute significant to the amount of VRAM you lose to the operating system. I was playing around with screen resolutions on my rendering system the other day (a single 27" 4K panel going into a Titan RTX) and going from the native 4K of my screen to 1080p instantly reduced my overall VRAM usage by 300-400MB. So if you tend to render scenes sized near your GPU's capacity, having two 4K screens running off of it is something you're gonna want to avoid.
A while back I tried figuring out the amount of VRAM reserved per monitor at each resolution. It obviously isn't just a single frame buffer, 10bit color = 5 bytes/pixel. 4k resolution is 3840 x 2160 pixels = 8,294,400 pixels or a frame buffer max of 41,472,000 bytes or around 40Mb. It seems likely that it saves room for more than one frame but it seems unlikely that it is 10 or more. Maybe it holds some back for animation work but I can't find any documentation and several hundred Mb isn't much when you're talking textures.
It's NOT hardware or Windows. DAZ needs to make the program work better with the Windows Display API. It's outdated coding. Every serious software program works on muliplte monitors - independent of resolution - flawlessly. Since people are starting to take DAZ Studio seriously now, they need to get that fixed soon.
I've been set up with dual monitors for a couple of months and everything was good until I lost power for several hours and my UPS died.
Now, when I load up Studio, everything that was on second monitor is gone. 'Off Screen' doesn't bring them back.
Changing to a single monitor workspace brought everything back but I can longer recustomize back to two monitor usage.
BTW, both my 3k monitors are set up with the same resolution.