nvidia opengl error - Counter Strike on Multi-mon.

Dear all,

This is really weird. I used to play CS on 1 monitor setup with 41.09 on Ti
200 64MB perfectly. Recently I installed a PCI radeon 9200SE 64MB for a
second monitor. I did not use the ati control panel and used the rage3d
tweak instead. But this should have nothing to do with my problem.

The problem is, as soon as I had 2 monitors up and running, I can't start
counter strike. I can go into the menu and browse games ok, but as soon as
it tries to connect, it craps out. There're 2 ways it pops out:

1. Both monitor enabled, with the original nvidia as primary, it does a
windows alert sound, when i press the windows key, i see 2 task items,
"counter strike", "nvidia openGL". I had to right click on that to close
it.

2. Disabled the second monitor in display properties, running CS on the
nvidia, at the same stage, it pops back to the game browser, and says "the
selected opengl video mode is not supported by your video card."

This is really weird cuz all I did was installed a card, setup drivers,
installed rage3d tweak. I even had this formatted and it still won't work.

Could it be that the installation of ati drivers somehow fooled or overwrote
the default openGL ICD? When I checked the display properties under nvidia,
it does have the 41.09 ver. as the openGL ICD. It boggles my puny mind.
Please help.


-bron

"Bronney Hui" <bronney.RemoveThis@netvigator.com> wrote in message news:<c1hpc3$i279@imsp212.netvigator.com>...
 > Dear all,
 >
 > This is really weird. I used to play CS on 1 monitor setup with 41.09 on Ti
 > 200 64MB perfectly. Recently I installed a PCI radeon 9200SE 64MB for a
 > second monitor. I did not use the ati control panel and used the rage3d
 > tweak instead. But this should have nothing to do with my problem.
 >
 > The problem is, as soon as I had 2 monitors up and running, I can't start
 > counter strike. I can go into the menu and browse games ok, but as soon as
 > it tries to connect, it craps out. There're 2 ways it pops out:
 >
 > 1. Both monitor enabled, with the original nvidia as primary, it does a
 > windows alert sound, when i press the windows key, i see 2 task items,
 > "counter strike", "nvidia openGL". I had to right click on that to close
 > it.
 >
 > 2. Disabled the second monitor in display properties, running CS on the
 > nvidia, at the same stage, it pops back to the game browser, and says "the
 > selected opengl video mode is not supported by your video card."
 >
 > This is really weird cuz all I did was installed a card, setup drivers,
 > installed rage3d tweak. I even had this formatted and it still won't work.
 >
 > Could it be that the installation of ati drivers somehow fooled or overwrote
 > the default openGL ICD? When I checked the display properties under nvidia,
 > it does have the 41.09 ver. as the openGL ICD. It boggles my puny mind.
 > Please help.
 >
 >
 > -bron

Well ya know what it is, in your current setup you can't play games on
dual monitors. Why, because ati cards and nvidia cards CAN work
together fine in 2d, but once a game run only the primary card gets
the videostream...

The error you get seems to point at that an little program of
nvidia,making it possible to game on multiple monitors..has problems
with working with the ati card.

Ya know, what I suggest..is 1 card with 2 outputs, then you get no
conflicts and no problems with 3d.

So either a nice nvidia card with 2 outputs or an ati card with 2
outputs, ati and nvidia together might work under 2d but not under 3d!<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->