AutoCAD 2006 & Dual Monitors
AutoCAD 2006 & Dual Monitors
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I work out of a laptop (Sony PCG-K315B) and I run AutoCAD 2006. Recently I have had access to a BENQ wide/flat screen monitor (which is considerably larger than the notebook screen). I have set it up so that I have AutoCAD drawing screen on the big screen, and the properties, toolbars and text window always open on the notebook screen.
I have a bit of a problem as now the circles are not displayed as circles, but ellipses. I have gone into the display set up in windows (XP) and the max resolution 1280x1024, but I believe the screen is 1600x1200. Is this the cause of the problem?
I have tried to update the driver but windows tells me that the current driver is up to date.
Does anyone have any useful suggestions?
(PS there are similar posts on this but I think I've tried all suggestions).
Thanks,
I have a bit of a problem as now the circles are not displayed as circles, but ellipses. I have gone into the display set up in windows (XP) and the max resolution 1280x1024, but I believe the screen is 1600x1200. Is this the cause of the problem?
I have tried to update the driver but windows tells me that the current driver is up to date.
Does anyone have any useful suggestions?
(PS there are similar posts on this but I think I've tried all suggestions).
Thanks,





RE: AutoCAD 2006 & Dual Monitors
RE: AutoCAD 2006 & Dual Monitors
Time to try to convince the boss to by another monitor !
RE: AutoCAD 2006 & Dual Monitors
RE: AutoCAD 2006 & Dual Monitors
RE: AutoCAD 2006 & Dual Monitors
http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=4445
These guys created their own driver sets for noth nvidia and ATI graphics cards, and I have heard they work great at giving some performance back. In your case, maybe the latest driver set will include more/higher resolution options, one of which hopefully results in a "square" looking display.
Word of caution though... if you are running XP, create a restore point. That way you undo any bad things your tinkering may cause.
Good luck!
RE: AutoCAD 2006 & Dual Monitors
In order to get the 1680x1050 on the external, I have to select an option to have seperate resolutions for each screen.
I don't know if your graphics driver can pull that off, but look for that as your options, I think the 3 options were clone, stretch, and custom..
RE: AutoCAD 2006 & Dual Monitors