Multiple Monitors with Windows7 working, but very slow

I have 4 Monitors on 2 graphics cards under windows 7.

GeForce GT 230 PCIe
GeForce 6200 PCI

My system is a quadcore @ 2.66 GHz with 8GB RAM. The monitors attached to the GT230 works perfectly. Those attached to the 6200 are slow, and even when I just try to move a simple window, it "drags" and stutters...

I have installed the latest drivers and tried disabling the fancy GUI stuff but it didn't make any difference. I used XP before and everything worked fine, no performance problems whatsoever.

Is there anything I can do to increase performance or am I missing some options I have to enable?

Darcara

Posted 2010-09-26T16:19:22.510

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Answers

the 6200 is a device from 2004. It does not support DirectX 10, which is used by windows 7 and Vista's Aero interface.. Your probably pushing that graphics card too hard, running two monitors off of it. (especially if its the rare PCI version, and not the PCI-E version)

What happens if you right click on the desktop, choose personalize, and pick one of the "basic" themes? Does that help?

Brian

Posted 2010-09-26T16:19:22.510

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It sounds like it's using the default VGA drivers for that video card instead of the graphic card's drivers.

Corey

Posted 2010-09-26T16:19:22.510

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Yes, it really looks that way, but the system manager says the driver is loaded. It's the same for both cards though. – Darcara – 2010-09-28T21:56:57.067