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Gamer · 10-20-2009, 09:03 PM

Ok, to my surprise, that simple step did it. The leftover 3 monitors are still there, but I can finally stop watching videos in a VM after 1 week.

However, this also proves in my opinion that the DisplayLink software fiddles around with the main graphics drivers - and may break them in a strange way.

Just out of curiousity: In what way is your driver interacting with the main graphics hardware? I mean actually there shouldn't be a reason? Back in the old days, I used an additional PCI card to have a second display. The drivers acted totally independent from one another. I thought the same should apply to DisplayLink hardware, which is "a virtual graphics card on a chip behind the display"? And why this additional entry for the monitor under "Programs", but not in device manager, where it puts even three monitors of which you then see only one in display properties? It all seems a bit weird to me, but maybe I can get the logic behind if it is explained to me...

Thanks for now, back to watching videos...

10-20-2009, 09:03 PM	#8
Gamer Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 12	Ok, to my surprise, that simple step did it. The leftover 3 monitors are still there, but I can finally stop watching videos in a VM after 1 week. However, this also proves in my opinion that the DisplayLink software fiddles around with the main graphics drivers - and may break them in a strange way. Just out of curiousity: In what way is your driver interacting with the main graphics hardware? I mean actually there shouldn't be a reason? Back in the old days, I used an additional PCI card to have a second display. The drivers acted totally independent from one another. I thought the same should apply to DisplayLink hardware, which is "a virtual graphics card on a chip behind the display"? And why this additional entry for the monitor under "Programs", but not in device manager, where it puts even three monitors of which you then see only one in display properties? It all seems a bit weird to me, but maybe I can get the logic behind if it is explained to me... Thanks for now, back to watching videos...