I might as well document my continuing struggle with displaylink here where it might help others.
As an update to the previous thread, the displaylink driver I used in conjuction with the Nvidia driver that seemed to make everything work was displaylink version R6.3M0, and Nvidia driver 306.23, as mentioned earlier.
I just bought Crysis 3, and Nvidia's latest non-experimental driver was necessary to get it working optimally on my system. That's Nvidia driver 314.07, and of course to avoid the problems I noted earlier, I updated to the 7.1M1 Displaylink driver. However, I am again having the following 2 problems, so far:
1. XCOM doesn't work again unless I disconnect the Targus USB 3.0 docking station and plug the external monitor in directly.
2. Google chrome does not work at all. It tries to load pages but remains at a white screen or gives me the "aw, snap" error message.
There are 2 work-arounds I've found that are effective. The one that works the best is changing the target path of the google chrome exe file to:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --no-sandbox
Be sure to include the quotations, as the above is a direct copy/paste from the target path line in properties. Also, I don't really know what other things this affects, but others are saying that running chrome in this mode will compromise security.
The other method that won't compromise security is typing this into the chrome toolbar: chrome://flags/ Then, under "GPU compositing on all pages" select "disabled" The problem with this method is that flash no longer works, i.e. youtube.
dxdiag seems to be functioning again, and that's all I've noticed so far.
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