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2012-04-03, 20:05
(This post was last modified: 2012-04-03, 20:33 by snooze.)
Hi all, I've recently downloaded latest Eden and bought a cheap Geforce 210 for dxva and dual monitor support. But whenever I do anything on the primary/computer screen, web browsing for example, XBMC gets minimized/disappears from the TV. Very annoying.
If I change in XBMC to use fullscreen window instead of true fullscreen then the problem gets resolved, but then I get severe tearing when watching a movie and also no sounds in the menus.
Is it my cheap Geforce 210 who is to blame, or does the problem lie within XBMC?
Thanks
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A little of both. The GPU just isn't powerful enough to handle XBMC being in a window, thus you get the tearing. XBMC's fullscreen mode forces it to not play nice with any other running app. There isn't much you can do at this point except maybe a better GPU like a GT430 or maybe 2 discreet graphics cards, so one can be dedicated to XBMC.
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Correct. If you do a bit of searching you'll see this topic more than once.
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They should be there regardless of windows mode or not.
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Maybe your display doesn't support 24Hz.
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Are you running it on the primary monitor? When you identify the monitors, they should be labeled 1 and 2. Primary is 1.
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Make the TV primary (if that is where XBMC is running).
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2012-04-07, 21:01
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Just wanted to add that I tried the same on another TV with a firends computer which has a Radeon 6850 and a Core i7 860 and got the same problem with tearing when running fullscreen window with 24hz on the TV and 60 hz on computer screen. So it seems there is a problem with XBMC after all.
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In win 7 i thought there was a way to move the taskbar and icons to the secondary display.