Nvidia fullscreen mirroring intentionally removed

On Apr 21, 9:39*pm, <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> "Mike De Petris" <mikedepet...@gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:16c96e65-ebca-42be-abb2-...
> On Apr 21, 1:42 pm, Tecknomage <teckn...@NOSPAM.com> wrote:
>
> > Be cautious about so-called Tech Support now days. These people are
> > generally Help Desk specialists (aka talking-heads) not real
> > technicians. They tend to give canned answers which MAY be
> > inaccurate.
>
> > Note the qualification is "on TV." The feature is likely still
> > available for conventional monitors using DVI connection.
>
> oh no, I am sorry but unfortunately it's all true and stated on both
> Nvidia and Microsoft official sites, they made an agreement to remove
> the feature from all cards since 80xx and totally in Vista, a quick
> search of "nvidia fullscreen mirror" will show you.
>
> Answer is to move to ATI where it is called "theatre mode", very sad.
>
> ***
>
> From Nvidia's knowledge base:
>
> "Full Screen Video Mirroring is available for Geforce 7 series GPUs
> and older series when using the NVIDIA Forceware display drivers
> 174.xx and below under Microsoft's Windows XP operating system.
> Full Screen Video Mirroring is not supported for any NVIDIA based
> GPU under Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. *Future
> Release 177 drivers and above will no longer provide support for
> Full Screen Video Mirroring for Geforce 7 GPUs and older GPUs.
> Full Screen Video Mirroring will be directly accessably through
> certain applications which will require this option."
>
> FYI, video drivers are not the only thing taking a DRM hit from Microsoft...
> You should read the VERSION.TXT files for C-Media's audio controllers.
> Digital output is intentionally disabled in most cases.

:-(

anything more about : "Full Screen Video Mirroring will be directly
accessably through certain applications which will require this
option." ??

In article <610eb0f6-f5bc-4dd0-ba1b->, Mike De Petris <> wrote:
>On Apr 21, 9:39=A0pm, <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> "Mike De Petris" <mikedepet...@gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:16c96e65-e=
>bca-42be-abb2-...
>> On Apr 21, 1:42 pm, Tecknomage <teckn...@NOSPAM.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Be cautious about so-called Tech Support now days. These people are
>> > generally Help Desk specialists (aka talking-heads) not real
>> > technicians. They tend to give canned answers which MAY be
>> > inaccurate.
>>
>> > Note the qualification is "on TV." The feature is likely still
>> > available for conventional monitors using DVI connection.
>>
>> oh no, I am sorry but unfortunately it's all true and stated on both
>> Nvidia and Microsoft official sites, they made an agreement to remove
>> the feature from all cards since 80xx and totally in Vista, a quick
>> search of "nvidia fullscreen mirror" will show you.
>>
>> Answer is to move to ATI where it is called "theatre mode", very sad.
>>
>> ***
>>
>> From Nvidia's knowledge base:
>>
>> "Full Screen Video Mirroring is available for Geforce 7 series GPUs
>> and older series when using the NVIDIA Forceware display drivers
>> 174.xx and below under Microsoft's Windows XP operating system.
>> Full Screen Video Mirroring is not supported for any NVIDIA based
>> GPU under Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. =A0Future
>> Release 177 drivers and above will no longer provide support for
>> Full Screen Video Mirroring for Geforce 7 GPUs and older GPUs.
>> Full Screen Video Mirroring will be directly accessably through
>> certain applications which will require this option."
>>
>> FYI, video drivers are not the only thing taking a DRM hit from Microsoft=
>...
>> You should read the VERSION.TXT files for C-Media's audio controllers.
>> Digital output is intentionally disabled in most cases.
>
>:-(
>
>anything more about : "Full Screen Video Mirroring will be directly
>accessably through certain applications which will require this
>option." ??

Nope, disabled for all applications if using a 8XXX Nvidia card and 177 and
above drivers or VISTA or Windows 7

"GMAN" <> wrote in message news:QIFHl.144319$...
> In article <610eb0f6-f5bc-4dd0-ba1b->, Mike De Petris <> wrote:
> >On Apr 21, 9:39=A0pm, <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> >> "Mike De Petris" <mikedepet...@gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:16c96e65-e=
> >bca-42be-abb2-...
> >> On Apr 21, 1:42 pm, Tecknomage <teckn...@NOSPAM.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Be cautious about so-called Tech Support now days. These people are
> >> > generally Help Desk specialists (aka talking-heads) not real
> >> > technicians. They tend to give canned answers which MAY be
> >> > inaccurate.
> >>
> >> > Note the qualification is "on TV." The feature is likely still
> >> > available for conventional monitors using DVI connection.
> >>
> >> oh no, I am sorry but unfortunately it's all true and stated on both
> >> Nvidia and Microsoft official sites, they made an agreement to remove
> >> the feature from all cards since 80xx and totally in Vista, a quick
> >> search of "nvidia fullscreen mirror" will show you.
> >>
> >> Answer is to move to ATI where it is called "theatre mode", very sad.
> >>
> >> ***
> >>
> >> From Nvidia's knowledge base:
> >>
> >> "Full Screen Video Mirroring is available for Geforce 7 series GPUs
> >> and older series when using the NVIDIA Forceware display drivers
> >> 174.xx and below under Microsoft's Windows XP operating system.
> >> Full Screen Video Mirroring is not supported for any NVIDIA based
> >> GPU under Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. =A0Future
> >> Release 177 drivers and above will no longer provide support for
> >> Full Screen Video Mirroring for Geforce 7 GPUs and older GPUs.
> >> Full Screen Video Mirroring will be directly accessably through
> >> certain applications which will require this option."
> >>
> >> FYI, video drivers are not the only thing taking a DRM hit from Microsoft=
> >...
> >> You should read the VERSION.TXT files for C-Media's audio controllers.
> >> Digital output is intentionally disabled in most cases.
> >
> >:-(
> >
> >anything more about : "Full Screen Video Mirroring will be directly
> >accessably through certain applications which will require this
> >option." ??
>
> Nope, disabled for all applications if using a 8XXX Nvidia card and 177 and
> above drivers or VISTA or Windows 7

Just a guess, and it's far from an elegant solution, but would it work to
create two separate hardware profiles on a machine -- one with 174.xx
driver and the other with latest/greatest driver, and then select which
one you want on each reboot?