CALIBRARION OF DUAL MONITORS WITH DIFFERENT RESOLUTION

[jen50bj47]

I have been calibrating my dual monitors using i1profiler for a few years now without any trouble.  I have a Viewsonic VX2880 series monitor resolution 3840x2160 and a HP 2009 series wide LCD monitor, resolution 1600x900.  However, for some unknown reason to me once I have calibrated the Viewsonic monitor and move onto my 2nd lower resolution HP monitor, it no longer fits on the screen; it's way too large - which makes it impossible for me to calibrate; it's not critical to me as I do all my photo editing using the Viewsonic and I use the lower resolution monitor for editing tools, but I am puzzled as to why this has suddenly happened.  Can you advise?

Many thanks

 

Jen Barnes

[Damien Symonds]

How sudden, exactly?  When did this start?

[jen50bj47]

This problem started about 2 months ago.  As I said I had finished calibrating my high resolution Viewsonic monitor and went on to calibrate low resolution HP monitor expecting it to fit the screen like it usually did, but now it over spills and there is no way I can manually get it to fit the screen.

[Damien Symonds]

Ah, too bad.  It's a bit harder to diagnose a problem from two months ago.

Still, let's see what we can do.  Am I correct in assuming that the ViewSonic is your Number 1 monitor in your Display settings?

[Damien Symonds]

More importantly, can you confirm that your multiple screen setting is set to "Extend"?

http://www.freeworship.org.uk/images/ScreenSetupStep2.png

Its VITALLY important that it's not set to "Duplicate".

[Damien Symonds]

Also, have you observed this behaviour with any other program?  For example, if you have your web browser open on the ViewSonic, and drag it to the HP, does it adapt ok?

[jen50bj47]

Hi again,

Yes, you are correct my Viewsonic is my Number 1 monitor in my Display Settings.  Also confirm that that multiple screen settings is set to "Extend".  Have opened web browser and drag/dropped onto HP Monitor and it doesn't adapt to fit screen (it's way too big and overlaps).

[jen50bj47]

Meant to add the following information regarding my display settings:

VIEWSONIC MONITOR:

Scale & Layout: 150% (recommended)

Resolution: 3840 x 2160 (recommended)

Multiple Displays: Extend these displays

 

HP MONITOR:

Scale & Layout: 150%

Resolution: 1600 x 900 (recommended)

Multiple Displays: Extend these displays

[Damien Symonds]

Gee, the HP shouldn't be at 150%, should it?

[jen50bj47]

Have adjusted the scale & Layout of HP Monitor to 100% (recommended) and tried calibration again.  Drag/dropped calibration window to HP monitor and again it's too big for screen BUT it let me resize to fit screen.  Have now successfully calibrated this monitor.  Is there anything else I need to adjust?

[Damien Symonds]

Oh, phew.

Nothing else I can think of.

[jen50bj47]

Many thanks for your support - it's good to know there is someone out there that can offer their expertise and guidance.