Hi.
I’m developing Mirror display driver and I have problem with full screen mode.
When I take ‘windows media player’ and play for example music I turn it to full screen mode and when I do this without mirror driver it works correctly but when I install mirror driver and enable it I can’t do this and I get this message “To use the Full Screen command, you may need to adjust your Windows display settings. Open Display in Control Panel, and try setting Hardware acceleration to Full.”
How can I do that I wouldn’t see this message?
How does mirror driver influences on Display acceleration?
xxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
I’m developing Mirror display driver and I have problem with full screen mode.
When I take ‘windows media player’ and play for example music I turn it to full screen mode and when I do this without mirror driver it works correctly but when I install mirror driver and enable it I can’t do this and I get this message “To use the Full Screen command, you may need to adjust your Windows display settings. Open Display in Control Panel, and try setting Hardware acceleration to Full.”
How can I do that I wouldn’t see this message?
You can’t. This is simply a limitation you will have to live with.
There is no solution. The same thing will happen if you go into a cmd
shell and press Alt-Enter to take it full screen. That will bypass your
mirror driver as well; it unloads the main driver and loads a standard
VGA driver.
How does mirror driver influences on Display acceleration?
It has a huge influence! Movies and games use graphics tricks far
beyond what GDI provides. Movies, for example, are played into overlay
surfaces using DirectDraw, where the graphics chip reads the movie
frames directly and converts them to YUV during every refresh. That’s a
hardware acceleration that your mirror driver cannot possibly provide.
The same applies to 3D games using Direct3D and OpenGL. None of those
are ever going to work through your mirror driver. Such games work by
drawing textures and object into special buffers in the graphics card
memory, which the graphics chip then interprets directly. Your mirror
driver cannot do that. It just cannot be done.
–
Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
Mmm yes, I understood, now I’ll be assured that I can’t do this.
I have just tested Radmin and it doesn’t do this too.
Ok. Tim, thank you for this information.
One more question about this situation.
I see If I use for example Radmin and after use I close client and shutdown server, media player (I have old version in WM it’s “9 series”) still showing this message
“To use the Full Screen command, you may need to adjust your Windows display settings. Open Display in Control Panel, and try setting Hardware acceleration to Full.”
and I want to do that after using my driver I won’t see this message.
It’s possible to make that?
How much I know, I can’t do full upload driver from the system until restart.