Issues, Workarounds & Localization

I have an Alienware Aurora with dual GTX 460s with 2 monitors connected to the primary GPU.

I run EVE on one monitor, sometimes in fullscreen, sometimes in fixed window.

When I play EVE, and only when I play EVE, I get green snow on the spare monitor. The snow follows whatever graphics pattern is displayed, whether it is the desktop background, or the lines in Outlook or another instance of EVE.

The snow cannot be caught with a print screen command.

If I power cycle the spare monitor that clears it, but then it returns.

Needless to say I have updated all drivers, and checked the cables, swapped cables, swapped monitors, it effects the "logical" number 2 monitor no matter which of my physical monitors or cables that happens to be.

I think something is trying to set an effect spuriously on the wrong display. I don't think EVE is drawing anything on the wrong display, just setting some graphics effect which is messing up the existing graphics because like I say it follows the pattern of the existing graphics.

Yes, no point reading about computers you cannot afford to won.

What is going on with this issue?

If you connect your second screen via the 15pin VGA connector (usually a blue connector) or an adapter and not directly with DVI (usually white) or HDMI, then it might be necessary to properly synchronize the screen with the analog signal. Many screens do offer that with some kind of automatic setup (mostly in the form of an "Auto" button), but depending on what's shown on the screen, that may not work perfectly. In my experience, you get best results when the pixels of the screen are showing alternate colors at the time you do this automatic sync (i.e. a "50% grey" pattern with alternating black and white pixels).

If the screen is not synced properly, it may result in fuzziness of parts of the picture shown on the screen (more or less notable depending on what's shown).

Thanks for the response, unfortunatly, or fortunatly as it were, no VGA adapters, it is HDMI and DVI. The monitors are 2011 Samsung LED, 24 and 22, both run the same native resolution. Both show digital connection in the monitors' on screen display.