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Hi TL, I have a Alienware M11xR2 laptop. While i love my laptop and iv been playing sc2 on it for ages, i decided i want to try and connect it to my monitor recently. The problem is that the m11xR2 doesn't have a VGA port.
So, I bought the Triton SEE2 UV150 adapter at best buy without looking into it much to try and fix my problem. (adapter here -> http://trittonusa.com/index.php/products/usb_video_technology/see2-uv150/)
I installed everything but for some reason SC2 fails to work on my monitor. When i start up primary mode ( The main screen becomes the monitor screen) and i try to open starcraft i get the message
"The videocard is not accessible beacuse no display drivers are installed, anouther 3D application hs exclusive access or the machine was locked. Please close any 3D applications or games and try starting StarcraftII again...."
Is there some way to make this USB VGA converter work? Did i pick one that just doesnt support a game as new as starcraft 2? Any help would be great. Thanks 
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Do you have the VGA adapter set to copy what's on your laptop screen?
SC2 may be treating the adapter as a discreet card that it does not support, so if you have your actual card play SC2, and the adapter just copies it, that may work?
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There's no such thing as USB to VGA converter. What you bought is actually a USB videocard. Correct me if i'm wrong but when you try to run the game on the second monitor, the USB videocard will try to run it. Which I think is impossible.
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On August 17 2011 05:21 jacosajh wrote:
Do you have the VGA adapter set to copy what's on your laptop screen?
SC2 may be treating the adapter as a discreet card that it does not support, so if you have your actual card play SC2, and the adapter just copies it, that may work?
When i set the VGA adapter to Mirror mode ( copy the original screen to the monitor, instead of primary mode, make the monitor the only the screen) Starcraft 2 Does start. The problems with it then is that
1 ) There is a very noticeable mouse lag which is almost unplayable with.
2) Half the screen is cut off with really big black bars going across the top and bottom of the monitor because it needs to share the same resolution as the original 11 inch screen which personally annoys me.
any other suggestions??
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On August 17 2011 05:23 disco wrote:
There's no such thing as USB to VGA converter. What you bought is actually a USB videocard. Correct me if i'm wrong but when you try to run the game on the second monitor, the USB videocard will try to run it. Which I think is impossible.
Oh, so is it impossible to play SC2 on a monitor then with my Alienware m11xr2 because the laptop doesnt come with a VGA port??
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Thank you so much
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Seems like a hardware limitation. USB2 isn't nearly fast enough to carry the raw video data, so it seems that the video needs to be compressed (which takes time, adding latency) before sending that to the VGA adapter on out to the monitor.
You'd want some kind of active adapter for either the HDMI or DisplayPort. Well, that may add some latency too, but it shouldn't be terrible. edit: on second thought, not sure what processing is being done by the adapter, since it's cheap but not really cheap.
I think your laptop has a DisplayPort, not Mini DisplayPort. You'd want this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812340010
edit: yeah I looked at an image of the laptop, and that looks like a normal DisplayPort to me, not the Mini DispayPort. The link in the post above is for Mini DisplayPort.
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