Waves 8 / 9 dual monitor - what a mess!

[Raoul23]

Just a bump on this, I've gone from 3 screens to 2 screens I do have 2 graphics cards in my PC if I take one card out and use both screens on just the one card will I still suffer this bug guys

[sw rec]

One way to find out! (I did make a point of telling WAVES that I wasn't willing to deactivate my triple monitor setup just so I could run, specifically, THEIR plugins.)

[Raoul23]

Ok I'm running 2 monitors off 1 ATI card I took the other one out and so far no waves grey GUI :)

On another note:- with the big waves sale they had last week I thought about buying some new plugs. So I looked into the J37 and being on TDM spoke to a waves employer and they told me the plugin worked TDM if you got the soundgrid version so I purchased it. Only to find its native only. So I rung waves and they were very rude about the mix up. I'm not buying anything from this company again!!!!!!!

[TOM@METRO]

Just to keep it clear...

It's multiple video cards that present the horrible GUI failure with Waves. Most of the time you can get away with dual monitors on one video card with most of their plug-ins. They just can't seen to figure this one out after two years of being broken.

[sw rec]

Most of the time you can get away with dual monitors on one video card

Using a MATROX 9140-single card to drive 3 monitors. Waves plugins create the spinning icon of death and require a hard restart. At least they were kind about giving me my money back when I surrendered the license. STILL not willing to undo a great monitor setup for one company that's just way behind. There plenty of other plugins that do the same thing without this ridiculous limitation.

[yoh]

Originally Posted by sw rec

Using a MATROX 9140-single card to drive 3 monitors. Waves plugins create the spinning icon of death and require a hard restart. At least they were kind about giving me my money back when I surrendered the license. STILL not willing to undo a great monitor setup for one company that's just way behind. There plenty of other plugins that do the same thing without this ridiculous limitation.

FYI The problem you've described here was resolved with the latest driver (10/2013)
I run Matrox 9140 with 4 monitors and Waves plugins without a hitch.

it's worth a try :)

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/support/drivers/

[robbiemacman]

Hello all new to this forum and a Logic X user but I think I have been bitten on the bum by this same issue & I ONLY RUN one monitor.

I just bought a brand new 12 Core Mac Pro with the view of using it worldwide for producing. I found the ideal monitor to go with it which is an ASUS MB168B+ usb 3 monitor as its only 8mm thick & weighs virtually nothing & can be put in a bag along with the MacPro....Everything was going great & I had installed my whole system including Waves Mercury / Studio Classics......Tried it out & everything ran perfectly including all my plugins (some 300+) from many vendors EXCEPT any of the Waves ones that come up with blank dark great GUI....Please tell me this is not a Waves plugin problem as otherwise my whole dream of a truly portable system is ruined as I cannot drag a full size monitor around on planes....
I heard that there were problems with Waves plugins on multiple monitors but I am literally only using this one small ASUS. 15" ......... So is Waves statement about only supporting single monitor setups intact not even correct? Anyone ?

10.9.4 / Logic X 10.7 / Latest Full Waves Installer latest of everything else

[mesaone]

Is your mac pro set to use the integrated graphics, instead of the discrete card? Are your waves plug-ins licensed?

[TOM@METRO]

Originally Posted by mesaone

Is your mac pro set to use the integrated graphics, instead of the discrete card? Are your waves plug-ins licensed?

^^^ Good questions. ^^^

I have never heard of a GUI issue with Waves and a single monitor.

[JFreak]

I have a secondary TB display and zero Waves-related problems