Maybe installing this Plugable (yes, that is how the company spells its name) UGA-2K-A device was not so smart. It’s a USB 2.0 Display Adapter that should allow me to extend the computer from 2 screens to three, specifically enlisting an unused HDMI input on a giant 70″ TV set and blasting MS Word and simple text documents into needlessly high resolution and size.
There are other ways to accomplish this (a USB 3.0 adapter would certainly be preferred) but I found this Plugable product in the closet and figured I’d put it to use. I have no memory of buying it but evidently that is what I did in December, 2011. It’s been sitting there unused until today.
Installation seemed to be going as expected until I noticed this cranky message:
Texture->Map failed: 0x887a0005 0x887a0005
Texture->Map failed: 0x887a0005 0x887a0005
Your video card disappeared from the system. Please check for possible hardware / driver issues. This error can also occur if you have enabled opencl in x264 custom settings.
A video card disappearing from the system sounded bad. I expected things to go dark and that this was just a warning message preceding the explosion and obliteration of both computer monitors and the television.
It seems that the culprit was the Open broadcaster Software which I use to stream myself playing piano. It was broadcasting while the drivers for this Plugable device were being installed, and apparently it took umbrage at the addition of the UGA-2K-A as a virtual graphics adapter. Seems to be okay now after shutting down and restarting Open Broadcaster.
