I'm new to the Nvidia cards. I just bought a 1080 card for my rig. I have triple monitors, please help. I have the monitor set up conquered, but my games only come up single monitored and only want to go to 1920x1080.
I am running 5760x1080. Not every game supports these kinds of resolutions. What games are you talking about. Some games will need some config file editing. Some can use tools like Flawless Widescreen. Others just work.
I went to my Rainbow Six game, but, I think I may have figure out my problem. (I THINK). 1 monitor is HDMI, 1 is Display port, and 1 is DVI. Should I make all 3 Display port? I just dumped $650 on this card........... everything else is good, just not my games.
I cant figure it out? I messes up the displays. 5760 worked on my AMD cards. Like I say, I'm new to nVidia, and I have 3 monitors. I had AMD down pat. Now I'm confused. I have 3 1080p monitors, and I'm just stumped right now. I'm sorry, not stupid (sometimes) lol
Open the Nvidia control panel (right click on desktop). Then select the "Configure Surround, Physx" tab and check the "Span displays with surround" box and configure it. After you set the monitor order, make sure to click apply on the main window.
If you didn't do that yet, they wont work as a single display in applications.
I've run Surround on mixed outputs (DVI/HDMI/DisPort) before now without issues; if you're running "mixed monitors" (i.e.: different ones, or bought at different times) then nVidia Surround can, occasionally, be a bit of a gamble. DVI and HDMI are essentially the same thing anyway, just with a different connector, so I doubt that's the issue.
It's more likely to be differing sync polarities between the monitors - something which very, very few manufacturers actually bother to mention - it can even change between revisions of the same monitor!
If connecting the third monitor via a different method doesn't make it show up in the Surround dialog, I'd reckon it's that.
There is a utility available that allows you to custom generate a monitor profile/driver that may trick them into all being the same sync polarity, but it's no guarantee and may damage your monitors. I won't link to it, but a Google search for "nvidia surround different sync polarity" should give you the WSGF as the top hit which links to the utility from EnTechTaiwan.
I offer no warranty to whether this will actually work. You may damage your monitor(s) forcing a sync polarity.
Repeat: you may damage your monitors. Whether you try it is up to you.
I believe you are right. I thought this could be the problem last night. I have 3 Samsung monitors, all the same size. (2) are the same model, but 1 is slightly different.
I've been very lucky with my Surround setups. I ran mixed monitors (2x Dell 2405FPW's and one U2410 in the centre) for years - since the day the GTX460 was released, in fact - and never once had a problem. Triple U2412's was fine as well as triple U2515's. But my cousin jumped into it when I handed down my old GTX680... and the pain began. We ended up basically playing monitor roulette for two months until we found a combo that worked. At one point we had three "identical" monitors (one had a different revision) and it didn't work! Very frustrating.
The sync polarity issue is a real pain in the neck; the fact that almost no monitor manufacturer actually bothers to tell you what the sync polarity is can make life difficult.
I hope you get it sorted; I couldn't work without Surround now.
It does show 3 monitors plugged in, so the drivers do see them.
Did you try checking the box that says "span displays with surround"? Your screenshot shows it unchecked. Surround won't work until you click that and configure it.
Yes, I've done that, but it only shows the 2 monitors that I bought at the same time. They are the exact same. I can do 2 monitors with surround, but the 3rd monitor is "alllmost the same, but something is not catching. All Samsung 24" monitors. The killer monitor is the one with the sound.
I was thinking, maybe if I hooked all 3 up to Direct Port cables. The card has 3 DP inputs. and get the high-end cables that support resolutions up to 4k? I've set all 3 resolutions to the same settings, and still no go. When I hit configure it wants me to close the Mainwindow.exe. (Can't find it in task manager. Overall, I'm pleased as hell with the card, and I can currently do surround only on 2 of the 3. My benchmarks are crazy high. I just miss the Eyefinity experience, and I didn't know that this 1 oddball monitor would kill the surround for me. This 1 monitor is almost the exact same as the 2 matched ones, only it has audio.
It make look pretty much the same, but the guts are not. General rule with surround is to have three identical screens. When they are not the same it's a crap shoot.
It's best to use the on screen calibration since his bezels might be larger or thinner than yours. Mine is perfect at +110 (5980x1080) with about 1" worth of bezel between monitors.
I forgot to put it into 3x1, but I bought and installed 3 HDMI to Display port cables and.....Well, so far so good. I hooked up 3 display port cables to the monitors and they worked fine for a day. The I downloaded a game from steam, and everything went to poop. I tried everything to get it back, then I decided to go back to DVI, HDMI and Display port. I finally for everything back in Surround. IDK what happened but I'm back in Utopia now,
Im happy, everything works great. I'll figure out the cable issue later.
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