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[Bonefreak11]

I have been watching youtube videos for hours, and the more I see the more I MUST learn how to set up a 3 monitor system. I'm talkin full on sim. Like looking at my monitor to the left is lookin out my left window. How do I do that? I came here cause I really need someone to dumb it down. Not to say that anybody here is dumb; just figured you'd know how to put it for this newb. I'm no computer specialist. I'm just finishin up my service and goin back home to my ranch. Pls help!

Edited by Bonefreak11, 17 July 2012 - 03:24 PM.

[Ohmwrecker]

I run three displays here at 5760x1080, all off two NVIDIA GTX 680 cards in SLI. The panels I have are the ASUS 27" VG278H versions with built in NVIDIA 3D Vision 2. Games are still a little goofy at times when trying to work with such extreme resolutions, and performance varies as well. FPS, racing, and sim games tend to use them the best, RTS not so much.

NVIDIA 5XX generation cards with the exception of the 590 require a SLI setup to set up a 3 panel experience. The 6XX line can do 3 panels on one card. The only catch with the 6XX series (690 not included) is that getting a 3rd panel at 120hz requires an active display port adapter, whereas an SLI setup or the 690 can run all three off DVI-D cables. The more cards you have the better the performance, some guys run triple or even quad SLI with multi-monitor setups.

ATI has Eyefinity which supports multi-monitor with a lot of their cards. I couldn't tell you how to set it up though, I've never tried.

Edited by ohmwrecker, 17 July 2012 - 03:32 PM.

[buckaroo]

Setting up Eyefinity is slightly easier than falling off a log.

I have done both while drunk.

(7750s in Crossfire, 3840x1024.)

Mektek's Mechwarrior 4 has bad mojo in crossfire mode though. So I run all three monitors off of one card, and turn CF on and off as needed in the control panel.

Edited by buckaroo, 17 July 2012 - 03:48 PM.

[Ohmwrecker]

buckaroo, on 17 July 2012 - 03:48 PM, said:

Setting up Eyefinity is slightly easier than falling off a log.

I have done both while drunk.

(7750s in Crossfire, 3840x1024.)

Mektek's Mechwarrior 4 has bad mojo in crossfire mode though. So I run all three monitors off of one card, and turn CF on and off as needed in the control panel.

Mektek's MW4 freaks out with NVIDIA SLI as well, I have to disable it to play. I haven't ever tried getting anything other than 1920x1080 going with MW4.

Also to the OP, again I have to point out that surround is kind of quirky. Some games do support it just fine, but they don't optimize the HUD to take up only the center screen. In that scenario then you've got to look all the way to the left side of your left panel for what would be normally on the left of your primary screen, and all the way to the right side of the right panel for what would normally be on your right. Some developers try to do things right, others not so much. It's a very very niche thing right now, so there's not a lot of priority on surround optimization.

Edited by ohmwrecker, 17 July 2012 - 05:20 PM.