Hi everyone,

I have a MSI GTX 1070 that I'm trying to setup up with 3 monitors. My monitors are 2 x Acer K272HL's and 1 x Acer B276HK. The B276HK is connect via a display port cable and one of the K272HL's is connect via a HDMI cable into a DP adapter and the other one is straight HDMI to HDMI.

When I go into Nvidia control panel to start with it would show there were three monitors etc but it would give me the option of surround configuration and span displays check box. I restarted the PC and after a while it eventually gave me the option to check that box. I did, then I shut the programs it wanted me to etc, then it only let me select two monitors and when I clicked apply everything went blank and the two K272's came up with no input and the middle B276 just went blank.

I tried the surround thing with two monitors the other night and it worked. Do you think this is because I need to get another HDMI to DP adapter so everything is running into the GTX 10070 through DP's?

It's stressing me out as I've bought the third monitor specifically for triple screen racing games for when my kids visit. Usually I can trawl enough gen from the web to fix stuff but this one has me stumped.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers

maybe display port to dvi connection cable to monitor would be more straight forward for the gfx card to understand

hdmi tends to be more aimed at tv setups

RobertN said:

maybe display port to dvi connection cable to monitor would be more straight forward for the gfx card to understand

hdmi tends to be more aimed at tv setups

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So do you mean I have dvi adapters in the back of the monitors with hdmi cables attached that lead into DP adapters in the gfx card? Or I could get a couple of dvi to display port cables.

no search for displayport to dvi cable they are pretty cheap

display port end goes in gfx card dvi end in the monitor

RobertN said:

no search for displayport to dvi cable they are pretty cheap

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Yeah sorry I realised that after I'd typed the last message. Do you think that would potentially solve the issue?

yes I have my 1070 connected to my only monitor this way just now no problems with a single monitor setup just acts like dvi to dvi

have you tried a dvi to dvi cable instead of hdmi ?

RobertN said:

yes I have my 1070 connected to my only monitor this way just now no problems with a single monitor setup just acts like dvi to dvi

have you tried a dvi to dvi cable instead of hdmi ?

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I haven't tried DVI at all mate but my gfx card only has one dvi port I think. I just assumed putting all three monitors into the three display ports would get it going. Maybe not then?? I ordered another HDMI to display port adapter earlier so I will see if that works having 1 x display port to display port and 2 x hdmi to display port.
If that doesn't work then I will look into going dvi to display port.

Bloody computers hey.

I'll watch this thread with interest, I'm after a 1070 but have noticed they all have one dvi port and the rest are hdmi, I currently have 3 screen surround working beautifully on my 780ti (which has two dvi and one hdmi output) with two Benq dvi monitors and an AOC hdmi one, I've wondered how surround would fare with adapters on the new cards....

The standard 1070 has 1 HDMI 1 DVI and three Display ports

not four HDMI

Unless anyone has any other ideas I'll wait for this adapter and post the results.

I've found surround is very picky as to which monitor in which connection on the card, try experimenting with different plugs you may find a solution by playing about with connections.

Also, have you found the correct setup using the Nvidia surround configuration tool?

http://www.geforce.co.uk/hardware/technology/surround/system-requirements

I had the same issue with my 1080
It wouldn't allow surround with the monitor connected via hdmi. I had to put them via the 3 dp for it to work correctly

Ive got a 1080 with it connected as 1xHdmi, 1xDvi and 1x with a DP to Hdmi adapter with no issues