Dual display / Eyefinity help.

[ChrisLandin]

Hiya guys and gals.

Ive finally got my setup just how I want it. 1080p led tv for movies and a 1080p monitor for my gaming and desktop needs however when I watch movies they play to the led tv which is great. When I game it displays on the led tv too and the monitor goes blank.

Is there a way I can set it up where by the tv is just for movies and the monitor does the rest ie games, net office type stuff etc

Cheers

 

[Drangueos]

Probably your TV is as primary monitor..
i would not use Eyefinity for just 2 monitors/tv.. you could use your monitor as primary and extend to your TV, so when you want to watch the movie you can just move your player to the TV.

OR

since you have an I7 3770k you could use your TV on your IGPU.

 

[Methanoid]

I wanted to know same sort of thing. Can I play games full screen on one 1080P monitor while the other stays displaying a Windows desktop (for browsing or notifications or whatever)... Nvidia does something like that with Surround and 4 screens with 4th being for the desktop or related "apps"

 

[Confused Stu]

I wanted to know same sort of thing. Can I play games full screen on one 1080P monitor while the other stays displaying a Windows desktop (for browsing or notifications or whatever)... Nvidia does something like that with Surround and 4 screens with 4th being for the desktop or related "apps"

Yup, any GPU from either camp can play on one screen while having desktop extended to another screen. Don't enable Eyefinity or Surround as that's the PC seeing multiple screens as one big desktop, hence your game plays on all of your monitors.

Once you've set up your screens as Extended, not Duplicated, and set which is your preferred display, then just fire up your game. If the other screen goes blank (some games do), Alt+Tab out of the game, then back in, and you'll have the game on one screen and your desktop extension on the other.

Last time I saw details on it, Nvidia Surround can run 3 screens as 1, or 4 screens as a 3in1+1. AMD gives a bit more flexibility, adding 2 screens as 1, and all 4 as 1 to these options. I run at games across 3 with an extended single screen for monitoring, email and stuff.

 

[Methanoid]

SNIP HELPFUL INFO!!!

Thanks Stu!! I am still dithering about multi screen setups and you seem to know – maybe you can help with more questions

Under Windows 7 (x64) with 3 monitors, let’s call them L,M,R for left etc….

If L & R are switched off, does the PC work out it only has one and just display everything on one monitor or does it leave icons and programs to run where you cannot see them?

If say I had M and R on with PC but L on with a different input (say watching TV), would it work out it has two screens and give you a 3840*1080 desktop?

Is there a quick way to switch between settings for multi monitors or not? If not I guess it would be easy enough to script an AutoHotKey to do the control panel jiggery-pokery to switch with a quick double click.