Dual Screens

SkidMarkKing · 6 Aug 2013 at 20:09

Hello. I just bought a second Benq monitor (same as my first monitor). How do I get a game to display across both monitors? Im using one GTX460 GPU.

Thanks

imb4tman · 6 Aug 2013 at 20:18

Go into the NVIDIA Control Panel, expand 3D settings and click on Configure SLI, Surround, Physx. Should be a check box for Span displays with Surround.

SkidMarkKing · 6 Aug 2013 at 20:22

imb4tman said:
Go into the NVIDIA Control Panel, expand 3D settings and click on Configure SLI, Surround, Physx. Should be a check box for Span displays with Surround.

I can go Nvidia control panel > 3D Settings.

After this I have Adjust image settings with preview, Manage 3D settings or Set PhysX Configuration.

Would it be a problem that one of my monitor its VGA and the other is HDMI > DVI? Ive noticed it says one is analog and ones digital.

imb4tman · 6 Aug 2013 at 20:34

Surround needs DVI, HDMI or Display port for 2D two screen SLI.

SkidMarkKing · 6 Aug 2013 at 20:37

imb4tman said:
Surround needs DVI, HDMI or Display port for 2D two screen SLI.

Ahhh. I have one monitor which goes HDMI > VGA and one is HDMI with the vga adaptor to run a vga cable :/

imb4tman · 6 Aug 2013 at 20:41

What outputs do you have on your card and what inputs are on the monitors?

SkidMarkKing · 6 Aug 2013 at 21:06

On my card I have one mini hdmi (with the hdmi adaptor). Two DVI's but because of my old VGA monitor I have a DVI > VGA adaptor on it. I need to buy a DVI > DVI cable for my second monitor don't I?

imb4tman · 6 Aug 2013 at 21:13

Yeah that should do it.

SkidMarkKing · 6 Aug 2013 at 21:23

Would it make any difference if I dropped the HDMI > DVI cable and just got 2 DVI > DVI cables?

sadbuttrue · 7 Aug 2013 at 09:13

Don't bother unless you upgrade the graphics card.

Nvidia intentionally removed 2-screen surround at driver level. This feature only exists for their Quadro workstation cards. In fact, many of the Korean/Chinese dual-input 4k displays will not work with Nvidia cards because of this. Nvidia are manually adding EDID data for known displays, rather than removing the limitation.

SkidMarkKing · 7 Aug 2013 at 09:37

sadbuttrue said:
Don't bother unless you upgrade the graphics card.

Nvidia intentionally removed 2-screen surround at driver level. This feature only exists for their Quadro workstation cards. In fact, many of the Korean/Chinese dual-input 4k displays will not work with Nvidia cards because of this. Nvidia are manually adding EDID data for known displays, rather than removing the limitation.

Does this mean with the GTX460 I cannot run games spread across both screens or was you response to the swapping DVI with HDMI>VGA?

If the answer is yes to the first part would I be able to do it with a 560ti or even GTX660?
Thanks

sadbuttrue · 7 Aug 2013 at 09:52

You can't run games spread across 2 screens with Nvidia. Although I don't see why you'd want to, since you'd be staring at the bezels.

SkidMarkKing · 7 Aug 2013 at 12:01

sadbuttrue said:
You can't run games spread across 2 screens with Nvidia. Although I don't see why you'd want to, since you'd be staring at the bezels.

You can't do it at all? So you have to go ATI in order to run dual screen games?

sadbuttrue · 7 Aug 2013 at 12:38

For the third time

nope, you can't run 2 screen surround with Nvidia consumer cards, at all, period. You'll need an AMD card for that.

Kosmiche · 7 Aug 2013 at 13:34

You could try a program called SoftTH

http://www.kegetys.fi/SoftTH/

Its meant for three screen surround but can also be used for dual monitor surround with a custom config. A quick google found this tutorial

If you can't get it to work I can trust you my config