Gaming On Dual Monitor Setup Nvidia (Help)

sas30uk · 15 Feb 2012 at 11:34

Hi guys

Iv just got my first dual monitor setup and would like to try out gaming on it spread across the 2 monitors, im using a gtx 580 but can not find any settings in the nvidia panel to enable such a setting. I remember doing this a while back on an ATI card and it was so easy to do :confused:

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks.

cmndr_andi · 15 Feb 2012 at 11:47

Hi there,

Unfortunately with Nvidia graphics cards "Nvidia Surround gaming" (running games across multiple monitors) only works with three monitors and two cards running in SLI - you can't run a game across only two monitors with Nvidia's system.

In contrast, running a game across two (or three) monitors off a single card modern AMD card is possible.

One option to achieve your aim would be to use some software that gives you the same outcome, for example I hear SoftTH may allows you to do this though, but it won't be as simple to setup as an AMD/Nvidia native system.

sas30uk · 15 Feb 2012 at 11:53

Hi

Thank you for the info i didnt realise this was not possible, i guess ill wait for the new graphics cards and maybe get another 580 if the prices drop a bit. Guess it would be better to get a 3 monitor setup going if this was the case

Axeia · 15 Feb 2012 at 12:03

Even if it worked it wouldn't be very nice to have the bezels right down the middle, imagine games with a crosshair where half of it is on one monitor and the other half on the other monitor.

Rroff · 15 Feb 2012 at 17:51

With some of the old beta drivers it was possible to get 2 monitors working with 2 cards (never tried with just 1), but for some reason they stopped supporting it - its not really that useable with the bezels bang in the middle anyhow imo. Those drivers are so old they don't work correctly with some newer games anyhow.