nVidia with 3x PLP monitors - works?

[eddiew]

Hey guys,

I tried googling this one but couldn't find a simple answer, hoping someone can tell me in simple words

I currently have 3x monitors in portrait-landscape-portrait config. This works great on my AMD graphics card, central screen on DP and little side panels on DVI. I only run fullscreen games on the centre monitor and never use eyefinity due to mismatched resolutions.

Do nVidia cards handle this sort of scenario? I'm sure I'd read somewhere that you needed matching monitors, or that there are issues with using both DVI ports and the HDMI, or various other situational requirements, but it was all geared towards the assumption that you wanted to do super widescreen gaming - which I don't.

(I was considering upgrading to a 270X recently, but when nVidia's 750Ti launched I was smitten by its power efficiency and now feel a need to wait for the 8xx series before I decide what to get )

Thanks in advance!

 

[Gregster]

I run a 1440P and a 1080P monitor and could run a different res monitor as well for desktop use and I flick between monitors for gaming. It will work just fine for desktop but gaming I don't think so or at least it wouldn't work well.

 

[MoodyB]

PLP will work on the desktop as long as you're not using SLI.

For games you'd need to use something like SoftTH for PLP support.

I'd love to see NV or AMD add proper mismatched monitor support for gaming.
SoftTH works a treat for most dx8/9 titles, but doesnt support dx10/11 at the moment.
This is frustrating as they are slowly becoming the standard dx level now, as they should be.

 

[eddiew]

I run a 1440P and a 1080P monitor and could run a different res monitor as well for desktop use and I flick between monitors for gaming. It will work just fine for desktop but gaming I don't think so or at least it wouldn't work well.

That's completely fine. I tried stretching out a couple of windowed games, and the distortion on the side panels was kind of ugly, not sure I feel the need to do that again. I just had a feeling I'd read somewhere that nVidias only liked matching screens - but I should have guessed from the fact I use a laptop with a 2nd desk monitor at work that it's not true

PLP will work on the desktop as long as you're not using SLI.

No no, single GPU definitely, and thanks ^^ I did try SoftTH a little while ago, but it didn't perform well with the only game I was playing at the time xD