Multi-Monitor Management

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melteye

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The issue: I cannot enable monitors in the Windows 10 "Screen Resolution" control panel. Clicking Detect does nothing. I have to use NVIDIA control panel instead.

I switched back to Windows 8 in the interim. Is anyone else having this problem?

I power-on/power-off monitors often depending on the task I am performing. If I want to focus on a single task I disable my side monitors. However, windows will still open in the monitors that are turned off. Sometimes I'll even have a control panel open on a monitor it was never accessed on, the screen resolution control panel is the most guilty of this, but perhaps it's related to the issue mentioned below.

Monitor identities in Windows 8 and 10 seem to have no correlation to reality once I switched to multi-monitors. Clicking "identify" will show ID's on monitors that it doesn't belong to; for example, I have three monitors on at the moment and my main monitor is displayed as both 2 and 4 (overlapping) my right monitor is 1 and my left monitor has no ID. If I disable and enable a monitor it's ID will change... hell, even the HDMI driver name will change and I have to reconfigure my sound control panel.

In order to get the monitors laid out correctly in the control panel I have to just try a random setup and apply it to see what happens (and correct from there.) My connection setup follows:

1x DVI-I -> HDMI adapter -> HDMI cable
1x DVI-D -> DVI cable
1x HDMI -> HDMI cable
1x Displayport -> Displayport-HDMI Active Adapter -> HDMI cable

Sorry about the length and layout of this post. Thank you for your time.
 
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Just to confirm, is your rig signature accurate?

If so, are all 4 monitors plugged into the 7950 or any of them plugged into the HD3000?
 
rtangwai said:
Just to confirm, is your rig signature accurate?

If so, are all 4 monitors plugged into the 7950 or any of them plugged into the HD3000?
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Looks like i forgot to update my signature. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll edit it now.

It's all plugged into a MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G.
 
Hmm... guess it's not a common issue. I'll stick with Windows 8 I guess.
 
After switching back to Windows 8.1 for a month I tried installing Windows 10 again. Looks like the latest updates have resolved the issue.

The monitors show up and can be enabled/disabled from windows. They also identify properly and the position of the icons in display settings now match the physical layout.
 
there is way to enter old monitor configuration windows setting from control panel
inconvenient but better than using Win8...
 
Altoholic said:
It's a known issue with the Nvidia 358.91 drivers if you are using that : https://forums.geforce.com/default/...ulti-monitor-support-still-broken-in-358-91-/
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I'm using 358.91 as of this moment and I'm no longer having the issue. The problem is resolved for me.

XoR said:
there is way to enter old monitor configuration windows setting from control panel
inconvenient but better than using Win8...
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I used both the System Settings menu and the Control Panel without success when i was previously running Windows 10. Windows 8 was the only valid option and even it didn't assign monitor identities properly.

I am now running Windows 10 + 358.91 drivers with absolutely zero serious issues. Now if I can only get the monitors to stop changing names every time the computer goes to sleep. The monitors changing names forces me to re-select the proper audio output with every sleep.

In any case Windows 10 is working better for me than Windows 8.1 now, which I'm happy about. Thanks for the input and advice though (both of you.)
 
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Just for the future, you might want to look into DisplayFusion as a software solution option. It's been helpful for my 25-34-25 setup.
 
jackstar7 said:
Just for the future, you might want to look into DisplayFusion as a software solution option. It's been helpful for my 25-34-25 setup.
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When I was previously having issues I tried DisplayFusion's monitor configuration and it was subject to the same issues as both Windows 10 monitor settings. I uninstalled the software directly after, but now that it's working properly I'll check out DisplayFusion again.
 
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