do Eyefinity / NVSurround care whether horizonal rez is the same on all monitors?

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case in point:

1920x1080 | 2560x1080 | 1920x1080

does the display driver, or the game for that matter, care about the cumulative horizontal resolution?

or even:

900x1440 | 3440x1440 | 900x1440

I like the idea of a larger centre screen, but it would need to be able to game.
 
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No, as far as I know that won't work. The resolution needs to be the same on each of the monitors.

Source: Eyefinity/Surround user since my 5870 Eyefinity6 Edition card.
 
Will not work on AMD cards with eyefinity, not officially supported on Nvidia cards with surround (needs a software hack) Or you can run the games in windowed mode on either brand.
 
rdqlus said:
No, as far as I know that won't work. The resolution needs to be the same on each of the monitors.

Source: Eyefinity/Surround user since my 5870 Eyefinity6 Edition card.
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This isn't true. You can run different resolutions and different screens with both nvidia and AMD (definitely nvidia, 99.9% sure on AMD as well..). I think you're confusing multi monitor with actual surround applications - you can do the former with different resolutions. But you obviously can't play crysis 3 with different screens, it will play on one screen only instead of surround.

Obviously you can't run 3d surround applications with different horizontal resolutions, but you can run different resolution monitors in a multi monitor mode.

If anyone else has experience with this on AMD cards, by all means chime in. I'm pretty sure it works for merely using multiple monitors in multi screen for 2D stuff.
 
xoleras said:
This isn't true. You can run different resolutions and different screens with both nvidia and AMD (definitely nvidia, 99.9% sure on AMD as well..). I think you're confusing multi monitor with actual surround applications - you can do the former with different resolutions. But you obviously can't play crysis 3 with different screens, it will play on one screen only instead of surround.

Obviously you can't run 3d surround applications with different horizontal resolutions, but you can run different resolution monitors in a multi monitor mode.

If anyone else has experience with this on AMD cards, by all means chime in. I'm pretty sure it works for merely using multiple monitors in multi screen for 2D stuff.
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The OP said eyefinity/surround and both of those require the same resolution.
 
wow, loadsa different opinions here.

let me bring it back to a more specific question:
1920x1080 | 2560x1080 | 1920x1080
7970
Battlefield4

Will it work?
 
R3MF said:
wow, loadsa different opinions here.

let me bring it back to a more specific question:
1920x1080 | 2560x1080 | 1920x1080
7970
Battlefield4

Will it work?
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It's not a difference of opinions. Perhaps a misunderstanding of the question. You can see the desktop @ mixed. But It is impossible to play games @ mixed resolutions.....3d surround applications require similar resolutions across 3 screens.
 
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R3MF said:
wow, loadsa different opinions here.

let me bring it back to a more specific question:
1920x1080 | 2560x1080 | 1920x1080
7970
Battlefield4

Will it work?
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Edit: hmm are you talking about the DELL (2560x1080) native screen then i really dont know.
 
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I don't think it will work. 3840x1600 isn't officially supported (900x1600 - 2560x1600 - 900x1600: vertical 20s with a 30 in the middle) because of it being PLP and having a center monitor with a different resolution.
 
King Icewind said:
I don't think it will work. 3840x1600 isn't officially supported (900x1600 - 2560x1600 - 900x1600: vertical 20s with a 30 in the middle) because of it being PLP and having a center monitor with a different resolution.
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I do 2560x1600 2x1600x1200 PLP 4960x1600 but in games that only works in a window pulled across all the screens unless i use SofTH but that is limited to dx9 games.
 
Final8ty said:
I do 2560x1600 2x1600x1200 PLP 4960x1600 but in games that only works in a window pulled across all the screens unless i use SofTH but that is limited to dx9 games.
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I guess making a big window would work, however, if I ever play in windowed mode crossfire doesn't work for me. It will just use one card. Do you have that issue?
 
Do the new R9 290 cards still require an active DP to DVI adapter or is it like nvidia now where you can do for example 2 X DVI and one HDMI.
 
R3MF said:
wow, loadsa different opinions here.

let me bring it back to a more specific question:
1920x1080 | 2560x1080 | 1920x1080
7970
Battlefield4

Will it work?
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NO - and a 7970 isn't strong enough to play across 3 screens anyway
 
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