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Dual Display MGMT: AMD vs. nVidia

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holzmann

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My laptop runs an AMD GPU with a HDMI output. I just built a PC for my GF with an nVidia GTS 450, also with an HDMI output. Both machines are running up-to-date software.

For the past year, I have been using my laptop as an occasional HTPC by connecting it via HDMI to my 50" Panasonic plasma HDTV. Now that my GF's new computer will also be in the living room area, I just thought I would run the HDMI cable to her new machine from now on.

With the AMD GPU, I can mirror the laptop desktop onto the HDTV AND use two separate resolutions (native for each) and adjust scaling on the HDTV accordingly. With the nVidia I can't seem to do this after fiddling with it for about 90 minutes. I can mirror my PC desktop onto the HDTV but then I can't adjust the resolution of the HDTV to its native res independently; it stays at the LCD/monitor resolution. In fact, all of the res options for the HDTV are greyed out. This leaves me with the option to extend my desktop onto my HDTV but this is not my preference.

I just seems to me that AMD's solution is far more robust unless I am missing something here.

Suggestions? Comments?
 
oersonally i prefer using windows to do that. the only time i even bother with using the nvidia drivers or CCC is if windows doesn't recognize the tv so i have to force the specific resolution/hz for the tv.

also i went back and forth with extending and cloning on my tv, at least for me i found extending it to the tv worked best since i could still use my computer while a movie or what ever was playing.
 
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