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Eyefinity display group consistency

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samuelmorris

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When creating an eyefinity display group, I've noticed a couple of things:

1. It can take 10-15 attempts for the display group to 'set'. When creating a 2x1 desktop, the first 10 or so times it will simply set windows to 'duplicate these displays', then eventually it will suddenly work as expected. Is there any way to speed this up so it takes less tries to achieve?

2. Eyefinity does not seem to allow 'extra' monitors outside the group. When a DVI monitor is attached to the system, the 2 displays (1 tiled) eyefinity display group is removed, and eyefinity will no longer allow creation of a display group. Is there any way round this?

The latter is relatively unimportant, but point 1 basically makes it a diceroll whether this particular PC will work at the correct resolution or not. On a day it doesn't, you just have to give up and use a different PC. I understand eyefinity is still pretty broken technology, but given how many people seem to be using it, has anyone found any workarounds for this?

Thanks

PC being used here is the third in my sig, with an HD7770 connected over DP-mDP to a Dell UP3214Q.
 
How up to date are your drivers? I'm using crossfire 290x with 3 dell 27" and I have my TV hooked up with hdmi. Now if I could just get the stupid presets to work so I can go back and forth between eyefinity and extended desktop to work again. Had everything working perfect on my 7970 but it's being difficult now.
 
veedubfreak said:
How up to date are your drivers? I'm using crossfire 290x with 3 dell 27" and I have my TV hooked up with hdmi. Now if I could just get the stupid presets to work so I can go back and forth between eyefinity and extended desktop to work again. Had everything working perfect on my 7970 but it's being difficult now.
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Does pressing Windows key + P then alternating between Duplicate and Extend not work for you? Works great for me with my triple monitor setup
 
Now that you mention it I'm not sure how up to date the drivers are on that PC. When I get round to buying a longer displayport cable I'll have another go, the one Dell give you is too short for the PC to reach sensibly :/
 
Domini said:
Does pressing Windows key + P then alternating between Duplicate and Extend not work for you? Works great for me with my triple monitor setup
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So I tried this last night, and low and behold, I can switch without dicking around with CCC. Can't believe I never thought to do this before.

If you need cables, go to monoprice.com. Awesome prices on cables. Hell half the time shipping costs me more than the cable I need.
 
I'll have to try that then, I naturally assumed using windows' display controls would break the display group. Thanks for the offer, but I'm a UK resident so the cables will probably be coming from somewhere like Amazon or Scan, whenever I get round to it :)
 
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