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Nvidia Surround question (could be also about Eyefinity)

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Trying to google this proves to be a little harder so figured I would ask members here who have these toys. :D

Looking to finally upgrade my aging 8800GTs to the 4xx possibly 5xx series cards and using Nvidia Surround. I know that Surround makes three monitors look like one to the OS so it stretches it more but what happens when a game can't utilize that feature?

Can you adjust the resolution in game to be say 1920x1200 instead of 5760x1200? If so will it put the game on the left monitor or keep it in the center screen or do you have to disable Surround for games like this?

I'm sure there is a lot of success with games that don't support Surround yet still function just fine but there is also some game that proves to be a pain.

Also I would imagine that this question would be similar if it was an Eyefinity setup instead or can anyone with ATI chime in on that one too.

Thanks!
 
I'm interested in this as well. If nvidia comes out with a single GPU that can support 3 monitors, I'm in.
 
http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Has been invaluable to me when it comes to figuring out if a game works with Eyefinity. It also goes into the step by step for many games that do not support it out of the box. It is kept well updated as well. From all I have read, Surround is no different than Eyefinity as far as games are concerned. If it works in one, theoretically it should work in the other.

If you want to play a game single monitor, on the AMD side you can either play it in a window and drag it to the monitor you want or make sure the monitor you wish to see the game on is marked as the primary. I do not know if this is the same for Surround, but would guess that it is.
In my case I have hot keys setup, which is easy in Catalyst Control, and I believe Nv has a similar feature in their drivers.

In my case
ctrl alt 1 is landscape normal extended with the left monitor marked as primary, for every day tasks. The monitors are separate.
ctrl alt 2 is landscape Eyefinity no bezel correction with the left monitor marked as primary. The monitors are in a display group, and considered a single monitor.
ctrl alt 3 is landscape Eyefinity with bezel correction with the left monitor marked as primary. The monitors are in a display group, and considered a single monitor.
ctrl alt 4 is landscape normal extended with the center monitor marked as primary for games that I prefer to play on one monitor. The monitors are separate.

ctrl alt 5-8 is the same thing only in portrait mode.

I have no experience with Nv Surround / Nfinity, but from all I have read, it works in a very similar fashion to Eyefinity.
 
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To answer the OP, yes you can set the resolution to something smaller than fullscreen. If you enable "Use NVIDIA scaling with fixed aspect ratio" option in the nVidia control panel (it's under "Adjust desktop size and position") it'll automatically place it in the middle of the screen. For example, if you have 5760x1200 and play a game at 1920x1200 instead, it'll appear on the middle monitor and the other monitors will just put up black screens.
 
Starslayer67 said:
To answer the OP, yes you can set the resolution to something smaller than fullscreen. If you enable "Use NVIDIA scaling with fixed aspect ratio" option in the nVidia control panel (it's under "Adjust desktop size and position") it'll automatically place it in the middle of the screen. For example, if you have 5760x1200 and play a game at 1920x1200 instead, it'll appear on the middle monitor and the other monitors will just put up black screens.
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That is exactly what I wanted to know! Thank you for that information but I am guessing that you can't show the desktop and will perm. have those black screens on the left and right monitors as long as you are in game?

Rather dump the black screens but still thanks again.
 
You can also just disable surround/eyefinity, then its just standard extended monitor stuff. That's what I do with my eyefinity setup. I've got a keyboard shortcut to toggle eyefinity, works great. I dont think surround toggles on/off as nicely, at least from what I've gathered here.

Personally I would wait a month for the 6970, I wouldnt buy a high end setup at the moment
 
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