Really don't need Pandora or my email displayed 4 feet wide at 5760x1200 all the time, when maximizing every window... Why this isn't a quick toggle is beyond me...
For people gaming with 3 screens and 670GTX-ish cards (and SLI.. this is the issue), is there a "simple" way to switch between spanned and independent / standard display mode? All I want is to be able to toggle to 5760x1200 to game, and straight back to "desktop mode" for the rest of the time.
I'll say.... I HAD this. Before moving to SLI. Pre-SLI and in Windows 8, it was simple:
Win+P, "PC screen only" and set up the proper spanned mode
Win+P, "Extend" and set up individual monitors
Quick toggle using Win+P after setup, took one-second, literally.
With SLI, that goes out the window... Can't do spanned with all 3 screens on one card. The Nvdia driver puts a red X on the screen hooked to display port, and says to move it to the second card. (Thus beginning the journey of this becoming a pain in the @$$...) Moved the display port to the second card, it then complains it needs a different connection. Switched to DVI. Spanned finally works, all on DVI.
Switching back, after gaming....
Can't do independent displays with all 3 screens on two cards (in SLI, have to disable)... queue the mode change that blacks screens out for 20+ seconds (SLI disabling), and loses the independent orientation that was set from before the spanning for gaming.
Using the Win+P trick glitches, and any screen on the second card after switching is disabled completely / turned off. Monitor position settings are lost, and all must be reconfigured, and re-positioned. Hung at all black screens 2 times, had to power off / reboot / and swap cables to get it all back.
Gave up on the Win+P method and using the Nvidia Control Panel...
For SLI: Chose "Spanned" mode with SLI and set up, going thru all the prompts for orientation, resolution, etc.
For Independent: Going back into Nvidia Control Panel, you have to click "Activate All Displays." Wait for 20 - 30 seconds of black screens (hung once for a few minutes)... You then have to go to "configure displays" since the position is onec again lost, reconfigure, apply, wait for black screens, back to normal desktop.
Very clunky and a lot less cool than just picking which of two modes you want, and moving on.
This link below only helped to explain the plug orientation.... but the bottom line is:
- for SLI, spanned works with displays on 2 cards
- switching to independent from spanned works best with displays on one card, (no SLI)
- to work between these two situations, there need to be lots of clunky mode changes and re-configuring every time because of enabling and disabling SLI.
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/tech...m-requirements
Anyone have any luck with this being simple?
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