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The only way I was able to do what you are suggesting is to add an additional graphic card to run the 4th. Depending on what you want to do with the 4th monitor, it doesn't have to be a powerful card.

I have 2 GTX560s and I use the two DVI inputs on the first card and 1st DVI input on the 2nd card for Surround. I recently upgraded to the GTX680 drivers and tried adding a fourth monitor onto the 2nd DVI on the 2nd card and it wont use it. I guess we may need to wait for the 500 series drivers specifically to use this functionality.

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Ok I have downloaded and installed the 301.24 drivers for the 500 cards and the accessory monitor does not work with that either. Looks like you may need a GTX680 to do this.

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hi,

first of im new to multi monitor gaming and from germany, so my english may not be the best.

i have 2 gtx 580,
3 1080p monitors and one old.

id like to use the 3 monitors in sorround, which works, and use the 4 in a 1 over 3 setup.

but that is not possible due to driver limitations?
would 2 680 do the job? (i dont think of upgrading though :P)
neither my motherboard, my case nor my wallet suits another graphics card =(

what are the chances that this kind of feature will be added to the 500 series?

I have 2 GTX 560Ti for 2DSurround and over USB an (HIS Multi-View II Adapter) for an 4. Monitor.

With the new 301.10 WHQL I can finally a Dashboard and 2DSurround use. :)

Sorry I must this correct. I have after 15 - 20 minutes a lot of crashes. I deinstalled the 301.10.

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Try the 301.24 Beta drivers which are designed for your cards instead and let us know how that works for you.

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hi,

first of im new to multi monitor gaming and from germany, so my english may not be the best.

i have 2 gtx 580,
3 1080p monitors and one old.

id like to use the 3 monitors in sorround, which works, and use the 4 in a 1 over 3 setup.

but that is not possible due to driver limitations?
would 2 680 do the job? (i dont think of upgrading though :P)
neither my motherboard, my case nor my wallet suits another graphics card =(

what are the chances that this kind of feature will be added to the 500 series?

I tried this on my GTX560s and couldn't get the accessory monitor to work, but I think I may know why now. I'll try it again when I get home from work and report back for you.

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any news?

Yeah, and it's all bad. I cannot get this to work. I have the surround monitors plugged into both DVI ports on the first card and 1 DVI port on the second. The 4th monitor I have tried on the second DVI connector on the second card, also tried HDMI on either card and no joy. Very frustrating. I posted on the Nvidia support forums asking if it's even possible.

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It's not possible from my experiments either. GTX680 appears to be required for 3x1+1 setup.

could be possible with softh?

SoftTH introduces the need for extra GPUs, though, so you might as well just run Surround then an extra accessory display on another GPU and avoid the issues that SoftTH presents with modern games.

For FSX I am using 3x 3d projectors of a gtx 590 card and have an additional gt440 for the instruments.
This works fine in full screen or windowed mode but If I add a second monitor to the gt440 giving me 5 monitors in total and I try to load FSX I get all black screens with a bit of widows desktop poking through on the surround screens.. and I have to remove tht 5th monitor and reboot to get back to normal.. I also tried using a USB driven 7" touch screen monitor but I got the same effect.. Have not found a fix yet..Currently using the 296.?? driver..

so i have 2 gtx 580 amp2 by zotac and no space another third card, any ideas for me how i could run a fourth monitor while still being able to play 3 monitor sorround?
just want to see the temperatures, nothing fancy...

The image is an example of waht I am trying to achieve, the 3x 3d monitors are GT750 projectors, off a gtx 590 card, adding the gt 440 card allowed me to get the main instruments panel up, and I use a 24" touch screen for that. This all works fine in FSX full screen and windowed mode.. But if I try to add the the monitors in red, for the radio stack and the GPS it all goes a bit pete tong..I was suprised the usb monitor gave me issues I thought that would have worked..

Maybe try a usb monitor, afterall its the only way I can think you can add a 4rth monitor if you dont have room for another card..

USB monitors, as I found to my detriment, have their own issues - usually with SLI/CrossFire and/or other multiscreen implementations. Drove me nuts trying to figure out why a USB monitor wouldn't work...

Hey Ghetto, I am also setting up this for my flightsim cockpit. In your current setup - how were your FPS when you dragged your panels/gauges to that 4th display? Currently I am running my 4th off a 2nd PC networked which works good. But I wanted to try them all on the same PC with two 580's just to see the FPS impact. Guess I wouln't be able to. 2 680's are way overkill for this experiment plus way over $$ for FSX. ha!

Clutch

Dont know if you are planning to change computers soon, but im achieving something like this by using a Motherboard with built in video card, its an Intel HD but it should be enough for instruments and panels.

I have 4 screens connected to a 7970 and 2 connected to the video outs in my motherboard (1 DVI and 1 HDMI), its been working great so far.

Have a P8Z68V-pro motherboard, with Intel 3000 graphics. Have 3 x 24" monitors connected to my GTX 670, and single 17" to my Intel, vga port.

When i installed initially, with hit and miss success, could select the 3 monitors as surround, then by enabling the 17" from windows resolution, i got this as an extra monitor working.

Nothing i can see changed, but suddenly when (from surround mode) when i try to enable extend the 17" (monitor 1), the outside monitors switch off and then surround switches to the middle 24 inch and the 17" at the low resolution.

I'm guessing this is to do with poor surround drivers, since even selecting surround seems to cause problems when i switch back (cant access the windows resolution screen from the mouse right click, and the outside monitors get switched off).

It looks to me like the technology is not really mature yet, to accommodate all these combinations required in this thread?. My experience so far with surround is hit-and-miss.

Hi guys,

I also wanted to put 3 displays in surround and 1 display on top of these three. I have 2x GTX560Ti 2GB and i cant add a fourth "accessory" display even with the newest 306 driver.

But i got the sollution:

I bought this 3th card: this

This is a videocard for a 1x slot PCI and it works great. The card is not bad for 1X slot and it has Physx and 3d vision options. I can easly watch 1080p movies on the fourth display without lag. And with this 1x slot pci videocard you can even connect a fifth monitor if u want.

My setup now looks like this:



I am verry happy with it and its really worth a try!

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can u turn on 3d vision surround?If extra displays not 3d vision ready??

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My setings for 3lcd in nvidia surround and 1lcd for non surround.
surround 1LCD DVI on DVI GTX680
surround 2LCD DVI on DVI GTX680
surround 3LCD DVI with cable reduction of the HDMI GTX680

non surround 4LCD - DVI with cable reduction of the Display port GTX680




Only this solution worked, at other connection was eliminated surround lcd viz. this screen.

Just in case anyone was interested, I have 3 projectors running in 3d surround off my gtx 690, using 3 dvi outs to HDMI, a 4th display is running off the Display port out, I also have a 5th monitor running off a gt440 graphics card using the VGA out.. Using drivers 301, to 306.. The trick is to connect all your monitors but turn off the auxillary monitors in nvidia setup..Then configure the 3 displays for surround and set up the 3d vision, sometimes it fights you but just reboot and try again.. Once 3d surround is working goto nvidia settings and activate the remaining displays..Tested in FSX with warping software and all works well.

Just in case anyone was interested, I have 3 projectors running in 3d surround off my gtx 690, using 3 dvi outs to HDMI, a 4th display is running off the Display port out, I also have a 5th monitor running off a gt440 graphics card using the VGA out.. Using drivers 301, to 306.. The trick is to connect all your monitors but turn off the auxillary monitors in nvidia setup..Then configure the 3 displays for surround and set up the 3d vision, sometimes it fights you but just reboot and try again.. Once 3d surround is working goto nvidia settings and activate the remaining displays..Tested in FSX with warping software and all works well.

I can get movies on 4 screens with VLC but I cannot get anything like that with Pot Player or MPC.

Im currently running three Titans with three Asus 27" 144hz monitors purely for gaming and I am getting a fourth monitor with its intended purpose will be to monitor vital stats like frames, temperatures, clock speed, memory usage and of course a live battle map while playing bf4. WSGF hurry up with my Ultimate monitor stand.