Eyefinity desktop use

[p_monks33]

I Just setup a 3x1 landscape eyefinity with a 6950 and cant get it to work right in the desktop. I tried to do the presets thing, but cant make it run as extended desktop and add a hotkey. You dont have to do this kind of stuff with nvidia 3dvision, it just works lol. I got it to work in eyefinity just fine for gaming, but when I try to use internet explorer, it stretches the screen across all three monitors making it impossible to surf the web. Please help me out guys.

 

[Via]

Not elegant, but works:

minimize IE, drag it to the upper left corner of the monitor you want to see it on, and expand it to fill the screen.

just wondering - How does the stretching make it impossible to surf?

 

[BrightCandle]

When I had AMD cards I set-up an eyefinity mode and an extended desktop preset. What you need to do is first setup eyefinity using Catalyst and save a preset. Next you must get to extended desktops using the Catalyst panel only, then save that as a separate preset.

Then you need to test you can go between the two correctly. Sometimes the eyefinity one wont work and if so you should redo the setup of eyefinity and save that preset again deleting the old one. I don't know why its like this, presets have been misbehaving since about 11.2 or so. It is possible to get them working however but you have to use the Catalyst control panel for everything, if you use the Windows desktop tool it doesn't work.

When in windows you use the extended setup and it treats your 3 monitors separately. When playing a game needing eyefinity you can switch and then play the game. If switching is too annoying you can setup a profile for the particular game or use tray tools or such to make the switch happen automatically.

I would have to agree NVidia's solution where you have 3 monitors with NView working to maximise only to one screen with centred taskbar is mostly better. There is no switching of profiles and games work well enough on 1 screen and 3 screens depending on settings. Unfortunately if I play a game on only the centre screen the other 2 are black and not showing the desktop but its a minor problem. Not all applications recognise the right thing to do unfortunately, which causes some anomalies but I haven't had to switch modes so its good enough. Games on single screen and 3 screen resolutions just work.

 

[Mistwalker]

I don't know if it would work in Eyefinity mode, but UltraMon is fantastic for managing a desktop across multiple displays.

Personally I got fed up trying to manage my desktop in Eyefinity mode, so leave it disabled for general use and turn it on only when gaming in spanned resolutions.

 

[BrightCandle]

AMD also has hydra vision which I believe is meant for this purpose as well, I could never really be bothered to get it setup though.

 

[borisvodofsky]

AMD desktop management and AMD Hydra, are not reliable. Sometimes your settings get messed up, or become unresponsive until reboot. It's weird.

 

[p_monks33]

I think I got it figured out now using presets. Sometimes I get weird desktop glitching and stuff. Are AMD drivers just that unreliable? At one point I thought I was having overheating issues or something the screen was tearing in desktop and if I clicked around the desktop would shift and be in the bezels of my monitors. Seems to be working now after I reinstalled drivers and reset all of my settings in ccc.

 

[KingFatty]

A quick reliable trick is to use WindowsKey+P to switch between presets. I've never had it go weird on me, because it relies on windows itself rather than any driver profiles.

the trick is to press win+p to choose one of the options (extend perhaps), then configure eyefinity to do extend mode. Then, use win+p to choose another option (duplicate), and configure eyefinity to do one big display. Of course you can do this using other options. Myself, I also use a 3rd option to move the desktop to just one of the displays and blank the other two, to save power for browsing and other tasks where I don't use all 3 displays.

 

[BrightCandle]

I think I got it figured out now using presets. Sometimes I get weird desktop glitching and stuff. Are AMD drivers just that unreliable? At one point I thought I was having overheating issues or something the screen was tearing in desktop and if I clicked around the desktop would shift and be in the bezels of my monitors. Seems to be working now after I reinstalled drivers and reset all of my settings in ccc.

The tearing is all to do with poor performance. AMD seems to have some severe bugs in its 2D implementation that cause a variety of performance problems within Windows, which reduces the frame rate rendered and introduced input lag. Tearing is about the least of the problems 3 monitor users have with AMD's drivers.

These bugs have been there since the 5000 series, don't expect them to get fixed soon.