- Dec 29, 2010
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Last night I played around with using the Windows hotkey of [Winkey]+P to change between different configurations. I was trying to work around a problem where my eyefinity profiles were unpredictable/not working.
3 scenarios: 1) all 3 monitors in eyefinity for surround gaming, 2) all 3 monitors in extended desktop mode for high-productivity multi-monitor work, and 3) disable two side monitors and use only the center monitor for maximum power savings by allowing side monitors to powersave and allowing idle video card clocks to fall all the way down to 157 core clock/300 memory clock.
I couldn't get eyefinity profiles to work - sometimes they reconfigured things but sometimes they did nothing.
However, I was very interested to see that I could toggle between different modes simply using the [winkey]+P hotkey. The trick was to manually configure my monitors under each [winkey]+P mode.
Now, for scenario 1), I use the hotkey to select "Duplicate", for 2) I select "Extend", and for 3) I select "Computer Only (or disconnect projector). Remember this hotkey is built-in for windows, I'm not using any eyefinity profiles or eyefinity hotkeys. I stayed up late getting this to work like this and haven't tested whether my computer will remember after a shutdown and/or reboot, will find out more later.
Note that for scenario 3), my computer initially got confused and would choose a side monitor and disable the middle/other side monitor when I used the hotkey to select the mode for computer-only/disconnect projector. I got around this by disconnecting all the monitors from the video card while the hotkey mode was selected, then I plugged in only the middle monitor and the computer caught on and activated that as the only monitor (then I connected the other two monitors to the video card and they remained powered off). Apparently when you choose the "computer only" hotkey mode in windows, the OS will grab whatever monitor if more than one is connected, so you can force it to pick the only monitor connected in that hotkey and then it will remember that when all 3 are connected. This memory was reproduced/tested during that session, so I'm wondering if it's forgotten during a reboot. Maybe even if just comes down to weird things like which monitor comes out of powersave the fastest when you bootup windows?
Anyone else have a successful work-around when eyefinity profiles don't work? Any further details on the interaction with the [winkey]+P windows hotkey and eyefinity? If the settings that worked last night are preserved after reboot/powerup, holy crap so much easier to switch between single-monitor power saver and triple-monitor eyefinity for those where eyefinity profiles don't work.
3 scenarios: 1) all 3 monitors in eyefinity for surround gaming, 2) all 3 monitors in extended desktop mode for high-productivity multi-monitor work, and 3) disable two side monitors and use only the center monitor for maximum power savings by allowing side monitors to powersave and allowing idle video card clocks to fall all the way down to 157 core clock/300 memory clock.
I couldn't get eyefinity profiles to work - sometimes they reconfigured things but sometimes they did nothing.
However, I was very interested to see that I could toggle between different modes simply using the [winkey]+P hotkey. The trick was to manually configure my monitors under each [winkey]+P mode.
Now, for scenario 1), I use the hotkey to select "Duplicate", for 2) I select "Extend", and for 3) I select "Computer Only (or disconnect projector). Remember this hotkey is built-in for windows, I'm not using any eyefinity profiles or eyefinity hotkeys. I stayed up late getting this to work like this and haven't tested whether my computer will remember after a shutdown and/or reboot, will find out more later.
Note that for scenario 3), my computer initially got confused and would choose a side monitor and disable the middle/other side monitor when I used the hotkey to select the mode for computer-only/disconnect projector. I got around this by disconnecting all the monitors from the video card while the hotkey mode was selected, then I plugged in only the middle monitor and the computer caught on and activated that as the only monitor (then I connected the other two monitors to the video card and they remained powered off). Apparently when you choose the "computer only" hotkey mode in windows, the OS will grab whatever monitor if more than one is connected, so you can force it to pick the only monitor connected in that hotkey and then it will remember that when all 3 are connected. This memory was reproduced/tested during that session, so I'm wondering if it's forgotten during a reboot. Maybe even if just comes down to weird things like which monitor comes out of powersave the fastest when you bootup windows?
Anyone else have a successful work-around when eyefinity profiles don't work? Any further details on the interaction with the [winkey]+P windows hotkey and eyefinity? If the settings that worked last night are preserved after reboot/powerup, holy crap so much easier to switch between single-monitor power saver and triple-monitor eyefinity for those where eyefinity profiles don't work.
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