Disabling surround monitors while using a specific application

[Saffman]

Hi,

I use 3 monitors in an Nvidia surround setup, mainly for productivity. I also play games, but prefer doing this using only one of the monitors. I wanted to know if it's possible to disable the surround monitors while gaming, so that GPU resources are not wasted on maintaining the Windows desktop on the other two monitors.

It seems that I can sometimes do this randomly...for example, I'll start a game in full screen mode, 1920x1080 resolution, and my other two monitors will default to a black screen. Perfect. But then, say there's a Windows alert or I have to alt-tab out for some reason, when I go back into the game, my other monitors will remain on the Windows desktop.

I know the easy answer is just to enable/disable surround in the Nvidia Control Panel as needed, but this is kind of a pain to configure each time, and I'd rather find a more convenient solution.

Thanks!

 

[Tormentor98]

If you right click your desktop, click screen resolution, and make the monitor in the middle your default display.
When you want to play a game, make a short cut on your desktop or something and you can make it so it only shows on main display.
This is the only way I know. There may be another option in the Nvidia control panel. Also on the game your playing in the video options.