How to get surround view to work on a 660ti

[dmar001]

I went into the nvidia control panel and the surround view is greyed out. What do I need to get to work? Do I need better monitors I'm running a dual monitor setup.

I have 2 dual 17 inch regular 1200 x 1024 lcd monitors one dell and one acer connected vga to dvi adapter and the other connected by dvi.


I have a gigabyte 660ti oc, 16gb kingston hyperx black, 128 ocz ssd sata 3, 3 tb sata 3, asrock z77 pro 4, i5 3750k OC to 4.0.

I plan on buying 2 21.5 asus led ips monitors in the next month or so.

 

[4745454b]

I'm running a dual monitor setup.


I have 2 dual 17 inch regular

You need three monitors.

 

[bucknutty]

Correct.. you need 3 monitors at the same resolution and refresh rate.

Surround tricks the computer into thinking you have 1 giant display so that games, or 3d programs can span all 3 screens. Is this what you want to do?

If you just want the second screen to increase your desktop space, so you can have 2 windows full screened at a time, say like 2 excel spread sheets, then you want to extend to the second monitor. In this example any 2 monitors will work and they dont need to match.

 

[dmar001]

I have both monitors extended. So there is no way to play a game on both monitors it has to be 3 monitors?

 

[PsyKhiqZero]

yes you'll need 3 screens. in most games it would suck with two monitors as the center would be where the two bezels meet. It might work if you use an external matrox adapter but you'd be better off just getting a 3rd screen.

 

[dmar001]

Gotcha--I'd say question answered!

 

[dmar001]

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