sounds really good, i still have yet to even try anything with multiple monitors. eventually when nvidia puts out a card that can hand 3 hdmi or display port then maybe...

thank you Afterburner for posting these helpful tips and links.

Afterburner I just purchased 3 ASUS 27" Monitors and need some help on how to get 3 going, How to hook it all up.
UPS should be at my door this Monday with them :) I should say hope and that there all in one piece :)
Any guides and links would be greatly appreciated !!!

JJVAL

Afterburner I just purchased 3 ASUS 27" Monitors and need some help on how to get 3 going, How to hook it all up.
UPS should be at my door this Monday with them :) I should say hope and that there all in one piece :)
Any guides and links would be greatly appreciated !!!

Holy thread resurrection Batman!....lol
 
Anyway, what in particular do you want to know? If you're running multi monitor with the rig in your mods rig using 3 GTX480s, you will have to hook up each monitor to a separate card. A little tip: If you hook your center monitor to the top card, that's the card that your boot screen will appear on as well as the bios should you need to get in there after setting up multi monitor. It doesn't matter once you get into windows since you can use the monitor arrangement tool to configure your displays in the correct order, but if it bothers you like it did me that your bios info was not on the center display, then go ahead on hook it up this way: If not, then it doesn't matter what way you hook them up.
 
After you hook all your monitors up you'll want to boot your system up and open the nvidia control panel and under the "Configure SLI, PhysX" you should now see an option to "span displays with surround" go ahead and select that and you monitors may flicker on and off for a few seconds until it applys the setting. Don't worry if your display arrangement isn't correct on the desktop as the next step will have a box with numbered monitors you can drag and arrange to set it up. Just click the "identify displays" and you'll see big numbers appear on your monitors. Now simply drag them in the box to match what order your displays came up in. For instance if after you clicked "identify displays" the center monitor was identified as 3, the left as 1 and the right as 2, just arrange the displays in the box to 1,3, 2 and click apply. They should flicker again and then be correctly arranged. (If not don't worry just close the control panel and repeat the process again. Sometimes it screws up for whatever reason)
 
Next thing you'll want to do is configure bezel correction this way the game images will line up correctly on screen. Go ahead and choose to configure the bezels and you'll then see the picture appear between the display bezels of a road way. And in the letter boxes just set the number of pixels until the image lines up and looks correctly. Also if you happen to need different bezel correction between the left and right monitor just unlink the bezels by unticking the little box that draws a line to both of them and enter a separate value for each as needed.
 
One last thing you need to do is now also set your desktop resolution to match the new higher resolution you just created. So just right click anywhere on the desktop and choose "screen resolution" and set it to what you created. for instance I have 3 2560x1600 monitors that normally combine for 7680x1600 but with bezel correction that is actually 7920x1600.
 
Then it's game time! Just be sure to select the correct resolution in your games to enjoy the experience

Happy New Year to you as well and you're welcome

Thanks again CraptacularOne and with your help I wont be sitting there for hours trying to get it going !!!
Very much appreciated !!!!!
 
Oh ill try the FOV at 22 as Afterburner has because ill be running at the same res 5760x1080 and see how that looks ..

Hey AB the first link in your post is dead.  What does that tool do?  Have another link for it?
 
I mean the link to the tool from that thread is dead

yea 22 is way to low. its like when ur running ur a snail 

Ill find out today, my monitors are out for delivery from UPS :)
NICE !!!!!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

3 Monitors is pretty dang cool , but I have no sky in BFBC2 its just darked out gray?, and for some reason there is no firey explosions when you like shoot a propane tank?

Glad to see you're enjoying it

From what I see and tried there is no right setting because no matter what se tting the side screens are streched and sort of screwed up and I think its all do to the widescreen, what would help and fix it is that if you could set your side screens res to different resolutions.. In using my racing Sim ""IRacing"" you can also set the screen size which makes a big difference..  If you look at the menu screen of my IRacing Sim you can see the screen measurments that I entered.

 
 

@ tet5uo, your default FOV was 66? That's way too high man. The default FOV in my BFBC2 settings file was 55. I tried just too see by setting it a 66 and it looked terrible. Perhaps you have a different default FOV? Are you running 3 16:9 monitors or 16:10? Mine are 16:10 and it defaults to 55 in the FOV. Perhaps it's a higher FOV with 16:9 monitors. My monitors are 30in 2560x1600 resolution.
 
At any rate, I prefer the lower FOV setting for the reason I stated above. The side monitors look too stretched and the distance isn't correct on them when you spot an enemy on your flank and think he's 5 meters from you, then you turn to fire at him and he's 50 meters from you and you're shots miss because you weren't expecting him to be that far away.
 
Sure you lose some peripheral vision, but you still have far more than any single display could give you and your distances are closer to being correct in the surround monitors. It's personal preference though and there is no right or wrong way. To people should experiment with the FOV setting to find the range that they want.
 
@ JJVAL, yes no matter what, you're going to get "some" distortion on the surround monitors but you can minimize it with editing the FOV. As for that racing game, I'm not sure as I don;t play it but 99% of games out there is a setting file of ini file that you can edit to fiddle around the FOV to get your desired result.

Yep CraptacularOne I see that :) I just think surround should be made to were you can taylor each monitor individually so you dont get that streched out look.. In my racing Sim you hardly get that streched out look in the side monitors so maybe its more of a game problem. I Dunno !!!!