I am also hitting this problem. Everything worked flawlessly on Windows 8 for several months and after upgrading to 8.1 now when I enable the AUX display the image freezes at random times and you can still hear the computer working in the background just the display won't change. I can also see the mouse cursor moving, the machine won't even respond to CTRL-ALT-DEL to pull up WINLOGON. Please advise on a workaround or solution, I'm seeing a lot of people reporting this after a Windows 8.1 upgrade.
 
Jerry (aka. Barnacules)

 

ManuelG states that this should be fixed in the next set of drivers.  I cannot post the link but he states this in the main 331.82 driver thread on the geforce.com forums.

I need my BattleScreen! Fix it! K, thx, bye

We just fixed and verified the fix for this bug.  The fix will appear in our next driver release.  

This happens to me even without the AUX display. I'm currently running 331.93, and it will just randomly freeze, but I can still move the mouse pointer. I hope that the fix fixes it in this case too, not just with the AUX display.

This still is not fixed, just installed the latest BETA driver and when I enable nVidia surround on my 3 screens with my Auxiliary screen enabled within minutes the UI completely freezes, I can see the mouse cursor and hear sounds when I click and do things but the image behind the mouse cursor will never update again until I hard reset the machine. Whatever bug you guys think you fixed was no the same bug people are experiencing here.
 
Please let me know exactly which BETA driver this is fixed in so I can confirm 100% but the latest one downloaded today 1/1/14 does not solve the problem.
 
Thanks,
Jerry (aka. Barnacules)

You are looking for any driver after 331.93 :( Which hasn't been released yet.  Supposedly the next one is "it".

Hi Guys, I have the same problem with my aux monitor, I am also waiting for a fix from NVidia. The other problem I have being having to is the task bar only stays in the middle monitor and will not hide, this started on couple drivers back. I spoke to NVidia tech and they could not fix it either, with the same answer it will be fix on the next update.
 
I couldn't wait any longer and I went on a quest to fix it myself. So if anyone else is having this problem here is the fix for the task bar to stretch across all three monitors and will be hidden for windows 8 and 8.1.
Go to Local disk (?) Program files, NVidia corporation Folder, Display, now look for nvsmartmaxapp64 or nvsmartmaxapp I think this one is for a 32 bit system. At this point you can delete anyone, I copied mine and save it in a folder just in case. If it will not delete you have to go to Task manager and open the detail tab and look for NVidia driver nvsmartmaxapp64.exe or nvsmartmaxapp.exe. Both say NVIDIA Smart Maximise Helper Host and right click on on anyone to end the task, then you can delete it from the driver folder. this will give you the task bar across the three monitors.
Pls restart PC.
 
This work for me, so when ever I update I have to do this all over again. I have send this info to the tech I spoke to at NVidia, so hopefully it will be fix on the next update.
 
 

The new update did not fix the task bar problem.
 

montegobay52
The new update did not fix the task bar problem.
 

This post is for Aux monitor problem which i was refering to not the task bar

Version 332.21 fixes the aux monitor crash in 2d but now 3d flickers on and off or is not synced with the glasses when the aux monitor is on. If I turn off the aux monitor it starts working properly after a couple of seconds. Anyone else with this problem?