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First of all, thank you for the wonderful community and the knowledge it has provided me throughout the years. Most of the time I tend to find ready solutions in here, so I actually never needed to post I'll try to keep the problem short: An Acer Predator X34A needs to be connected to an ASUS VivoBook Pro 15 N580VD, with G-Sync working. After some cable and adapter quality issues, the way I finally have it set up right now is using a Dell miniDP to DP dongle, hooked up to the included DP cable, that came with the monitor. All previous attempts to get a proper working connection to my MSI GS43VR laptop failed miserably. Now I can finally confirm it all works and I get full res at 100Hz, with G-Sync working. So, that's the sanity check part. However, my girlfriend also needs to use the monitor. Her aforementioned ASUS does manage to connect to it with the help of an extra Type-C to miniDP dongle (dongle madness) at up to 100Hz! However, no G-Sync. The menu just isn't there in the Nvidia control panel. In fact, most things are missing. So, Type-C ALT mode definitely works. However, if Windows display adapter properties is to be believed, the DP output is apparently hooked up to the integrated Intel GPU by default. That seems to work fine and could explain the lack of settings within Nvidia control panel. Still, the GTX 1050, inside the laptop does get utilized in games. I have managed to set it explicitly within Nvidia control panel and the frame rates in-game definitely prove the games are running on the 1050 and not the potato Intel HD4000. So, I have at least proven that the Alt-mode DP isn't solely connected to the integrated graphics and some switching is happening behind the scenes. Then I tried running a game in windowed mode, hoping that would force the Nvidia control panel to start showing more options, since it should now be pumping out all the frames. No luck… If anyone has any idea how I can even begin to troubleshoot this, I would be very grateful. Just to summarize, everything is working great, except G-Sync.

Yeah, but that sound really outside my comfort zone. I would love to look into it though. I presume i need some sort of hardware to serve what is essentially the analog coaxial signal? Any starting points? Also, the Chromecast approach might actually be feasible. https://github.com/groupon/greenscreen

But can I get different content per TV like that ?

Interesting, looking into it now. Thanks!

I mean, is it possible to use a single device to command lets say 5 Chromecasts and tell them all at once to display the same video or play the same stream. Doing it five times is just a pain...

Yeah, that is sort of a variant of the AllCast dongle approach. But does Chromecast offer some sort of multicast with a few devices? And what is the situation regarding iOS support, also media-rich web pages and things like custom video streams (m3u)? Otherwise, the cost thing is definitely covered

Hi guys, long time fan of the show and the community. Threads here have already helped me sort out quite a few hairy things, so much obliged! However, this the first time I an actually posting, so a sorry up front for any mistakes. The task at hand is simply put, finding the best way to serve or stream or distribute content to multiple TVs around out company's new office. The content in question will range from likely a custom web page with stats and various things that I will be putting together and will likely be displayed most of the time on all monitors. However, every TV needs to have the freedom to display its own independent thing. For example, we often need to follow a few different video streams and having them up on the big screens is essential. Also, another thing that would be great is having the ability to cast a screen from Windows, Android or iOS. This is slightly out of my comfort zone and I don't really know how to approach it. Streaming the content from a centralized location seems to be feasible, but also potentially laggy, especially if I opt for some cheap wireless Miracast, Wi-Di dongles (you know, the AllCast things). The more I think about it, the more i am leaning towards single board computers, likely the ultra inexpensive OrangePi One/PC or a Raspberry Pi. This will allow me to keep things cheap (also a major point of interest in the project) and also have the power to render content locally, instead of streaming it. However, I have no idea as to how such a thing would be setup. Do I go for Android on the boards or some Linus distro? Also, ideally, there should be a way to command all the boards not only individually, but also as a group. For instance, just tell them all to play a .m3u stream or load a page at once. I hope this is the right place to as this and highly doubt there will be a ready-made solution out there. But any lead would be greatly appreciated. Thanks A LOT!

This thing is absolutely insane. At 4 inches it almost seems like LG has a total disregard towards refraction. Breaking physics has never been this fun