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I have an unconventional multi room setup with 4 different display arrangements, I switch between them using DisplayFusion. An rx6600 feeds 4 displays and the 12700k iGPU feeds the remaining 2, so 6 total (all over fiber HDMI or fiber DP). Everything has mostly been great, but I am looking to get all of the primary displays on the dedicated GPU (my studio room has two side monitors). I can't do this with the rx6600 and it occasionally causes issues with my design apps. I'm looking to replace the 6600 with something else so that only the side monitors go into the iGPU, or all of the main monitors go into the new GPU and I keep the 6600. It had me wondering if an Nvidia or AMD card is better for this specific application. I do not game on the pc and don't use more than 3 of the displays at the same time. I am mainly looking for stability and have avoided Nvidia in the past because of reputation for poor DPC with audio work, but figured id ask about this anyway. Thank you for any help.

So this is a weird one. I have a 4 monitor setup, and I have for years. This is a unique issue I feel too lol. To preface here's some info: Build: AMD Ryzen 5800X w/ 360mm aio MSI Gaming X Trio RTX 3090 32GB DDR4 @ 3000MHz (mixed brands and speeds, I've been meaning to change this, but I can't justify the cost) 1200W Platinum PSU Thermaltake I believe x570 chipset mobo 4 SSD's (2 NVME, 2 SATA) 2 HDD's Windows 11 Previous setup that worked: 1x 27" 1440p 155Hz (DP 1.4a) 1x 28" 4k 60Hz (DP 1.4a) 2x 1080p 60Hz (1 via HDMI, the one that broke, and 1 via HDMI-DVI adapter) Current setup that doesn't work: 1x 27" 4k 144Hz (it goes to 160, but I know DP 1.4a doesn't support that) HDR on (DP 1.4a) 1x 28" 4k 60Hz (DP 1.4a) 1x 27" 1440p 155Hz (DP 1.4a) 1x 24" 1080p 60Hz (the one not working, well I can choose the one that doesn't work and this is the obvious choice. HDMI-DVI Adapter) The problem I'm having is that the 1080p monitor now doesn't show unless I disable the 1440p monitor. and even if I run that one at a lower res and refresh rate it still has the issue. It is detected in Windows, but every time I click "extend this display" it just reverts back before I even have the option to click keep changes or revert, which I've tried both of those options and the results are the same there too. I've tried DDU and installing fresh drivers, I've tried different cables and configurations, and I updated the firmware even on the new monitor (CoolerMaster GP27U) to see if that helped. I've checked all cables, and even tried different ones for the hell of it. Am I missing something? Does the 3090 not support this sort of max resolution? I forgot to mention I had all 4 working once, but once the pc went to sleep it stopped again. I'm at a loss of things to try, and I'm looking for any sort of suggestions. Thanks for any help in advance! Please ask any questions, because I'm sure I forgot some info here. Edit: Since I've posted this on different subreddits, and other sites now too looking for any answer, or hell just somebody to bounce off of for troubleshooting I've come across a couple more oddities. About half the time when I turn off the new monitor say to sleep or whatever, when it comes back on the colors are blown out, and incredibly overbright if that's a word. I can fix that by going to Nvidia Control Panel and changing the color settings back and forth. I also hopped on tonight and noticed the new 4k monitor wasn't working and only the other 2 were for some reason, so then I did DDU, and reinstalled drivers the proper way, safe mode and all (I was trying to avoid due to control panel settings, and share settings, just being lazy I guess). Now it's showing the same way again, but still whenever I click to show the last monitor it just unchecks itself in Nvidia Control Panel, and when I press extend to this display to the last monitor it just reverts then asks me if I want to change or revert despite it doing nothing. Am I just an idiot? Does a 3090 not support this or something? Why did 4 monitors work prior to this, but now it doesn't? I understand it's way more data going to 4k 144Hz, but everywhere I saw said it should be able to support this, or was I misunderstanding? And of course I know it doesn't matter, I don't need 4, but I got used to it, and I'd like it if it's possible.

In my desktop, I have 2 dedicated NVIDIA GPUs alongside the integrated GPU. They all show up in Device Manager (see attached screenshot: GPUs.png). In Windows 11, I am able to configure which GPU Windows should treat as the high performance (HP) GPU, and which GPU should be treated as the power saving (LP) GPU. Additionally, programs can be set to use a specific GPU instead of the default HP or LP GPU. I was able to do this in Windows 10 before I upgraded. A screenshot of these settings is attached. As my PC is not officially compatible with Windows 11 (ASUS did not expose the TPM function in their Haswell motherboards), I need to downgrade to Windows 10 once more. After installing Windows 10 in another partition, however, these settings are missing. If I enable the integrated GPU in the UEFI settings, Windows uses it as the LP GPU and the weak NVIDIA GPU as the HP GPU. If I disable it, Windows uses the weak NVIDIA GPU as both the HP and LP GPU. The only way to use my better NVIDIA GPU is by connecting all my displays to it, causing it to be used for both HP and LP tasks - if any display is connected to the weaker GPU, it reverts back to the other behavior. I need this specific configuration (iGPU enabled, 2 dedicated GPUs, displays on the weaker one) for other reasons. Is there a way to bring the GPU choices back? (Another thing: the usual warning about Windows now managing GPU selection is missing in the NVIDIA Control Panel).

So I recently added a 4th monitor to my 3 monitor setup and it's been great having the extra screen real estate to work with, problem is I can't have my VR headset plugged in at the same time as the 4 monitors. To solve this I read about MST hubs and bought one to connect 2 screens to 1 GPU slot. It worked great on yesterday (day 1), but I never played any games. Today I tried a few games and each of them caused the 2 screens plugged into the hub and my main display to disconnect and reconnect constantly, black flashes. Unusable unfortunately. So I did some more reading and found that Nvidia actually no longer supports more than 4 active displays, and hasn't supported MST hubs for 6 years. For reference my current setup is a 3080FE (3 DP +1 HDMI) and a Ryzen 3600. So now I'm wondering if there is any reasonable way to get this working in a clean way. I've thought of adding a 2nd GPU, purely for running 1 or 2 "extra" screens that'll just have stuff like task manager and discord, but I'm concerned that it will not work while having my 3080 installed. I'm not going for SLI or anything here, so a crappy 5-10 year old GPU should work for this, right? I Don't exactly want to try to get another 3000 series GPU, I'm already lucky to have what I got as is. I'd love to use the ports on my mobo but integrated graphics is practically not an option thanks to AMD. Thoughts?

Is there any software, that lets me mirror the currently active screen? Like how Steam Link behaves in desktop mode, but over HDMI. So if I have 3 Monitors, two would be side by side, and one would be a TV back to back to the monitors, facing opposite direction. And I would like to use the TV, to access both Monitors like with Steam Link, but without compression, delay and with high refresh rates. Thanks in advance.

So I can't really find a definitive answer for how these MST hubs work (converts one DP to multiple DPs or HDMIs, I have one thats 1 DP to dual HDMI). I've heard that they don't add support for more displays (meaning 4 max on RTX 20 series) but I've also heard it's only limited by bandwidth and the number of displays doesn't matter. So If I am running 3 displays natively and plug in 2 displays into the hub then into the last DP port can it run 5 at once or is it still limited to 4? Bandwidth shouldn't matter as the DP port is 1.4 and only running 2x 1080p 60hz displays which there is plenty of bandwidth to do. Just curious as I need to test this once the new laptop arrives as there are a total of 5 displays and a VR headset connected to it... I'm just wondering if anyone has experience with MST hubs and knows how they work with lots of displays. Thanks!

So this is a very first world problem but I've been pulling my hair out over this trying to figure something out. So I have my system in my sig and I'm trying to run one game on monitor 1 using my 1080 ti, that works fine, but on the second monitor I am trying to play a lighter game on the side like The Sims 4 using my GT 1030 fullscreen (it can play it maxed at 60 fps no issues on my 1080p 75hz acer screen). However whenever I select borderless windowed and switch back to the main game I am playing Sims just freezes until I alt tab out of the game on monitor 1. I know for most games the display needs to be set as primary for a game to launch, and there are a few games you can set which display you can use but is there any way to force a game to use a specific gpu? I tried the preferred GPU option in windows settings but both the high power and power saving GPU's are listed as the 1080 ti, and vice versa if i switch the 1030 to main. I remember I did this a few years ago when I mained my R9 290X and Iris Pro 6200 on my old desktop without issues (no it did not have Optimus) and I feel like i'm missing something, anyone have any ideas?

As the title said, I have 2 1080p 24" monitors (1 at 144hz TN for gaming, another one at 60hz IPS for color sensitive works) and also a 2160p 43" TV which I used for watching YouTube and movies. To conserve energy, I don't want the TV to be always on, and I don't think I'll ever used all three display for their intended purposes at the same time. Hence I would like for the PC to stop processing display data for the TV when it was not turned on as it'll impact my gaming performance. One way to do this is to just duplicate the display on one of the monitor to the TV. But it looks awful as the monitor and TV have different resolution, and the mirror display function in windows 10 sends the same resolution display to both screens. Another way to do this is to just go to windows 10 display setting and disconnect the TV whenever it is turned off but as expected, it gets really tedious. Is there another way to do this?

Hey all, I currently have a triple monitor setup however I have a spare old screen that I got for free, I would like to mount it above my current Primary Monitor, However I can't find any good information on Monitor arm mounts that have good height or are stable enough that far above the desk. Any information RE; this topic would be fantastic, Thank you

I was wondering how many FullHD 60Hz monitors can a single Asus Strix GTX 1060 6G drive. It has: - 2x DP 1.4 - 2x HDMI 2.0b - 1x DVI-D I am not sure if all the outputs can be used in the same time and not sure how DP Daisy-Chaining works/count. In theory a single DP 1.2 can drive up to 4 FullHD monitors. So if I count only the 2 Display Ports then 8 monitors. If the HDMI outputs can be driven together with the DPs, then in total 10 monitors. It would be interesting if you guys could try it to see how far you can go Note: I'm not talking about surround gaming setup. Just simply how many desktops can this single GPU drive

Hello, I am building a computer that is going to be used for day trading with 12 monitors and looking for some help with determining the components needed for this beast. I am going to have a budget of about 1300-1400 dollars and maybe a bit above. It is going to be running 12 1080p monitors

Hi all, there are 4 4K displays on my desk that support 60Hz. I want to relocate workstations and pcs to a remote garage and use a thin client to access them via RDP or whatnot. Hence, I'm looking for an existing thin client product that supports 4 4K displays @ 60Hz, or a suggestion on how to build my own VESA-mountable thin client from suitable components. In the latter case, the GPU and case are of special interest to me. Any suggestions are highly appreciated. Many thanks!

Hey guys! Lifeguard here, my Dad work's as a General manager for manufacturing homes. Across the plant he has four (or more) smart TV's that he need's to display information (such as power points, excel sheets, pictures, word documents). All of these smart TV's are connected on the same WiFi as his main desktop PC. I understand that a windows wireless display adapter is the best for mirror casting my screen onto one of the TV's. However how can he mirror cast off of his PC from his office, on to the four computers in the building simultaneously? Basically what his plan is, is to be able to come in in the morning and display their daily numbers they need to hit to be on schedule for production hours & other useful information. However he doesn't want to have to walk around and upload these individually to each TV, so he wants to be able to display the same information from his PC to these four or more smart TV's. TLDR; I need to Cast (Images/Microsoft office documents/slideshows) from my PC to four smart TV's throughout a building, all of which are on the same WiFi. -Is it possible? -How so? -Would chrome cast work? Thank you guys! -A Lifeguard

Hello everyone! I've got a tricky one for you all I think... I recently built a new PC, (specs here: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/Gunsmithy/saved/dYJ9WZ), but in summary it's a 8700K with an Asus Z370-E and a EVGA 1080 Ti. Pretty bog-standard stuff, with one caviat that I have a PCIe Optane 900P with Windows installed. One big reason for the upgrade was my PC lagging, mouse and audio most noticeably, whenever there seemed to be high I/O. I had the 1080 Ti in that old rig with a 2600k and figured it was time to upgrade so I pulled it. To reproduce this issue, the easiest way seems to be listening to music on Discord and see how much it stutters when performing certain actions. Most effective seems to be switching game modes in Fortnite. To further complicate things, this horrible stuttering only occurs when I have all my 4 monitors plugged in, with my main monitor, the Asus ROG PG279Q connected over Displayport. The other 3 are a Dell 1080p 60Hz over HDMI, and two LG 1080p 60Hz monitors, one over DVI, and one over DVI via a passive DIsplayport adapter. I tested every combination of monitor, and to summarize, the issue does not occur when I have all monitors connected except the PG279Q, happens to a lesser extent with only 1 other monitor connected with the PG279Q, or with all connected but the PG279Q over HDMI at 60Hz. I've also tested with new Displayport cables and even borrowed my friend's GTX 960 to see if it was a GPU issue, and the same thing occurs. This also happened with the 1080Ti in my previous PC, but I assumed for other reasons. My thoughts now are, is it some sort of issue with PCIe or GPU bandwidth? GPU usage is around the 30% mark, but I'm not sure if the GPU + my Optane drive is causing trouble. I didn't have the Optane drive on the old PC, but I also of course was only on a P67 board so it would've had its own struggles. Maybe I need to be on an enthusiast board with a Core i9-7900X or something? lol It just doesn't seem like I'm doing anything too crazy here. No SLi hogging up the lanes either and the Optane is only 4X. I've ordered another PG279Q to test on, but I'm not sure it will even help at this point. I'm wondering what you all might suggest. This one has me totally stumped! Thanks, Gunsmithy Update 1: Another way to reproduce, dragging the Netflix app window around, lol. It stutters with the PG279Q connected even over HDMI, but not with it disconnected. Really curious if it's the cause. The new one should be arriving by Monday at the latest. Follow if you're interested!

I am hoping that someone can point me in the direction of a quad headed solution for kvm switch that can support upto 4k resolution it can be either hdmi or display port either one works for me but I do need to make sure it can support the higher resolutions instead of the basic 2600x1600 or so.

My pc is normally connected to 3 monitors, 1-1080p, 1-900x1400, and one 4:3, I went to florida with the 1080p monitor, and I am trying to connect the TV in my room to my pc, and shortly after I get into windows the screen goes black and does not come back. I have an I5-2500k and an RX580 8gb. I uninstalled the drivers for the GPU and it is still occurring, it does happen with only the 1080p monitor connected. Any advice is helpful. -Billy_G

I have both a Windows and Mac which I connect up to HDMI docks I bought off eBay. They then connect to my monitors to be able to pick and choose which monitors are displaying what system (I have 3 monitors). When I switch devices on the HDMI dock from Windows to Mac, the Windows PC no longer detects that external display. Is there a way to make it still identify it so it does not change the screen locations and number of screens located (so essentially as if I turned the monitor off as oppose to disconnecting it). NVIDIA GPU on Win 10 if that helps.

I recently installed Deepin OS (based on Debian) and absolutely love it so far. My only issue is pretty big, though. One of my two monitors doesn't have any input, not even black. My BIOS's default graphics device is my graphics card, with my APU force enabled. The monitor that doesn't work is on the APU. When I force my APU to be the default device, my GPU's monitor is disabled. Both work in Windows. Here's some feedback from commands that I've run.lspci | grep VGA 00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Kaveri [Radeon R7 Graphics] 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Baffin [Radeon RX 460] (rev cf)xrandr --listproviders Providers: number : 2 Provider 0: id: 0x9c cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 5 outputs: 3 associated providers: 0 name:AMD Radeon RX 460 Graphics @ pci:0000:01:00.0 Provider 1: id: 0x46 cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 4 outputs: 3 associated providers: 0 name:KAVERI @ pci:0000:00:01.0xrander Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2560 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384 DisplayPort-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI-A-0 connected primary 2560x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 798mm x 334mm 2560x1080 59.98*+ 74.99 1920x1080 74.99 60.00 60.00 50.00 59.94 1680x1050 59.88 1600x900 60.00 1280x1024 75.02 60.02 1280x800 59.91 1152x864 75.00 59.97 1280x720 60.00 50.00 59.94 1024x768 75.03 60.00 832x624 74.55 800x600 75.00 60.32 720x576 50.00 720x480 60.00 59.94 640x480 75.00 60.00 59.94 DVI-D-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, thank you!CPU: AMD A10-7850K with R7 APU (Kaveri)GPU: AMD RX460 (Polaris 11) I also posted this on the Deepin OS forums, this is not the only place that I'm looking for a response.

I recently changed my system to ryzen and my 1050Ti now crashes instantly in windows if more than one screen is plugged in. i have no idea what caused this, it was working properly originally. I've reinstalled drivers after DDU already, and i'm looking into installing an older version to see if it's an update that bricked it. any other suggestions i might not have thought of? culprit/solution? anybody else has seen the same thing?

Ok, So I am Probably Getting a Tri 25 inch monitor setup. The only thing is, my current desk is L shaped and just aint cuttin it. I need a Wood desk that is long enough to hold that many monitors in a line, and a laptop. I would prefer amazon but really anything would work.

Been awhile since I posted here, but I figured I would see if anyone had any suggestions on how to resolve this issue. I performed a routine reformat of my computer (Something I do every few months) but this time I've encountered an odd issue. When ever SLI is enabled on my machine, which ever monitor is set as the Focus Display isn't able to get a picture on a reboot. For Context, I have 4 monitors plugged into the same card of my SLI 1080GTX (Has been like this for awhile now). Whenever I reboot my computer, the monitor that is set as the SLI Focus will begin displaying everything as normal, but once it gets inside windows I'll get a glimpse of the login screen before it flashes in and out (very quickly) and then goes black. To be clear, it doesn't have a ''No Signal'' error, it just like windows is telling it to display a black screen. I can resolve the issue by opening the Nvidia Control panel and either changing the malfunctioning Monitors resolution to a lower resolution and then back (The monitor still shows up in the control panel and everything) or by disabling and re-enabling SLI. It doesn't matter if I have just 1 screen plugged, or what screen it is, which ever one has sli focus and startup will just display black. Once I fix the problem, SLI works in games as normal and I don't encounter any more issues until the next reboot. Note that i didn't have this issue before I decided to reformat yesterday. Any suggestions? My specs are as follows: Intel 6850k @ 4.5Ghz Asus X99 Strix Gaming 64Gb GSkill Trident Z 1300W EVGA SuperNova SLI Asus Strix 1080GTX (With High Bandwidth Bridge) Sumsung 950 Pro m.2 SSD 2 Samsing 850 EVO in Raid 0 + 2 Samsung 840 in Raid 0 1TB WD Black Custom Loop Watercooling CPU + GPU Windows 10 Pro Monitors are a missmash of stuff: Acer Predator X34 21:9 3440x1440 Korean Brand 27inch 2560x1440 LG 22inch 1920x1080 Sharp 32inch 720p Thanks!

Hi, I am wondering for some time now: How do I set up a 6 (or potentially more) display setup for one desktop PC? I do not need to hear the question "what do you need it for", that is not the point. I can not afford it anyhow, this is just out of pure curiosity (and wishfull dreaming :D) My thoughts so far are that one grpahics card won't be enough since most do not have enough physical output ports.Hence you have to use two graphics card, but do you put them in SLI or Crossfire or can you run them without any of those? And do operating systems like Windows 10 support this natively? Sincerely JRsz

Hey everyone, quick question someone might have the answer to. I have a 4K main display, and then I have a 1080 display above it. They are both 27", and yes the 1080 display is far lower PPI, but I use it mainly for media consumption. My issue is because of the difference in resolutions, when I move my mouse to the top of my primary display, I can only get to the second display, in that small portion of my screen edge which takes up 1920x pixels wide, which is quite noticeable at 4K resolution. I would like Windows 10 to take the percentage distance from the corner where my mouse is attempting to leave the primary display, and just translate that to putting my cursor the same percentage on the top display (considering they are the same physical width). Is there anyway to to turn this on in Win10 (reg setting or something), or possibly a third party utility which would accomplish something like this? Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks

From what I've been reading, AMD Ryzen has a problem at 1080p, but not at higher resolutions. My question is this: Will this problem extend, or be exacerbated by gaming a 5760x1080 in triple monitor surround?

So I have 3 HP S2031 monitors on a triple-monitor stand, but I can't figure out the proper values for perfect bezel correction! If someone could help me calculate it that would be great.