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Usability tip for Nvidia Surround users.

Sardis
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For any of you out there that have had surround for a while may have noticed that a few months ago Nvidia disabled the ability for us to easily use the Winkey+P function to change from "Extended" (two monitors) to "Second Screen Only" (which enabled all three in surround).

 

Nvidia wants us to us their own keyboard shortcut to turn surround on and off but the problem is that it requires you to close certain programs and in general takes a lot longer not to mention when enabling it again it forgets the custom bezel corrected resolutions that you've set. :angry: All round it's a horrible experience using Nvidia's solution compared to Winkey+P which takes all of 2 seconds.

 

Using three monitors in surround mode for desktop use is not viable since maximising a window spans it all the way across the screen and using Winkey+arrows to snap makes the window span 1.5 monitors...  <_<

 

For those of us experiencing these problems the only solution (I know of) is using older drivers, specifically 327.23, which I believe is the newest one that still supports Winkey+P.

 

Though once this drivers gets too old to support newer games we may be out of luck since Nvidia doesn't seem to be addressing the problem.

 

Anyone out there have any other easy alternatives?

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You can set a macro key on your keyboard/mouse with the NVIDIA preset, couldn't you?

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I really don't get why they removed the feature. It was so useful. 

 

I've been using SoftTH in more games now. It's a bit hard to get working, but it removes the need to switch between surround and desktop. It just activates when you launch the game (if you set it up right)

 

 

You can set a macro key on your keyboard/mouse with the NVIDIA preset, couldn't you?

Still have to close things like Chrome and Skype to switch. 

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You can set a macro key on your keyboard/mouse with the NVIDIA preset, couldn't you?

Yeah but Nvidia Control Panel still requires you to close programs such as Chrome, Logitech Gaming Software, Spotify etc. All of which I would really rather not close.  :D

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I really don't get why they removed the feature. It was so useful. 

 

I've been using SoftTH in more games now. It's a bit hard to get working, but it removes the need to switch between surround and desktop. It just activates when you launch the game (if you set it up right)

 

 

I got excited but this looks like it doesn't work with SLI?

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