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I have a setup with 3 monitors in Surround and 2 GTX 780's. All the monitors are plugged into a single card. So far it has been a giant pain to turn Surround on when I game and to turn it off when I use the screens for other tasks. Every time I toggle Surround all my monitors reset to their default settings. Refresh rates, bezel compensation, etc has to all be setup again every time. Is there a way to toggle Surround on and off while preserving all the settings?

 

Today I bought DisplayFusion since it was on sale. The splitting feature fixes most of the problems with Surround for general usage, so I thought I might just leave Surround enabled all the time. But that leads to a different problem. I only want SLI mode enabled when gaming. The NVidia control panel doesn't allow me to have SLI disabled when Surround is enabled. Is it possible to enable Surround without also enabling SLI? I need SLI to be off when using the cards for CUDA computing. (3D rendering)

 

So then, a solution to either of these problems would let me finally use these 3 monitors properly. Any help would be appreciated.

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Does the nVidia control panel have profiles you can set and load?

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Nothing like that exists, as far as I can tell.

 

Aww man. I was very close to switching to nVidia. This just makes that really... REALLY Hard. 

 

The general consensus from the internet is that only the Quadro cards give you the ability to have multiple desktop profiles. Even though there appears to be a ton of people requesting this on the gaming side (I guess this is why people insist that AMD/ATI do multi monitor better)

 

This really sucks.

 

P.S. Thanks for bringing it to my attention though.

One Steam to rule them all, One Sale to find them, One Sale to bring them all and with their wallets, bind them! - r/pcmasterrace 17/01/2014

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  • CPU: Intel Core i7 6700k
  • CPU Cooler: CM Hyper 212+ 
  • RAM: 16GB Kingston HyperX Fury 2400Mhz (2x8GB)
  • GPU: Gigabyte G1 R9 390 
  • Mobo: Asus Z170-AR
  • PSU: Antec High Current Gamer 900W 
  • Storage: 240GB intel 520 SSD (OS), Sandisk 128GB SSD(Other OS) 2x 2TB Seagate Barracuda 
  • Case: Fractal Design R4

 

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