Troubles with Nivida Surround

SleinT · July 23, 2015

I just received two old 1280 x 1024 dell monitors that I have added onto the sides of my main display which is a Asus MX27AQ. The problem I am having is I would like to downscale the vertical resolution of the Asus, so than it would be the same height as the dell's. (I am perfectly fine having black bars at the top and bottom of the display.) Then, using NVIDIA surround, It should make my displays into 5120 x 1024 resolution, right? No, surround converts my 2560 x 1024 display into some weird resolution and than scales it wrong. This makes games look absolutely horrid, and with the incorrect scaling it messes up the 3D generated environment from monitor to monitor. It changes the size but does not change the place. I am trying to figure out how to fit it, but scaling it making it very difficult.

Any help would be very nice!

I did hear about windows 10 coming out with some scaling thing, but I did not quite understand it.

Explanation would be very helpful!

By the way, I have a 980 ti.

Oshino Shinobu · July 23, 2015

Nvidia surround tends to throw a hissy fit if you don't use the same native resolution monitors. You could try using some other Triple head software, like SoftTH, though they can be a pain to set up, they should allow you to use native resolution and just scale things properly.