Hardware & Technical eyefinity setup 3x Eizo FS2434

Cmdr Andy B

Cmdr Andy B
yup

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Omegahunter

Omegahunter
A good number of forum members including myself are running three screen setups based on Eyefinity or Surround systems.

Totally changes the way you look at a game like Elite.
 

Zarquon Beeblebrox

Zarquon Beeblebrox
Yeah, my question are not if 3 screens are better then one, or if I would like 3 screens. I have 3 screens. :)

I was wondering on the specific screens.. anyone have them.?
 

Omegahunter

Omegahunter
Zarquon Beeblebrox said:
Yeah, my question are not if 3 screens are better then one, or if I would like 3 screens. I have 3 screens. :)

I was wondering on the specific screens.. anyone have them.?
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As long as they are of the same size and resolution and you're running a newish graphics card then setting your system up to run your three screens as one should be simple.

You will need to give us some details on your setup, ie what graphics card you are using?
If your three monitors are of the same make and size and also how they are connected to the graphics card?


I'm running three 23 inch monitors in surround screen on an Nvidia GTX680.
All three run off the one graphics card, two are connected by DMI cables and the last by a HDMI cable.
They are all the same make and model each displaying 1920x1080 giving a total viewable screen size of 5760x1080 (or 6122x1080 with bezel correction, yes got a stupidly large bezel).

Elite Dangerous will only give you a single screen display not three separate ones and there are no plans to change this in the game design.
 

Yaffle

Volunteer Moderator
Yaffle
With team red you can only connect eyefinity monitors to the card closest to the CPU.

If you are worried about the number of outputs you can, within limits, daisychain DisplayPort 2 monitors, so one display port on the card can serve two (maybe more depending on resolution) monitors. DVI/HDMI should handle the other.
 

Omegahunter

Omegahunter
Yaffle said:
With team red you can only connect eyefinity monitors to the card closest to the CPU.

If you are worried about the number of outputs you can, within limits, daisychain DisplayPort 2 monitors, so one display port on the card can serve two (maybe more depending on resolution) monitors. DVI/HDMI should handle the other.
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From what i've been told by a friend using an Eyefinity setup you have to you three matching monitors for it to work. But after that it meant to be simple to get it working as AMD maintain a large database of monitors so the software knows the bezel sizes and can make the adjustments itself.

With Nvidia Surround you have to make the bezel adjustment yourself but after you have worked it out once you can remember it and just re-enter that value.
 

Yaffle

Volunteer Moderator
Yaffle
I did the bezel myself, it's surprisingly intuitive to do!

I think you can now have monitor mismatch, but you'd be stuck at the lowest horizontal resolution for all three. If you had differing size of the same resolution it would be very jarring to look at. Eyefinity won't allow mixed portrait and landscape orientations.

Colour match would be best from the same models and probably batch number.

Note the edges get very stretched at extreme left and right. I've seen no mention of a 'three camera' setup for Elite to compensate for that.
 

Omegahunter

Omegahunter
Yaffle said:
I did the bezel myself, it's surprisingly intuitive to do!

I think you can now have monitor mismatch, but you'd be stuck at the lowest horizontal resolution for all three. If you had differing size of the same resolution it would be very jarring to look at. Eyefinity won't allow mixed portrait and landscape orientations.

Colour match would be best from the same models and probably batch number.

Note the edges get very stretched at extreme left and right. I've seen no mention of a 'three camera' setup for Elite to compensate for that.
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No idea about mixing monitor sizes myself but wouldn't expect any of the setups to do mixed orientations.

My number ONE rule for anyone asking me about going to a multi-screen setup is to buy all three (if not four, always nice to have a backup) at the same time. Also to state on the order that you want them all to be from the same batch at the very least and if possible consecutive serial numbers.

Don't even notice the warping of the view on the outside of the screen in game. Most of the time you only really look at the middle screen directly the other two are only in your peripheral vision
 
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Spiff_DK

Spiff_DK
Pc keeps rebooting after ATI driver update

If you are running eyefinity and update to the latest ATI drivers you risk getting stuck in infinite reboots. (I updated to 14.9)
The solution is to unplug one of you 3 monitors. This will stop the reboot since it won't try to start up eyefinity.
Just uninstall the drivers and reinstall them again. This should do the trick.

I thought I had lost my gfx-card for a moment, but it was all software related.

I'm running 3x27" full HD on a single xfx 7950 card on medium settings (Beta 2.02). It's not running at 60 fps, but more like 30-50 when drawing a space station from the inside. CPU is a 8150, 8GB DDR3 RAM, Elite and WINDOWS 8 running on SSD.
 
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