*SOLVED* Eyefinity/Surround Full Screen Portrait
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Firstly, you are talking to probably one of the most experienced users on the planet with regard to SLI and Crossfire. Secondly, are you referring to landscape or portrait Surround?
I run in landscape.
All of my information is in regard to portrait only.
I see that now but your statement about it not working in window mode didn’t specify any particular mode, other than windowed, hence my reply.
Thirdly, whatever you think is happening in windowed mode surround SLI isn’t what is occurring. In windowed mode, you are only showing balanced GPU usage because the second GPU is only mirroring or “replicating” the first card. It simply has to transfer the data from card #1 to card #2 for the third monitor. Card #1 is actually doing all of the processing.
It isn’t actually giving you more performance. One easy way to confirm this, is enable the “show the SLI on-screen indicator” in NVIDIA Inspector. If the green SLI balance bar doesn’t appear like in my photo in post #1, you are not running in SLI. You will only get that in full-screen mode, in any split render mode of AFR1, AFR2, or SFR. You will also notice different GPU utilization numbers between full-screen and windowed mode in SLI. If SLI was working in BMS windowed mode, GPU usage between full-screen and windowed mode would be identical. Try it.
Which is all fine and good but at what point did I state that BMS was going to run faster under SLI or question anything other than the blanket statement you made about it not working in windowed mode?
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My OP states portrait many times.
You said you are running GTX 670’s in SLI with BMS. I’d assume you mean it was working correctly and you are getting a performance advantage out of it. But yes, to use SLI if you haven’t already change to AFR2 and use full-screen mode. Although, using a single GPU for rendering may be faster overall depending.
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My OP states portrait many times.
Very true. EXCEPT on the one line I quoted where it didn’t mention portrait at all.
You said you are running GTX 670’s in SLI with BMS. I’d assume you mean it was working correctly and you are getting a performance advantage out of it. But yes, to use SLI if you haven’t already change to AFR2 and use full-screen mode. Although, using a single GPU for rendering may be faster overall depending.
Bad assumption. When I say it works it only means that it is working without problems. BMS isn’t coded for SLI/CF setups so there is no advantage in performance vice a single card.
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Bad assumption. When I say it works it only means that it is working without problems. BMS isn’t coded for SLI/CF setups so there is no advantage in performance vice a single card.
That makes absolutely zero sense. How can something that doesn’t work, be working without problems? You aren’t using scan line interleave, so yes, there is a problem. Having two or more GPU’s linked to run three displays does not mean SLI automatically. As for coding, software isn’t coded to run SLI or Crossfire, SLI and Crossfire profiles and drivers are coded to run with the software.
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That makes absolutely zero sense. How can something that doesn’t work, be working without problems? You aren’t using scan line interleave, so yes, there is a problem. Having two or more GPU’s linked to run three displays does not mean SLI automatically. As for coding, software isn’t coded to run SLI or Crossfire, SLI and Crossfire profiles and drivers are coded to run with the software.
OMG dude if you want to get THAT technical about it then your entire OP makes no sense as it isn’t “working” at all for anyone under any CF/SLI setup then is it?
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No, my major points for this thread are as follows.
As far as I could tell using the search function, no one has been able to get portrait surround/eyefinity working even though it has been asked about plenty of times. I’ve found a way to get it to work.
SLi will not work in windowed mode. It has to be full-screen. And yes, I did get the sim to run in SLI mode as show in my original post picture. The performance is the same as single GPU because A:, my Titan’s aren’t GPU maxed out resulting in B:, I am CPU limited. With my setup, there is no benefit to SLI due to the slight overhead and being CPU limited. Those with slower cards may find a benefit to SLI in AFR2 mode.
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Pls zybane, you can explain how can and where you put that custom resolution for main menu? Pls pls tell me….
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BMS isn’t coded to use SLI. so u can have 1000 cards in sli but the performance will be the same.
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Because I get Eyefinity at saturday… Did I Unverstand right that I can Not use window Mode anymore? Or is this just a Kind of Personal decision?
Right, no SLI, just 3 screens for the main window. All other screens come then right to the Big main screen.
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Don’t worry kuprah, it is a personnal decision. I got eyefinity with 6 screens and i run windowed mode, it is working perfectly right.
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Oh, perfect
Anythign I have to think of? Just thought to make a new Eyefinity Group to get the new Resolution, Setup in BMS Graphics and having fun, is that right?
And with Display extraction you have to use window Mode…
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Zybane, you say: “Now, I put a custom resolution of 768x1024 in landscape”.
That resolution isnt available in game, how you put that resolution?? come on man, tell us how…. -
He means in the Eyefinity software. It’s called Catalyst Control Center and you ca do what he describes.
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Hey Stubbies take it easy. This is a very useful thread and your first reply is “completely wrong”. Keep it conversational and respectful please.
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I know there has been a posting how to edit the cockpit´s to make it possible again to look down to the instruments after having a FOV of 120 or so… but I can´t find it anymore?
Someone of you can give me a link maybe? I am pretty shure that it has been in this Forum…
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He means in the Eyefinity software. It’s called Catalyst Control Center and you ca do what he describes.
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please explain what you did.
running 3520X1920 windowed right now, would like fullscreen
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You need to create a custom resolution in your desktop throught your drivers, in this case you need to create a 768x1024 resolution.
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I have a couple of questions about this. I’m really intrigued.
- If you succeed at getting BMS working in Eyefinity 3x1 portrait mode, can you post some pics? I’ve thought about it many times and would love to see it in action.
- Like you, I have three HD screens in an Eyefinity setup. I run at max detail and get 60fps+ with an HD 7870. I actually have two of these GPUs, but I haven’t been able to get BMS working with CrossFire, and I assume that doing so is difficult. So my question is, with the two R9 290Xs that you will have, why bother getting CrossFire to work with BMS? If my system is anything to go by, a single 290X is already more than enough for BMS. Disable CrossFire and have at it. What am I missing?
BTW, a single R9 290X will definitely run demanding games across five screens:
Disclaimer/disclosure: That’s me in the video; I’m the marketing manager for AMD Radeon R9 Series graphics. These are my own thoughts and comments, though. Consider me off-duty. I just love BMS/Falcon.
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You need to create a custom resolution in your desktop throught your drivers, in this case you need to create a 768x1024 resolution.
I tried to create one through catalyst, nothing applied?
do I need to be in landscape to do this? as I tried that and that would not apply either?