Can you run a triple screen setup with monitors that have different resolutions?

[Haggen]

So I have a one 27 inch, 1440p, 144hz main monitor, and two 24 inch, 1080p, 75hz side monitors (I have a RTX 3070). Im wondering if I can play Assetto Corsa on a triple screen setup with the monitors that I have. Im aware that Nvidia Surround only lets you set up screens with identical sizes, resolutions and refresh rates. Ideally I would like to run all the monitors at their native resolution and at their max refresh rate. Is there a way I can do that?

 

[BillyBobSenna]

Is Lance Stroll going to be the next F1 World Champion?

I don’t believe you can accomplish what you want.

 

[stigs2cousin]

Is Lance Stroll going to be the next F1 World Champion?

Both problems can be solved with ( loads) of money.

Papa stroll buys a racing series for his son, Haggen buys two monitors that can work with his 27"/144hz screen.( Which works quite well )

MFG Carsten

( Don´t shoot the Joker )

 

[Noahbet]

Won't work. On AMD you can create a "super resolution" and it adds blackbars to the bigger screen so you have 1 nice picture (like 5760x1080) on all screens, but it won't work with the HZ, you can run 75hz i think but not 144hz & 75hz in 1 resolution since the other monitors can't do 144hz.

 

[AmazingReflex]

I think you might be able to set all three monitors to 1080p resolution at 75Hz.

The 27" monitor will be blurry unless you can get it to run some sort of letterbox mode with no upscaling.

You may well run into image alignment issues between the centre 27" and the side 24" screens.

You can't mix the frequency coming out of the GPU. It will default to the lower one I think.

I had a similar issue running my old monitor at 60 Hz and my new one at 240Hz. I ended up running the 60Hz monitor out of my integrated GPU and my 240Hz monitor out of my main GPU. i only use the 2nd monitor for desktop apps, not for gaming.

 

[milord37]

Nvidia surround on different resolutions is not allowed, but ...

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/245264/i-just-tricked-nvidia-surround-to-work-on-complete/

 

[Gui Azevedo]

perfectly doable in AMD, all different story with Nvidia.

(just to give you an idea, for years I played with a 27" in the middle and two old 4:3 1366*768 on the sides and it always worked flawlessly. The setup is also pretty straightforward.
AMD Eyefinity is huge on that regard.

I mean, look at that!

 

[VictorFT150]

go into your nvidia settings and setup your surround for multiple monitors.. and then set that resolution in game single screen full screen. and works for amd eyefinity.. and the nvidia counterpart

 

[TreyDayz]

So I have a one 27 inch, 1440p, 144hz main monitor, and two 24 inch, 1080p, 75hz side monitors (I have a RTX 3070). Im wondering if I can play Assetto Corsa on a triple screen setup with the monitors that I have. Im aware that Nvidia Surround only lets you set up screens with identical sizes, resolutions and refresh rates. Ideally I would like to run all the monitors at their native resolution and at their max refresh rate. Is there a way I can do that?

Nvidia can't. AMD can.

Running 1440x1080, 1920x1080, 1440x1080 setup myself. 1440x1080 are custom resolutions, originally they're 20inch monitors with 1600x1200.

Is it ideal? No, does it work? Yes.

 

[FredAZ]

I've got triples on my work desk and two are 1080P and one is 1440P --all fine across multiple generations of NVidia cards. Even split with two on DP and one on HDMI. All works fine.

 

[Klingomucingo]

How about combining a 34" 144 hz (3.440 × 1.440) with two 32" 165hz (2560 x 1440) - will it work and will it be worth it vs three 32" monitors?

 

[FredAZ]

How about combining a 34" 144 hz (3.440 × 1.440) with two 32" 165hz (2560 x 1440) - will it work and will it be worth it vs three 32" monitors?

It will work - but depends on your GPU and how much memory it has if you will like it.
That's a lot of pixels to push at high frame rates.

 

[RasmusP]

I've got triples on my work desk and two are 1080P and one is 1440P --all fine across multiple generations of NVidia cards. Even split with two on DP and one on HDMI. All works fine.

Question is: Can you run these in triples mode in simracing games and could you still use freesync/gsync compatible across all of them?

 

[FredAZ]

An RTX 3080 should have no problems.

 

[Klingomucingo]

It will work - but depends on your GPU and how much memory it has if you will like it.
That's a lot of pixels to push at high frame rates.

Its a RX 6900XT with 16 GBs

 

[RasmusP]

An RTX 3080 should have no problems.

I didn't mean the performance. I meant the pure possibility of running different resolutions in triple screen mode.
And then with different Hz or/and also with freesync/gsync/gsync compatible.

You barely find someone trying that...

 

[FredAZ]

Again - yes - works for me on a 2080 super....also works on my 980

 

[Flerbizky]

Nvidia can't. AMD can.

Running 1440x1080, 1920x1080, 1440x1080 setup myself. 1440x1080 are custom resolutions, originally they're 20inch monitors with 1600x1200.

Is it ideal? No, does it work? Yes.

Mind sharing, in detail preferably, how you accomplished this?. Have been away for SIM racing (raging?) for a while and am now back to trying to get 27+34+27 (1920+2560+1920x1080) working on a 5700XT.

Why can't it just be as easy as the setup in pCars2.

 

[dayglo]

So I have an RTX3080 and on MSFS 2020, I run one 40" 4K monitor as the main and two 24" 1080 as the others and it works great. It is not a perfect alignment but does give me two side views where I would not need to toggle in ACC just to use the mirrors. Is ACC the bottle neck?

 

[RasmusP]

How about combining a 34" 144 hz (3.440 × 1.440) with two 32" 165hz (2560 x 1440) - will it work and will it be worth it vs three 32" monitors?

Same vertical pixels should always work with nvidia surround or AMD eyefinity.
Your issue is a different one though:
34" 21:9 1440p won't be the same real height as the 32" 16:9 1440p!
34" 21:9 are equal height as 27" 16:9.
In different words: They don't have the same pixel spacing and you'd need different field of views for the main and the side monitors and I don't think that this is possible...
Same physical height but different resolutions might be possible though, since they use the same fov, just placed on a different amount of pixels.

Mind sharing, in detail preferably, how you accomplished this?. Have been away for SIM racing (raging?) for a while and am now back to trying to get 27+34+27 (1920+2560+1920x1080) working on a 5700XT.

Why can't it just be as easy as the setup in pCars2.

Did you manage to get it running?
Afaik there are different approaches to this:
- AMD eyefinity / nvidia surround -> game sees only "One big monitor" that you split into 3 scenes with the game's triple screen menu.

- not using eyefinity/surround and having a game that can manage triple screen mode with separate monitors

If the game can handle 3 separate monitors, this shouldn't be any issue. Since you say pCars 2 has a good setup for this, that's probably one of the games that can handle it well.
If you have games that don't really support triple screen mode and you can only "stretch" the image to a massively wide resolution (Dirt Rally 1 iirc), you have to use eyefinity/surround to simulate a single super-mega-ultra-wide monitor to the game.

So I have an RTX3080 and on MSFS 2020, I run one 40" 4K monitor as the main and two 24" 1080 as the others and it works great. It is not a perfect alignment but does give me two side views where I would not need to toggle in ACC just to use the mirrors. Is ACC the bottle neck?

"where I would not need to toggle in ACC just to use the mirrors. Is ACC the bottle neck"
Ehh.. can you make a real sentence out of this? I have absolutely no idea what you want to tell us, sorry