How Can I Turn Off SLI using NI surround and 3 Monitors

[Iceman2 110]

HI All P3DV2 lovers,

 

 

 

Reading recently some of the P3D advice on V2, the suggestion is to disable SLI as one would be worse off with it enabled.

 

 

 

When I get home from work I'll get a chance to investigate my nvidia settings, but what comes to mind this second is I think because I use 2 X 680s with 3 30in monitors and NI surround giving me a resolution of 6044X1080 it is not possible to disable SLI. 

 

 

 

 

Anyone shed some light on this for me and how I can use V2 with the image spanned across 3 monitors without SLI?

 

 

 

 

thanks

IM

[GSalden 4,657]

In the Windows software ( desktop right mouse click ) disable all extra monitors.

Then in the Nvidia software you can choose surround without SLI.

 

Keep in mind dat you cannot run FSX/P3D as one wide view, but as seperate windowed screens.

Adding a view to each extra screen will cost you 30-50% fps.

[Iceman2 110]

mmm thanks for the reply,

 

I think I would prefer to have the view spanned across all monitors rather than windowed. I shall experiment with that. So thanks.

 

IM

[styckx 1,871]

No you can't run surround and disable SLI..   "Activate All Displays" is not surround. It's 3 individual monitors acting as 3 individual monitors.  Surround is 3 individual monitors acting as one single monitor.  By the nature of how surround works with two cards (requiring 1 monitor hooked up to the second card) there is no way to get around the SLI having to being turned on with surround requirement. 

 

Well.. I lie.. You could unbridge your cards, get a Display Port > DVI or HDMI > DVI adapter and run surround on a single card.  :lol: