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Old Oct 14th, 07, 8:36 PM
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Crossfire and Dual Monitors
ATI's website (AMD's, now) states that "Yes, the CrossFire platform will work with ATI’s SurroundView™ multi-monitor technology to enable up to 5 separate displays when not running in CrossFire mode."

That's rather vexing. I have to choose either two displays or crossfire? Even though I'd have an aggregate four DVI ports?

Has anyone heard or seen otherwise, or of any tweak/hack that would make this work?



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Old Oct 15th, 07, 1:21 AM
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My god...why do you need 5 displays!?!

Anyway, I'm not sure why but I would think that outputting to 4 monitors in crossfire mode is a bit too much for the GPU's to handle.

Same reason why running one video card will only allow you to use 1 monitor for gaming even if you have 2 monitors.



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Old Oct 15th, 07, 3:41 AM
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I wasn't proposing to run four displays--only two. But it seems even that is too much to ask when running in Crossfire.



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The crossfire edition cards are really not another graphics card. It's just a gpu and ram, at least to my understanding. Can you run two different displays in SLi?



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I can see why Codex needs to run more than one monitor. When you're doing a lot of CGI modelling/animation, you need a lot of space to see stuff.

When I build my new machine, I'm going to try to squeeze 2 monitors onto my desk.

Am I right in thinking that only PCI-E supports crossfire?



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In crossfire mode you should be able to use both monitors.



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Unfortunately not. Enabling Crossfire disables the second monitor. I've created profiles for enabling and disabling crossfire, which means I can do it with two clicks, though. Still, rearranging the monitor settings each time is a pain.



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