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The only game that has given me trouble performance-wise in Surround is Metro (granted, I've not tried Crysis yet). I have to scale down from "very high" to "high" and reduce resolution from 6040x1200 to 5000x1000 or something like that.

Regardless of that, I'm not really impressed by the visuals. It seems like the same STALKER guys must have been on this dev team because the textures have the same ugly grainy look that I hated about the STALKER engine.

Just noticed there is a newer driver 258.91 for those having issues with 1 or 2 monitors going blank, I am going with "don't fix what ain't broke" and sticking with the originals ( 258.69 )...though some early posts suggests 10% improvement in several games...

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?s=ab28a2f87b66b4863a54cbe4d5496251&showtopic=173962

Today, we released a new Geforce display driver and 3D Vision driver version 258.96. This driver should address the issue where after enabling NVIDIA Surround or entering a game, one or two of the screens go blank. We were not able to verify all cases as we do not have the monitors in house for every single reported configuration so I would like to ask everyone who had these issues to try the newest driver and let me know if this has been fixed for you:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce-3d-vision-winvista-win7-cd-1.33-driver.html

Ideally you should have two monitors connected to the first GPU and the third monitor connected to the primary DVI port of your secondary graphics card. If the monitor still blanks out, please report the attached monitors, connected configuration and if possible, a screenshot of the NVIDIA Control Panel which shows your NVIDIA Surround configuration.

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Just noticed there is a newer driver 258.91

The 258.96 drivers are WHQL candidate, i got a boost on some titles, and running a benchmark like furmark (multi gpu) i got a 9% FPS increase over the 258.69.

[quote]Just noticed there is a newer driver 258.91

The 258.96 drivers are WHQL candidate, i got a boost on some titles, and running a benchmark like furmark (multi gpu) i got a 9% FPS increase over the 258.69.

Yeah the 258.96 are a better grab...Win7 x64 here:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-258.96-driver.html

I want to try them, but don't want to have to redo my desktop resolution, surround, bezel correction etc, wonder if it makes you do all those over again (usually it does)...

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Yeah the 258.96 are a better grab...Win7 x64 here:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-258.96-driver.html

I want to try them, but don't want to have to redo my desktop resolution, surround, bezel correction etc, wonder if it makes you do all those over again (usually it does)...

yeah - that is my worry also.. everything is running tits atm.. so I don't want to rock the boat.. maybe when the officials come out. :)

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Yeah the 258.96 are a better grab...Win7 x64 here:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-258.96-driver.html

I want to try them, but don't want to have to redo my desktop resolution, surround, bezel correction etc, wonder if it makes you do all those over again (usually it does)...

yeah - that is my worry also.. everything is running tits atm.. so I don't want to rock the boat.. maybe when the officials come out. :)

Well, I went to the .96 beta drivers.. was having my first issue with surround where lotro would drop to like 30fps (from 60 / vsync'd) and get all fuzzy, almost like 3D was enabled, but it wasn't... very weird. I uninstalled the current drivers and install the newest ones.. haven't seen it since... and now I have profiles for my games.. before the only one the drivers would find was Dead Space.. even if I tried to manually add some in, the spot would be blank. anyways.. all games seem to be working fine or better now in some cases.. FEAR doesn't seem to get the blacked out screens when auto-saving a checkpoint. so that's nice.

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Yeah the 258.96 are a better grab...Win7 x64 here:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-258.96-driver.html

I want to try them, but don't want to have to redo my desktop resolution, surround, bezel correction etc, wonder if it makes you do all those over again (usually it does)...

yeah - that is my worry also.. everything is running tits atm.. so I don't want to rock the boat.. maybe when the officials come out. :)

Well, I went to the .96 beta drivers.. was having my first issue with surround where lotro would drop to like 30fps (from 60 / vsync'd) and get all fuzzy, almost like 3D was enabled, but it wasn't... very weird. I uninstalled the current drivers and install the newest ones.. haven't seen it since... and now I have profiles for my games.. before the only one the drivers would find was Dead Space.. even if I tried to manually add some in, the spot would be blank. anyways.. all games seem to be working fine or better now in some cases.. FEAR doesn't seem to get the blacked out screens when auto-saving a checkpoint. so that's nice.

I did try the new 258.96 drivers (twice), results were not good, back to the 258.69 and working again, here is my post on the Nvidia Forums:

FAIL.

Ouch, uninstalled old drivers, booted Safe Mode, Driver Sweeper'd out all Nvidia items, installed 258.96 drivers, rebooted, all three monitors say "Out of frequency range". I can get one or two monitors working, but as soon as I plug in the third monitor, "Out of frequency range".

Tried connecting bottom card first, etc, every combination. Once I connect third monitor "Out of frequency range"...

I have 3 DVI monitors, a Gateway 22" center monitor, and 2 Westinghouse 22" sides...worked with 258.69 very well, but I was tempted by the 10% improvement others have claimed...

Running a system restore right now as I type this and hoping I get my working surround back...crossing fingers and toes...

...System Restore is rebooting now...wonder if I will have to reinstall 258.69 and set it all up again...or...

...Applying update operation 40 of 40 to registry...(hey that's new)...

...Huh?...rebooting again...

...AHHHHH Cr@p! I have a triplewide looking screen on the center monitor...

...Doh! Forgot to reconnect my other two monitors...

...Whew! Looks like I am back in business with 258.69...

Moral of the story, don't fix it if it ain't broke! And make sure you have a good System Restore point.

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LOL.. curiosity got us both... these didn't install smoothly at all for me.. I spent 30 mins cleaning and installing, one boot my top card wasn't detected.. then trying to re-orient my panel display group the nvidia control panel would hang and crash constantly.. I decided on one final reboot and they seem to be ok now.. but it was a hassle getting them working.

the WHQLs installed without incident and things have run VERY smoothly ever since..

the WHQLs installed without incident and things have run VERY smoothly ever since..

I tried again with the WHQLs, was able to get three monitors in Separate mode working, and created refresh rates for 59, 60 and 75 for each monitor, then enabled Surround...three minutes of screens going on and off then locked up...

Rebooted, two black screens (can see mouse) and one monitor off...

Two system restores later, back to 258.69, just hoping all the newer drivers don't do the same thing for me!

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Core i7-8086K @ 5.0 Ghz | H60 | Nvidia GTX 980 Ti 6GB | Soundblaster Z | Asus Z370-A

16GB DDR4 | Win10 x64 | 3x27" Asus IPS @ 5760x1080 | Samsung 970 1TB NVMe