3D Vision on 2x2 mulit-monitor setup
What is the cheapest and easiest way of using Nvidia's 3D Vision Kit on a 2x2 multi-monitor setup in Full-Screen mode??

Do i use 4 seperate GPU's?
Do i use GPU's in a SLI configuration?
Can i use a software based desktop spliter to split the one screen into 4 parts and send them individually to 4 individual gpu's?
What about a video wall controller accepting one input and displaying 4 outputs?

I have looked around but i havn't found topics on a 2x2 multi-monitor setup while using 3D Vision in full screen mode

The point of this is to use 4 Acer 5630 projector's to make one large screen. The reason i want this is because the screen size i want is quite large and the projector is only 720p native. By using 4 projectors i can have a large screen @ 2560x1440 (2x2 configuration) it will act like a upscaler. It will help make the pixels denser. Having 1280x720 spread across a 200" screen looks horrible compared to the same resolution projected onto a quadrant of the same 200" screen (50") i can handle 720p spread over a small 50" space.

I have looked at a couple of ideas but not entirely sure how it will all work with 3D Vision. Most video wall controllers which accept one input and splits 4 outputs usually dont output the same resoultion @ 120hz so that limits what products i could use making things harder and more expensive. I dont know how using a software based desktop splitter would work with 3D Vision. It would send 4 split parts to 4 different GPU's but how does each GPU know when to sync with the other 3 GPU's aswell as syncronizing all parts together with the infrared reciever and glasses? or is that where SLI could come in?

Im worried that by using software and 4 seperate GPUs that only one quadrant would be sync'd and work in 3d with the glasses when the other 3 quadrants might not be in sync and refresh at a few milliseconds out from the reciever/glasses.

Any ideas guys?

The 3D Vision Kit would only be used for movies run through powerDVD 10 on a windows 7 system. I will never use it for gaming or CPU/GPU crippling applications like 3D rendering etc.
What is the cheapest and easiest way of using Nvidia's 3D Vision Kit on a 2x2 multi-monitor setup in Full-Screen mode??



Do i use 4 seperate GPU's?

Do i use GPU's in a SLI configuration?

Can i use a software based desktop spliter to split the one screen into 4 parts and send them individually to 4 individual gpu's?

What about a video wall controller accepting one input and displaying 4 outputs?



I have looked around but i havn't found topics on a 2x2 multi-monitor setup while using 3D Vision in full screen mode



The point of this is to use 4 Acer 5630 projector's to make one large screen. The reason i want this is because the screen size i want is quite large and the projector is only 720p native. By using 4 projectors i can have a large screen @ 2560x1440 (2x2 configuration) it will act like a upscaler. It will help make the pixels denser. Having 1280x720 spread across a 200" screen looks horrible compared to the same resolution projected onto a quadrant of the same 200" screen (50") i can handle 720p spread over a small 50" space.



I have looked at a couple of ideas but not entirely sure how it will all work with 3D Vision. Most video wall controllers which accept one input and splits 4 outputs usually dont output the same resoultion @ 120hz so that limits what products i could use making things harder and more expensive. I dont know how using a software based desktop splitter would work with 3D Vision. It would send 4 split parts to 4 different GPU's but how does each GPU know when to sync with the other 3 GPU's aswell as syncronizing all parts together with the infrared reciever and glasses? or is that where SLI could come in?



Im worried that by using software and 4 seperate GPUs that only one quadrant would be sync'd and work in 3d with the glasses when the other 3 quadrants might not be in sync and refresh at a few milliseconds out from the reciever/glasses.



Any ideas guys?



The 3D Vision Kit would only be used for movies run through powerDVD 10 on a windows 7 system. I will never use it for gaming or CPU/GPU crippling applications like 3D rendering etc.

#1
Posted 08/21/2010 12:19 PM   
What is the cheapest and easiest way of using Nvidia's 3D Vision Kit on a 2x2 multi-monitor setup in Full-Screen mode??

Do i use 4 seperate GPU's?
Do i use GPU's in a SLI configuration?
Can i use a software based desktop spliter to split the one screen into 4 parts and send them individually to 4 individual gpu's?
What about a video wall controller accepting one input and displaying 4 outputs?

I have looked around but i havn't found topics on a 2x2 multi-monitor setup while using 3D Vision in full screen mode

The point of this is to use 4 Acer 5630 projector's to make one large screen. The reason i want this is because the screen size i want is quite large and the projector is only 720p native. By using 4 projectors i can have a large screen @ 2560x1440 (2x2 configuration) it will act like a upscaler. It will help make the pixels denser. Having 1280x720 spread across a 200" screen looks horrible compared to the same resolution projected onto a quadrant of the same 200" screen (50") i can handle 720p spread over a small 50" space.

I have looked at a couple of ideas but not entirely sure how it will all work with 3D Vision. Most video wall controllers which accept one input and splits 4 outputs usually dont output the same resoultion @ 120hz so that limits what products i could use making things harder and more expensive. I dont know how using a software based desktop splitter would work with 3D Vision. It would send 4 split parts to 4 different GPU's but how does each GPU know when to sync with the other 3 GPU's aswell as syncronizing all parts together with the infrared reciever and glasses? or is that where SLI could come in?

Im worried that by using software and 4 seperate GPUs that only one quadrant would be sync'd and work in 3d with the glasses when the other 3 quadrants might not be in sync and refresh at a few milliseconds out from the reciever/glasses.

Any ideas guys?

The 3D Vision Kit would only be used for movies run through powerDVD 10 on a windows 7 system. I will never use it for gaming or CPU/GPU crippling applications like 3D rendering etc.
What is the cheapest and easiest way of using Nvidia's 3D Vision Kit on a 2x2 multi-monitor setup in Full-Screen mode??



Do i use 4 seperate GPU's?

Do i use GPU's in a SLI configuration?

Can i use a software based desktop spliter to split the one screen into 4 parts and send them individually to 4 individual gpu's?

What about a video wall controller accepting one input and displaying 4 outputs?



I have looked around but i havn't found topics on a 2x2 multi-monitor setup while using 3D Vision in full screen mode



The point of this is to use 4 Acer 5630 projector's to make one large screen. The reason i want this is because the screen size i want is quite large and the projector is only 720p native. By using 4 projectors i can have a large screen @ 2560x1440 (2x2 configuration) it will act like a upscaler. It will help make the pixels denser. Having 1280x720 spread across a 200" screen looks horrible compared to the same resolution projected onto a quadrant of the same 200" screen (50") i can handle 720p spread over a small 50" space.



I have looked at a couple of ideas but not entirely sure how it will all work with 3D Vision. Most video wall controllers which accept one input and splits 4 outputs usually dont output the same resoultion @ 120hz so that limits what products i could use making things harder and more expensive. I dont know how using a software based desktop splitter would work with 3D Vision. It would send 4 split parts to 4 different GPU's but how does each GPU know when to sync with the other 3 GPU's aswell as syncronizing all parts together with the infrared reciever and glasses? or is that where SLI could come in?



Im worried that by using software and 4 seperate GPUs that only one quadrant would be sync'd and work in 3d with the glasses when the other 3 quadrants might not be in sync and refresh at a few milliseconds out from the reciever/glasses.



Any ideas guys?



The 3D Vision Kit would only be used for movies run through powerDVD 10 on a windows 7 system. I will never use it for gaming or CPU/GPU crippling applications like 3D rendering etc.

#2
Posted 08/21/2010 12:19 PM   
3D Surround, and even Surround itself, is limited to 3 monitors tops from the drivers. The configuration you wish is only possible through third party hardware video splitters...
3D Surround, and even Surround itself, is limited to 3 monitors tops from the drivers. The configuration you wish is only possible through third party hardware video splitters...

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"Gaming": Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2, Turbo 44x (5-6), 45x (3-4), 46x (1-2) | ASUS Rampage IV Extreme | SwifTech Apogee Drive II Pump and Block | 120 mm + 240 mm Push/Pull | 32 GB G.Skill PC3-12800 @ 1866 MHz | NVIDIA GTX 1080 FE | NVIDIA GTX 970 RE | Samsung U28E510 UHD | 2x PNY 480 GB SSDs in Intel SATA3 RAID0 (OS) | Plextor 1TB PX-1TM9PeY PCIe NVMe (Disk Games) | 4x PNY 240 GB SSDs in Intel SATA2 RAID0 (On-Line Games) | eVGA Supernova G+ 1000 W PSU | Cooler Master HAF-XB | Windows 10 Pro x64 1809


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#3
Posted 08/21/2010 12:33 PM   
3D Surround, and even Surround itself, is limited to 3 monitors tops from the drivers. The configuration you wish is only possible through third party hardware video splitters...
3D Surround, and even Surround itself, is limited to 3 monitors tops from the drivers. The configuration you wish is only possible through third party hardware video splitters...

"AIO": Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 @ 103.2 MHz BCLK | ASUS X79-Deluxe | SwifTech Apogee Drive II Pump and Block | 120 mm + 240 mm Push-Pull | 64 GB G.Skill PC3-12800 @ 1924 MHz | NVIDIA RTX 2070 FE | LG 25UM56 UW Monitor | Plextor 1TB PX-1TM9PeY PCIe NVMe (Windows 10 Pro x64 1809) | Plextor 1TB PX-1TM9PeY PCIe NVMe (UserData) | 4x SanDisk 500 GB SSDs in Marvell SATA3 RAID0 (C:\Games) | 2x WD 250 GB SSDs and WD 3 TB RED HDD in Marvell HyperDuo RAID (Media) | 16 GB RAMDisk (Temp Files) | WD My Book Essentials 3 TB NAS (Archives) | LG BP50NB40 ODD | eVGA Supernova G+ 1000 W PSU | Cooler Master HAF-XB

"Gaming": Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2, Turbo 44x (5-6), 45x (3-4), 46x (1-2) | ASUS Rampage IV Extreme | SwifTech Apogee Drive II Pump and Block | 120 mm + 240 mm Push/Pull | 32 GB G.Skill PC3-12800 @ 1866 MHz | NVIDIA GTX 1080 FE | NVIDIA GTX 970 RE | Samsung U28E510 UHD | 2x PNY 480 GB SSDs in Intel SATA3 RAID0 (OS) | Plextor 1TB PX-1TM9PeY PCIe NVMe (Disk Games) | 4x PNY 240 GB SSDs in Intel SATA2 RAID0 (On-Line Games) | eVGA Supernova G+ 1000 W PSU | Cooler Master HAF-XB | Windows 10 Pro x64 1809


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#4
Posted 08/21/2010 12:33 PM   
[quote name='jaafaman' post='1106941' date='Aug 21 2010, 01:33 PM']3D Surround, and even Surround itself, is limited to 3 monitors tops from the drivers. The configuration you wish is only possible through third party hardware video splitters...[/quote]

Yea i know that, thats why i have asked for peoples ideas. 3D surround is not what im after- clearly. Its not a 2x2 configuration. Its a 1x3 configuration. Anyone else have good ideas?
[quote name='jaafaman' post='1106941' date='Aug 21 2010, 01:33 PM']3D Surround, and even Surround itself, is limited to 3 monitors tops from the drivers. The configuration you wish is only possible through third party hardware video splitters...



Yea i know that, thats why i have asked for peoples ideas. 3D surround is not what im after- clearly. Its not a 2x2 configuration. Its a 1x3 configuration. Anyone else have good ideas?

#5
Posted 08/21/2010 12:38 PM   
[quote name='jaafaman' post='1106941' date='Aug 21 2010, 01:33 PM']3D Surround, and even Surround itself, is limited to 3 monitors tops from the drivers. The configuration you wish is only possible through third party hardware video splitters...[/quote]

Yea i know that, thats why i have asked for peoples ideas. 3D surround is not what im after- clearly. Its not a 2x2 configuration. Its a 1x3 configuration. Anyone else have good ideas?
[quote name='jaafaman' post='1106941' date='Aug 21 2010, 01:33 PM']3D Surround, and even Surround itself, is limited to 3 monitors tops from the drivers. The configuration you wish is only possible through third party hardware video splitters...



Yea i know that, thats why i have asked for peoples ideas. 3D surround is not what im after- clearly. Its not a 2x2 configuration. Its a 1x3 configuration. Anyone else have good ideas?

#6
Posted 08/21/2010 12:38 PM   
... third party software or hardware is what im looking for
... third party software or hardware is what im looking for

#7
Posted 08/21/2010 12:39 PM   
... third party software or hardware is what im looking for
... third party software or hardware is what im looking for

#8
Posted 08/21/2010 12:39 PM   
[quote name='john key' post='1106945' date='Aug 21 2010, 08:38 AM']Yea i know that, thats why i have asked for peoples ideas. 3D surround is not what im after- clearly. Its not a 2x2 configuration. Its a 1x3 configuration. Anyone else have good ideas?[/quote]
In case you can't figure it out, I'm eliminating your considerations down to what's possible. You need to concentrate on the third-party solutions with the possibility of running SLI as single-screen output feeding that solution. There certainly are folks here who can input suggestions, and some of them even have experience supporting those third-party solutions with SLI.

Depending on the grand resolution, you may not need more than two GPUs teamed for the single output, model-dependent. Even at that, since you're not using it for gaming but rather 3D movies, most of these apps don't have multi-GPU support enabled anway. So this pretty much narrows down your GPU choices to the largest, most powerful you can afford - which is certainly less expensive than the multiples you asked about...
[quote name='john key' post='1106945' date='Aug 21 2010, 08:38 AM']Yea i know that, thats why i have asked for peoples ideas. 3D surround is not what im after- clearly. Its not a 2x2 configuration. Its a 1x3 configuration. Anyone else have good ideas?

In case you can't figure it out, I'm eliminating your considerations down to what's possible. You need to concentrate on the third-party solutions with the possibility of running SLI as single-screen output feeding that solution. There certainly are folks here who can input suggestions, and some of them even have experience supporting those third-party solutions with SLI.



Depending on the grand resolution, you may not need more than two GPUs teamed for the single output, model-dependent. Even at that, since you're not using it for gaming but rather 3D movies, most of these apps don't have multi-GPU support enabled anway. So this pretty much narrows down your GPU choices to the largest, most powerful you can afford - which is certainly less expensive than the multiples you asked about...

"AIO": Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 @ 103.2 MHz BCLK | ASUS X79-Deluxe | SwifTech Apogee Drive II Pump and Block | 120 mm + 240 mm Push-Pull | 64 GB G.Skill PC3-12800 @ 1924 MHz | NVIDIA RTX 2070 FE | LG 25UM56 UW Monitor | Plextor 1TB PX-1TM9PeY PCIe NVMe (Windows 10 Pro x64 1809) | Plextor 1TB PX-1TM9PeY PCIe NVMe (UserData) | 4x SanDisk 500 GB SSDs in Marvell SATA3 RAID0 (C:\Games) | 2x WD 250 GB SSDs and WD 3 TB RED HDD in Marvell HyperDuo RAID (Media) | 16 GB RAMDisk (Temp Files) | WD My Book Essentials 3 TB NAS (Archives) | LG BP50NB40 ODD | eVGA Supernova G+ 1000 W PSU | Cooler Master HAF-XB

"Gaming": Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2, Turbo 44x (5-6), 45x (3-4), 46x (1-2) | ASUS Rampage IV Extreme | SwifTech Apogee Drive II Pump and Block | 120 mm + 240 mm Push/Pull | 32 GB G.Skill PC3-12800 @ 1866 MHz | NVIDIA GTX 1080 FE | NVIDIA GTX 970 RE | Samsung U28E510 UHD | 2x PNY 480 GB SSDs in Intel SATA3 RAID0 (OS) | Plextor 1TB PX-1TM9PeY PCIe NVMe (Disk Games) | 4x PNY 240 GB SSDs in Intel SATA2 RAID0 (On-Line Games) | eVGA Supernova G+ 1000 W PSU | Cooler Master HAF-XB | Windows 10 Pro x64 1809


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#9
Posted 08/21/2010 05:31 PM   
[quote name='john key' post='1106945' date='Aug 21 2010, 08:38 AM']Yea i know that, thats why i have asked for peoples ideas. 3D surround is not what im after- clearly. Its not a 2x2 configuration. Its a 1x3 configuration. Anyone else have good ideas?[/quote]
In case you can't figure it out, I'm eliminating your considerations down to what's possible. You need to concentrate on the third-party solutions with the possibility of running SLI as single-screen output feeding that solution. There certainly are folks here who can input suggestions, and some of them even have experience supporting those third-party solutions with SLI.

Depending on the grand resolution, you may not need more than two GPUs teamed for the single output, model-dependent. Even at that, since you're not using it for gaming but rather 3D movies, most of these apps don't have multi-GPU support enabled anway. So this pretty much narrows down your GPU choices to the largest, most powerful you can afford - which is certainly less expensive than the multiples you asked about...
[quote name='john key' post='1106945' date='Aug 21 2010, 08:38 AM']Yea i know that, thats why i have asked for peoples ideas. 3D surround is not what im after- clearly. Its not a 2x2 configuration. Its a 1x3 configuration. Anyone else have good ideas?

In case you can't figure it out, I'm eliminating your considerations down to what's possible. You need to concentrate on the third-party solutions with the possibility of running SLI as single-screen output feeding that solution. There certainly are folks here who can input suggestions, and some of them even have experience supporting those third-party solutions with SLI.



Depending on the grand resolution, you may not need more than two GPUs teamed for the single output, model-dependent. Even at that, since you're not using it for gaming but rather 3D movies, most of these apps don't have multi-GPU support enabled anway. So this pretty much narrows down your GPU choices to the largest, most powerful you can afford - which is certainly less expensive than the multiples you asked about...

"AIO": Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 @ 103.2 MHz BCLK | ASUS X79-Deluxe | SwifTech Apogee Drive II Pump and Block | 120 mm + 240 mm Push-Pull | 64 GB G.Skill PC3-12800 @ 1924 MHz | NVIDIA RTX 2070 FE | LG 25UM56 UW Monitor | Plextor 1TB PX-1TM9PeY PCIe NVMe (Windows 10 Pro x64 1809) | Plextor 1TB PX-1TM9PeY PCIe NVMe (UserData) | 4x SanDisk 500 GB SSDs in Marvell SATA3 RAID0 (C:\Games) | 2x WD 250 GB SSDs and WD 3 TB RED HDD in Marvell HyperDuo RAID (Media) | 16 GB RAMDisk (Temp Files) | WD My Book Essentials 3 TB NAS (Archives) | LG BP50NB40 ODD | eVGA Supernova G+ 1000 W PSU | Cooler Master HAF-XB

"Gaming": Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2, Turbo 44x (5-6), 45x (3-4), 46x (1-2) | ASUS Rampage IV Extreme | SwifTech Apogee Drive II Pump and Block | 120 mm + 240 mm Push/Pull | 32 GB G.Skill PC3-12800 @ 1866 MHz | NVIDIA GTX 1080 FE | NVIDIA GTX 970 RE | Samsung U28E510 UHD | 2x PNY 480 GB SSDs in Intel SATA3 RAID0 (OS) | Plextor 1TB PX-1TM9PeY PCIe NVMe (Disk Games) | 4x PNY 240 GB SSDs in Intel SATA2 RAID0 (On-Line Games) | eVGA Supernova G+ 1000 W PSU | Cooler Master HAF-XB | Windows 10 Pro x64 1809


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#10
Posted 08/21/2010 05:31 PM   
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