david charles 2011-09-29 11:38
I have 6 monitors running on an Nvidia NVS 420 and an Nvidia Quadro 3500 currentley.
Will UtlraMon help me run 12 monitors as a unified desktop running 3 NVS 420's?
Want to run 3 x 4 with displays in portrait mode.
Not sure if the Nvidia drivers will let me run more than 8 monitors but I have never tried more than 6.
Thanks,
dr
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Christian Studer 2011-09-30 09:17
UltraMon will work fine with this, but the video card driver needs to support this as well, and you could also run into resource issues depending on how much RAM is installed.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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david charles 2011-09-30 23:54
Thanks Christian,
I know that Nvidia officially only supports 8 monitors but was hoping someone had some experience with 8+ arrangements and Nvidia drivers. I doubt I am the first to try this.
If 8 is the hard limit, is there a way to link 2 computers in order to synchronize the displays and then run 6 + 6 or even 8 + 8 ?
I do appreciate any input.
dc
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Christian Studer 2011-10-01 10:39
I tested with a 12-monitor Matrox system a couple of years ago, with 3 quad cards, this worked fine. But I never tried this with Nvidia cards.
Synergy and Multiplicity allow you to control multiple computers with the same mouse/keyboard, might be worth a try. You won't be able to move windows between the two computers though.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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david charles 2011-10-01 13:12
Interesting info christian.
I want to span the 12 displays with a video player, maybe using VLC player.
Do you think this is even possible?
I did a test already with 6 monitors and it worked fine with color depth reduced to 16 bit and each display configured for 800x600.
Figured I would have better results pushing less data.
dc
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Christian Studer 2011-10-02 08:14
Difficult to say without actually testing it, this could work fine, but you could also have performance issues, and VLC may not support that many monitors or a player window of that size.
Another solution would be a video wall processor, this is a device which takes a single input and splits it between multiple monitors.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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