It took us a little while with no documentation to figure out how to get Eyefinity working, so I thought I’d throw together a quick guide on how to set up Eyefinity.
you don’t really need one monitor on the display port. I’ve tried it with only 2 monitors plugged to the DVI ports and it works (while it’s not playable because the center is just in between the 2 screens ).
Same problem here Peter, I have a 30″ Samsung 305T (center), a 23″ Samsung 2380 (left/portrait) and a 22″ DELL 2209WA (right/portrait) – all of them DVI w/o DP (the DELL is connected via Apple’s miniDP-to-DVI connector – and I can only enable 2 of the at the same time, the 3rd remains idle, whatever I do.
I think I must go and replace the DELL with a NEC EA231WMi which has DP…:(
So, is there any solution for this problem? I have the exactly same problem; using HD5770 and run Windows 7. I tried to connect 1DVI, 1HDMI, 1DVI(DisplayPort), but only 2 of them can be enable @ the same time. Why?
You cannot simply use a diplayport to dvi adaptor unless its an active adaptor which costs about $100. the other alternative is get a monitor with build in displayport
It can be done using a DP to DVI but it *HAS* to be an “active” dp to dvi, which includes some type of power(usually USB) They are very expensive, Dell sells one for around 100 bucks. You cannot just buy a passthrough cable for on teh cheap and expect it to work. Hope this helps
this tutorial is way to fast unless one plays games all day long to which site does one go to get the proper drivers i am bringing my new velocity game machine to the store where i bought it and if they want to sell me two matching monitors they will have to get this eyefinity going for me right there in front of me i am a flightsim enthousiast and also taking lessons on real aircraft
Hi I’m using an ATI Radeon 6950 card with dual monitors. It works fine for my desktop at 2880 x 900 resolution, but it doesn’t work for games (the game appears on one monitor and the other one shows the desktop). my monitors are 1680 x 1050 and 1440 x 900.
How can I get it to work for games? eg. Starcraft 2
Am using 2 XFX Radeon 6870 Black Edition X-fire. My monitors are Fujitsu T3230 with 1 VGA and 2 HDMI. Have connected monitor #1 HDMI-HDMI, monitor #2 miniDP-HDMI using a miniDP-HDMI adapter and monitor #3 miniDP-HDMI using 1 miniDP-DVI adapter and 1 DVI-HDMI adapter.
Everything seems to work except that monitor #3 is black, nothing happens, I can add it, group it with the others etc. But no image. What might I be doing wrong?
Regards
Linus II
Okay, after doing some research, you CANNOT use DVI+DVI+HDMI. The reason for this is because the HDMI port and DVI-D port on the card are a shared port. If you try this with two monitors using the DVI-D port and HDMI port, only one monitor will work. The DVI-D port I’m referring to is usually the one located below, not next to any other ports.
@Linus, check your cables. You may be running a single-link cable. This is why they are moving to DisplayPort and getting rid of DVI. DVI-SL (Single-Link) won’t support anything higher than 1600×1200@60hz. Your video card supports DVI-DL on it’s ports, so the cable is probably the culprit. Check to see if your cable has two 3×3 sets of pins, seperated by a gap (where it looks like there should be another 3×3 set of pins) If it looks like a 3×9 set of pins, then you have a Dual-Link cable. Ignore the far left of the cable, where there – looking pin is. It may be surrounded by 4 pins (one at each corner) but that’s for analog signals, in the case you have to use a DVI-DSUB(VGA) connector.
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Thanks – I needed that..
Are you 100% that the monitor have to be with displayPort connection? I am using a DisplayPort-DVI adapter and it dont work.
Hi,
you don’t really need one monitor on the display port. I’ve tried it with only 2 monitors plugged to the DVI ports and it works (while it’s not playable because the center is just in between the 2 screens
).
Same problem here Peter, I have a 30″ Samsung 305T (center), a 23″ Samsung 2380 (left/portrait) and a 22″ DELL 2209WA (right/portrait) – all of them DVI w/o DP (the DELL is connected via Apple’s miniDP-to-DVI connector – and I can only enable 2 of the at the same time, the 3rd remains idle, whatever I do.
I think I must go and replace the DELL with a NEC EA231WMi which has DP…:(
I forgot – the VGA card is a Radeon HD 5970 and I run Windows 7
Oh man, perfect. This is exactly what I was looking for. This setup is sick.
So, is there any solution for this problem? I have the exactly same problem; using HD5770 and run Windows 7. I tried to connect 1DVI, 1HDMI, 1DVI(DisplayPort), but only 2 of them can be enable @ the same time. Why?
You cannot simply use a diplayport to dvi adaptor unless its an active adaptor which costs about $100. the other alternative is get a monitor with build in displayport
I think that you can’t do DP to DVI but I think you can do DP to VGA. I heard something like that on one of the pcper podcasts. I could be wrong tho.
@Peter, Jacky, and Ed…
It can be done using a DP to DVI but it *HAS* to be an “active” dp to dvi, which includes some type of power(usually USB) They are very expensive, Dell sells one for around 100 bucks. You cannot just buy a passthrough cable for on teh cheap and expect it to work. Hope this helps
this tutorial is way to fast unless one plays games all day long to which site does one go to get the proper drivers i am bringing my new velocity game machine to the store where i bought it and if they want to sell me two matching monitors they will have to get this eyefinity going for me right there in front of me i am a flightsim enthousiast and also taking lessons on real aircraft
Hi I’m using an ATI Radeon 6950 card with dual monitors. It works fine for my desktop at 2880 x 900 resolution, but it doesn’t work for games (the game appears on one monitor and the other one shows the desktop). my monitors are 1680 x 1050 and 1440 x 900.
How can I get it to work for games? eg. Starcraft 2
thanks!
urrrg correction, the second monitor displays the EXACT same thing now so it just duplicates the same screen, mouse and everything.
thanks
Am using 2 XFX Radeon 6870 Black Edition X-fire. My monitors are Fujitsu T3230 with 1 VGA and 2 HDMI. Have connected monitor #1 HDMI-HDMI, monitor #2 miniDP-HDMI using a miniDP-HDMI adapter and monitor #3 miniDP-HDMI using 1 miniDP-DVI adapter and 1 DVI-HDMI adapter.
Everything seems to work except that monitor #3 is black, nothing happens, I can add it, group it with the others etc. But no image. What might I be doing wrong?
Regards
Linus II
Okay, after doing some research, you CANNOT use DVI+DVI+HDMI. The reason for this is because the HDMI port and DVI-D port on the card are a shared port. If you try this with two monitors using the DVI-D port and HDMI port, only one monitor will work. The DVI-D port I’m referring to is usually the one located below, not next to any other ports.
@Linus, check your cables. You may be running a single-link cable. This is why they are moving to DisplayPort and getting rid of DVI. DVI-SL (Single-Link) won’t support anything higher than 1600×1200@60hz. Your video card supports DVI-DL on it’s ports, so the cable is probably the culprit. Check to see if your cable has two 3×3 sets of pins, seperated by a gap (where it looks like there should be another 3×3 set of pins) If it looks like a 3×9 set of pins, then you have a Dual-Link cable. Ignore the far left of the cable, where there – looking pin is. It may be surrounded by 4 pins (one at each corner) but that’s for analog signals, in the case you have to use a DVI-DSUB(VGA) connector.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface – Look at the Connectors section for better visuals.
Oops, I messed somethin up. A DVI-D-SL will look like two 3×3 sets of pins separated by a 2×3 gap, not 3×3.
I suck at life. DVI-D-SL also supports 1920×1200@60hz. I was confusing DVI with DSUB.
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