4th display on GTX 1070Ti or motherboard video?

[Steku]

I run MFS 2020 on 3 1920x1080 displays with nVidia surround on GTX 1070Ti (with give 5900x1080 with bezel correction). I'm getting 24-30 FPS, still acceptable for me for VFR flying in small Cessnas. But I would not like to decrease the FPS any more.
I plan to add 4th 1920x1080 touch display for Air Manager only.
Should I connect it as 4th display to GTX 1070Ti and keep it as separate display (not added to nVidia Surround)? Or should I use motherboard 1920x1080 HDMI video (Asus TUF Z270 Mk. 2 mobo + i7-7700K CPU)?

[Keith Baxter]

Hi,

Not sure that the hdmi on the mother board is available when a graphics card is installed. On my MSI it is not.

However AM uses very little GPU resources. Mainly CPU. You do not need great GPU power to run AM, So the fourth hdmi for an AM display, will have very little or any affect on your frame rate.

Keith

[Steku]

On my Asus mobo I'm able to enable the mobo HDMI 1920x1080 output simultaneously with the GTX 1070Ti output. As the GTX 1070Ti is already handling 5900x1080 resolution in nVidia surround on 3 displays I wonder what will be the impact of adding 4th display (outside nVidia surround configuration), even if displaying such light app as Air Manager.
I wonder if it would be getter to let the CPU handle the 4th display (Intel i7-7700k with built-in Intel® HD 630 graphics circuit). Or maybe it's peanuts for the GTX 1070Ti?

[Sling]

Hi,

If you already have the hardware why not try it both ways and decide which is most acceptable to you.

Tony

[jph]

On my Asus mobo I'm able to enable the mobo HDMI 1920x1080 output simultaneously with the GTX 1070Ti output. As the GTX 1070Ti is already handling 5900x1080 resolution in nVidia surround on 3 displays I wonder what will be the impact of adding 4th display (outside nVidia surround configuration), even if displaying such light app as Air Manager.
I wonder if it would be getter to let the CPU handle the 4th display (Intel i7-7700k with built-in Intel® HD 630 graphics circuit). Or maybe it's peanuts for the GTX 1070Ti?

Got to agree with the last post - try it both ways IF your mobo supports it - but, I would say the 1070 would be the least impact. Report back, interesting discussion.

[cho0]

Hi,
Dunno if it'll help but I have 5 monitors : 4 on my GPU and 1 on my MB. It works just fine.

[Roxus]

I have 8 monitors hooked to my PC (GTX1080)
XPlane11 uses 2 DisplayPort-to-HDMI from the GTX1080 and 1 USB3-to-HDMI (DisplayLink) on 1080P
AirManager uses 1 HDMI and 2 USB DisplayLink monitors
RealSimGear GNS530 uses a DisplayPort-to-HDMI from the GTX1080

my 8th is also a DisplayLink USB monitor, I put the XPlane Map popped out, and made a Windows window, onto it, as well as AirSpaces map on a browser

The DisplayLink USB driver can support up to 6 monitors
Also note that you can't use different USB display drivers on Windows, they all have to use the same display maker chipset (I chose DisplayLink coz I had a few spare monitors at work, but there are 3 or 4 for other manufacturers)

I want to get another 2 touchscreen monitors to finish out my UH60 cockpit build (upper and lower control panels), so I will have to find a couple of touchscreen DisplayLink USB monitors for AirManager to also run on. I also have a few Raspberry Pi3's so I guess I could run them on those with AirPlayer

[Steku]

8 monitors on one PC
And I thought I'm going to be extreme with 4! I need to tell my wife, that with only 4 I'm just average simmer
I'm getting better FPS on MFS2020 with my 3 external view displays (nVidia surround with bezel correction 5900x1080) on the GPU (GTX 1070Ti) and touch panel display (10 inch 1920x1080) on the CPU-mobo-integrated Intel display driver (i7-7700k) . The overall impact of running Air Manager is ca. 3 FPS (of 25-30). My wallet is preparing for RTX 3070.

[Roxus]

But I think the RTX's are still limited to 4 monitors, which really sucks !
Especially since DisplayPort 1.3 (I think it is) can support 3 monitors per connection (which means a GTX should be able to support 10 monitors - 3 x 3 DP 1.3 and 1 HDMI) but they driver just won't do it
There are 10 monitor cards out there, but they are HUGE $$ (I think $10k)