minaelromany
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Okay, so I have only ever had 2 nVidia cards in my life since 1998. The G92 8800GT in 2007 and a few days ago to EVGA GTX 1070Ti SC Black to upgrade my "ancient" R9 290 OC Vapor-X from Sapphire that served me for over 4 years.
I am using 3 monitors and "thought" that nVidia should have a good support for multimonitor like AMD does but it seems I was wrong.
I also assumed that the old debate that AMD/ATI cards gave better 2D PQ should not be valid anymore but I was also wrong.
Aside from gaming performance increase I got which allowed me to run Very High to Ultra settings in games on 6048x1080 Multimonitor with Bezel Correction and that was nearly impossible with the R9 290, I have many issues with 2D PQ and nV Surround.
immediately after I finished installing the new GPU, I was hit by the stupid old looking and slow nVidia Control Panel. AMD's Crimson Software is MILES ahead.
I was connecting the 3 monitors via DP to DVI, DVI directly and HDMI directly. The monitor that was connected via HDMI had washed out colors due to being set by nVidia driver to Limited RGB.
How you change that to Full RGB? You can't in nV Surround...
It can only be changed when monitors are individual and once Surround is enabled, it goes back to Limited RGB. Only a registery hack fixed that.
I had to buy another DP to DVI cable so all monitors run on DVI and that fixed the issue.
The whole look of my PC look different regarding colors. With AMD, default colors were spot on. Reference level and looked just right. With nVidia, colors look artificially enhanced maybe due to that Digital Vibrance crap option they have and can't be disabled at all. Some say its default value of 50% means it is not working but I am 100% sure this is not true.
Texts for everything don't look as sharp as they were on AMD and have some blurriness. I played with ClearType settings and that made them better but not as good.
Now comes the worst issue of all. nV Surround is buggy as hell and full of issues.
Its setup is not as straightforward as AMD's Eyefinity and doesn't work as good on Windows 10.
When waking monitors up from sleep, I see corruption on the 3 monitors then they wake up well BUT 3 times in the last 4 days since I got the card, monitors wake to black screen and PC is frozen and I had to force restart from the case restart button.
Many times the taskbar in bottom middle monitor jumps to top left monitor... LOL
Start Menu appears shorter first then after half a second it goes up to normal height.
Full middle screen windows get their bottom covered by the task bar many times and I have to unlock taskbar, move it up and down to get it fixed.
To be honest, if it wasn't for the great price of the 1070 Ti I got and the fact that R9 290 became too slow for recent games, I would've waited for the next flagship GPU from AMD.
If anybody can help with these bugs I am facing, I will greatly appreciate it.
I am using 3 monitors and "thought" that nVidia should have a good support for multimonitor like AMD does but it seems I was wrong.
I also assumed that the old debate that AMD/ATI cards gave better 2D PQ should not be valid anymore but I was also wrong.
Aside from gaming performance increase I got which allowed me to run Very High to Ultra settings in games on 6048x1080 Multimonitor with Bezel Correction and that was nearly impossible with the R9 290, I have many issues with 2D PQ and nV Surround.
immediately after I finished installing the new GPU, I was hit by the stupid old looking and slow nVidia Control Panel. AMD's Crimson Software is MILES ahead.
I was connecting the 3 monitors via DP to DVI, DVI directly and HDMI directly. The monitor that was connected via HDMI had washed out colors due to being set by nVidia driver to Limited RGB.
How you change that to Full RGB? You can't in nV Surround...
It can only be changed when monitors are individual and once Surround is enabled, it goes back to Limited RGB. Only a registery hack fixed that.
I had to buy another DP to DVI cable so all monitors run on DVI and that fixed the issue.
The whole look of my PC look different regarding colors. With AMD, default colors were spot on. Reference level and looked just right. With nVidia, colors look artificially enhanced maybe due to that Digital Vibrance crap option they have and can't be disabled at all. Some say its default value of 50% means it is not working but I am 100% sure this is not true.
Texts for everything don't look as sharp as they were on AMD and have some blurriness. I played with ClearType settings and that made them better but not as good.
Now comes the worst issue of all. nV Surround is buggy as hell and full of issues.
Its setup is not as straightforward as AMD's Eyefinity and doesn't work as good on Windows 10.
When waking monitors up from sleep, I see corruption on the 3 monitors then they wake up well BUT 3 times in the last 4 days since I got the card, monitors wake to black screen and PC is frozen and I had to force restart from the case restart button.
Many times the taskbar in bottom middle monitor jumps to top left monitor... LOL
Start Menu appears shorter first then after half a second it goes up to normal height.
Full middle screen windows get their bottom covered by the task bar many times and I have to unlock taskbar, move it up and down to get it fixed.
To be honest, if it wasn't for the great price of the 1070 Ti I got and the fact that R9 290 became too slow for recent games, I would've waited for the next flagship GPU from AMD.
If anybody can help with these bugs I am facing, I will greatly appreciate it.
