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Mar 5 2019 07:23am
I've recently bought a new laptop and after having used Quadro for a long time I've moved back to GeForce.
Reason is most recent 3D render engines such as VRay, Keyshot, Corona are mostly optimized for more powerful gaming cards rather than Quadro ones.

All fine and I'm good but I sadly discovered that GeForce don't support nView, which is inconvenient.

My old configuration was 17" Full HD notebook monitor 1920 x 1080 + secondary color calibrated 27" Dell monitor 2K 2560 x 1440, with nView. And it was just perfect.

New configuration is 17" 4K notebook monitor 3840 x 2106 + secondary color calibrated 27" Dell monitor 2K 2560 x 1440, without nView.

I had to struggle a bit, windows suggests me a Layout resize of 250% on notebook monitor (which is too big) and 100% on 27" one.
I adjusted it to a 200% Layout resize on notebook one and kept 100% on the 27" one. Looks right and feel fine but some elements sometimes just appear out of size.

While using Adobe InDesign, for example, all the cursors are just huge. Nothing problematic, I can live with them, but they somehow bother me during the workflow.

Now I searched a bit and found many opposing opinions on some software for screens management but still haven't a clue about which one to use.

Any suggestion? nView was just great and although I found some guides to install it on GTX card it just don't work at all. Pretty sad...


Thanks!
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Mar 5 2019 03:09pm
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windows suggests me a Layout resize of 250% on notebook monitor


Don't let that bastard tell you what to do!

Just go to your Graphics settings and set your resolutions custom. It may take some fiddling around but you will be much better off.
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Mar 6 2019 02:33am
Quote (Cactuar_NOM @ 5 Mar 2019 23:09)
Don't let that bastard tell you what to do!

Thanks for the reply!

Just go to your Graphics settings and set your resolutions custom. It may take some fiddling around but you will be much better off.

That's what I did, on 27" 2K screen I keep 100% (which is what windows suggests) and on 17" 4K screen I switch to 200% (while windows suggests 250%).
However while most of the UI are correctly scaled some elements (cursors, font selection drop menu, various elements) are not scaled correctly.

I'm checking nVidia control panel over and over but it's just far different from what I could do with quadro nView. Pretty sad considering the high end costs of this GPU.

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Mar 6 2019 07:53am
You can always try something like DisplayFusion or UltraMon
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Mar 7 2019 09:40am
Quote (Cactuar_NOM @ 6 Mar 2019 15:53)
You can always try something like DisplayFusion or UltraMon


Yep, that's what I was looking for. Which one do you suggest? Any other option?
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Mar 7 2019 09:44am
I've used both and personally preferred UltraMon.
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I've used both and personally preferred UltraMon.


Alright, thanks! :)
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