cleverpun Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 As title. I have a Radeon R9 280x and an MSI Z97 motherboard. I want to have my regular monitor and my HDTV connected at the same time for splitscreen/local coop play. Do I plug the tv into the motherboard's HDMI port, or do I have to use the video card's VGA cable for the monitor? Or is there some splitter or something I can buy since VGA is lame? Thanks in advance for any advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Explosion-chan Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 You can plug one into the VGA and one into HDMI if I understand your questiom correctly. I have it set up that way at home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ButterToast vK Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 No signal will be sent to the mobo's hdmi port so you'll have to plug it to the video card. You probably want to buy a display port or a DVI cable and use it for your TV or monitor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AwesomeMcCoolName Posted October 18, 2014 Share Posted October 18, 2014 No signal will be sent to the mobo's hdmi port so you'll have to plug it to the video card. You probably want to buy a display port or a DVI cable and use it for your TV or monitor you cna output from both the mobo and the gpu at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleverpun Posted October 19, 2014 Author Share Posted October 19, 2014 you cna output from both the mobo and the gpu at the same time. Will that affect the video quality? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AwesomeMcCoolName Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Will that affect the video quality? Well, one will be running off the integrated gpu and one will be running off the 280x. If you intend to game on both monitors at the same time (co op style -- like running multiple instances of the game) then either both will suffer (if the 280x is rendering both) or only the one on integrated graphics will suffer....regardless, both will suffer a bit as the cpu will be an issue. On the other hand, if its a split screen game, and therefore you're still just rendering one image and just want it to be mirrored on the other monitor, then there will be no performance issue (but both should be powered off the gpu). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleverpun Posted October 19, 2014 Author Share Posted October 19, 2014 Well, one will be running off the integrated gpu and one will be running off the 280x. If you intend to game on both monitors at the same time (co op style -- like running multiple instances of the game) then either both will suffer (if the 280x is rendering both) or only the one on integrated graphics will suffer....regardless, both will suffer a bit as the cpu will be an issue. On the other hand, if its a split screen game, and therefore you're still just rendering one image and just want it to be mirrored on the other monitor, then there will be no performance issue (but both should be powered off the gpu). Well that would be fine for Awesomenauts or some other light game, but I was also planning to use this for the PreSequel splitscreen hack, which does run multiple instances of the game in order to work. I don't expect it to look great (since it's obviously not as optimized as a properly coded splitscreen game), but I was hoping there would be some way to get it to work on multiple monitors instead of using one TV and the worse FOV that creates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darklunerninja Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 I imagine you set it up as any other multi-monitor set-up. Your GPU has an HDMI port and a display port. You can always get an adapter for whatever you need (DVI/HDMI and display port/HDMI/DVI) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AwesomeMcCoolName Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Well that would be fine for Awesomenauts or some other light game, but I was also planning to use this for the PreSequel splitscreen hack, which does run multiple instances of the game in order to work. I don't expect it to look great (since it's obviously not as optimized as a properly coded splitscreen game), but I was hoping there would be some way to get it to work on multiple monitors instead of using one TV and the worse FOV that creates Well, you can either both play at crap settings off the 280x, or one of you plays at high while the other plays at even worse settings. In either event, you would just run one monitor as an extension of the other and its up to you to decide whether you want them both powered off the gpu or if you want one of the gpu and one off the iGPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shroomz Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 my card has DVI, VGA, HDMI and display port or something like that. i just plug them into the different ports Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AwesomeMcCoolName Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 my card has DVI, VGA, HDMI and display port or something like that. i just plug them into the different ports 980s have 3 dp 1 hdmi and 1 dual link dvi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shroomz Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 980s have 3 dp 1 hdmi and 1 dual link dvi I only built my rig today, was waiting for all the parts to get here x) when i posted that, i was still using my old pc with some AMD HD7XXX card in it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleverpun Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 Well, I tried plugging my tv and monitor into the GPU and MOBO, respectively, and it didn't really work. The help files for Windows 8 say they both need to be plugged into the GPU, so I guess I need to buy an HDMI splitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AwesomeMcCoolName Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Well, I tried plugging my tv and monitor into the GPU and MOBO, respectively, and it didn't really work. The help files for Windows 8 say they both need to be plugged into the GPU, so I guess I need to buy an HDMI splitter. You have to enable integrated graphics in the motherboard BIOS. Bios > Settings > Advanced > Integrated Graphics Configuration > Enable "IGD Multi-Monitor" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleverpun Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 You have to enable integrated graphics in the motherboard BIOS. Yea, a google search mentioned that, but it seems like doing more work for a lower video quality is a bad idea when an HDMI splitter only costs 6 bucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AwesomeMcCoolName Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 Yea, a google search mentioned that, but it seems like doing more work for a lower video quality is a bad idea when an HDMI splitter only costs 6 bucks It takes three seconds, and with an HDMI splitter it would also be a lower quality video....remember you're running two instances of the game, which will dramatically affect performance. Bios > Settings > Advanced > Integrated Graphics Configuration > Enable "IGD Multi-Monitor" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleverpun Posted October 20, 2014 Author Share Posted October 20, 2014 It takes three seconds, and with an HDMI splitter it would also be a lower quality video....remember you're running two instances of the game, which will dramatically affect performance. Bios > Settings > Advanced > Integrated Graphics Configuration > Enable "IGD Multi-Monitor" Yes, but running off my integrated GPU would be even worse since it is not that powerful. I may have a gaming mobo, but I doubt the integrated GPU could handle anything as visually complex as Borderlands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AwesomeMcCoolName Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Yes, but running off my integrated GPU would be even worse since it is not that powerful. I may have a gaming mobo, but I doubt the integrated GPU could handle anything as visually complex as Borderlands What mobo you have is irrelevant...But running two instances of the game will still yield meh results, even if both are off the gpu...Just don't expect excellent results either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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