https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31 DisplayFusion RSS: Toggle between Nvidia surround and extended Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:54:48 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#21 Mon, 12 Aug 2019 18:12:51 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#21 DisplayFusion No worries, glad to hear it! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#20 Sun, 11 Aug 2019 23:31:26 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#20 DisplayFusion Thanks Keith, it looks like it's working!
I wasn't realizing that DF could recognize a different monitor configuration even with nVidia Surround.
Thanks for the precious advice. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#19 Thu, 08 Aug 2019 14:32:03 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#19 DisplayFusion If you save the Surround and non-Surround configurations as Monitor Profiles in DisplayFusion, you can then assign the Desktop Icon Profiles to them in the "Manage Monitor Profiles" window. You won't be able to load the Monitor Profiles to enable/disable Surround, but DF should automatically detect when the configuration matches the profile and then it will apply the assigned Desktop Icon Profile.

Hope that makes sense! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#18 Wed, 07 Aug 2019 01:11:07 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#18 DisplayFusion My config is a 3x 1080p 27" displays and I've been using Helios for months now, of course for gaming, and it's the best solution right now, as nVindia is ignoring this feature since ever.

I'd love to have an option to load a specific monitor profile and icon profile for nvidia surround and back to "triple monitor" to avoid messing every time my desktop icons positions. Is there a way to trigger the event? It should recognize when the 3 displays are showed as 1, and whene they are showed as 3.

I hope my explanation is clear enough.. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#17 Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:34:29 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#17 DisplayFusion OMG for free that is amazing!~ Launching based on games is superb! That is what this software should be able to do... ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#16 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 20:05:53 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#16 DisplayFusion originally they had some issues with mosaic due to small differences in how mosaic stores its display topography vs surround, but they were able to get that working after I sent over some logs and since then I've been using with both Quadro and GeForce cards without issue. As they're also leveraging the surround API to get this to work, it might be worth taking a look at their code (it's all open source): https://github.com/falahati/HeliosDisplayManagement ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#15 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 19:31:46 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#15 DisplayFusion @jjjjjj: Thanks for sharing that! I'd be interested to hear from other folks on whether it works for them as well, if it's reliable then there's hope that we may be able to get this working after all ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#14 Sun, 03 Mar 2019 09:25:53 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#14 DisplayFusion Just happened to see this and wanted to point out that there is already a tool out there that does this. Just Google Helios Display Manager to find the . This will let you switch between extended and surround layouts and works extremely well. Works for both surround and mosaic. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#13 Fri, 01 Mar 2019 15:49:22 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#13 DisplayFusion I'm not sure if we have, but I will suggest it to our developers. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#12 Thu, 28 Feb 2019 20:42:34 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#12 DisplayFusion Do you guys have a ticket in with them to fix their APIs? Should I create one? This is a must. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#11 Thu, 28 Feb 2019 17:55:58 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#11 DisplayFusion We've been working on this, but the NVIDIA API isn't working the way it should be according to the documentation. Rest assured that if we can get it working we will add it to DisplayFusion

Thanks! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#10 Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:00:29 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#10 DisplayFusion Can this be added yet? I have been waiting years for this. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#9 Thu, 08 Nov 2018 20:08:49 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#9 DisplayFusion Since this is one of the top posts on Google, I thought I would share my solution here. Now that the hotkeys are fixed other than returning to "extend" not saving the profile, I created an AutoHotkey script that returns 3 monitors back to normal with Cntrl+Alt+Shift+S.

The script can be found here: https://gist.github.com/Fmstrat/e78619c2fcc76384149e0ff7831fe728 ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#8 Mon, 27 Aug 2018 20:03:00 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#8 DisplayFusion At the moment it appears that it's not possible to toggle Surround programatically, so to be totally honest, we have no idea if we'll ever be able to implement it. It is a popular request and as such will remain open on our list, so if/when it becomes possible, we will certainly let you know.

Thanks! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#7 Sun, 26 Aug 2018 14:42:33 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#7 DisplayFusion The nvidia toggler does not work at all for me either. We have been waiting on this feature since like 2015. Will we ever get it? This software is useless without it to anyone that does multi-monitor gaming. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#6 Tue, 19 Dec 2017 23:57:32 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#6 DisplayFusion CTRL+ALT+S does nothing on my machine.
I do not have an option in the NVIDIA Control Panel for Hotkeys.
I would love to know a way to toggle it. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#5 Wed, 22 Nov 2017 18:25:58 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#5 DisplayFusion Yeah, I've found the Surround toggle hotkey to be unreliable as well (but even had issues with it in Windows 7).

At any rate, you can try this to make it easier:

• When in Extended Mode, save the layout as a Monitor Profile
• Switch to Surround Mode with the hotkey
• Set that layout up if needed and save it as a Monitor Profile
• Then when you switch back to Extended with the hotkey, you can load the Extended profile again

We do have an open feature request for being able to toggle Surround directly with Monitor Profiles, but haven't had a chance to implement it yet. There is an API for working with the NVIDIA Control Panel but we haven't fully investigated it yet, so not sure if it's possible, but we'll definitely let you know if/when we're able to implement it in a future version.

Thanks! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#4 Wed, 22 Nov 2017 02:40:02 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#4 DisplayFusion I do, (CRTL+ALT+S) but it's pretty unreliable since the creator's update decided to install itself last week.

Cheers, Chris ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#3 Tue, 21 Nov 2017 18:08:17 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#3 DisplayFusion In the NVIDIA Control Panel, do you have a key combination set for toggling Surround mode? ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#2 Sun, 19 Nov 2017 17:48:21 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31#2 DisplayFusion I also would like this feature. To be able to toggle the Main Display back and forth would be a great feature.

Thank you. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31 Sun, 19 Nov 2017 02:22:52 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/toggle-between-nvidia-surround-and-extended/?ID=0df637f9-69f0-4461-bb6a-08be39879e31 DisplayFusion Hi everybody

I have 4 1080p monitors in extended mode (Win 10 latest build), three along the bottom and one in the middle and above the others. I would like to be able to toggle to surround mode using just the three bottom monitors at a bezel corrected resolution of 6000x1080 but can't seem to get things working. I've seen macros and discussions here but it kinda all goes over my head.

Is there an idiot's guide to getting this working, maybe a step by step description? It would really be appreciated!

Cheers, Chris D ]]>