Dual monitors for editing in Resolve?

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Dual monitors for editing in Resolve?

PostTue Jun 30, 2020 9:14 pm

I have 2 27 inch free sync HP monitors. One is plugged into the HDMI, i guess the graphics card?

The other HDMI on my mother board, I tried plugging in 2nd monitor, but monitor doesnt recognize any signal.

I know there is a way to "turn on" the hdmi on the motherboard, but I can't figure out how.

I looked on line, got into the bios, and everything on the you tube channels i was told to look out for and 'enable', I simply cannot find it.
Does ayone have advice?

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Re: Dual monitors for editing in Resolve?

PostTue Jun 30, 2020 9:45 pm

Plug both monitors into tour graphics card.
it is also recommended to disable the motherboard graphics.
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Re: Dual monitors for editing in Resolve?

PostTue Jun 30, 2020 10:13 pm

Jack Swart wrote:Plug both monitors into tour graphics card.
it is also recommended to disable the motherboard graphics.

But I only have 1 HDMI port on graphics card
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Re: Dual monitors for editing in Resolve?

PostTue Jun 30, 2020 11:43 pm

So get a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter, should only cost you a few bucks.
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Re: Dual monitors for editing in Resolve?

PostWed Jul 01, 2020 12:40 am

Jack Fairley wrote:So get a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter, should only cost you a few bucks.


The hdmi on the graphics card is to my main monitor, but the mother board has VGA, DVI and HDMI but none of them are sending a signal to second monitor.

I dont know if they are turned off from the Radeon graphics card and need to be enabled.

I dont understand how a display port to hdmi can help
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Re: Dual monitors for editing in Resolve?

PostWed Jul 01, 2020 12:44 am

Jack Fairley wrote:So get a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter, should only cost you a few bucks.


I just googled Display port and now i know what those blue caps are covering on my graphics card. I have 3 plus HDMI. At first i thought they were hdmi, Then i thought they were USB

thanks for teaching me something new. :D
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Re: Dual monitors for editing in Resolve?

PostWed Jul 01, 2020 5:15 am

austindonald1 wrote:
Jack Fairley wrote:So get a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter, should only cost you a few bucks.


The hdmi on the graphics card is to my main monitor, but the mother board has VGA, DVI and HDMI but none of them are sending a signal to second monitor.

I dont know if they are turned off from the Radeon graphics card and need to be enabled.

I dont understand how a display port to hdmi can help


Typically you will need to enable the ports in the Radeon driver control panel, but they probably won't even show up there if nothing is connected.
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Re: Dual monitors for editing in Resolve?

PostWed Jul 01, 2020 12:28 pm

Have you configured your GPU for two displays in the computer display menu? Yiu need to have both displays connected to the computer.

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Re: Dual monitors for editing in Resolve?

PostWed Jul 01, 2020 10:20 pm

@austindonald1 As @Jack Swart mentioned, having your onboard graphics enabled plus a discrete graphics card does not work well, if at all. It can be done theoretically but often their are conflicts with graphics card drivers and the whole system becomes unusable/unstable. Not sure that reasoning was clear in Jack's post.

Best to attach everything to a discrete graphics card, most usually have 2-4 outputs on them (sometime a few different connector types, but many can be adapted or monitors often have multiple input types too).
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Re: Dual monitors for editing in Resolve?

PostMon Jul 27, 2020 3:58 pm

A display port to hdmi was the ticket, dual monitors works great. I gues they are both working off of the GPU and not the CPU (I wish this wasn't so confusing)?
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