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so this is a bit of a follow up to my guide on how to install the nvidia geforce drivers so what I've decided to do in addition to that is a little guide on how to configure your system for 3d vision surround so first of all you will need three monitors all 120 Hertz you will need two GeForce GTX no not necessarily GTX you'll need two is supported GeForce graphics cards in this case I've got a couple of GTX 480 s you will also need nvidia active shutter glasses as well as an IR emitter so you'll need to have the latest beta drivers installed and by the time you watch this I guess there might be an official driver for this a wickel one so you go to the Nvidia control panel you wait for it to load once it's done loading you go ahead and go into the configure SLI physics and surround so I'm going to go ahead and stand displays with surround so I'm going to apply that first and then I'll configure it after so the surround option is the new one in this particular menu we've always had SLI we've always had activate all displays and disable SLI so it says connect displays to graphics cards as shown I have already done this so I'm going to go ahead and click apply again this might take a moment yes I am sure and then we hope that it all works all displays are blank no signal wait for it hey there we go okay so now the Nvidia control panel is up on the middle screen my Start menu is also on the middle screen but my Start menu spans to the right-hand screen as well as the left-hand screen so you can see that we do have to rearrange the displays so the easiest way to do that is with the little wizard that's up here right now so you just click identify so we've got three one two so what I'm going to do is I'm going to make it so that three is over here just can drag it over three one two so that should match the identify function and then once I've done that I just click apply it'll rearrange my monitors and it's that simple okay so there's one more thing that we need to configure for the surround option so we can either configure it to adjust for the display bezels what that means is it's adding a little bit of resolution here I'm going to sort of try to explain this it's adding some resolution behind the bezels so that means that if you have say for example like nvidia 'he's got displayed here a road you can either make it so that the bezels will hide some of the picture or you can make it so that the bezel will simply just be in between and the picture will will have that gap in between it so oh okay looks like i've configured it one way or the other i missed which one i configured personally i prefer this way I don't mind having that gap but it doesn't really matter oh no I see what I've done okay now I did click the wrong one okay so yeah you can either configure it to have them lineup or configure to have them not lineup you know what why don't we go through really quickly here and I just want to show you okay configure I just want to show you how to do the bezel correction even though I don't prefer it that way okay yeah okay yeah yes we want to adjust them okay so in video gives us this little road thing and I'm going to go ahead and change the width right here I'm going to change the width of my extra resolution that I'm adding until the road approx lines up so I'm holding it down that looks pretty close to me so that's 150 pixels so I'm going to go ahead and click create resolutions and once that's done that will be applied across all monitors so what that means is that my configuration which is now set up let's do 3d really quick and then I'll show you exactly what that means as far as resolutions are concerned actually show you that right now so we'll go to screen resolution so we are running at 57 60 by 1080 rather than the full resolution which fifty nine ten by ten eighty fifty nine ten by ten eighty hold on a minute nineteen twenty not doesn't make any sense now fifty nine ten by ten eighty is probably the the offset one oh now I've gotten confused myself adding extra pixels for the width of the bezels yeah yeah definitely okay so yeah we've added a little bit of extra of extra width for the bezels to our resolution here so you can see that if I drag a window over here it's actually going to block out words so here see if I drag this to the side set up stereoscopic the entire word stereoscopic can be blocked out by the bezel because of the way that I've altered the resolution it's not really ideal for desktop use but it does provide a little bit of a better experience for games so you don't have kind of like the wing of your plane like starting here and then like coming up over here or something weird like that right