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Im hoping someone in here can help me out. So i have a 3 monitor eyefinity set up 3 LG 23inch monitors 1920x1080.
When the monitors are not in eyefinity i can "maintain aspect ratio" in the CCC but as soon as i create 3x1 set up the screen (desktop) seems zoomed in and stretched as if the center monitor was just zoomed in and stretched. I thought it was me so i even created a windows vista fresh install and i was able to maintain the aspect ratio in eyefinity on the desktop without reverting to "scale image to full panel size" i have read to lower the resolution to anything other than native which i can and works fine while not in eyefinity but as soon as i create the 3x1 it reverts to "scale image to full panel size" am i missing something is this normal with windows 7 im losing my mind, am i missing a driver or something? Thank you in adavance.

Windows 7 ultimate 64
Gigabyte G1 Assasin
i7 950
MSI 6970 Lightning
Corsair dominator 1600mhz
cooler master hafx
3x LG D2342 3D monitors

When you're in Eyefinity mode, the operating system just sees the desktop as one huge wide monitor. You can't maximise a window in one screen, it will automatically go across all three. It does not work the same way as a normal Windows extended desktop.

Are you saying that in Eyefinity mode, all your desktop icons are stretched 3 times wider than normal, or that your backdrop is stretched across all three? It is normal behaviour for the backdrop to cover all three monitors - that's how Eyefinity works. If all your icons are stretched wide, that is doesn't seem normal and it's not how mine works in Windows 7.

I'll check what my CCC says when I get home.

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Thank you for the reply. My icons are not stretched and look fine. The problem is when I create the eyefinity it stretches the background across the screens in a zoomed in view. For instance if I change the wallpaper for example to the lighthouse wallpaper that comes with windows 7 it doesn't fit across the monitors you can't even see the top of the lighthouse. It is the fact that it can't maintain aspect ratio through CCC. This is not the case in windows vista.

Hmm ok. Not sure how it works in Vista then, but mine seems to respond the same way yours does.

This is what my desktop looks like, in Eyefinity mode, using the image you described:



This actually maintains proper aspect ratio. If you could see the top of the lighthouse and still have the picture go across all three monitors, the image would be stretched horizontally, OR the image would have to be repeated 3 times.

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In windows 7 its
right click on desktop -- personalise -- desktop background -- picture position
(make sure your using a very wide wallpaper like 5040x1650)

Okay, resurrecting a dead topic. I've tried everything to fix this, from registry edits to lord knows what else. So here is the process to take care of this...

First, disable the setting that puts the taskbar on a single display while in Eyefinity, it's only going to make things difficult. Don't ask me why, but I struggled getting the last screen set up with that enabled (I have 5). After disabling the singlescreentaskbar setting, disable your Eyefinity setup so that they're all treated as a single screen. From here you can go and edit your GPU scaling settings. Once you're done, re-enable your Eyefinity setup and GPU scaling should work. I'm in 5x1P, so all the resolutions work well when they scale instead of stretch. I can't tell you how irritating this was. Tempted to go add custom resolutions now to make myself feel better.

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