Projector Bottlenecks the monitors

[knoober]

Here's my issue guys,.... I picked up a couple of 20 in monitors to replace the ones that arrived poorly a few weeks back. They are Acer P205h's to be exact. I had to give up some screen property, but now I have working monitors But..... I'm getting bottleneck ed by a projector I have added into the system. Here is the set up: a PowerColor HD 7850 with one dvi port headed to one monitor and the other running to a dvi splitter with the other monitor and the projector (NEC VT 595 recommended resolution 1024 x 768) . In the past I have used the CCC to add the resolutions I needed (with a few sets of generic monitors on through the recently deceased Dell e2310hc) and all has been excellent. I would have to adjust the resolution down to a viewable level when using the projector (which is usually off - hence not a problem to have the monitor it shares a connection with at a higher resolution). But now I'm getting a problem where I don't have any resolutions to choose from the the projector connected monitor. Also I cannot add in the resolution I am trying g to get (1600 x 900).

I have tried a tutorial that suggests editing the registry to add custom resolution
Also I made sure to be using dual link dvi cables (made that mistake a different time)

Is there a better way to set this up? I don't recall if the projector has hdmi support, but I suppose I could have the projector separate.... I'm just stumped.

 

[Janus67]

Use an HDMI->DVI cable to add it and see if that does the trick

 

[knoober]

Not a half bad idea, I thought I was going to have to get a long hdmi cord. I'd forgotten about adapters! Much simpler.

Now I seem to remember reading g something that said only certain ports could be used when using multiple cards (ie you don't get video from all the ports) is there a similar limitation with one card (am I stuck using 1 dvi and 1 hdmi or can I use 2 x dvi + 1 hdmi) ?

Edit: found 1 that is hdmi to dvi-i.... Tougher than I thought. Lots of dvi-d adapters