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Undeadlord
04-27-2023, 02:13 PM
I need a multiviewer to complete my multiple pc setup for multiboxing, I swear that it's extremely hard to find, only few chinese seem to sell these tools on ebay or amazon, I can't find a monitor with multiview capabilities or multiviewer switch on my country.

Will this do the job?

4K HDMI 4X1 Quad Multi-Viewer 4 IN 1 Out Multi Screen Switcher HDMI Splitter NEW | eBay (https://www.ebay.com/itm/266170971206?hash=item3df906b446:g:IeoAAOSw1bFkECh x&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwD7UZCNAkbXmrtDlhtGT5c9TUrzgi EG%2F7F%2B%2Fuk1OL14HJ6OFtSUV%2Bf6dYhdjvQeiExEjahf gKNk4%2BCMQvub3mntq0L72mPcJWjM0KpspaIKob2S%2B3rMoZ %2BGgLk0J2N9eESzNbTy9xDjCV6R1cBOgrx48v%2F4F1lKetSe vb6UH%2B5KkLl08ZRdne0TNgwA7G4Cq4FKs3E%2FGq%2BUR6%2 FkHh1%2BvpnW%2BUZKlGRGp6D4qWlmwNW4GuPBfyxUbN5JtW1U S0YPvnw%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR4K-_L34YQ)

It's very cheap so I wonder if it's worth it, these tools are usually more expensive.

Overall, can someone suggest me a cheap monitor or other multiviewer device who can do the job?

Moorea
04-27-2023, 10:35 PM
There are network drivers - NDI if I recall that can do that.

Undeadlord
04-28-2023, 01:12 AM
There are network drivers - NDI if I recall that can do that.

I was thinking about a hardware solution in order to make better use of the slave pcs gpu, if I do this with software then the main pc handles all the pressure or is that wrong?

I will keep that in mind though, going for a very powerful main pc and very weak slave pcs is also an option.

Moorea
04-29-2023, 03:10 PM
Pushing frames through the network and displaying them on main PC isn't very resources intensive (on a LAN) but I'm saying this 2nd hand, folks in HW boxing community have all that (Ellay^h^h^hHappyDays & co for instance)

daviddoran
04-29-2023, 03:39 PM
When I was still hardware boxing, I just used 4 separate monitors, with dual inputs, on a 2x2 monitor mount. I remember Multidayz had issues with some of the cheap 4x1 adapters where the video quality was garbage and low resolution, so I'd make sure you get a quality one, but from a place with a good return policy just in case.

Undeadlord
05-13-2023, 07:26 AM
When I was still hardware boxing, I just used 4 separate monitors, with dual inputs, on a 2x2 monitor mount. I remember Multidayz had issues with some of the cheap 4x1 adapters where the video quality was garbage and low resolution, so I'd make sure you get a quality one, but from a place with a good return policy just in case.

Dual inputs? do you mean the ultrawide monitors? I was thinking about the mount solution with 4 monitors, I may buy 4 cheap small ones.