How to install a virtual display on Windows 10/11 (up to 8K 240hz)

[@ryanwilliamson8890]

I can not thank you enough for this. I run a couple of "sometimes headless" machines where sometimes there is a need to be in front of them, sometimes remote is what is needed, and leaving a monitor powered on 24/7 just incase is just crazy. I would personally love to have an option that was somehow able to automatically disable the virtual display when a physical display is actually powered on, but thats just me swinging for the fence, lol. Seriously tho, amazing work. This is going to make so many people very very happy.

[@Lukas_B]

Thank you so much for developing this! This is really useful for making high-res screenshots and screenrecordings, where you can zoom-in in post while retaining a high quality!

[@MikeTheTech]

That's a great use-case!

[@basildenereaz7731]

Thank you very much! Yes, as mentioned before, a version with 10-bit and HDR support would be incredible! ✨

[@MikeTheTech]

It’s out now!

[@redache467]

does it support 120hz? because it only shows 60hz on my end. Highly appreciate your work@@MikeTheTech

[@MikeTheTech]

Yup! Just edit the options.txt file and reinstall.

[@redache467]

@@MikeTheTech thank you so much 🙏🏼

[@Kgashi_]

OMG ive spent 7 hours trying to find ways to seset this up for remote access. thank you so much.

[@MikeTheTech]

Glad I could help!

[@tim5133]

Thanks! Your drivers allowed me to setup virtual dual screen 4k PC desktops inside a Vision Pro from my PC laptop.

[@MikeTheTech]

Glad I could help! Thank you so much for the support! I’m stoked that it works with the Apple Vision Pro!

[@vuyisilengwenya1422]

@MikeTheTech please help if you find time

[@AySz88]

I was your 1000th star on the repository just now - congrats and thank you!

[@MikeTheTech]

Awesome! Thank you! So cool to see the interest in the project. :)

[@cellborne]

Works perfectly. I have a mini pc that runs a security camera monitor that is plugged into my TV, but I wanted to run other programs when I RDP. So now I can do that on the virtual display. Really appreciate this Mike!

[@artyono9002]

The ones who have issue like I had, you have to install folder in C drive, drivers have issue because they dont see where are drivers located. Had same issue, because I wanted to locate driver folder on desktop. And thanks a lot for the video!

Damn nice work mike, hope you still had fun developing this! :)

[@StanleyMOV]

How does this work with windows 3d acceleration? Since it's another display driver than the RTX card, can this cause any issues like micro stutters when gaming? And how efficient is it in terms of performance? I got 3 monitors running at 120hz and need a virtual display for a complicated scene, so I'm hoping I can use this as a solution

[@dannistef200]

been a pain trying to use my headless server computer and this fixed that issue, thank you

[@TheGoncas2]

Thanks for this! Just ordered an RTX 4070, but I only have a 60Hz monitor. Glad to know I'll be able to enjoy 120Hz on my TV :)

[@IHaveBadWiFiBro]

how far away is your TV? why not get a very very long HDMI 2.1

[@exxmodel]

This works great, thanks a lot! My steam deck and moonlight setup was working fine until one day it started outputting a black screen unless my monitor was on and nothing I did could fix it. I swear I'm gettting a smoother image using this well. This first game I tested I used to get tiny microstutters in, now its buttery smooth!

[@MasterBen117]

Thx. I have the Same Problem wenn my Monitor turn off all Games stutter ect!

[@tebanquitoo]

Thank you so much for this video, I was looking for a solution since my computer did not detect my iPad as a second monitor and now I can! Greetings from Chile and keep it up!!

[@LightningSt0rm]

This is exactly what I was looking for, you are a godsend. I have a PC I use almost exclusively through VNC and wanted multi-monitor support. One thing I think would be nice is if it could mimic more than just 1 additional monitor. My ideal setup would be no physical monitor connected at all and VNC is just how I use it (unless something catastrophic happens forcing me to use it directly).

[@MikeTheTech]

Change the number 1 in the first line of options.txt to the number of monitors you want. Then reinstall. :)

[@LightningSt0rm]

@@MikeTheTech OMG you're the best. THANKS!

[@MikeTheTech]

lol. Much appreciated! Thanks a ton for the comment. I’m glad I could help out. :)

[@mikemagan2459]

Incredible help to the community, thank you!

[@MikeTheTech]

Happy to help!

[@consoletopcgaming8807]

my bro you are a genious! i've been searching high and low for an application like this. Many thanks!

[@DanielBennett]

Mike. Thank you! I have Windows 10 and you had a link provided that worked for my computer! Fantastic! You are the man! Thank you.

[@MikeTheTech]

Glad I could help!

[@ProcrastinationHyperfocus]

Beautiful. For various reasons I need to use TightVNC to use my work laptop effectively from my desk, which unlike normal Windows RDP, cannot ask the system you're connecting to for a display configuration matching your client system. This finally allows me a way to bring my third monitor into play (a dummy HDMI plug got me the second display.)

[@MrTannerfigueroa]

Man this is amazing and exactly what I needed for moonlight, no more trying to make dummyplugs from Amazon work, thank you

[@ericwycoff1399]

Great video! Amazing way to add tons and TONS more windows to your OBS stream by extracting the screen or just small screen captures without having an insane amount of monitors, thanks for this video man this works for so many different people doing so many different things!

[@justindube3529]

I was able to do this and add the driver to device manager but I'm not seeing it show up on my system/display items like in your video. Any recommendations?

[@theunsortedfolder6082]

having same problem

[@justindube3529]

@@theunsortedfolder6082 I gave up on trying this method.

[@AzimSF]

Same

[@redbad]

Mike any updates on HDR? Keep up the great work

[@rynojammin9511]

Thanks for the software!! If you can add 10bit color that would be amazing!!!If you want a custom resolution you can add it in the option.txt file before adding it as legacy hardware in device manager.

[@MikeTheTech]

Will look into this! Thanks for the comments and earlier feedback!

[@ThePiesforever]

Thanks This solved the issues running teamviewer on the headless server with Display ports

[@MikeTheTech]

Nice! Great to hear. 🤙

[@TarotCardCaptor]

This is 100 % subscription worthy thank you!

[@MikeTheTech]

Thanks for the sub!

[@bim-moh59]

thanks man that was so helpful , wish you a nice day

[@MikeTheTech]

Glad you found it helpful. You too!

[@Paldant]

You have been very helpful, thank youuuuuu! I just needed to have a virtual display, it works perfectly if there is at least one monitor phisically connected to pc. It seems not working when there is no monitor, but actually it's perfect for my case. Screens are visible even when connected with remote desktop. Thank you!

[@Jugbot]

It works great for my remote desktop setup that uses Fluid Jump Desktop

[@ACE-fd4nh]

you are the fucking man helped me setup gamestreaming throughout my whole home

[@MikeTheTech]

Nice! Great to hear. 🤙

[@Neagnosis]

Can't seem to get this to work, followed everything to the letter. Matched the correct settings in Moonlight with the settings for the monitor in Display, I've got the correct Output Name set in Sunshine but I'm still stuck with the black screen. I've also tried setting the virtual display as my main display but that didn't work either. The virtual display is active and working so I don't know why Sunshine can't seem to recognize it.

[@czagmail]

Have you had this resolved? What OS version do you have and what VDD version did you install? I ran into the same problem with my Windows 10 64-bit and trying to install the most recent VDD version 23.12.2. Then I tried reinstalling using VDD version 23.10.14 which was used in the video and that resolved my issue.

[@ivyZorz]

Thank you so much for this! For some reason I can't get HDR working though. Not a huge deal but for anyone having the issue where you get a "fatal video encoding error" when connecting from moonlight (im using an nvidia shield btw), I had to disable HDR from within moonlight even if none of the displays had HDR enabled on windows. I'm able to connect in 4k now but it seems like my 3070 isn't able to keep up with the encoding or something as the moonlight stats show the incoming video is ~11fps. I saw on reddit people suggesting to turn of shadowplay/nvidia overlay as well as the xbox game bar so I'm trying that now. Either way, great work and thanks for the succinct video! EDIT: some additional troubleshooting steps was to disable HEVC and use AVC (h264) instead as well as lowering the stream bitrate but it doesn't seem to be a client issue. On my host PC in my nvidia control panel i'm noticing its not actually showing the display here, leading me to believe its using my CPUs integrated graphics or something. Though on the moonlight stream statistics it does say "NVIDIA 3070" so I'm really not sure. I'll fall back to 1080p for now but if anyone finds a solution I'd love to know!

[@tailstoomuchpudd3298]

For anyone struggling on installing the *bat file. Right click, properties, there may be a check box at the bottom saying it's come from another computer, click to allow it to be used, then re-run in administrator. This worked for me and don't forget to change the 1280x800 option to 90hz for those with an OLED SD haha.

[@leonyltupasan]

did you manage to make 1280x800 set to 90hz? for some reason any 16:10 aspect ration resolution is only set to 60hz

[@MikeTheTech]

@leonyltupasan add it manually to the options.txt

[@gregg0518]

This is awesome. Solved a big issue for me! Thank you.

[@VidIbby]

Thank you so very much for creating this! You're a legend!

[@sirregj]

This was a super helpful video! I appreciate what you did!

[@PapadopoulosSotiris]

Thanks for the video and for the driver , it helped me on a headless system sittuation.

[@MikeTheTech]

Great to hear!

[@mez_mez]

holy this feature is huge. thank you very much! sadly the latest version (HDR support) didn't work for me but the previous version works. I guess my Windows 11 haven't got the most latest Windows update.

[@MikeTheTech]

Glad I could help! Hopefully it gets rolled out to more people soon.

[@phillipjmusic]

Same here. previous version wokred great for me. HDR mode was available in the latest version but when i started games in moonlight via apple TV it just didnt work. it says try disable HDR or try a different resolution. even when i disabled HDR in windows it failed.

[@pvttrevor]

You did a great work, thank you so much!

[@MikeTheTech]

Glad it was helpful!

[@d3stroyah]

doesnt work for me. im stuck at 60hz even selecting 120hz

[@JansenEda]

Thank you so much for this, you've really saved my neck, you earn yourself a subscriber!

[@davidacosta6383]

You are "The One" thankyouthankyouthankyou 🙏🏼

[@MikeTheTech]

Happy to help! Thanks for the comment. I appreciate you!

[@Kingpin3k]

Great solution! Exactly what i needed.

[@MikeTheTech]

Thank you so much for the support! I appreciate you!

[@anzorichiaberashvili8737]

in device manager it shows added driver, but in reality there is no second monitor showing

[@mikemagan2459]

Me too

[@Yacchel]

same, can u fix it?

[@Mrjosifal]

Had the same issue, you need to download the stable version that is linked to on the front page of the github page

[@rainitey]

Thanks for the video! I literally needed this today.

[@MikeTheTech]

Nice! Glad I could help.

[@zach7286]

Wildly helpful, thank you!

[@JoshuaTarvin]

What about custom resolutions, can this be done via Nvidia CP or is it just a matter of editing config file or something? I like to stream to my S24U and I'd like the in-game resolution to match my phone's. You rock for creating this, thanks a ton.

[@MikeTheTech]

You just edit the config file to add new resolutions or refresh rates, then reload the driver. They’ll be available right inside windows display manager. 👍 Thanks for the comment!

[@MaxwellNewton]

You saved me buying a new headless dongle, so please share in the savings! :)

[@MikeTheTech]

Thank you so much for the support! Very much appreciated. I’m glad the software helped you out! 🤙

[@tye722]

Hi Mike fantastic this has solved a lot of my issues can’t thank you enough. Nothing worse than playing sunshine and it boots up in 720p all the time. I seem to not be able to get 120hz though. Can only seem to get 60hz using the HDR version.

[@smithmal01]

Yeah, I'm only able to get 60hz as well

[@Setanta93]

Nice this is great. Do you know of any way to replace actual monitor with a virtual one? Basically I'd like to split my virtual monitor (and not using fancyzones or VDM or DisplayFusion - they don't work for this purpose) I mean I want to either: Split my ultrawide into two displays, OR add padding so my display is only on the right side of my ultrawide. You seem to know your stuff, is there any way to do this from your knowledge?

[@julioaragon2898]

good stuff. Thanks Mike.

[@MikeTheTech]

You bet!

[@Cousin_Larry_Applton]

Does it only have the ability to split once? i.e. turn 1 display into 2 only? Either way, super awesome job dude!

[@MikeTheTech]

Nope! You can make like 8 displays if you want.

[@rohanthorat1409]

Thanks for this! I'm facing a issue where all the refresh rates feel the same. I'm using this with Moonlight (240 Hz client display) and the refresh rate feels like 60 Hz even though I've selected 240 Hz. Anyone facing similar issues?

[@chinmayanpradeep124]

Yeah, did you get a fix for this?

[@foxman150]

Thank you so much you solved my issues with this!

[@MikeTheTech]

Great to hear!

[@Yasoofeus]

For some reason the latest version didn't work for me. Went back to "Virtual Display Driver 23.10.20.1" following the same instructions and seems to work fine. Thank you!

[@shahidkismat]

still not working for me, device manager shows the driver in yellow

[@jsquallys7889]

THANK YOU SO MUCH this is perfect!!

[@MikeTheTech]

Glad it helped!

[@jsquallys7889]

@@MikeTheTech yes it's perfect, I recently added a 4060 to my old 8600K to server as a server / backup rig (never know) and I just couldn't get AnyDesk to work. It would legit just stop providing a video signal once I unplugged the Monitor and it was really annoying, this fixed it though without having to resort to stupid workarounds.

[@4f52]

Having a small problem I'm currently using it with Chrome Remote Desktop and it works great, but sometimes my mouse keeps making a "trail" and it ends up jumping around when I have my main monitor turned off Not sure if these problems are related but great tool anyways 😁

[@szabogyozo]

Thank you for instructions! I followed, but unfortunately give me an error on Win10 OS. Error is: This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31) The ALPC message requested is no longer available. How to resolve it?

[@fredericchauveau9889]

I have exactly the same problem: This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31) The ALPC message requested is no longer available.

[@YannMetalhead]

This is awesome, thank you!

[@InternetProgrammer]

WOW, good stuff. OfCourse subscribing and thank you.

[@MikeTheTech]

Thanks for the sub!

[@Gad_get_Craft]

OMG you saved my live bro!

[@Aperture.Motorsports]

Hey thanks for all the hard work. I installed this and it works great for using my Tesla GPU as a display driver now. The only thing now is that I have a lot of input lag. Are there any settings that you would recommend?

[@maty158cz]

If I understand correctly, this can be working as a dummy hdmi/displayport for streaming while monitor is turned off?

[@MikeTheTech]

Yup!

[@franciscofredviana743]

Thank you. Its working with HDR. For some reason, I have to disable HDR and enable back again after I connect with Moonlight to Sunshine in order to the HDR colors to kick in. One thing that I still trying to figure out is why it doesn't show all the resolutions available on the option.txt. I wanted to create a custom resolution (for the iPad) and I can't get it to work neither the rest of the resolution from the list.

[@jvresol]

thanks bro , very cool video

[@sujimayne]

You should not be using Display number or even full Display paths to reference displays. This will change between enabling, disabling, turning on/off, etc. Use Hardware ID instead that you can grab from Device Manager for each monitor.

[@K.o995]

Hey, thank you very much for your effort! Are you planning on making a hdr version for Windows 10? If not, what is the reason why? Would love to know :)

[@MikeTheTech]

Windows is the one that released the virtual driver support. Windows 10 comes with an older version, while windows 10 has a new one that support advanced features like HDR. Since we rely on the windows feature, it's up to them to release it on older versions. Unfortunately, they put up a roadmap that seems to indicate that they don't plan to release it for Windows 10. However, there may be a way to isolate the update and manually install it on Windows 10, but there hasn't been much progress there yet.

[@K.o995]

@@MikeTheTech thank you! Yeah, i just switched to Windows 11 and now i don't have any problems, thank you for your service!:)

[@MikeTheTech]

@K.o995 sure thing! I have really enjoyed it so far. Hope you do too!

[@Eratzer]

Exactly what i was looking for! I use my pc remotely from my laptop and the screen was stuck with 4:3 res after my previous 16:9 broke and had to plug a 4:3 one to debug some vnc stuff. Thx

[@ApenasUmGatoQualquer]

Can I choose the option "Duplicate" instead of "Extend"? I only have one real display. My goal is to leave the physical display off while simulating a second display on, allowing me to use NVIDIA Moonlight whenever I want, because after a few hours of the real display being turned off, the app only shows a black screen.

[@MikeTheTech]

No, because if you turn your display off, there will be nothing to mirror. You would want Extend to act as its own display while the main is off.

[@ApenasUmGatoQualquer]

@@MikeTheTech, thanks! But using the "Extended" mode, is there any way to prevent the mouse from "escaping" from the real to the fake display through the corners?

[@gabikralj94]

​@@ApenasUmGatoQualquer depends on the arrangement of the screens. I guess you won't be able to fully prevent it, but setting the screens on top of one another so that the mouse can only escape from the top rather than from the side can do the trick, at least it won't happen often

[@ApenasUmGatoQualquer]

@@gabikralj94, it worked using "Duplicate" somehow.

[@dmitryb4765]

THANKS!!! Very good job!

[@Rohit_Sharma-]

I did exactly the steps mentioned and even gor the virtual monitor to work for my headless moonlight setup from an android tablet ...but the frame rate is very less like 15 fps on resolution set to 2800 x 2000 at 144hz for OnePlus tablet , tried to change refresh rate from everywhere, still no luck 😢 ( Using 1080ti with ryzen 3600)

[@MikeTheTech]

What were you trying to run? That’s a very high resolution. Just because 144hz is supported, doesn’t mean your PC and network can handle it. There’s a lot to game streaming.

[@Rohit_Sharma-]

@@MikeTheTech First of all , thank you for your reply, But, when I used to stream through moonlight 6 months back, at 2800x 2000 resolution at 75hz ...it was smooth as hell no framedrops no choppiness nothing (a monitor was plugged in at that time with refresh rate of 75hz) But since I broke my monitor, and found your guide,I tried to give ur guide a shot and it worked headlessly, but even when I want to stream at 2800 x 2000 at 75 hz through ur headless method ....I'm barely getting 15-20fps, Tried changing to lower resolution at 480p and fps went to 50-60fps, but as 480p on 2800x2000 displayed looks very pixalated (No harware were changed at anytime ,... except the monitor which I broke )

[@MikeTheTech]

It might not be using gpu encoding on the display. You may need to check the sunshine settings.

[@patklze]

Can you enable HDR on the virtual desktop?

[@MikeTheTech]

Not yet, that's not possible with the IDD driver. However, I have a version on the github where I'm testing a different driver type that would enable HDR. It's not quite ready yet, but hopefully I can get it working soon.

[@AggsyB]

@@MikeTheTech did you have any joy with the HDR version? Or at least do you think it will be a possibility?

[@Valéry-w6i]

Hi thanks for your work. i desperately searched to extend desktop (like real extension for icons like in android or apple phone) on my laptop with no results and then you came in. So i installed your driver following your video and i use win + P to extend. So cool . Then use the feature : make screen your main display after choosing the screen you want. just for people to know An important feature is the win+shift+ arrow key to quickly change windows from one screen to another and it works well. be carefull You can drag and drop icon like with a real screen but you dont see where they fall. i have a question do you need to select display or graphics card to instal the legacy driver? (i have and old pc with uhd 520 i choose graphic card it was the only display choice that i had and it worked) did i create a new virtual graphic card? thanks a lot. Subscribed

[@Valéry-w6i]

Or you can use free software Obs Studio to broadcast it. I use it to preview my second screen on the screen of my laptop. So cool if you want a cleaner desktop

[@russellarnold6342]

Subbed mostly because you have a fallout shelf and now I want to see your other videos 😁

[@MikeTheTech]

Thanks for the sub! ☢️ Big fallout fan here!

[@smithmal01]

Thanks for this content. Trying to setup a virtual desktop for sunshine. When I run dxgi-info.exe in the cmd prompt I can see the new display I made as an output associated with my GPU (RTX 3060 Ti), however when I put in the output name (\\.\DISPLAY13) into the audio/visual config menu I get the following error in sunshine: Fatal: Unable to find display or encoder during startup. Fatal: Please ensure your manually chosen GPU and monitor are connected and powered on. Any idea why this is?

[@antonnovosad7898]

Mike, thank you so much for your efforts! All works great, except one thing - mouse cursor is lagging on the virtual desktop, im having host cursor chasing clients`s one all the time no matter what resolution. My GPU is nvidia rtx 4090 so perfomance should not be an issue. Any thought on that? anyway so far its a great tool that makes my life much smoother, keep it up!

[@neomagnet0108]

No option to add display adapter in device manager :/ any idea why?

[@sean_haz]

I tried the release version with no luck but the beta worked for me. So if youre having issues try the beta, everything is the same except the file/folder names

[@thejuanald]

this is great! if I want to add custom resolutions to the options file, do I need to do that before installing the driver through device manager or can that be changed later?

[@MikeTheTech]

It can be changed later but requires a restart (or reinstall). I usually change them before installing.

[@MikeTheTech]

A companion app is in the works that allows live reloading the monitor driver.

[@thejuanald]

@@MikeTheTech thank you for the replies! I ended up just reinstalling afterwards since I forgot to add them first. Everything is working great!

[@danielkybird6910]

This works great, the only issue I've found is when having HDR enabled, HDR Certification isn't found on display settings. So some games have issues when I try selecting it. Like Doom Eternal for etc.

[@jsonbaby]

don't know if somebody already said that, but...installing certificates to your system from unknown sources is very dangerous and someone (soft or drivers you install) can use those certs to intercept or change your traffic :P

[@MikeTheTech]

For what it’s worth, I do sign these myself. But to many I’m an unknown source. So it’s still a solid disclaimer.

[@jsonbaby]

@@MikeTheTech yeah, own cert is good;) until you keep root one secret😁

[@CozMyN]

hi, thank you so much. does gsync function with this?

[@thatpandaz6094]

This is not working for me, it says "This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)"

[@thatpandaz6094]

Installing version 24.7.18 fixed it

[@chawlingtechtests6101]

@@thatpandaz6094 Had the same problem as you, I can confirm that also version 24.10.27 Beta works perfectly on Windows 11 as of November 2024

[@nightfisher1886]

This is awesome, thanks for your efforts! One thing I'd like to point out is that it's not 100% friendly with Sunshine. I find I still need some sort of monitor connected to get the virtual one working, as Sunshine says "couldn't find any working encoder" when I try to use my virtual monitor (I set it to /.//display9 in the sunshine video settings as what it showed in the dxgi-info.exe tool for sunshine). I, later, realized I had to leave that field at default and boot on my main monitor and *THEN* set windows to display on the virtual display only. Even that wouldn't work as sunshine would go blank or just plain old freeze on my real monitor screen. I eventually used to DO and UNDO commands (DisplaySwitch.exe /external for DO & /internal for UNDO) to get it to work. I didn't find these instructions anywhere, so I am wondering if I am missing something on the instructions. Trying to use it without those commands in Sunshine yields either an error or blank screen, depending on what I do. I tried on 3 hosts, 2 work with the DO/UNDO (laptop & Rog Ally - figured I'd stream from it to tablet), while the 3rd which is a PC with monitor does not work at all). A bit confused on why just selecting my 2nd display only while I am using primary display isn't working. Also wondering why I can't just force it to show off /.//display9 (a limitation of this method perhaps as no encoder is found for the virtual display?). Sorry for the long post. I spent a lot of time trying to get this to work and after about 12 hours, I got it kinda working, but it's still unstable at times and doesn't work with the DO/UNDO commands. Thanks again, though for everything. You're awesome man!

[@alexhosten1508]

Thank you so much dude! I couldn't get it to work, but with your DO/UNDO method it works perfectly!

[@richardmeier3525]

This work flawlessly! Can you do a video of how to emulate a GPU for light/retro gaming? (I have a virtual computer running on a NAS but there is no graphics card, and I would like to use the virtual computer to run sunshine).

[@ИванБоженков-е8б]

What soft of streaming desktop can show 8k and 120 resolution? VD only can 2k that can be visible, and Immersed has only 16 mb bitrate, the text will be blurring. What soft to stream desktop do you use?

[@CocoTeb83]

Great, thanks a lot. But for some reason, 120Hz is not in the list, only 60Hz... Any ideas what could be wrong?

[@AzizWaldo]

same problem here

[@TanapongPonghanat]

This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31) {Operation Failed} The requested operation was unsuccessful. on windows10 pro 64bit

[@MikeTheTech]

This usually means you’re not installing from the correct folder.

[@TanapongPonghanat]

@@MikeTheTech that work after update wondows 10 to 22h2 , thank you krab.

[@SlappdaBoss]

sheesh I wish I knew about this sooner, much better than amyuni, persist after rebooting and a wide range of resolution

[@MikeTheTech]

Thanks for the comment and good review!

[@VladimirKatasonov]

thank you for the incredible useful software! So if I need to use only one resolution on my host PC, I have to keep only one proper resolution in "option" file and it will work after the reboot?

[@howtocookazombie]

Thank you very much for this great driver! I will try it out for some projects. I just have a small problem / question: I use an Odyssey G9 monitor at 5120x1440 @ 120Hz on Windows 10 in the currect stable version. I added a virtual monitor and set it up to 2560x1440 resolution. But the refresh rate can be set only to 60 Hz. It's the only available option. But why and how can I change it to 120 Hz, if possible? And the NVIDIA control panel doesn't seem to recognize the virtual monitor too, so I can't seem to use NVIDIA Surround function to combine all monitor, correct?

[@Dindonmasker]

Thanks! I switched to a quest pro for monitor so i want to try higher resolutions then what my physical display can do. I was able to make a custom 8K resolution in the nvidia control panel but it's still using the same options as my old 4k, 30hz monitor. I'm using a 3090.

[@DX88]

Oddly enough, with your fork I do get more resolutions, but can still only choose 60hz?

[@danishilyas3286]

@MikeTheTech Thank you for this. Is there any expiry involved because its certificate has expiry of 10/14/24?

[@MikeTheTech]

I’ll update around April or so. It only let me sign it for 1 year in advance. Anyone can sign it manually though even if I don’t.

[@annoyedlemon]

thanks so much for your help realvnc has been driving me nuts when i remote in without a monitor connected it wont show anything this has fixed this issue

[@jackzary]

Thank you very much. Now i am able to sunshine stream with monitor off. Using this for sunshine moonlight game stream on my samsung tab s8 plus. HDR looks somewhat weird though in ff7 remake game. pinkish color on yellow color. Not sure HDR issue from sunshine or the tablet itself. The game HDR looks great on monitor. Anyway thank you again.

[@NSJ90]

Thanks for this! Question, to update to a new release is it necessary to uninstall the driver or can you update from device manager?

[@MikeTheTech]

You can just add the new one via device manager and it overwrites the old one. 👍 If any issues occur, you can roll back the same way.

[@NSJ90]

@@MikeTheTech Thank you for the response!

[@mkarim2000]

Thanks for your hard work! Wanted to ask about how to use this and make sure sunshine/moonlight uses that display to open games on via playnite/steam big picture?

[@MikeTheTech]

You can set the display to default in Display Settings, which works for most games, but some may need to be set manually. Turning off all other displays should make it go to it by default as well. You can set the default streaming display in Sunshine as well, and can find the display ID using tools\dxgi-info.exe

[@mkarim2000]

Legend, thanks@@MikeTheTech

[@damienasmr922]

Great stuff. Is it possible to add a virtual 7.1 sound card so that I can stream to the Nvidia Shield in my home theater?

[@lawlietnao_music]

Looks like the output name of the virtual display would change on every restart. Is there anyway to prevent it to change it?