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New to the multi-monitor gaming experience. First off gotta say it's freaking ridiculous and I love it. I've gotten every game so far to work for me: Bad Company 2, L4D2, TF2, NFS:HP....except GRID. For some reason in GRID it won't allow me to select the 5760x1200 resolution and caps me out at 1920x1200 as the highest selectable resolution. I had Crossfire and Eyefinity enabled when I tried it last time so when I go home I will try it without Crossfire. I read that it worked for someone else but I am not sure if it will for me. Are there any tricks or steps that I am missing in order to get this game to work on multi-monitor? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Setup:

GRID - Steam version of game
CPU: AMD X3 720 @ 3.31
Mobo: Asus M4A79T-Deluxe
GPU: 2 Sapphire 5870 2GB Eyefinity 6 Edition in Crossfire
Sound: Xi-fi Titanium
PSU: OCZ 850W Gold Certified

1) Look for your hardware_settings_restrictions.xml file in your 'system' folder (default: C:Steamsteamappscommongridsystem), and make a backup of it first.
2) Then go ahead and open the file with Notepad. Scroll down to the bottom and you'll see these lines:



I think Codemasters have limited the resolutions to anyone with less than 270Mb of VRam to 1280 pixels horizontally. All you have to do is change it to:

GRID doesn't work with Crossfire. I also use the Steam version and I never had to edit any files, just disable Crossfire. GRID is not very demanding on your GPU so it should run fine on a single card and you can also use bezel compensation.

GRID doesn't work with Crossfire. I also use the Steam version and I never had to edit any files, just disable Crossfire. GRID is not very demanding on your GPU so it should run fine on a single card and you can also use bezel compensation.

Yeah I had the same issue with my steam version. Won't even launch with nvidia surround enabled.

I had to totally disable spanning in the driver to even get the game to launch.

Maybe it's just the steam version that's messed up? Because people here have played it on 3 screens and I've seen it on youtube being played in surround. :|