The most important requirement for VIOSO Anyblend is the graphic card on your PC.

Anyblend uses the calibrations made by VIOSO Core and embeds this data directly onto the displaying system. We call this feature hooking. 

The preferred hooking method:

Hardware-based hooking:   On this level, the warping and blending data is imported directly into the graphics processing unit (GPU). This hooking mode requires you to use a professional series of graphics cards. Currently supported are NVIDIA Quadro (P-series and better) and AMD FirePro GPUs.

There are other hooking methods. However, we recommend to go with hardware-based hooking whenever possible. To know more about other calibration hooking methods, please refer to the GPU Knowledge base section.

Our recommendation in a nutshell:

1. Use NVIDIA Quadro based system whenever possible. This results in the greatest flexibility in number of projectors and supports all use cases. All current Quadro GPUs (from P series) have the capability to run warp & blend.
2. AMD FirePro GPUs also support warp & blend on hardware-level. However, current AMD Radeon Pro GPUs have not a clear path for supporting this at the moment, but that might change in the future.
3. If NVIDIA Quadro or AMD FirePro is not an option, you need to stick with Windows 7 and double check if the designated Windows application runs without interfering Windows Aero.

This table shows the capabilities of different PC configurations that you might encounter:

Anyblend System Support

graphics card series	EDID Emulation	Display spanning	GPU hooking technology	Desktop hooking*	3D Stereo	Full- screen apps	API / application plugin **	Supported Operation System	supported graphics card
PROFESSIONAL DEDICATED GRAPHICS CARDS
		Mosaic	NVAPI	Win7/Aero				Windows 7 Windows 10 (build 1803!)
		Eyefinity	D.O.P.P.	Win7/Aero				Windows 7	Firepro W-Series only!
CONSUMER LEVEL DEDICATED GRAPHICS CARDS
		Surround		Win7/Aero				Windows 7 only
		Eyefinity		Win7/Aero				Windows 7 only
INTEGRATED GRAPHICS PROCESSORS AND OTHER SOLUTIONS
				Win7/Aero				Windows 7 only
All other graphics solutions				Win7/Aero				Windows 7 only

*) Requires Windows 7 and an Aero Theme activated. Does not support native full screen applications!

**) Requires extra programming / extra cost

Please use the free demo version of VIOSO Anyblend and try it on your designated PC configuration. Also test it with the third-party application you want to use on the blended desktop.

For more information on this topic, please refer to the GPU Knowledge Base section.

Screen Split support

Some multi-head graphic cards allow the combination of distinct displays into one entire display, so that the Windows desktop is spanned over all outputs. The look and native behavior of all programs is adapted on the dimension of the entire display.
This feature is not supported by all graphic cards and is referred to differently by each manufacturer:

Manufacturer	Product	Creates an entire desktop
NVIDIA	GeForce		Supported as “Surround”
	Quadro		Supported as “Mosaic”
AMD	Radeon		Supported as “Eyefinity display group”
	Firepro
Matrox	Dualhead2Go		Emulates a single “big” display
	Triplehead2Go
Datapath	X4		Emulates a single “big” display

This table shows the capabilities of the different PC configurations you may encounter:

graphics card series	EDID Emulation	Display spanning	recomm. model	VIOSO rating
		Mosaic	P series and above	With integrated EDID Emulation and desktop spanning across multiple GPUs, this GPU is the most versatile and will create the best VIOSO Player experience. Max. 16 outputs per PC supported.
		Eyefinity	W series only!	With integrated EDID Emulation and desktop spanning, this GPU will create a great VIOSO Player experience for up to 6 projectors per PC.
		Eyefinity	Radeon RX series	Offering display spanning for up to 6 projectors per PC, Radeon GPUs are versatile at comparable low costs.
		Surround	RTX series	No EDID emulation and limited features for display spanning makes this GPU our least recommended option.