The EDID management can be set in the Nvidia Control Panel. To open it right-click on the desktop and select Nvidia Control Panel.

To open the EDID Settings, select "View system topology" [1]. Then select "EDID" [2] at the corresponding graphics card port to export, load, or unload EDIDs.

In the System Topology you can also see at a glance whether an EDID is loaded or not. If the word "Monitor" appears next to the menu item "EDID" [2], then no EDID is loaded. If the word "File" appears, an EDID file is loaded.

A selection of the common display resolutions and refresh rates can be found as EDID files in the following directory on every PIXERA server: C:\AVStumpfl\EDIDs\.

These EDIDs are VESA compliant and should work for most displays and projectors.

On  PIXERA Servers we also provide a Keyboard Shortcut to unload all EDIDs. By pressing “Ctrl+Alt+U”, all loaded EDIDs will be unloaded. If you accidentally loaded a wrong EDID and your main screen is not visible anymore, this shortcut may help bring it back.

Export EDID to File

To export an EDID file, open the "Export" tab, select a Display, and click the "Export EDID" button. The resulting file can then be loaded into any graphics card output.

Load EDID From File

To load an EDID, open the "Load" tab, select an EDID file, select the graphic card outputs the EDID should be loaded on, and then click the "Load EDID" button:

Unload EDID

To unload an EDID file, open the "Unload EDID" tab, select the graphic card outputs to unload, and then click the “Unload EDID” button:

EDID Examples

In the following file we offer EDIDs with different resolutions, refresh rates and bit rates. These are built by us and have been used again and again over the years.

Please find the zip file below:
EDIDs_8_10_bit.7z

Troubleshooting EDID

Output Drops to Half of Framerate    

We have found that sometimes the timings of EDIDs cause the output to run at half the frame rate. We recommend loading the EDIDs from AVStumpfl as a test to see if the behavior still occurs. This EDID can then be used as the basis for a custom EDID (e.g. to adjust the resolution, etc.).

Could also be due to a wrong OpenGL Command Execution, on dual GPU systems where only one graphics card is used, it can happen that the OpenGL commands are sent to the wrong graphics card. This can be adjusted via the so-called "GPU Affinity".

Outputs are Black After Connecting a Monitor

Unload all EDID's - restart the system and reconnect each display device after one another. Check in-between if it is recognized by the system in the "System Topology" of Nvidia Control Panel.

There are also shortcuts to unload EDIDs - these shortcuts only work with PIXERA hub running and having "Hotkey Agent" activated - Desktop / System Shortcuts‍.

PIXERA 2.0.65 | 2 April 2025 | CL