i just downloaded cc3 onto my new laptop and when using multiple monitors the program opens and becomes unresponsive as soon as i click anywhere, it works just fine when i'm using only my laptop. has anyone else experienced this? never had this problem on my previous laptop with the same multiple monitor setup

Same here.  I have 4 monitors... CC3 and iClone 7 crash right away, as you described, unless I go down to 1 or 2 monitors.  Even if I roll back nVidia drivers, this seems to be the case.