Best way to config games for dual screen gaming?

SkeeterUK · 4 Apr 2011 at 18:12

Im trying to play dirt 2 atm with dual screen but its kinda hard to play cos the right screen and center screen theres a big gap so when trying to turn on right corners its tricky as visually its hard to judge when to turn due to the large gap the frames of the screens make and the cockpit cam well im sure if u tried dual screens ud notice the problem.

Anyhow. How would I for example tweat the game so the right monitor is the right side of the cockpit more so than the cockpit stretching over both screens so ur main focus is actually on the right side of center screen when id like it to be center on the center screen like normal gameplay with 1 screen usage gaming. Im just wanting a bit of the game unseen with the 2nd monitor on the right.

The monitors btw are main is a 24" dell and the right side one is a 17" HP tft. I use for desktop usage ultramon and Display Fusion Pro, if theres anythere there that you might think i need to tweak but i thought the problem could be fixed a ingame method or somit. Oh and this is using a nvidia card so no eyefinity stuff.

And ill probably or others probably might want help with other games as and when i or they try them.

ryryryan · 4 Apr 2011 at 18:29

Pretty much any game that uses a first person/third person view wouldn't be good... sooo uhhh, RTS's?

SkeeterUK · 4 Apr 2011 at 19:18

This should show what i mean.

Menus are generally ok even tho words can be split between monitors, be nice if it was centered using main monitor and just right view was shown on 2nd mon instead of spread over 2 monitors.

Cockpit one is the hardest to play on when turning right. As before i would have liked the game to just extend the view right with 2nd mon not spread it across.

MoratJG · 4 Apr 2011 at 19:39

I'm not really sure I follow you but the examples you give are all windowed. So perhaps resize the screen to your preference and drag the game window so it has the desired position on the larger screen.

Or am I getting the wrong end of the stick ...

SkeeterUK · 4 Apr 2011 at 19:48

Well i have to run in window mode and stretch the window to fill both monitors. The issue is that the center of the game is on the right side of my 24" which i would have liked the center of gaming to be in the center of my 24 inch and just have the 2nd monitor extend the view without extending the center of the game. Think of the car. The game would look like a single display game on 24in i would like and the 2nd monitor would render the right window when in cockpit mode.

Or somit like that. Basically in 3rd pic i want a way to mod the view so the view is showing the wheel of the car not on the right side of 24in monitor but center of 24in monitor.

Hope that makes sense lol.

Cos a lot of the left monitor my 24in is showing just a bit of the cockpit and rest is just left window mainly i dont wana see the left window just most of the cockpit on the 24in, and have whatever is to the right i.e the right window of the car to show on the 2nd mon. But game doesnt have any options and wondered if there was a dual screen hack to not make the 2 monitors into 1 but to just reveal the hidden right side of the game on 2nd mon but normal on 1st mon.