Using all 3 monitors for gaming.

[hellarda]

Hi all,

Just had a thought, is it possible to run games over all three of my screens, even though they are different sizes/resolutions?

Basically I have a 1920x1080 27" screen in the middle and then either side of this screen I have a 15" 1024x768 screen.

The middle and right hand screen are connected to my 570GTX and the left hand screen is connected to a 9600gt

So is it possible for me to game with it spread across all three screens? (or two screens?)

cheers

ali

 

[stulid]

You cant do this, you need another GTX570 in sli.

 

[Cleeecooo]

For gaming, I believe you need to have all three monitors the same res. You also need another 570, as Stulid said.

 

[LiamJ]

I believe some games allow a sort of extension (not the actual game, a sort of themed background if you wish) to be displayed on second and third screens, but I don't know what this requires in the way of hardware.

 

[Cleeecooo]

Yeah, you can have one monitor with the game. the second monitor can be used to browse the web etc. Not certain about which games do allow you to have extensions though. Are you talking about, for example having game on the main screen and map on the other?

 

[hellarda]

Yeah, you can have one monitor with the game. the second monitor can be used to browse the web etc. Not certain about which games do allow you to have extensions though. Are you talking about, for example having game on the main screen and map on the other?

yeh thats what i do atm, have the game on the main screen and use the other screens to look at facebook/itunes etc

yeh just displaying more game info/peripherals on the other screens

cheers for the reponses guys

 

[stulid]

You can use any three monitors you want each having a resolution up to - 2560x1600 if you want the span across three screens in either landscape or portrait mode.

But you still need another GTX570 for this.

 

[hellarda]

You can use any three monitors you want each having a resolution up to - 2560x1600 if you want the span across three screens in either landscape or portrait mode.

But you still need another GTX570 for this.

ok so would i be able to span it across just the two screens attached to the 570?

cheers stulid

 

[stulid]

No.

I think its either one or three screens only.

And you would have the monitor bezel in the middle of your vision.

 

[iostream]

As mentioned above, you'll need two nVidia cards in SLI (any of the 2xx series and higher if I recall correctly) to have a game spread across 3 monitors.

If you flip to ATI, 1 card can be used for gaming across multiple monitors. 5xxx series and up. I currently use a Radeon 6870 to game across three 1920x1080 monitors, ie at 5760x1080. It's fun