Widescreen on 3 monitors, 2 different resolutions?

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I have 1 main monitor @ 1650x1050 and 2 side monitors @ 1440x900. Can I play a racing game on all three monitors so I get peripheral vision with this mismatched setup?

A bit more context to this. I am going to be running this from my apu, currently all screens display images for desktop from the board just fine. (I gave my 7750 to my father in law as he needed a card to play a racing game, so I won't be using that).
 
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Hmm.. I can semi seem to do what I want. I can get it to extend across multi displays with different resolutions and align etc, but I cannot get it to understand that the side monitors are rotated into portrait positions :-( It seems that I shoudl be able too do it, but I cannot see the option :-(
 
I believe Windows 10 may have better support for this kind of thing. Its due to be released soon and users of windows 7 and 8/8.1 will get one years free access I believe. (I just hope this isn't the start of subscription based OS's)
 
I believe Windows 10 may have better support for this kind of thing. Its due to be released soon and users of windows 7 and 8/8.1 will get one years free access I believe. (I just hope this isn't the start of subscription based OS's)

Off-topic, but you get it free if you upgrade within a year. You don't have to pay anything, even after a year.

I found that 285's get the ablity with a 15.3 beta driver to do what I want, but I'm thinking there must be a registry hack somewhere to do Portrait-Landscape-Portrait?
 
I have 1 main monitor @ 1650x1050 and 2 side monitors @ 1440x900. Can I play a racing game on all three monitors so I get peripheral vision with this mismatched setup?

A bit more context to this. I am going to be running this from my apu, currently all screens display images for desktop from the board just fine. (I gave my 7750 to my father in law as he needed a card to play a racing game, so I won't be using that).


It is doable but how easily I am not sure - in the past I have done mismatched monitors (1x 1080p and 2x 1280x1024) and used software such as SoftTH, to combine them into one resolution that games can use (I used this with RFactor in particular)

http://www.softth.net/

The widescreen Gaming forum may also be of use, with game specific fixes
http://www.wsgf.org/
 
So... after keeping on buying monitors, I ended up with 19" 1440x900 Portrait + 22 Inch 1650x1050 Landscape + 19" 1440x900 Portrait.

However so I have two spare 17" 1440x900's as well lol. So I took one to work, and put one in the garage I will likely give to my father-in-law.

Anyway, I then also bought a 46" TV for him, and got myself a 32" LED TV, and decided eventually after making a stand for it, that I was going to use the 32" as a monitor.

The triple screen setup has been relegated to the garage for use as a driving setup. I hope to use it to race against the father-in-law as he's into that as well :)
 
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