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Dual Monitor Setup - Which Games?
kadepsyson
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Today I got a second monitor for use with my PC. I plan on using both at once, and am curious which games would look decent on such a setup. I understand that a 1 monitor or 3 monitor setup would be best for things such as FPS games, but there must be some out there that wouldn't look bad with two?
So far I know of the following games that would do alright with a dual monitor setup:
EVE - thanks to the camera and interface option recently added
World in Conflict
Supreme Commander
I was wondering if racing games would be a good choice here as well?
Any ideas on what to play with my new setup would be much appreciated!
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Best way I've figured out how to use two monitors:
Game on one screen
Web Browser, media player, and utilities on the other.
My screens are two different sizes, so I don't try to stretch games to fit across both, I can't offer any advice on which games do or don't, but if the UI is customizable and you can move elements around, seems like any game like that could do well because you could just move UI widgets to suit your screen layout.
And a spreadsheet to keep track of what you're doing in the game you're playing.
Possibly derailing question :
How can you put one game on full screen in one monitor and well...use the other monitor normally? I always had this problem so I always ended up playing in windowed mode and it did kind of get annoying >.<
But yes this is how I use mine as well...Game on the big monitor then the browsers, mail, calculator, videos, etc on the other monitor >.< Except I have the game on window mode T_T
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Most DX10/11 games will let you play with the game in full screen and still use the other monitor correctly. Some DX9 titles will as well, although most will auto-minimize if you tab over.
But most games, I use full-screen windowed mode, and for the few that leave the annoying window title bar, I use Gamers Window Relocator to force the title bar off the top of the screen and make it look more full-screenish. Amazing utility, works with just about anything.
I'll have to check out that Gamers Window Relocater. I didn't know about the DX10/11 games not messing up with it setup like that, that's good to know as well.
Really I just wish there were more that were either designed with two in mind, or had some hack or option to offset the focus onto one monitor while keeping it dual full screen.
Another thing I was wondering is if Fraps still has a limit 2560 x 1600 max resolution for recording gameplay videos?
Since I'd be exceeding that I was wondering if the half resolution would work, or if that would just mess up the aspect ratio or what.
Any input is appreciated!
Even if it didn't have that cap in place, your hard drive would be hard pressed to keep up. That's a lot of data your streaming to it to capture (it doesn't get compressed while it's recording, so it takes a lot of space, and that's a lot of data to push).
Video scaled down will lose a bit of detail, but it won't be terrible. The only thing you would really have to worry about would be small fonts remaining legible. Most graphics will scale down just fine and hardly even be noticeable. As long as you keep the aspect ratio locked (the ratio between the height and width) then it won't stretch or distort your image at all, and you can scale it all the way up or down to any multiple you want.
To restate that a different way - if you cut the horizontal size by X% (note that's percent, not pixels), then so long as you cut the vertical size by the same X%, the aspect ratio will not be affected, and your image will stay the proper size. So 1560x1600, cut both in half (reduced by 50%): 1280x800 - would be just fine.