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 Post subject: Different screen sizes
PostPosted: 05 Jul 2009, 17:18 
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i have 2 22" widescreens currently
and either buy the third today or tomorrow i am gonna get another so i can start gaming with them
but my question is this

if i get a 23" (23" viewable aswell)
i know i can set up my Catalyst Control Center for different resolutions, that isn't the problem but will gaming get all screwed up?
runing the center monitor at 1920x1080
and the 2 sides at 1680x1050


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 Post subject: Different screen sizes
PostPosted: 05 Jul 2009, 18:11 
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Probably unless they natively support multiple screens with different resolutions which is pretty rare...


Most of the time the game supports only one screen or one display area...
That's why there is TripleHead hardware & software & tweaks
to fool a game into thinking there is only one very wide area screen.

For example 3 monitors of 1680x1050 resolution each gives a total resolution of 5040x1050

Supreme Commander supports two screens with different resolution for each natively ...


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 Post subject: Different screen sizes
PostPosted: 05 Jul 2009, 18:15 
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i know, but if i use the triplehead with different size screens will it work, or screw up the game play?


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 Post subject: Different screen sizes
PostPosted: 05 Jul 2009, 18:19 
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individual screens native resolution (or size) doesn't matter
what matters is that each of them gets the same resolution


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 Post subject: Different screen sizes
PostPosted: 05 Jul 2009, 18:24 
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so what you are saying is if the center screen can drop down to 1680x1050 then everthing would be ok right?


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 Post subject: Different screen sizes
PostPosted: 05 Jul 2009, 19:10 
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right,
except the geometry of things might be a little weird if the image at the center is streched to the full size of the flat panel :wink:


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 Post subject: Different screen sizes
PostPosted: 06 Jul 2009, 01:32 
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ok well i got a 23" monitor cabable of running 1920x1080 HD baby!

but i am running it at 1680x1050 till i get 2 more :)

looks great


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 Post subject: Different screen sizes
PostPosted: 06 Jul 2009, 02:07 
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Which triple-head solution will y ou use? The little Matrox box or a second video card?


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 Post subject: Different screen sizes
PostPosted: 14 Jul 2009, 18:12 
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I don't us either, i am sucessfully using SothTH with COD 4

i use the one card (with 4 DVI out) and with the SothTH i also use widescreen fixer to adjust the FOV, looks awesome


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 Post subject: Different screen sizes
PostPosted: 16 Jul 2009, 18:26 
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For games you might be better off doing the 1680x1050. But for desktop if its soft2GO, then you could set it up with 1080p. To my knowledge at least.


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