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Torso 2007-01-30 03:47
Hello,
I am laying out the plans for an upgrade and want multi-monitors. I want to use a 24 inch widescreen 16:10 center and then have 21 inch 4:3 on each side. I do some gaming, and would like to be able to use this setup to add to the experience when desired.
So I am curious if this will all work out. I could go with all 4:3 ratio monitors, but cannot go with all 16:10 ratio ones. I currently have a 24 inch widescreen Sony CRT(this will not be used in the new setup, all monitors for new setup will be LCD and from the same manufacturer), so being able to keep that size as my center would be desirable as I am very used to it.
Does anyone out there have any words of wisdom or can speak from their own experiences in regards to how this would work out.
Thanks for any input offered.
Torso
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Jon Drews 2007-01-30 07:44
I'm running a 24" 2405 LCD widescreen and a 19" samsung LCD. No problems. It is actually pretty nice. I use the 19" for IM, email, music, and sysmons.
No problem with spanning desktop backgrounds or the bottom taskbar. The one issue is that the hotkey for switching window to other monitor resizes the window . i.e. the window goes from wide on the 24" to really skinny on the 19". I know I can disable the resizing but then it fills up the whole 19" screen and I can't see the edges (24" is 1920x1200 and the 19" is 1280x1024)
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Jon Drews 2007-01-30 07:49
Oh but I think you're talking about playing videogames with all the monitors. The specific videogame must support multiple monitors. There are some but not many. One example is ms flight simulator 9. I believe x2 the threat does as well. Don't know of many others.
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Jon Drews 2007-01-30 07:54
Also look at this page: http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/guide/gaming.asp
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Tyler 2007-02-03 18:32
Another more important thing to think of is resolution of the monitors. I currently run a Dell 24inch LCD next to a Viewsonic 20.1 LCD. The 24 inch runs at 1920x1600, the 20.1 at 1600x1200. So, as the computer sees it, the vertical dimensions are the same. However, the 24inch monitor is slightly bigger, so when you have an application that spans both monitors, it can look sort of weird because it's just bigger on one monitor, the computer thinks they are the exact same size. I guess the pixels are just bigger on the 24 inch.
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