For those who play games on a PC with 2 monitors, are you a game on the left screen or game on the right screen person?
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I game on one virtual representation of my real monitor at 4k60hz, and one entirely virtual monitor at 4k120hz. When I am playing a game my sister wants to watch, I play it on the screen that also exists in real life. When I am playing just for me, I play it on the 120hz screen. They are one on top of each other, at the touch of a button they swap exact places with each other. I put the one I'm playing on currently at the bottom.
The main reason I do top/bottom is because the screens are quite large. About the equivalent of sitting a foot away from my real 55 inch TV, but the screens are 20 feet away for eye comfort. So I can effectively only see one screen at a time as they each nearly fill my vision. As big as they can be without having to turn my neck to see parts of them. The top monitor is tilted down towards me, and basically on the roof. Oh, I should mention I generally play from a recliner when playing desktop games, so even the lower monitor is tilted down to face me.
When I want to play something in ultra-wide, the virtual screen can be set to 5740x1080 at 120hz(equal to 3 1080p screens side by side, but as one screen, flat or curved to any degree you want), but for the most part anything that works in ultra-wide works in VR, and full VR is likely gonna be the better option.
Although most of the time I'm playing full VR games and standing to play them. No apparent screens there, just living in the game.
What do you use the virtual monitor for?
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Or I suppose you could be some kind of crazy person who switches it up per game.
I assume you three-monitor people use the middle one, but I'd be interested to hear if that's the case?
I play in the screen centered in front of me, the second screen is off to the side. I've changed the second screen side over the years.
So the middle of the two screens!
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Or I suppose you could be some kind of crazy person who switches it up per game.
I assume you three-monitor people use the middle one, but I'd be interested to hear if that's the case?
Some people here must have really stiff necks.
I've got 2 screens and play on my gaming screen, which is right in front of me. The secondary screen is to the right. -
Or I suppose you could be some kind of crazy person who switches it up per game.
I assume you three-monitor people use the middle one, but I'd be interested to hear if that's the case?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Nowadays I run a dual 4k monitor setup with the left centered in my FoV and the right one alternating between portrait and landscape. My laptop usually sits under the primary or to the bottom left. I connect over thunderbolt so I can easily swap out my work and personal laptop on the dock. Effectively I get 3 screens: my main focus, my distraction, and my comms on the built in display. If I'm gaming on the desktop I toggle the left monitor to another input. I used to have more screens but things are a lot more ergonomic now.
I do feel like I could switch to right monitor dominant, bit I think it would not be ideal considering sloppily moving the mouse to the top left on the primary would cause the mouse to jump to the secondary screen whereas on a left monitor dominant layout it would hit the border. You could offset the displays slightly to catch the mouse, but it's not worth it.
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Or I suppose you could be some kind of crazy person who switches it up per game.
I assume you three-monitor people use the middle one, but I'd be interested to hear if that's the case?
Amateurs u should have 4 screens. 3 for game and 4th for wiki
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What do you use the virtual monitor for?
When not playing on it, it's usually a browser window. When playing on it, I use it for 120hz, cuz my physical monitor/TV is only 60hz.
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Amateurs u should have 4 screens. 3 for game and 4th for wiki
One for the game, one for the official wiki, some for the unofficial wiki, and one for discord.
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One for the game, one for the official wiki, some for the unofficial wiki, and one for discord.
I do that with non first person games but I do like the immersive experience of having such a wide perspective especially as my screens are curvy
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Or I suppose you could be some kind of crazy person who switches it up per game.
I assume you three-monitor people use the middle one, but I'd be interested to hear if that's the case?
Before I went ultrawide, I used to have my better monitor center, and my extra monitor to the left.
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Or I suppose you could be some kind of crazy person who switches it up per game.
I assume you three-monitor people use the middle one, but I'd be interested to hear if that's the case?
Game on left, Wiki if need on right, drawing tablet on far right playing music or dialog heavy content.
I'm left handed so that's the main reason for gaming on that side.
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Or I suppose you could be some kind of crazy person who switches it up per game.
I assume you three-monitor people use the middle one, but I'd be interested to hear if that's the case?
The side doesn't matter to me. I have one screen in front and one to the side. The one in front is straight ahead just like a setup with only one monitor. My second monitor is some Dell 1280x1024 monitor from 2004 or something. It fits stuff like Mumble, Spotify, or documentation for something I might be working on.
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When not playing on it, it's usually a browser window. When playing on it, I use it for 120hz, cuz my physical monitor/TV is only 60hz.
How would one access it? Is it like network streaming?
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Or I suppose you could be some kind of crazy person who switches it up per game.
I assume you three-monitor people use the middle one, but I'd be interested to hear if that's the case?
I assume you three-monitor people use the middle one
Yes.
(I have 3 identical 1440p monitors.)
Although if I decided I wanted to play a racing or flight sim game, I might try to set it up to use all three (total 7680x1440). I'd also consider playing something like a FPS or strategy game on all three screens turned 90 degrees (total 4320x2560), but the last time I tried doing that was a long time ago (back then I had 1080p screens) and I don't think I ever managed to get the configuration to work because most games aren't designed to span across monitors.
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Or I suppose you could be some kind of crazy person who switches it up per game.
I assume you three-monitor people use the middle one, but I'd be interested to hear if that's the case?
I use my two monitors in this configuration. (Not my image)
It's fantastic for reading documentation and manga.
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Or I suppose you could be some kind of crazy person who switches it up per game.
I assume you three-monitor people use the middle one, but I'd be interested to hear if that's the case?
my primary monitor is my right screen, so I put all my stuff i need to focus on on my right screen, so right is my answer.
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How would one access it? Is it like network streaming?
Yeah, I use Virtual Desktop, there are other options, but from my experience, there really isn't... hehe.
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Or I suppose you could be some kind of crazy person who switches it up per game.
I assume you three-monitor people use the middle one, but I'd be interested to hear if that's the case?
Bought three monitors so I don't have to think about this (also the side ones are portrait)
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Bought three monitors so I don't have to think about this (also the side ones are portrait)
One potrait for chats, other landacape for web browser.
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Or I suppose you could be some kind of crazy person who switches it up per game.
I assume you three-monitor people use the middle one, but I'd be interested to hear if that's the case?
One game client on each ... or what is the point of playing with 2 monitors?
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One potrait for chats, other landacape for web browser.
Mostly for work so a chat, code, documentation
