Help Me! Dual Monitor Gaming

Pengy

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Specifically Terraria. I have two monitors, one is 1440x1050, the other is 1280x1024. First off, I don't know what the combined resolution of that is (do you just add them up?), and secondly, I can't figure out how to make Terraria work with that. All the programs, shortcuts, and bypasses I've found are from before the 1.1 patch, and are too old to work. Anyone out there with anything that could help me.
 
Sharkey

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Dual monitor gaming sucks, games are designed to make use of the center of the screen, when you stretch it across two screens the center is split with two bezels causing a gap.
 
ViperStriker

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OakyTree said:
Dual monitor gaming sucks, games are designed to make use of the center of the screen, when you stretch it across two screens the center is split with two bezels causing a gap.
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I can imagine having multiple displays, one for a game, one for something like TeamSpeak, Mumble, or Ventrillo, and one for a web browser and everything else.

One would have to throw at least 2 decent GPUs in SLI or CrossfireX in order to run all of that well.
 
Sharkey

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MijetGummiBear said:
Bezels?
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Bezel is the part circled

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Santa Bunny

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ViperStriker said:
I can imagine having multiple displays, one for a game, one for something like TeamSpeak, Mumble, or Ventrillo, and one for a web browser and everything else.

One would have to throw at least 2 decent GPUs in SLI or CrossfireX in order to run all of that well.
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I have dual 23" monitors, and use display fusion. I run whatever game I am playing on the left monitor, and everything else on the right, and that is sometimes that is a lot. Up to a full W7 install running in VM, or another game like poker night. The most resource intensive game I have is crysis 3.
My rig is an i7 3770/256G Crucial M4 and 16G 1600 mhz ram, Nvidia 560TI GPU. So, no, I do not agree that you need 2 GPU's to do it.
 
mittens

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Santa Bunny said:
I have dual 23" monitors, and use display fusion. I run whatever game I am playing on the left monitor, and everything else on the right, and that is sometimes that is a lot. Up to a full W7 install running in VM, or another game like poker night. The most resource intensive game I have is crysis 3.
My rig is an i7 3770/256G Crucial M4 and 16G 1600 mhz ram, Nvidia 560TI GPU. So, no, I do not agree that you need 2 GPU's to do it.
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Yeah but let's get down the business here... what's the porn like?
 
Sexy Heisenberg

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Why do so many people waste that much money on multiple monitors? To be honest, it only sounds useful for porn. Is that $100+ really worth being able to see your desktop on one monitor, or some other such almost unnecessary information, while gaming? Or do you get them to have giant black bars separating the two screens of your game? Either way, it sounds pretty ridiculous. Unless you got them for porn, in which case it sounds very useful.
 
Santa Bunny

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I know it isn't real, but sometimes I catch myself dodging or flinching. Don't want to lose an eye.
 
Lizard

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What I've gathered from this thread is that the general consensus on dual monitors is that they're only good for porn.
 
Sexy Heisenberg

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Lizard said:
What I've gathered from this thread is that the general consensus on dual monitors is that they're only good for porn.
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You are absolutely correct. This is actually what all multi-monitor users buy them for, they just don't say that because it sounds awkward in conversation.

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Xanros

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Oh wow! Multiple monitors.

There are definitely pros and cons to having multiple monitors!

To address a couple of issues, for bezels in the center there are monitors out there that use. Some that have thin bezels or no bezels at all. Here's some examples:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001428
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236123

And for software tools, there are several that you can use depending on your OS.
http://lifehacker.com/5519833/five-best-tools-for-managing-your-multi monitor-setup

I personally use synergy when I'm on Ubuntu 12.10 or xcell. Windows 7 also has great software built into the display settings in the OS. Just type in "Windows" then "Display Setting" and you can enter it in from there.

Some of the technology out there is actually integrated with your GPU, depending on what specs you are running.

If it's ATI/AMD then you can run eyefinity which offers multiple monitors.
http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/amd-eyefinity-technology/Pages/eyefinity.aspx

If you're running Nvidia/EVGA, they offer Nvidia surround.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-surround-technology.html

Now, this all depends on specs and personal preference. My buddy uses surround on his dual sli 660ti cards, and he says he loves it, EXCEPT for the fact that he can only (and I express my sarcasm on only) run three monitors as opposed to five.

So it comes down to budget, GPU, software, and generally how much time you want to spend on it.

Hope this was helpful :)

Oh and also forgot, it depends on what size you want your penis to be on the screen. :P
 
Lizard

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Why not just get a widescreen monitor..?
If you're using both screens for a larger version of the something, and not for multiple tasks
 
Pengy

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Sexy Heisenberg said:
Why do so many people waste that much money on multiple monitors? To be honest, it only sounds useful for porn. Is that $100+ really worth being able to see your desktop on one monitor, or some other such almost unnecessary information, while gaming? Or do you get them to have giant black bars separating the two screens of your game? Either way, it sounds pretty ridiculous. Unless you got them for porn, in which case it sounds very useful.
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I didn't buy it... It's an old CRT monitor I found in my basement... Besides, it's not absolutely extremely necessary for anything, it's just a lot more convenient to have 2 monitors. It's not something you can really explain without the other person having a dual monitor setup.
 
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