Multiple monitors
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Hey all,
I was wanting to set up a multi monitor cockpit and was curious about screen resolution. My current system is an alienware laptop with a 1680x1050 screen. For the monitors to run smoothly would I have to have all other monitors the same resolution or can they be different. I was looking at used monitors and found a couple cheap ones that are 1440x900 resolution. Will this work with my current setup?
Thanks
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For the nVidia/AMD solutions it’s best for them to be the same. For example if you combined a 1920x1080 with a 2000x900 the monitors would both run in 1920x900 each, under native. The resulting frame buffer has to be a rectangle.
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So if I had one monitor at my current resolution and two at 1440x900, I would just run 1440x900 as the resolution on my laptop?
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Yeah, it’d force your laptop screen to match the others. The valid configurations would be 3x1 or 1x3.
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Ok excellent. Thanks for the info!
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You CAN game with different resolutions. SoftTH is the program you want to use. IIRC it doesn’t sacrifice the higher-res monitors and doesn’t force it to lower resolutions.
Good luck!
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That’s the name of it! I was trying to remember. I used to use SoftTH with Falcon but I don’t know how compatible it is with 64-bit anything.
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Looks very interesting. I’ll give it a go once I get my third monitor.
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Just out of curiosity, how is the SoftTH with TrackIR?
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Completely independent. It works just as well as not SoftTH.
