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Wouldn't recommend playing games with two screens only. You can do the other one for gaming and the other one for browsing. You can set it in your display option in control panel. 

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Hi guys!

 

I've just ordered a second screen for a dual monitor set up and a thought crossed my mind...

 

I've not much experience with dual screen setups i know it's fairly straight forward but if i were to extend my display

whilst gaming would it stretch over the two screens? or could i have one for say web browsing and my main one for gaming?

 

Thanks in advance!!

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I've not much experience with dual screen setups i know it's fairly straight forward but if i were to extend my display

whilst gaming would it stretch over the two screens? or could i have one for say web browsing and my main one for gaming?

You can have a game stretch across two screens but it's dumb and pointless since you have a bezel line straight through the middle of your view. Just use one monitor for gaming and the other for browsing or something else. With gaming it's either one monitor or three, not two.

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Games won't stretch to the second monitor automatically. So yes, you could game on one and use the other for anything else.

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Wouldn't recommend playing games with two screens only. You can do the other one for gaming and the other one for browsing. You can set it in your display option in control panel. 

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You can have a game stretch across two screens but it's dumb and pointless since you have a bezel line straight through the middle of your view. Just use one monitor for gaming and the other for browsing or something else. With gaming it's either one monitor or three, not two.

 

I know i don't want to dual screen game i was just thinking would it do it automatically? or would i have to fiddle with settings?

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Wouldn't recommend playing games with two screens only. You can do the other one for gaming and the other one for browsing. You can set it in your display option in control panel. 

Ahhhhh thank you just thought id double check i hadn't a stupid decision in buying one i didn't really think about it properly

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Ahhhhh thank you just thought id double check i hadn't a stupid decision in buying one i didn't really think about it properly

Man you  made a great decision. You will never go back to using one screen. If you use a laptop you will scavenge and pillage for a second monitor wherever you can find one

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Some games can take advantage of a second screen. Such as running a large map of some kind and other features. I played world in conflict a lot and it was a big help.

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Ahhhhh thank you just thought id double check i hadn't a stupid decision in buying one i didn't really think about it properly

Its actually even simpler than it sounds. You just set in the control panel which is the primary display, and I suppose there's a 50/50 chance of it being set correctly by default. Virtually all games respect the primary display without any need to change any options, aside from just making sure the resolution is correct.

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