Question about ultra-wide screens (like G9) and games interaction

[Happy1992]

Hello,

 

I have been, like many, in home office for a while now. For home office I tend to use my 3 screens, middle my remote desktop, left my email/calendar and on the right side my Firefox/Spotify where I watch sth work-unrelated when I need a break.

 

Now, I have been considering getting an ultra-wide monitor, like the G9, that I could use pretty much as 3 screens for work and also elevate my gaming at the same time.

The thing I am unsure about here is how this behaves with games. When gaming, especially on games where I dont need to fully concentrate all the time on the game, say an MMO, I like to have a stream or youtube video or whatever running on my right monitor. Obviously if I replace my 3 monitors for the G9 the game would use the full length (I would assume). The question is now, can I somehow still opt into having the mid section used by a game (say 27 to 34" of the middle section) and then have a browser to the right/left if I want to? Is this possible without having an ugly windows tab top bar due to using "windowed mode" of the respective game, or without it being super clunky to play around with and get it working like this? Or might it be the smarter choice to go for a 34" monitor and keep one of my 3 monitors as this "browser" monitor?

 

 

Thank you for any help

Essentially sth like I try to show in the picture I attached

[Dedayog]

I use my 35" regular UW for work at times, but I do also have another office at home with dual monitors + laptop screen when I need to really work.

 

The UW can do the job, but if you're used to multiple screens it may be a bit to get used to.

 

All that as a preface to thinking you would be best served with a 34" screen to game on and a side monitor for web stuff, as I don't think you can do what you want.  You'll have a taskbar and have to be in Windowed mode to game like you suggest.  

 

So for best use, I would either have a smaller main monitor or be ready to alt-tab in the G9.  Or maybe mount a monitor above it for webstuff? 

 

Edit: I don't have a G9, so not sure of ALL the features it has.  It may be able to partition like you want, I just know my UW cannot.

[LIGISTX]

22 minutes ago, Happy1992 said:

Hello,

 

I have been, like many, in home office for a while now. For home office I tend to use my 3 screens, middle my remote desktop, left my email/calendar and on the right side my Firefox/Spotify where I watch sth work-unrelated when I need a break.

 

Now, I have been considering getting an ultra-wide monitor, like the G9, that I could use pretty much as 3 screens for work and also elevate my gaming at the same time.

The thing I am unsure about here is how this behaves with games. When gaming, especially on games where I dont need to fully concentrate all the time on the game, say an MMO, I like to have a stream or youtube video or whatever running on my right monitor. Obviously if I replace my 3 monitors for the G9 the game would use the full length (I would assume). The question is now, can I somehow still opt into having the mid section used by a game (say 27 to 34" of the middle section) and then have a browser to the right/left if I want to? Is this possible without having an ugly windows tab top bar due to using "windowed mode" of the respective game, or without it being super clunky to play around with and get it working like this? Or might it be the smarter choice to go for a 34" monitor and keep one of my 3 monitors as this "browser" monitor?

 

 

Thank you for any help

Essentially sth like I try to show in the picture I attached

You can't do what you want, no. It will have run run in windowed mode which will give you the window affect you don't want...

 

If you already have your current monitors, just run 1 or 2 on each side of this vertically. I have a 34" Ultrawide and run a 24" Dell Ultrasharp vertically on the right side. If I actually had a use for another, I would run a second on the left vertically as well.

[Moonzy]

Split into 3 no, but G9 can split into two halves and act as a dedicated display each for easier windows snapping and what not

[Happy1992]

Based on the first 2 comments it does really look like going with a 34" Ultrawide Monitor + one side monitor to consume content might indeed be the best option I have.

 

Is there any hard recommendation in the 34" area? I was checking the G7 before the G9, would that one already be the most recommended one?

 

Edit: Correction, the G5 34", seems like the G7 does not actually have a 34"