1 UltraWide 2 widescreen

[Nico617]

Is it possible to run a game on a tripple monitor setup with a 1440p UltraWide with two normal 1440p widescreen monitors on ether side? My guess is that no games would support this set up but i figured i ask on the forms since my knowledge on multi monitor setups are very limited. If possible will i run into any complications? Any possitive input would be greatly appreciated. 

[alexhelvetica]

You will be able to mix and match displays and resolutions and have them as separate displays, but you cannot do nvidia surround with different sized screens.

[MrG13]

13 minutes ago, Comic_Sans_MS said:

You will be able to mix and match displays and resolutions and have them as separate displays, but you cannot do nvidia surround with different sized screens.

well you can, but all monitors would change to the lowest resolution which is being placed in the surround set up....

 

what the OP is looking to do is complete a huge surround set up mixing aspect ratios, which will technically work, but no game will support that very unique resolution.... you are hard pressed to get 21/9 ratio (normal ultrawide aspect) what you would be doing I couldn't work out with out getting a calculator! haha! 

 

So yes it can be done but you will find it very hard to run any game with it on... 

[MrG13]

30 minutes ago, Nico617 said:

Is it possible to run a game on a tripple monitor setup with a 1440p UltraWide with two normal 1440p widescreen monitors on ether side? My guess is that no games would support this set up but i figured i ask on the forms since my knowledge on multi monitor setups are very limited. If possible will i run into any complications? Any possitive input would be greatly appreciated. 

you would have to change the in game resolution to whatever yours turns out to be, and if it doesnt support customer res you will play with big black bars either side

[Nico617]

14 hours ago, MrG13 said:

you would have to change the in game resolution to whatever yours turns out to be, and if it doesnt support customer res you will play with big black bars either side

Big black bars on which monitor all 3 or just one black bar on the left monitor and one on the right monitor?

[MrG13]

Not to shy away from a clear answer but it totally depends on the resolution you set and then it would be specific to each game,

for instance if you wanted to play say HalfLife which only supports 16/9 ratio you would have the ultra wide in the middle with black bars on both sides then both the other 2 standard monitors would also be black (or off) but then if you put on GTA 5 which does support ultra wide (21/9), then the middle monitor would be full and both the side monitors would be black as the resolution wont stretch that far, however if you set something like Skyrim with a mod or battle field or something, then set a custom resolution, you could fill all the screens up with picture (but it would need a pretty powerful PC to run it at any sort of decent frame rate with that amount of pixels as you should be just surpassing 4k at this point but with the pixels stretched out rather than condensed onto one square(ish) monitor. 

 

If you are just doing surround gaming and the game is compatible like something like Dirt then you should be able to get the game running at custom resolution and fill all the screens as well,

So in all honesty it is one of those annoying 'well it depends' answer so your best bet is to try it and tackle each game as it comes or check before hand if the game would fully support custom res before you buy. 

 

any reason you would want such a long skinny display though as you would be losing a lot of the height or the screen and would need a rather long desk!

with the ultrawide and 2 'Standard' you are looking at a 4 screen 1440p high set up like this below but with one monitor in the middle....

 

 

It is A LOT of screen real estate! 

[MrG13]

19 minutes ago, Nico617 said:

Big black bars on which monitor all 3 or just one black bar on the left monitor and one on the right monitor?

To put it another way imagine the picture of the game would start at the middle and then stretch out to the outer edges of first the ultrawide and then move onto the other monitors until it reached the edges and filled all three, 

It would all depend on the resolution you would be setting starting from say 2560x1440 (1440 being the height and 2560 being a standard monitor size on the ultra wide with black bars)

and then go as far as say 3440x1440 to fill that monitor

then up as far as say 8560x1440 to fill all three monitors!

 

and it is possible to fill everything in between so you can adjust the thickness of the black bars depending on the resolution you choose.... 

[xboxonthego3]

I have messed with this with 2 2560x1080 Ultrawide monitors and 1 1920x1080 monitor as well with 2 1920x1080 monitors and 2560x1080 Ultrawide monitor. It simply does not work the way you would want with Nvidia surround. They are correct that it will scale down the higher resolution monitors to the lowest resolution and give you black bars. Save yourself a few hours trying to figure something out that will only frustrate you. Use the same resolution monitors. I wish someone could just develop some software that could make use of mismatching resolutions and also taking into account screen size while also considering bezel and angle of monitors. I can only dream... except VR is a simply solution to all this.

[Nico617]

Thanks guys i guess ill have to decide wether i want UltraWide or a triple monitor setup. Or maybe when I save up the money ill do the tripple monitor set up on arms over the UltraWide so i can choose what i want to uses depending on what the game supports.