Advice for dual display setup !

MentalDraco · August 25, 2017

Hi, now I am sure someone might have asked this but here is my quandary, now I have a laptop and a external monitor, both 1080p. With the laptop on it's side I do my work, gaming on the bigger (size wise) external monitor and have a video and other stuff on the smaller laptop screen.

So far so good, but now I am thinking of getting a bigger in both size and resolution monitor, i want to go from my 24" 1080p one to a 32" 1440p one.

The laptop has a GTX 1060 so it can do fine with that resolution for work and decent in a lot of games.

Now my question is will there be problems if I run the extended display (laptop and monitor) if my laptops is 1080p and the external monitor is 1440p. So practically running 2 external monitors of different sizes and resolutions would be the equivalent.

If any one has some experience with this or could offer some words of advice it would be much appreciated. Also what display should be the main one the 1080p or the 1440p one ?

Also as a side note if I was to run a game on the 1440p monitor at 1080p (lets say i need more FPS for some reason) should I expect blurring or other artifacts ?

Thanks a lot !!!

JaegerB · August 25, 2017

Where did you read that the 1060 can game on 1440p? It can't. That's work for a 1070 or up.

JaegerB · August 25, 2017

Just now, JaegerB said:

Where did you read that the 1060 can game on 1440p? It can't. That's work for a 1070 or up.

correction: it can, but only on medium - low settings. and no more than 60hz

Blebekblebek · August 25, 2017

1. Use whichever monitor you usually look at.

personally, I've used external monitor for Main screen, it's bigger.

2. Resolution doesn't matter, the system will auto adjust to match your individual screen capability.

Now if you are using ext monitor for main screen, your game will be running at that screen.

If you meant you want to run it on both screen, that's called 2D surround, personally never try it, not interested.

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3. Adjusting graphic fidelity for FPS seems like common knowledge. I don't understand why you even asking for that, I mean... it's pretty obvious, You can even set to 1440p with Low setting if FPS is what are you aiming for, blurring is just another option that has no impact on performance and just there to make it "feel more natural".