3 24" monitors with different resolutions.

[the_spankles]

I have 3 monitors that are the exact same size, but different resolutions. The sizes are 1440p, 1080p, 720p. however, because they are different resolutions, windows thinks they are different sizes. When I move my mouse from one screen to the other it doesn't line up. I searched for a solutions on youtube and all I found was a guy posting this exact problem asking for solutions. The video can be found here. If anyone knows how to fix this please let me know.

 

[Zando_]

ummm... force all of them to 1080p with Nvidia settings? Other than that there's not much. Because the computer sees the res, not the physical size, so they are all different sizes. 

[the_spankles]

3 hours ago, Zando Bob said:

ummm... force all of them to 1080p with Nvidia settings? Other than that there's not much. Because the computer sees the res, not the physical size, so they are all different sizes. 

I use my 1440p monitor for gaming, if I force them all to 1080, will that 1440 still play games at 1440? Or will I have to change it everytime I load up a game?

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, the_spankles said:

I use my 1440p monitor for gaming, if I force them all to 1080, will that 1440 still play games at 1440? Or will I have to change it everytime I load up a game?

it'd play at 1080p... you could force them all to 1440p, should be possible. But everything will seem tiny and hard to read...

 

You could always sell/get rid of the other two and get two more 1440p displays, or get rid of the 720p and get another 1080p. That way you'd only have one size jump instead of two. 

[Crunchy Dragon]

2 minutes ago, the_spankles said:

I use my 1440p monitor for gaming, if I force them all to 1080, will that 1440 still play games at 1440? Or will I have to change it everytime I load up a game?

You could probably force your two secondary monitors to 1080p, and keep your gaming monitor at 1440p.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

As far as I know, Windows only cares about the resolution of the monitors in relation to each other. It doesn't care about the physical size of said monitors. This is evident when you use print screen to take a screenshot, you'll notice that there will be black voids above or below where your 720 and 1080P displays are. That's the sort of stuff you'll run into when you have monitors of drastically different resolution.

[mikat]

There is no "easy fix", either you're gonna have to adjust resolutions (read: make your screens ugly or unusable) or you're going to have to deal with the fact that not all monitors have equal PPI

[the_spankles]

Thanks everyone. Now I at least know my options.

[TVwazhere]

I have my middle monitor in 4K that sits in between two 1080p monitors. Probably helps that the middle is 27" and the exterior ones are 22", but I have gotten used to sweeping my mouse to the middle of the screen before sliding over to a different monitor. 

[Eliptic]

I had this issue when I bought my third monitor. I believe that a driver update fixed the issue. If not, then your hardware might not support 3 monitors similar to my GPU. What card are you using?

[the_spankles]

3 hours ago, Eliptic said:

I had this issue when I bought my third monitor. I believe that a driver update fixed the issue. If not, then your hardware might not support 3 monitors similar to my GPU. What card are you using?

gtx 1080ti

[Eliptic]

Just now, the_spankles said:

gtx 1080ti

Ok, its definitely able to handle the monitors then. Have you checked the drivers? If they're already up to date, You should try plugging each monitor into a different port and check what happens. That seemed to work for me when I had this issue.

[the_spankles]

3 hours ago, Eliptic said:

Ok, its definitely able to handle the monitors then. Have you checked the drivers? If they're already up to date, You should try plugging each monitor into a different port and check what happens. That seemed to work for me when I had this issue.

I just downloaded the newest drivers last week. Just to make sure were talking about the same thing, all three monitors work fine. The problem is that windows thinks they are all different sizes do to the resolution difference. so when I move my mouse from one to the other its not seamless. 

[mikat]

1 hour ago, TVwazhere said:

I have my middle monitor in 4K that sits in between two 1080p monitors. Probably helps that the middle is 27" and the exterior ones are 22", but I have gotten used to sweeping my mouse to the middle of the screen before sliding over to a different monitor. 

same, I have 27" 4k, 24" 1152x2048, 24" 1080p in that order, the left and center monitor align physically align at the bottom but the 4k monitor is only a few cm taller and is more than 1000px higher

 

[Eliptic]

Try going to the Nvidia control panel then clicking "detect monitors" I know windows has already detected them but this could potentially reconfigure them to the correct resolution