Multiple screens on one monitor

lolitsjack · August 25, 2018

I saw a monitor that could have more than one screen on it in this stream/video. It was using multiple display ports to do this. I would like to do something similar to run multiple clients of a video game (Eve Online which is very often played more than 1 instance at a time, in my case 3 or 4) on one screen. Right now my solution is to place multiple windowed game clients all on one screen overlapping each other. Is there an emulator of some kind to split a normal screen into 4? Can a single HDMI 2.0 handle 4 1920x1080 60hz? Is this only available on a monitor specialized for this?

Requesting any info on how to have multiple display instances on one monitor please.

Glenwing · August 25, 2018

You're looking for a feature called "Picture-by-Picture" or PbP. Some 4K monitors have it. There may also be software that can emulate this behavior, I haven't checked.

iamdarkyoshi · August 25, 2018

6 minutes ago, Glenwing said:

You're looking for a feature called "Picture-by-Picture" or PbP. Some 4K monitors have it. There may also be software that can emulate this behavior, I haven't checked.

My old gateway monitor had PIP

lolitsjack · August 25, 2018

Any good recommendations for a screen? (My budget is high, but not stupid high). I'm going to be doing a brand new build, as my CPU is getting old, which means I need a new motherboard, which means I need new RAM, and the 2000 series from nvidia is coming out, so I might as well get a new power supply and case while I'm at it.

I was planning to do something crazy like a 2x3 grid of six monitors off of two 2050s or 2060s. But a PbP screen is probably more what I want for my use. Can one graphics card power a 4 screen PbP and two other full size screens? Does PbP mean its always a dedicated line for each screen in the PbB, or does it somehow encode two video streams though one cable? If that is the case do then even make graphics cards that have 6 video lines out? Is it possible to have a screen emulator and bypass all of this and just have like 9 screens going out to be displayed as one?