I use two monitors for work and I am thinking that I would like to have a second monitor for my gaming PC. It would be nice to have other info available on the other screen.My question is it possible to have two monitors with a different screen sizes and one that could run a lower resolution so I can read things? I was trying to do some research but some people were saying that if a game is running in fullscreen mode you have to alt-tab to the other screen. I want to be able to look at articles or game aids when playing so that would defeat my purpose. Geewhiz:My question is it possible to have two monitors with a different screen sizes and one that could run a lower resolution so I can read things?
- 2 Monitors With Different Resolutions
- Dual Monitor Different Resolution Images
- Extended Monitor Different Resolution
I was trying to do some research but some people were saying that if a game is running in fullscreen mode you have to alt-tab to the other screen. I want to be able to look at articles or game aids when playing so that would defeat my purpose.You can set the resolutions of multiple monitors independently of one another.
2 Monitors With Different Resolutions
Dual Monitor Different Resolution Images
The reason you would need to alt-tab a fullscreen game is if the game window locks the mouse cursor to it, in which case you couldn’t simply scroll off the fullscreen game over to the other monitor. Running games in windowed or windowed fullscreen usually takes care of that, and some games (the Paradox grand strategy games come to mind) don’t lock your cursor even in fullscreen. The only weird thing is if you have a really high DPI display with a non-high DPI display. It won’t really affect the screen quality, but in the monitor settings can look weird.For instance, I have a Dell XPS 13. It’s an ultrabook with a 13-inch display, but it’s about the size of most 11-inch ultrabooks. It has a 3200x1800 display. In other words, it’s a small screen.I plug it into my 24-inch Dell monitor that is 1920x1200 and run dual monitor.Guess which one reports as the bigger display in Windows?
Extended Monitor Different Resolution
Changing the monitor settings may do the trick. When I connect my 23-inch Samsung monitor with 2048 x 1152 resolution and 32 inch Vizio with 1920 x 1080 resolution to my Asus ATI Radeon graphics card, I get side-by-side monitors that work fine. The only problem is the Samsung now only gets 1920 x 1080. I then had to move the small monitor to another computer, and now, when the screen is back, I just can't seem to get them to different resolutions again. I seem to miss one option in the Nvidiasetup, the one where you choose (don't remember exactly) dual screen. Now I just find the horisontal, vertical and clone-option.