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[CandyJesus]

Greetings yall,
I'm running dual monitors and I'm wondering if the game supports two separate windows (like Microsoft flight sim). I know it's a long shot, but I figured I would ask.
Cheers!

[xti]

i really like this idea.
having the map, damage screens and weapon status bars on the 2nd monitor would be fantastic.
best regards

[silentD11]

CandyJesus, on 21 June 2012 - 08:12 AM, said:

Greetings yall,
I'm running dual monitors and I'm wondering if the game supports two separate windows (like Microsoft flight sim). I know it's a long shot, but I figured I would ask.
Cheers!

pretty much no. most games support up to six monitors but that's all handled by amd/nvidia now. Also you don't want to do it, requires your GPU to render those screens as well, so unless you're rocking a multi GPU system with high end video cards your frame rates will go to ****.

[cipher]

As silentD11 said, no. And you probably won't find much support for triple-monitors either. But that doesn't mean it won't work.

For triple monitors that is handled on your side by either NVIDIA Surround Gaming, AMD Eyefinity, or a hardware based solution like Matrox TripleHead devices.

You could probably run dual monitors for most DirectX titles on your own with 3rd party software like SoftTH, among others. But rolling your own software solution has its limits, like DirectX version to use and takes a performance hit. But worse than that, a dual-monitor DYI would put your middle-of-the-screen focus along the bezels between the two monitors, which is no fun. That's why triple-monitor gaming is much more popular.

Also, you could run the game in windowed mode and span it across both monitors, but you take a performance hit for windowed mode. Worse, you have to have both monitors running on the same GPU and your video card settings configured correctly for this. Even then there's no guarantee your specific system will handle that correctly.

Either stick with one monitor and use your second for a browser, voice-over-IP, hardware monitors, etc. ~or~ go triple screen and upgrade your PC to match the needed increase in performance needed for that.

[Valhakar]

Instead of tripple monitors, just get a 55+ inch Plasma.

I plan on playing 39 inches from my 58 inch Samsung 3D television. It supports 60 FPS refresh rate in 3D at 1080P.

[cipher]

Valhakar, on 22 June 2012 - 07:38 AM, said:

Instead of tripple monitors, just get a 55+ inch Plasma.

I plan on playing 39 inches from my 58 inch Samsung 3D television. It supports 60 FPS refresh rate in 3D at 1080P.

Or he could go with a 30" 2560x1600 or 2560x1440 for even more pixel real-estate. But those monitors are expensive.