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Triple Monitor Setup Guide
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the sight of three monitors arranged
perfectly together it does something to
a man or woman once you've seen
something like that in the real world
you can't just go back to your pathetic
boring existence some sort of one
monitor created it's okay it's okay
don't worry we're here to show you how
easy it is to set up three monitors for
gaming and then you'll be happy until
you see six monitors that's even better
now there's a few main things we have to
consider when constructing a triple
monitor setup a your graphics card
manufacturer and model the first one's
actually not that important the model is
B the monitors obviously and see what
you're going to be using your setup for
so we're going to be talking primarily
about triple monitors for gaming but of
course there are many benefits to using
triple monitors for work as well now
first up you want to see if your current
graphics card can support 3d displays if
you purchased a mid to high end video
card in the past three to four years it
will most likely support multiple
monitors so the i/o will probably
include at least one DVI DisplayPort and
HDMI or some combination of the three
and if you have at least three outputs
then you're probably good although you
can use one DisplayPort 1.2 port with a
3-way hub like club 3ds MST hub if that
works for you as well of course direct
port port connections are preferable
because there's other ones I've my
experience have been a little bit on the
flaky side the next part of the equation
is the monitors triple monitor gaming
works best when all three monitors are
the same model particularly on the
Nvidia site this not only ensures that
they're the same size and resolution but
they'll also likely have very similar
color appearance similar response times
and all that jazz so you won't end up
with any kind of disorienting or
nauseating kind of differences in
appearance from one monitor to another
it's also important to note the
available inputs and whether they match
up with what your graphics card is
output and if you know what I mean as I
said plugging a video output into its
corresponding input on the monitor is
the best-case scenario but of course
there are adapters and hubs available to
get around that now normally when you
plug three monitors into a PC it'll
treat each of those monitors like a
separate display great for work not
great for games in order to play games
with triple monitors your PC needs to
treat them all as one like gigantic
glommed together display so AMD and
NVIDIA both have gaming modes built into
their graphics drivers that allow this
and ease is called Eyefinity and in
depth affinity there's only three of
them and NVIDIA calls their surround
which is stupid because they don't
all the way around you they just
supposedly sit in front okay I'm sorry
I'm just being a troll here both of them
are pretty easy to set up but one thing
is especially important to note I finna
T requires at least one monitor to
connect with DisplayPort if your monitor
doesn't have a DisplayPort input you
will have to buy an active display port
adapter active adapters translate the
DVI HDMI or VGA signal from a native
DisplayPort signal so that the GPU can
output what it wants and the monitor can
get what it wants another important
thing to note is that I Finity requires
all monitors to be plugged into a single
card nvidia surround that does not now
invidious around generally works with
whatever ports are plugged in to the
monitor no DisplayPort required but if
you want to double check you can use in
videos surround system requirements tool
on their website Andy also has a list of
GPUs that support Eyefinity as well as
recommended active DisplayPort adapters
now once you know your video card
monitors will play nice it's time to
plug them in and get them set up first
off make sure you've updated to your
drivers to the latest versions and
reboot your system in Windows
right-click on your desktop and select a
screen resolution here you can detect
your displays it identifies them with
big old numbers and you can drag and
drop them in the right position now for
radeon GPU owners the next step is to
launch catalyst control center and go to
create
eyefinity display group for GeForce GPU
owners launch the Nvidia control panel
very creatively named and go to
configure surround + PhysX both of these
sections let you correct for the
thickness of your displays of bezels so
you don't end up with lines kind of
looking like this and not aligned get it
aligned because it's aligned haha
I'll move the displays around change
your resolutions and so on
a calculator can be handy here because
you know some people might not
necessarily know exactly how many pixels
1920 x 3 is and it's good to do a little
sanity check to make sure that you're
compensated although it should be noted
that if you do use bezel compensation
that number will actually be plus some
virtual pixels in between so it's more
like looking out through a window and
less like not having it aligned Sun
after you applied the Eyefinity or
surround setup your three monitors
should act as one giant one so
time to head into your game of choice
and change the game resolution to match
the total resolution of your combined
displays as displayed by your control
panel for example 3 1080p monitors like
I said would be 57 60 by 1080 promise a
little bit for those on bezels alignment
etc etc and you may also want to tweak
your field of view settings assuming
your game supports it to get more of the
game in your peripheral vision instead
of just kind of a stretched out mess not
all games do support this though and I
recommend heading over to widescreen
gaming forum if you're having any
particular trouble with any of your
games they have a cool little tool that
should sometimes it doesn't work should
automatically adjust the settings of
your game to make it better for surround
gaming or even just ultra wide gaming
but some games just straight-up
won't work at all so let us know in the
comments guys what do you think is
triple monitor gaming worth it is it
better to go with an ultra wide or 4k
for better pixel density sound off below
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