Widescreen Gaming Forum

I've been thinking of buying 2 16:10 monitors, and actually having one positioned vertically above the other - has anyone tried this? Will windows be able to handle it all correctly (I don't exactly want my cursor heading of the right of one screen and coming on the left of the other :roll: ). I'm happy with still using a single WS monitor for gaming; presuming I can somehow specify that the bottom monitor is used. If there are any problems evident with such a setup, I'd sure like to know, thanks.

As another question, has anyone got a setup with just the 2 WS monitors side-by-side? How well does this work in games that only use the one - is the primary screen being off-center a issue, or do you get used to it after a while?

Thanks in advanced (And apologies if this might be the wrong forum for this kind of question).

You should not have any problem. Setting one screen on top of another in windows.

As for side by side and having the primary of center, I did this for awhile, I did not get used to it but it was not HORRIBLE, just pretty sucky.

If you can mount one on top of another then I say go for it.

Your not planing on using a Matrox GXM to add the second display are you? If you are then only putting the screens side by side will work.

Best of luck to you.

In Windows (XP, at least), when you enable a second monitor you have a graphical depiction of where the two monitors are in relation to each other. Grab Monitor 2 and drag it up above Monitor 1. Now Windows knows that the cursor leaves the top of the bottom monitor and appears on the bottom of the top monitor.

If you connect the bottom monitor to your GPU's primary video out and game at a single-screen resolution, your games will only be displayed on the bottom monitor.