I finally did a test setup of my triple-screen config. I had two 19" 1280x1024 screens on the side and one 24" 1900x1080. I just thought I could display BMS on it and I would simply lose the "extra" pixes on the side monitors. Nooo.... apparently for BMS to display over 3 screens is to make it one big desktop, and that bumped my 24" res to the same as the 19". I nearly puked. And my BMS view was wide but too small in height. I figured even if I meddle with the BMS files, I'll still get distorted side images as the lower-res image is shown on a different "scale" than my main display, right?

I know the simplest option is to simply get 3 monitors of the same resolution, but is there any workaround for dis-similar monitor resolutions that I am not aware of?

Thanks!

Assuming AMD Eyefinity, the unequal sizes is pretty much a fixed restriction for full-screen games. The only other combination you can try (and no-one likes this ) is to put the 1900 as a side monitor, i.e.

[ 1280x1024 ] [1280x1024] [1280x1024 on the 24']

That way you can use the 24' in a sub-optimal way but the main 'look ahead' monitor is at least clear and at spec res.

The only other thing I can think of is that some monitors have hardware rescalers, although it's rarer now - which would allow you to run the 24' as a side monitor but not 'stretch' it, i.e. it would still be 1280 but would have 1:1 pixels for instruments or something,

Lol, no way am I putting the bigger screen to the side. I was hoping the smaller screens would at least "retain" their scale, but if they bring my bigger screen down, nothankyou!

These are the configs I am trying to achieve. Is there a way to do this WITHOUT having to force the center screen to a different resolution? IIRC, eyefinity group forced a x1024 height resolution which threw off my main screen... more experimenting to do!

for eyefinity screens need to have identical resolution or it will change your screens to match, which isnt always a good thing.

you can try forcing the side screens to display the same resolution as the center screen, then change scaling options for the side screen and have the GPU Scale to the screen, but everything will be smushed as it will be running wide screen on a 4:3 screen,

or you can try forcing Center Screen to the Res. of the Side Screens, but force it to maintain 16:9 Aspect ratio.

i cant really check as my card is about to ship out to RMA and using my old 8800 as a backup locks me out of CCC,

but im sure in the display sections the options for forcing GPU scaling and aspect ratio (maintain, stretch, pan/scan) etc are there.
(CCC, My Digital Flat Panels, Scaling).


But All in All, to use Eyefinity, Screens Need to be identical in Size/Res. P-L-P Mode isnt supported in Eyefinity, nor is mixed aspect Ratios.

Yeah, at the moment my option seems to be NOT USING eyefinity... I'm checking a workaround in the BMS forums...

Would've been great if eyefinity could just squash one res, either the horizontal or vertical, but forcing all screens to the lowest res... ouch!

it changes them to the maximum support resolution on all three screens.

Yes, I just realized that. No Eyefinity for me, had to dig around the BMS forums to get the display to work across three screens.

I guess since I'm not doing Eyefinity, I can't do triple-screen gaming on most games unless I mess with the config files too?

EDIT: I was also wondering what the recommended angle was between the side monitors and the center monitor? Or is there a guideline about how to set this up? Is there a way that the side displays are truly angled, ie, if you set up your side monitors to 45 degrees, the view is adjusted to what you actually see at 45 degrees? Or is this just one big widescreen display with the side screens angled towards the viewer?

can you run BMS across 3 screens Windowed?