While I do agree with peppergomez in that 3x24" just looks too stretched out, unfortunately the fact is that you can buy more than 3 24" monitors for the price of a single 30". My 19-24-19" on PPP mode is my cheap version of this concept!

Either way, looks way, way, WAY better than just a single screen on anything aside from plain desktop work

Eyefinity will not work with different resolution on the screens, but SoftTH will.
you can set it to use any size or resolution of monitors and even mix orientation of the monitors.
Here is an example on youtube.


a review/tutorial on how to set it up. Note, if you have a eyefinity capable card, you only need one card.
start at 21 minutes

Thanks for that, will give SoftTH a try... I thought that was just for... I dunno, something else. And wasn't there problems with tearing on one screen when using SoftTH?

there is with eyefinity too

I see... is it a driver problem? Or simply users expecting too much from their hardware?

timing issue i think, with eyefinity the DisplayPort has a different "timing" than the DVI, HDMI, VGA ports,

with 2 card setups, the 2nd card has a different timing because its a different hardware address.

i dunno about TH2Go

5760x1080 on 23" monitors works great for me too, the side monitors will be stretched on any game that doesn't properly render the side screens separately, iRacing for one does it perfectly and there is no stretching effect.

Hopefully now that both Nvidia and AMD latest gen cards support 3 monitor on a single card and have enough VRAM and GPU power to support 3 monitor realistically, hopefully soon 3 monitor gaming will stop being such a small niche and more sims and games will do like iRacing and start supporting it properly with separate rendering for the sides so that we don't get the stretching.

Note that softTH only works for DX9 and earlier games. So many many recent games (BF3, all recent DCS titles) are no go. Skyrim, F4 BMS, x space combat series, Fallout 3 do work however.

+1

Hopefully it will become common place for games to support the monitors natively.

I love my triple monitor set up.

Another question bump:

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?