So, I have two 1920x1080 monitors.
I line them up horizontally for 3840x1080 super-widescreen.
The only problem is, not very many games actually -work- in this state.
Most FPSes, for example, line their crosshairs up right underneath the bezel between the monitors.
Examples -- Because I artificially widen the render so as to prevent it from doing silly things across the bezel (read: bezel correction), I can Photoshop in the equivalent so you can see what I mean.
Left 4 Dead 2 (by extension, all Source games):Crosshair centered on the bezel. No good.
Oblivion:Unplayable as the crosshairs and 3rd person character both get caught up in the fold, just like an FPS.
I hear there's an over-the-shoulder third person view mod. Does anybody have experience with that?
Would it let me offset the viewpoint so I'm not immediately underneath the bezel?
The free-view camera mode ('tfc' in console) is nifty for screenshots, as shown here.
Oh, and there's a major problem with the menu doing this too
EVE Online:Perfect support. Allows offset camera/HUD for actually working gameplay.
However, I blatantly refuse to pay these subscription fees. Free trial copy from Steam used for examples.
And another one, because I wanted a better "in-game" example picture.
I don't have a screenshot of this one, but your car is, naturally, centered right on top of the bezel.
Incredibly awkward to play. The GUI is stretched, which is pretty ugly, too.
All of the mainstream widescreen gaming communities I've seen focus on three monitors, and make no mention whatsoever of offset camera/etc for the sake of two.
So, Bay12 community, you would know better than I. Are there any games that actually support dual-monitor
play?
Supreme Commander (1/2) -- Yeah, they allow for the strategic overlay to appear on the other monitor. I'm well aware of that. It's one of the reasons I got a second monitor the first time around. That's not wide dual. Just using two separate monitors for two separate purposes.
Live For Speed -- Yup, I know all about it. I don't much feel like playing it at the moment, so it'll have to wait to be added to the "official" OP
I guess I could turn this into something of an informational post (perhaps adding more games to the screencapped list, perhaps a little guide to actually getting this setup to work -- it's not as easy as three when you're on an NVIDIA GPU. I think AMD's Eyefinity supports it natively, unlike NVIDIA's Surround [
], but if not, the method I used is universal) once enough information is available.
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