Triple monitor

[burthole]

Is it worth it?

[Agony_Aunt]

Is it?

I mean, what do you think?

It will certainly increase your FoV, which is good for many games. It does put more pressure on the graphics card, so if you're running Odyssey you'll want to have a beefier than average computer.

[burthole]

Originally posted by Agony_Aunt:

Is it?

I mean, what do you think?

It will certainly increase your FoV, which is good for many games. It does put more pressure on the graphics card, so if you're running Odyssey you'll want to have a beefier than average computer.

Well I have a triple monitor setup but it's a hassle to set it up for a game so I was hoping someone else whose done it could chime in on if they like it or not.

[Sighman]

I have a triple setup on my sim rig. The GTX1660 will run Odyssey at about 45 fps in space on 1920 x 1200 times 3 screens, but the Nvidia drivers seemed to crash every 30-40 mins. (Odyssey on a single screen, same system, is rock solid.)

Obviously lower frame rates in CZ/settlements/you name it.

In iRacing I get a solid 60 fps everywhere on the triples, no matter what's on the screen, and no crashing. iRacing is nowhere near as detailed as Odyssey though.

I used to run iRacing in forced borderless mode, with three independent Windows desktops, but now I use Nvidia's panorama display thing to merge all three screens into one.

On my main PC I have triples but I run the game only on the middle one, and use the others for streamers/steam contacts/inara/etc. In that case the three can be all different resolutions.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

If you choose to go with the multi-monitor setup, you might want to switch the game video settings to windowed borderless mode, before starting it with several displays. There were problems with starting the game with a multi-monitor setup if it is set to full screen mode.

[docphong (GER)]

VR beats triple screen hands down in sims. And is less demanding on hardware. Motion sickness is much less a problem seated in a cockpit. Since i played ED and War Thunder in VR, i can never go back.

[Along_22b2]

if you only pve, its not worth it cuz most of the time the ai only goes up!

[Alrik]

Originally posted by Armadale:

Is it worth it?

It is.
One Monitor for Elite Dangerous, one for Inara and the third to watch Netflix while supercruising 😉

[HCGxKaLiBeR]

Not worth it. You might as well just get a good 3440 x 1440 ultra wide monitor.

Tipple monitors have the frame gaps in between that are not desired for most people.

FPS FOV doesn't scale well. It has the fish eye view if FOV is too high, which makes the sides very far stretched.

Use Tobii Eye Tracker 5. It is superior than VR and it gives you dynamic FOV as you head/eyes move.

[funkynutz]

You're better off just getting one big screen. And then maybe a smaller second screen for other stuff (eddb/inara/netflix or whatever).

[Agony_Aunt]

Originally posted by Alrik:

Originally posted by Armadale:

Is it worth it?

It ist.
One Monitor for Elite Dangerous, one for Inara and the third to watch Netflix while supercruising 😉

This man Elites

[Alrik]

Originally posted by HCGxKaLiBeR:

Use Tobii Eye Tracker 5. It is superior than VR and it gives you dynamic FOV as you head/eyes move.

Track IR 5 works fine too.
It's expensive, but still cheaper than 2 extra tfts or a VR headset.

Even freetrack and facetrack noIr work with some hardwarehacking (DIY IR reflectors & webcam with IR filter & IR lights).
AFIAK a face tracking app for I-Phones is also aviable for a low price (10$ ?).

[Karasukan]

i suddenly feel very poor reading all your hardware. I am playing on one 17inch 1920x1080 screen XD

[CMDR WeeJet]

playing the game on 3 screens worth? no
playing the game on one of them and watching streams or movies on the other screens is the play.

[funkynutz]

Homebrew IR headtracking is dirt cheap. I made mine for less than £15.

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/how-to-build-your-own-ir-head-tracker/

[Sighman]

Originally posted by (´ ・ ω ・ `):

i suddenly feel very poor reading all your hardware. I am playing on one 17inch 1920x1080 screen XD

I've picked up a lot of used hardware over the years. People upgrade so much, and often they sell their old gear for next to nothing.

But I still remember playing games on a 12" black and white TV set, so ...