Is there an easy way to align multiple monitors with different DPIs?

[TransgressorOfTheUnspeakableWord]

I use dual monitors when not gaming, with one set in landscape orientation for file explorer browsing (or anything else utilising lots of columns and/or long titles) and viewing visual media, while the other is set to portrait for handling documents, web browsing and using a mail client.

Is there an easy way in nV Control Panel to re-scale one screen to match the other so that the screen extremeties of the smaller align with a same-physical-sized section of the larger as the mouse cursor passes from one screen to the other, where the DPI of both screens does not match?

Currently, it's not too bad, but if I align one edge of both screens, at the other extremity the mouse will jump up by a couple of inches as it traverses in one direction and will hit an invisible wall on the way back, which I have to lift it up and over.

I don't know how well I've explained this, but I know some of you already know what I mean, as you've likely followed this through to resolution yourselves.

I've noticed that there are several scaling options in two sections of the nV Control Panel and, while one is not strictly for this reason - and more for setting up multiple monitor gaming, which I don't do - I'm sure that'll be the one which resolves this. Unless it's solely applied in-game and doesn't affect desktop usage.

Another potential conflict may occur due to Win also having its own basic multiple screen handling system. While this one IS for desktop environment, it's basic and has no such scaling options.

TIA for any help.

ps.
If you can help me out, it may be nice if you could include additional information for users of ATi/AMD cards too. Either through CCC or any small 3rd-party lightweight applet designed exclusively (by some frustrated impatient nerd ;-) ) for this single purpose.

[_I_]

nope

you should have picked monitors with the same or very close pixel pitch (pixels/inch)

to fix the mouse, in the display control panel, adjust the monitors edge position to the same value

[TransgressorOfTheUnspeakableWord]

Escrito originalmente por _I_:

nope

you should have picked monitors with the same or very close pixel pitch (pixels/inch)

to fix the mouse, in the display control panel, adjust the monitors edge position to the same value

Your modern consumer-slave angle doesn't account for life - even "time", itself, for that matter.

Besides, if you'd read my post, instead of merely scanning text as a mere extension of the machine you're plugged into, you'd have noticed that your "suggestion" has already been applied and that I've outlined its shortcomings as reason for my request.

I know this is easily possible, from being around home computers for more than 35 years, since they popularly came on the scene.

Scaling algorithms have been used "forever" - as a nerd obsession since even the 8bit days.

There is no excuse these days, what with the fully-featured graphical API layers now implemented in displaying modern desktop environments.

This is the sort of application that - if not already implemented somewhere in core software/drivers/API - will likely be found for Win on SourceForge or for Linux/Unix in a repository somewhere.

[TransgressorOfTheUnspeakableWord]

Btw, I adjusted the resolution of the secondary monitor so the dot pitches appear to match and windows which span between both have same-size continuity, although the trade-off is loss in clarity due to it being a non-native resolution.
I also harshened the Clear-Type settings to compensate everso slightly.
It'll do for the time being.

[Hatman]

The driver only knows your monitor's resolution. It doesn't know it's physical size or DPI. So it could never guess wich combination of resolutions would fit your screen setup. Even if they where both the same model. It'll always be a manual task.

[TransgressorOfTheUnspeakableWord]

Escrito originalmente por Hatman:

The driver only knows your monitor's resolution. It doesn't know it's physical size or DPI. So it could never guess wich combination of resolutions would fit your screen setup. Even if they where both the same model. It'll always be a manual task.

Thanks, but I never indicated that I expected the driver to "guess" anything at all on my behalf.
I was simply wondering if any of the scaling options offered by the driver Control Panel - and executed through the API - were applicable in my scenario and, otherwise, had anyone created a simple third-party app to access the API and do the job.
As it appears not, I simply had to use the desperately primitive hack-job of choosing a non-native resolution for one monitor to mimic - and align to - the native dot-pitch of the other.

[Hatman]

Escrito originalmente por deviantchild:

had anyone created a simple third-party app to access the API and do the job.

And how would it do that?
It's a computer, not a magic show, it can't do the impossible...

For all your high and mighty talk you seem to lack a very basic understanding of how these things work. So why don't you climb of your steed and just talk to us, one guy to another...

[TransgressorOfTheUnspeakableWord]

Escrito originalmente por Hatman:

Escrito originalmente por deviantchild:

had anyone created a simple third-party app to access the API and do the job.

And how would it do that?
It's a computer, not a magic show, it can't do the impossible...

For all your high and mighty talk you seem to lack a very basic understanding of how these things work. So why don't you climb of your steed and just talk to us, one guy to another...

Well, accelerated graphical APIs are used nowadays for desktop environments, in case you hadn't noticed.
What's so "magic" about an app which hooks DirectX on its way to outputting to the desktop?
Interchangeable Linux DEs use OpenGL to implement their fanciful effects all the time.
You seem to have DECIDED FOR YOURSELF that I wanted something "automatic" without me ever indicating anything of the sort, so just take your wrong assumption and take a hike.
Your post was after-the-fact, uncalled for and unhelpful anyway.

[Hatman]

Escrito originalmente por deviantchild:

Well, accelerated graphical APIs are used nowadays for desktop environments, in case you hadn't noticed.
What's so "magic" about an app which hooks DirectX on its way to outputting to the desktop?
Interchangeable Linux DEs use OpenGL to implement their fanciful effects all the time.
You seem to have DECIDED FOR YOURSELF that I wanted something "automatic" without me ever indicating anything of the sort, so just take your wrong assumption and take a hike.
Your post was after-the-fact, uncalled for and unhelpful anyway.

Insults disguised in grandiose phrasing are still insults. Maybe if you could make one post without downtalking or belittling everything that came before someone would actually feel motivated to help you. I certainly don't... bye