Using more than two monitors used to be a luxury for those with the biggest PC building budgets. These days, large, high-resolution displays are affordable, and graphics cards are more powerful than ever. If the thought of gaming or working on three displays at once entices you, here's how to make it happen. Imagine it: firing up your favorite game and having it spread across three glorious displays, a full field-of-vision where you can see more bad guys coming, and a larger view of the game field, whether you're playing a FPS, racing game, top-down strategy, or MMO.
Even better, if you've purchased or built a computer at all in the past few years, odds are you have a video card that already supports it. Of course, gaming with three displays also requires significant graphics power, so even if your card supports three panels, gaming with it is another story.
Before you go plugging things in, you have some homework to do first. Making the most of multiple monitors isn't difficult , but a little planning goes a long way. Let's walk you through what you need to know and how to set everything up, step by step. Before you do anything—and especially before you start spending money, find out if your favorite games support three-panel gaming. Some games do right out of the box, while others will use your primary display and ignore the others.
Titles like Battlefield 4 , Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel , GRID Autosport , Elite: Dangerous , all support three monitors with little additional configuration, you just have to group them first more on how to do that later. The Wide Screen Gaming Forum keeps a database of Eyefinity and Surround-capable games here you can search for your favorite titles before you go and buy a second or third display.
Even if your favorite game isn't in that list though doesn't mean it won't work, though. The list only contains games verified to work with multiple panels, so newly released games may not be included yet, and games that require tweaks like third-party mods or FOV field of view hacks won't show up either.
Do your homework—odds are someone's managed to make your favorite game work. Even if they haven't, there are plenty of other games to choose from. Next, before you run out and buy another display, see if your current graphics card can support three displays. Part of this is simple—just look at the back of your computer and see how many outputs your card has. If you've purchased a mid-to-upper tier card at all in the past four or five years, odds are you have at least one DVI output, DisplayPort output, and HDMI output possibly several of each.
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Learn More. G -Sync Advantages. Also Available From. Follow GeForce. Switch it to High Performance. Trilinear optimization will usually be on by default. It smooths out textures in your games. If it happens to be turned off, make sure to switch it to on.
Threaded optimization allows your computer to utilize several processor cores at once. Turn this to Auto.
When triple buffering is enabled, frames are rendered in one back buffer. This setting limits the number of frames that your processor prepares ahead of your GPU being able to process it. Once you have adjusted all of these settings, click Apply on the bottom right-hand side to save the changes. On the right part of this section, you will find PhysX Settings.
Switch that from Auto to the model of your GPU. This section will help you optimize your display settings. Navigate to it on the left-hand side and go down the list as required. Select the monitor that you are using at the top of this section. If you have multiple displays, you will have to repeat the steps for all of them. Under Resolution , scroll down until you find the highest possible resolution in the PC section.
Scroll down to the color settings and click on Use Nvidia Color Settings. Make sure that the desktop color depth is set to Highest bit and that the Output Dynamic Range is set to Full. This section lets you play around with the color settings on your display.
All the settings here are down to your personal preference. You can adjust Brightness, Contrast, and Gamma in the first row.
Feel free to move the sliders and press Apply to see the result, as the changes are easily reverted. You can also try out Digital Vibrance.
This setting will increase color saturation and make the shades brighter. In the Adjust Desktop Size and Position tab, pick the display you want to make changes to, and then look down toward the Scaling section.
Look back at the menu on the left-hand side. If this section is not visible to you, simply move on to the next step. If it is, it will let you decide whether or not to use Nvidia G-Sync. However, on modern computers with powerful graphics cards and gaming monitors with higher refresh rates , this setting is almost obsolete. It can actually lower your gaming performance.
If you are playing on a budget or mid-range computer that is several years old, you can try out G-Sync by ticking the box next to Enable. However, if your PC is somewhat new, you should keep G-Sync off. This section is only useful to users who run multiple monitor setups. In this part of the Control Panel, you will be able to change your display configuration and which displays to use.
If you have two or more monitors, you can drag their icons using your mouse. This lets you pick which display will act as your primary monitor. In general, you should drag the icons to match the physical setup of your displays. You can move them above, below, to the right, or to the left, so all kinds of monitor setups can be configured here. In the second question about color adjustments choose the second option — Nvidia Settings.
Switch over to the Advanced tab below. Pick Full and press Apply to save all changes. In order to finalize the changes, quickly restart your computer.
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