Or I suppose you could be some kind of crazy person who switches it up per game.
I assume you three-monitor people use the middle one, but I’d be interested to hear if that’s the case?
Game split across both screens with the cross hair in the middle
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I never really thought about it as left and right monitors, but my main monitor (30" 16:10) is centered and my secondary monitor (27" 9:16 vertical) is off to the right.
Game left, wiki on the right for help files.
4-6 screens… EvE Online player who has a different account on each screen. Primary is lower left, the alts all get scattered on the others. And screens 5/6 are technically a seperate PC, but I use Synergy to share a mouse and keyboard.
Most games live on screen 1, which is also routed through a capture card. (I need to fix the audio passthrough, project for future me)
3 - 4
1 - 2 = 5 - 6
Game right screen, left screen is vertical since it’s mostly for text based things.
This is the way.
I play in the screen centered in front of me, the second screen is off to the side. I’ve changed the second screen side over the years.
So the middle of the two screens!
One game client on each … or what is the point of playing with 2 monitors?
Some people here must have really stiff necks. I’ve got 2 screens and play on my gaming screen, which is right in front of me. The secondary screen is to the right.
Game on the left monitor. My left monitor is directly in front of my chair, though. Right monitor is portrait for browser, discord and whatever else I need at the time. The whole setup flipped (🔄) when I moved my desk last week, though.
I use my two monitors in this configuration. (Not my image)
It’s fantastic for reading documentation and manga.
Game on the left, everything else on the right
I assume you three-monitor people use the middle one
Yes.
(I have 3 identical 1440p monitors.)
Although if I decided I wanted to play a racing or flight sim game, I might try to set it up to use all three (total 7680x1440). I’d also consider playing something like a FPS or strategy game on all three screens turned 90 degrees (total 4320x2560), but the last time I tried doing that was a long time ago (back then I had 1080p screens) and I don’t think I ever managed to get the configuration to work because most games aren’t designed to span across monitors.
… I switch it up depending on the game.
Are they different in some way, so certain games look better or are easier to play on one of them? I think I could understand that more than the pure chaos of mixing it up on identical monitors.
Not really. Sometimes it’s also just what mood I’m in. The left monitor is actually a much bigger TV with higher resolution but lower refresh rate. The right one is on an arm, curved, 165hz and hdr always works instead of some of the time but only 30 inches or so
I just… Change them whenever. No real reason
Ok, I can kind of see that. A giant screen is going to have a much different vibe than a closer fancy curved monitor.
Here’s the thing though. The monitor is only close if I want it. It’s in a heavy duty arm and gets moved around a lot. The TV is further away by a significant margin because I can’t afford a TV stand atm considering I also can’t afford food. But I will just switch between TV and monitor for no rhyme or reason. Sometimes during the same session. Start on one, end on another
I play strictly on my left screen, but I couldn’t actually tell you why. The monitors are identical, and it’s no more of a strain to look at one over the other for extended periods. Left just feels right to me.
It just feels left you mean. 😆
Left. My left monitor is a 40" ultrawide, the right is a portrait-mode 27" for discord and such. I keep the big one on the left because I don’t have most of the field of vision in my left eye, so if the main one is centered and the second is on the right I can look over and see it more easily.
