Surround monitor with 16:9 and 21:9

Erlkoenig

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Hey folks,
I was planning to create a three monitor setup based on two 24" 16:9s and one 21:9 29" in the middle. I do not consider surround monitor gaming as reasonable in most games, that is why I'm going to use this wide-screen monitor. But in fact that both types of Monitors have the same size and Pixels in high, I wondered if I can use them for surround monitor gaming despite the difference in width res. ? (The 21:9 has 2560 in width)
According to my experience the GPU just sets all Monitors to the same resolution, but it would look totally ugly if he scales 1080p on an 21:9 monitor.
When anybody has further experience with setups like this I'm glad about any help. :)

 
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Yes, i used to had Ultrawide 21:9 (2560x1080) with standard 1920x1080 monitor on the side and it worked perfectly in 4480 x 1080, i even made a video about it so you can see, it's in the second part of this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV1KYTV4LqQ

xStampede

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It would be better to put the ultrawide in the middle with 16:9 ones on the sides. If your ultrawide resolution is 2560x1080 and the 16:9 is 1920x1080, you get perfect scaling cause of the same pixel density and height. What GPU do you have, it is hard on GPU to run 3 monitors during games.
 

Erlkoenig

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Indeed that was the plan to put the ultrawide in the middle, cause that will be my default monitor for games. Currently I'm running an old 2gb gtx 760 that is horribly underpowered for recent games, but for multi monitor gaming I'm rather interested in games like counterstrike or lol. So the 760 should be pretty decent.
Do you have any experience with a setup like this ?
Do you know for sure that the different width resolution is no problem ?
 

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Yes, i used to had Ultrawide 21:9 (2560x1080) with standard 1920x1080 monitor on the side and it worked perfectly in 4480 x 1080, i even made a video about it so you can see, it's in the second part of this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV1KYTV4LqQ
 
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