Get on my level. - The 147" Surround Monitor Experience #Helpful Post

hello and welcome to the first and

possibly the final installment of what

I'm calling James tries stuff for the

first time today I'm gonna use whatever

tools I can find just laying around to

make the most pointless PC gaming setup

possible Hey look what are these doing

here 349 inch 32 by 9 gaming monitors

each one of these is designed to be an

elegant standalone solution for

achieving both of productivity and

gaming benefits usually reserved for

double or even triple monitor setups but

hey I'm super naive why not connect all

three of them to create a 180 degrees

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welcome back step one is to get a

computer particularly one that has

enough video out ports to connect one to

one to each of your three monitors now

it is possible to go thrum one

DisplayPort two like a hub where you

split off to other DisplayPort cables

that might be possible depending on the

resolutions of your monitors but it's

always better to have a dedicated cable

especially considering that DisplayPort

is pretty janky at the best of times I'm

also using the highest quality cables

that I could find because the

DisplayPort spec actually is only built

around a cable length of three meters

which is about precisely 9.8 feet so if

you're gonna go beyond that which you

may well do considering that if you're

using monitors this wide end to end

they're like 10 feet if you need to go

beyond 9.8 feet with a display port

cable the longer the cable the higher

quality they should be for our computer

we're going to be using a Corsair one

Pro because it has an RT X xx atti

inside which I know is capable of

pushing all the pixels I need to these

giant displays so that's just one less

thing to screw me over the next thing

you need is a bunch of monitors now

ideally you would be using three

identical monitors at least with the

same resolution and the same aspect

ratio but it does help if they're

actually the same maked model because

then they're gonna have the same sync

polarity and more uniform colors across

all of it we don't have that here today

what we have although these are each of

them 32 by 949 inch monitors there are

three different brands we've got an LG

Adel and a Samsung behind me the Samsung

has a resolution of 3840 by 1080 and a

refresh rate of 144 Hertz while the

other two although they do share the

same LG made panel which is a bonus they

have a resolution of 50 120 by 1440 and

a refresh rate of 60 Hertz so we we're

just gonna have to find out if this

mishmash screws us in the end

the first thing I'm noticing here is

that this is kind of stupid

these are already so wide that I don't

know if it would be practical for

basically anybody's workflow to have

them arranged to like this the other

thing I'm thinking about here is the

keyboard in the mouse okay if I'm over

here it's a little awkward especially if

these were turned in more and I was more

surrounded you'd be a little weird to be

typing over here and crank up my neck

this way I got an idea okay so I found

some scraps extruded aluminum that we

had from a 16 k gaming and I've never

used this stuff before but Alex said

it's pretty easy to work with yeah okay

now for the piece de resistance that's

more like it

now that our setup is completely

ridiculous let's try actually gaming

follow me okay so you'll see we're only

using one third of our potential girth

here so that's no good go into the

settings the resolution 51 20 by 1440 is

the resolution of one of these if I go

into windowed mode nope no option to do

that okay I think it's time we opened

the Nvidia control panel okay so the

point of surround is to make your

computer think that you have just one

monitor with one resolution okay let's

play it safe and start with just two of

our monitors one by two will pick the LG

and the Dell so ten thousand two hundred

and forty pixels that's the width of

those two screens it's created one

combined resolution because it's gonna

treat it like it's one monitor very cool

so let's see if we can get it to do that

with all three monitors we're going to

change our topology to one by three

select every monitor including the

Samsung okay so I was expecting what

like 12,000 this is 57 60 by 1080

if I go to calculator and divide that by

three monitors 1920 it's treating this

like each one of these is 1920 by 1080 I

think it's because you're not allowed to

mix and match resolutions so I mean we

can try this Wow

stretch city okay this is kind of cool

and immersive it's not working properly

but I don't think it's because of the

1920 surround error thing I think it's

because this game is just not meant to

do this see how it gets really stretched

out on the sides like that car and the

car looks really close and when I go

like this it looks a lot farther away

and that's because this game is

rendering with only one camera position

games that are meant to be played like

this they're gonna render from multiple

camera positions and then the result is

gonna be that teammates don't look like

that oh boy

good god good gravy okay okay okay let's

get out of here what if I forced all

these to be the same resolution so one

way I could do that which would suck

would be to just run my higher as ones

at a lower rest so I'd run them all at

38 40 by 1080 that's not that cool

because why did I buy or have sent to

this company higher res monitors so

instead we're gonna try to do super

sample the low res one to render as

though it is 50 120 by 1440 there are

some drawbacks even if you can gets

around to work like let's say I had

monitors that were all the same and

surround work for me and it was awesome

there's still some drawbacks because it

makes it seem like it's all one monitor

which is not ideal when you're not

gaming if I'm just using my desktop and

it's treated like one monitor then when

I go to maximize one of my windows for

example you're gonna have like a Windows

Explorer window that's just like

eight feet of white and it's not easy to

just place a window on only one monitor

for example and like your clock is gonna

be way over there while your Windows

Start menu is way over there for that

reason a lot of people who game with

surround on will actually turn it off

when they're not gaming and then turn it

back on when they go to game again which

sucks because it actually takes anywhere

between one and five minutes to get it

all configured every time now a lot of

these problems can be mitigated or

outright solved by using software like

Ultraman or Display fusion which is way

better because then you can just stay in

surround mode all the time and not have

to go back and do the display settings

like I have to right now and move stuff

around okay let's see if this works I go

into my Windows display settings I now

have a new resolution for my crappy

monitor my crappy thousand-dollar

awesome monitor so now we're gonna go

back into surround and see if we can get

the coveted 15,000 360 horizontal pixel

resolution that we were looking for no

there's just no there's no making it

work you can't even trick it but who

cares cuz we still might be able to get

the result we want sure it's not gonna

be exclusive full screen in our games

we'll take a slight performance hit but

we can still have lots of fun so let's

try some of the games that are designed

to be used in setup like this I'm gonna

look at a list of games that are

actually known to work with widescreen

Far Cry 5 we have that one this intro

sequence is a far cry from being

enjoyable options video aspect ratio

custom window mode windowed all the way

all the way oh whoa no ok now I think

I'm gonna try just running the benchmark

because I don't wanna get caught in the

20 minutes of cutscenes this game starts

with nice nice those hay bales aren't

really even stretched yeah they're

closer but it's not super distorted

things look proportional this is pretty

dank I don't have to look over there but

having it there is more immersive

all right enough Far Cry now I want to

try a racing game naturally I heard that

project cars 2 is pretty good for this

kind of thing so options holy cow look

at this I don't even have to go into

video there's a button specifically

saying triple screen configure your

settings to match your triple screen

setup hell yeah

triple screen spanning check these are

probably wrong but I'm gonna say that's

fine okay and again you can see on the

text of Toyota it's not stretched out

right okay this is pretty sweet oh look

one hand well then that rearview mirror

is like the same size as my actual

rearview mirror in my car this is like

almost life-size it's pretty cool and

just like real life I go the wrong way

okay this was a pretty stupid setup but

I still learned a few things number one

if you're into widescreen surround

gaming then make sure that the games you

want to play actually support it because

it really comes down to the games more

than anything if you're into racing

games and flight Sims then you're

probably good to go and I think more and

more regular mainstream shooter type

games are supporting it because 21 by 9

monitors are more mainstream but this

aspect ratio is still kind of rare and

then getting three of them is dumb

number two make sure all of your

monitors are the same resolution and

aspect ratio because that caused

headaches like we just have fewer

options because if we have the setup

that we do and number three is this

worth it

this particular setup that these

monitors is this the good way to go I

don't think so because first of all it's

super expensive yes it's more immersive

but for the cost like this is 4500

dollars worth of monitors is it really

that much more immersive than just

having I don't know one of them they

don't really have a very tight curve

that's an 1800 our curved one if you had

three monitors this aspect ratio that

had 1800 our curve

then it would be a tighter circle around

you but hey if it's all about

dick-measuring then this gives you a

huge dick

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