Megsking Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Has anything been mention yet on the progress of adding support for multiple screens to be used for Swtor. It would be handy to be able use all my screens again and see all around me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heat-Wave Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 This has been in for a long time. I play on three monitors using AMD's Eyefinity. It also works with nVidia's Surround. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heat-Wave Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 As a side note, if you haven't played this game using three monitors, you don't know what you're missing. Put chat, crew skills, mail screen, etc. on the left monitor, along with your companion quickbar and quickbar #6. Put mission log, achievement tracker, map, and quickbar #4, & #5 on the right monitor, leaving only the minimap, three quickbars, and your various target trackers (target of target, focused target) on the main monitor. You also get a much wider field of view, you can actually see enemies coming from the side in PvP which you can't on a single monitor. It is a vast improvement and I'd never want to go back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heat-Wave Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Second note: It doesn't work with "dual/quad" screens because it centers you in the window, so if you just have two monitors, everything is split right down the middle. I guess it would "work", but you'd be staring at the monitor bezel, there is no way to make one monitor "primary" and the second one "secondary" for maps and stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papazmurf Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 (edited) I've played with three screens and I actually prefer playing with one. I had the three screen setup for flight simulator so I tried out SWTOR. While you are right about the added field of view, there's also settings in the preferences that I found out about recently to max viewing distance higher. I guess for me being able to do other computer tasks or look of things up online is more important to use the other screens for. I'd have to be in a really immersive mood to rock three screens for SWTOR. To each his own though, and I'm glad you find a great advantage to it. To the OP, as you can obviously see this can be done. Like the guy who posted above me, I've only used with AMD cards. Not sure how NVIDIA setups work. Edited February 24, 2015 by Papazmurf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightSaberAddiCt Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 3 screens are cool, but I will stick with my 40" Sony Bravia LCD. Since I got that for xmas, life has been good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heat-Wave Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 3 screens are cool, but I will stick with my 40" Sony Bravia LCD. Since I got that for xmas, life has been good Three of those would be better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heat-Wave Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 I've played with three screens and I actually prefer playing with one. I had the three screen setup for flight simulator so I tried out SWTOR. While you are right about the added field of view, there's also settings in the preferences that I found out about recently to max viewing distance higher. Being able to have your full map open while running around is very nice, IMHO... and not having chat covering up the combat in front of you is nice, but yes, to each their own. I guess for me being able to do other computer tasks or look of things up online is more important to use the other screens for. I'd have to be in a really immersive mood to rock three screens for SWTOR. I do that too, play in full screen (windowed) mode and you can alt tab and have a browser open. I am typing this right now while standing on Yavin waiting for PvP to pop. The game runs just fine this way and I just switch back and fourth as needed. Makes using TeamSpeak and Parse easy as well. To the OP, as you can obviously see this can be done. Like the guy who posted above me, I've only used with AMD cards. Not sure how NVIDIA setups work. AMD calls their system "Eyefinity", nVidia calls their "Surround", it is really the same thing, except not quite, they both impliment it a bit differently, but the game doesn't know the difference. Right now the game thinks I have a single monitor with a resolution of 8092x1600. That is three 30" screens at 2560x1600. Now you might ask, why 8092, when that ISN'T 3x of 2560 (which is 7680)? Bezel adjustment is the answer... both AMD and nVidia give you the ability to make the screen adjust for the size of your bezels so that it doesn't look "broken" due to the gaps. The game of course actually does have to render that extra space, so it is a small performance hit, but it makes it look "right" rather than "split. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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