What do you use for a display setup, and what do you wish you had?

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05-07-2020, 07:28 AM
jak3676

What do you use for a display setup, and what do you wish you had?

When I was doing this 10 years ago, I loved my monitor setup.

I did the 20-30-20, Portrait-Landscape-Portrait thing where I had 2x 20" Dell 2007's in portrait mode on the sides and a 30" Dell 3007 in the middle. The 2007's are 1200*1600 resolution, while the 3007 was 2560*1600. They have the exact same dpi and the height of the 2007's in portrait exactly matched the height of the 3007.

This is not my photo, but the setup looked exactly like this: http://3dalchemist.com/images/lcds/l...-authoring.jpg

It was great for multiboxing WoW as I just split my minions to both sides and gave each of them 1/2 of a 20" monitor. So they ended up on a 15" 1200*800 resolution which was even good enough for the occasional collection quest without having to screen swap them. (Although having 2 of them on the left and 2 on the right may not have been ideal in terms of having to hunt back and forth with your eyes to find something)

Back then most web pages were still optimized around people with older monitors, so web pages were 800 to 1024 pixels wide which was great on my 2007's in portrait mode. Nowadays I think websites are optimized around older cell phones and 1366x768 laptops. So I'm finding a lot of web pages where I need to scroll horizontally on my side monitors now.

Some years ago my Dell 3007 died and I replaced it with a Acer Predator 32" 4k monitor. I love the 4k resolution and the size is almost the same as my old 30", just stretched 2" wider. But now I have a dpi difference between my main monitor and my sides. You can somewhat mitigate that with dpi scaling, but dragging windows between monitors always messes them up.

About 2-3 years ago I tried replacing it all with one of the 38" ultra-wide monitors, But at 3480x1600 that was much smaller than my triple monitor setup. It had the height of a 27", but about 2x as wide as a typical 27". I liked the width, but wanted more height. I found I actually missed the bezels as that was the way I split up much of my work - email on left, work area in the middle, chat utility on the right. Overall, I hated the 38" ultra-wide, so that ended up as my wife's new toy.

I'm looking to upgrade, but I don't see any sort of way to do a more modern
Portrait-Landscape-Portrait thing (everyone stopped making monitors that aren't 16:9 widescreens).

Any thoughts or recommendations? I'm not really limited by budget, or desk space.
08-18-2020, 04:58 PM
WOWBOX40

Id recommend getting monitors with tiny bezel, below 4ms responstime, 100hz or higher and ips (as if you need to build monitors vertically/on the side of you, the viewing angle on ips beats TN panels).

Personally i prefere 2 monitors per pc, mounted on a "vertically 2 monitor stand". I feel its a lot easier to setup and move around / change monitors out if need be.

Pro tip: if possible: place the desk so that you fit between the back wall and the monitors, as that make any needed changes and cleaning fifty times easier.
08-18-2020, 07:15 PM
Lyonheart

I started using 3440x1440 ultrawides a few years ago.. ill never do multi monitors again. More than enough screen real estate to do 5 accounts and even 10. And the bonus for me is all the single player games i play on it.. its amazing! But it does take top of the line components to run everything maxed out.
08-31-2020, 06:15 PM
jak3676

I ended up going with 3x 32" 4k's. I find I do wish the sides were a bit narrower, but seems to be the best available at the moment. For multi-boxing, I was splitting 5 accounts across all 3 monitors (2 each on left and right, 1 in the middle). But I didn't like the different aspect ratio on the sides. I ended up just using the center for my "main" and the left monitor for all 4 alts. This leaves the right monitor free for Slack/Discord and whatever else.

I am hoping the 3:2 aspect ratio from laptops catches on and someone makes that aspect ratio into a ~30" size. But then I'll have to redo my display setup again.
09-01-2020, 11:20 AM
Fat Tire

I used to have 3 way back when I started boxing, then moved to 2 and now just one for the past few years. Since I made the switch to ultrawide and video fx I see no reason to ever need multiple monitors ever again. Its just a much cleaner setup.
09-01-2020, 11:48 AM
kate

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fat Tire

I used to have 3 way back when I started boxing, then moved to 2 and now just one for the past few years. Since I made the switch to ultrawide and video fx I see no reason to ever need multiple monitors ever again. Its just a much cleaner setup.

I've just now moved to a single 34" ultrawide and it's lovely - much better than multiple monitors for me! I'm curious about video fx though - I just have regions set up on my screen; what's the benefit of video fx over regions? Like do they let you do PIP so you can be fullscreen on the active character and then have small windows to click in inside your fullscreen?
09-01-2020, 12:47 PM
Fat Tire

Quote:

Originally Posted by kate

I've just now moved to a single 34" ultrawide and it's lovely - much better than multiple monitors for me! I'm curious about video fx though - I just have regions set up on my screen; what's the benefit of video fx over regions? Like do they let you do PIP so you can be fullscreen on the active character and then have small windows to click in inside your fullscreen?

Its actually very simple. These are what I used a when I started. I only box 3 max so ymmv.
https://isboxer.com/wiki/Video_FX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ature=emb_logo

Lyonheart posted a video of him using it.
https://youtu.be/zeQZF0T7gao

You can config and set up hotkeys for seamless changes or you can click.
09-01-2020, 01:29 PM
kate

I wasn't asking how to use video fx, but why. I watched those videos a while back and didn't see any obvious difference other than "more hassle to set up" compared to window regions.