Many gamers have setups with two or monitors. Oftentimes these differ in size, resolution, even aspect ratio. They can be very helpful in productivity tasks, but mid-gameplay they rarely serve as more than displays for external music or chat.

Are there games that utilize this extra space in a unique way and are played better or exclusively with two or more monitors? Preferably something more than just extra FOV

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    6 hours ago

    Back in the day Supreme Commander could utilize a second monitor for a dedicated map that you could zoom in and out of independently of the main game window. I don’t remember if you could do other things with it, but I thought it was pretty sweet with just that.

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    5 hours ago

    Simulators, like x-plane or flightsim, and I think some driving sims can use lots of monitors. Like 4 monitors for the cockpit windows and another two for control panels etc. though you need a hench pc and graphics set up to do this at a decent frame rate

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      4 hours ago

      I don’t think any driving sim can use a smaller monitor as a dash/timer natively. Most people do this through third party software like SimHub

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      7 minutes ago

      Once you won EVE, try out Prosperous Universe. No combat. Just the economics/trading of EVE, no need to always be on.

      Plus, we have the best spreadsheets.

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      5 hours ago

      I heard you like spreadsheets so I put a spreadsheet in your game so you can spreadsheet while you game

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      3 hours ago

      My first thought as well. Good old times of triple boxing spy alts and whatnot. I still miss it sometimes.

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    4 hours ago

    Probably not quite what you meant but two monitors for Dwarf Fortress is a god send. Game on one screen, the other for DFHack console, Announcements, SoundSense, Dward Therapist, and various other utils. Could probably use 3 actually…