16:9 Resolution on a 16:10 Monitor

[Shadowex99]

So i've been playing around with my new pc and a couple monitors. My question is, what's the best 16:9 resolution that a 16:10 (1650x1050) monitor can run. I want to use two monitors but they have different aspect rations so when i launch a 1080p game the tabs in the other translate to a 16:9 sometimes putting it out of the monitor (youtube videos). I can handle both of them I just don't know if they can handle me lol 😀.

 

[Alessio7496]

It's usually better to have monitors of the same res and asp. ratio for this reason unless you're doing something like programming where you may want to test a game in debug mode on the left monitor and program on the middle one in front. In this case it'd be OK to have the left one 1440p for the gaming and the 1080p one for the programming. However, I'm not really sure if I've a fix for this.

When you say that you launch a "1080p game" do you mean that you play the game in 1080p ?

 

[Shadowex99]

Yes. I play it on my 1080p monitor and i'll have the 1050p monitor for watching videos A.K.A my secondary monitor.

 

[Alessio7496]

Yes. I play it on my 1080p monitor and i'll have the 1050p monitor for watching videos A.K.A my secondary monitor.

At the same time? It's likely that Windows hasn't correctly detect the second monitor as a secondary one, so it see's the second one as part of one huge display with the second one.

1. What video card(s) do you have/are you using?
2. What cable(s) are you using to connect the GPU's to the monitors?
3. How did you detect the second monitor? Did you Desktop >> Right Click >> Screen Resolution >> detect ??

- Alessio

 

[Shadowex99]

I'm using an Asus Radeon HD 7850 Direct CU II GPU.
I use DVI (the one without the 4 pins surrounding the flat one idk what that's called).
I also just let windows detect it when i plug it in. Their resolutions are both at max I just don't want my monitor to keep having to scale to the others aspect ratio. I have a 1280x1024 monitor and it didn't have to scale next to my 1080p one. I just want it to be like that.