How to play games on two monitors with different resolutions?

[Alexikik]

Hello, I have a 1980x1080 and a 2560x1440 monitor. Are there any way to play a game on both screens? It would be a racing game so It's okay the middle of the display is on the bessel.

So how to I play a game on fullscreen on both monitors?

Solution: Sadly there is none... I have just given up on the idea..

 

[Dugimodo]

I think you need the screens to be the same resolution for it to work, then you can use AMD eyefinity or the Nvidia control panel to combine them into one large display. generally people use 3 matching screens for multi screen gaming, 2 is unusual so it might not work very well. There are a few games that have built in dual monitor support, but they are rare.

 

[Alexikik]

I think you need the screens to be the same resolution for it to work, then you can use AMD eyefinity or the Nvidia control panel to combine them into one large display. generally people use 3 matching screens for multi screen gaming, 2 is unusual so it might not work very well. There are a few games that have built in dual monitor support, but they are rare.

I want to do it in Forza 3 and Projectcars. But when I do it in the Nvidia controlpanel the resolutions is very strange, and half the screens is just black...

 

[rhysiam]

Multi-screen gaming is called Eyefinity (with AMD cards) or Nvidia Surround (specifically 2D surround) with an Nvidia card.

AMD sort-of allow you to use mixed resolution eyefinity.

My understanding is that this is not possible at all with Nvidia Surround. That requires displays with identical resolution. That was certainly the case when I looked into this a couple of years back
The issue is that Surround (and eyefinity) has really gone out of favour now there are premium 4K, high frame rate and ultra wide displays which most people would consider offer a comparable or better experience without the compatibility drawbacks of multi-screen gaming.
I'd be very surprised if Nvidia had been actively working to improve surround (or enable mixed-resolution surround) in the last couple of years.

Case in point, Nvidia's "Surround" system requirements page still recommends a PCIe 2.0(!!) x16, and references ancient cards like the Titan Z and GTX 590: http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology/surround/system-requirements
I don't think it gets a lot of love these days.

TL DR: with an AMD card you could try and do it, but it wouldn't work well even if it did work. With an Nvidia card you straight up can't do it.

 

[k1114]

You can circumvent eyefinity/surround and run in windowed with a custom res/stretch the window if the game allows it.