Question Remote Connection Monitor Sizing; GPU or Monitor-dependent?

[isaacm8]

Hi yall, I want to apologize off the bat because I am not sure whether this belongs here or in display, but i figure the expertise overlaps and if it does involve GPU, then i'd need specific advice on that.
Background: I have a PC in my apartment that i remote into when im at my office because it's just a way better machine and the processing isnt as slow. My monitor in my apartment is a 45" monitor with 3440x1440 resolution with a 21:9 aspect ratio. The GPU for my PC is a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. My monitor at work is a 49" monitor with 3840x1080 resolution and a 32:9 aspect ratio.

Problem: When i remote in to the 45" monitor, from my 49" work monitor, using teamviewer, the aspect ratio is wrong. So when i remote in, i can either only see a little fraction of the screen wiht giant black bars, or zoom in way too close and it shows only half the screen.

Attempted solutions: (the following is what i have already tried so yall dont have to spend time recommending something ive checked off but also to flag anything you might know is an attempt that people usually mess up to see if i (very likely) did as well.

• I asked Teamviewer for help; they told me the professional license allows you to create a virtual monitor which would allow me to see the full 49" display; it did not even give the option for a virtual monitor. I have asked for additional help and much like Gondor to Rohan (before the Gandalf and Pippin hijinks) no help has arrived.
• I have tried changing the resolution and scaling in both Teamviewer and the remote desktop to no avail. I also messed around with the local monitor settings but that did nothing helpful.
• I inspected the adapter properties for my GPU, and 3840x1080 does not appear. NOTE: This is a part about which i am confused. In the List All Modes window is shows resolution up to 4096x2160, so if it is capable of that much, why cant it display a resolution that is within that amount.
• To that end, i tried chaning the NVIDA resolution and it wouldn't show the 3840x1080 size available. I also tried the custom scaling and it only got me to 3840x1600. I attempted to do a custom resolution but it went black and then came back and nothing had changed.
• I bought an HDMI headless dongle to try to select resolutions or scaling that work, and that still didnt give me the option to pick specs that fit my 49" monitor.

Current ramshackle fix: I am using Display Fusion to split the zoomed in monitor in Teamviewer to split the displayed portion to fit my 49" monitor. However that requires setting triggers every i open a new type of program to make sure it opens in the window i am viewing and not where it would normally on the display, which is always out of my FOV so it requires a lot fo tedious work.

At this point the only true fix i can imagine is either a new monitor for either my office or apartment so that they match in resolution and aspect ratio, or possibly a new GPU that can display 3840x1080. At the size of monitors i have, and with GPU prices being what they are, i'll take a financial hit no matter what, so im just trying to assess what direction to take, if that really is the only way to sort this out.

QUESTION: Does the size of my display on the 49" monitor depend on the display in my apartment or on the GPU for the computer in my apartment?


If there is anything obvious it seems i missed please say so. It has been a bit of a week apart from this, so i may very well have been a dunce and missed something.
I am also happy to answer any questions re: specs or configs if they will help answer the question.

 

[Ralston18]

Maybe a bit of code or script on your home system that can be executed from the office location.

One possibility is Powershell.

For example:

https://superuser.com/questions/1493334/how-to-set-display-resolution-via-powershell-on-win10-pro#:~:text=Make a setResolution.ps1 file with the following contents,#> Position = 0)] Position = 1)]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/p...t-displayresolution?view=windowsserver2025-ps

Not something (full disclosure) that I have worked with per se.

However, you should be able to do some testing at home first to see if you can adjust the resolution in house using the Set-DisplaylResolution cmdlet.

Then, when at the office , once logged into your home system run the cmdlet or script to set the resolution to the office display/monitor.

Just a thought....

 

[isaacm8]

Maybe a bit of code or script on your home system that can be executed from the office location.

One possibility is Powershell.

For example:

https://superuser.com/questions/1493334/how-to-set-display-resolution-via-powershell-on-win10-pro#:~:text=Make a setResolution.ps1 file with the following contents,#> Position = 0)] Position = 1)]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/p...t-displayresolution?view=windowsserver2025-ps

Not something (full disclosure) that I have worked with per se.

However, you should be able to do some testing at home first to see if you can adjust the resolution in house using the Set-DisplaylResolution cmdlet.

Then, when at the office , once logged into your home system run the cmdlet or script to set the resolution to the office display/monitor.

Just a thought....

Ah this seems like exactly what i need! I only have very basic understanding of powershell though, but im definitely hankering to learn.

I'll poke around and see if theres anything else i can find out because my comfort level on experimenting on this depends on if i put in a command that exceeds some parameter or the other whether it would fry the display (id use the HDMI dongle) or whether it would fry the GPU, or even worse risks the entire computer. Oh snap, sorry to stream of consciousness this, but ive got clunker just sitting in my closet and it turns on but isnt useful for much ... until now. That thing can explode for all i care! Oh man, okay thank you for the help!

 

[Ralston18]

The cmdlet appears to be more for server environments.

I have tinkered with it a bit more and thus far a "no go" overall.

There is a DisplaySetting Module but I could not get the module to download/install...

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However, I do believe that there are viable solutions.

Remote Desktop Connection may be another possible way to access and change the display resolution.

For example:

https://superuser.com/questions/138...resolution-of-remote-desktop-connection-mstsc

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2276158/how-do-i-change-the-screen-resolution

Again, likely to require some experimenting/trial&error.

Would not expect that anything would "fry" per se but caution is always warranted.