Brother, if you do decide to keep it this way, here's an idea of what I used to do with monitors that are on top of each other.
I turned the top monitor upside down and flipped the image. This way the bezels will be closer together as you remove the thick plastic part usually on the bottom.
It looked much cleaner with flat screen monitors but I'm sure it would be at least a slight improvement even for curved ones.
Then get a gap mirror. Clips into the edge and basically fuzzies the colours from both so the gap disappears. Only ever seen them on Reddit ads so they’re probably terrible…
I spent 20 years with a vertical bar as I like it just for them to drop it. Are their testers all vibe coding too much to bother dealing with scenarios that have been in place since windows 98?
Yeah. And also never really got people with dual monitors side by side displaying wallpapers with the bezel clearly on the way. Maybe I just got OCD. But To each his own I guess.
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u/zheroki7 13700k, 64GB DDR5 6400mhz, Gigabyte 4090 OC11h ago
If you treat them as two separate areas, it doesn't really matter. Here they're identical displays and they seem intended to be a contiguous space.
But I've got two different screens and the gap doesn't really bother me, because I'm not using it like they're one bigger screen. Stuff stays in their respective area.
It's a custom keyboard hobbyist thing. We like to have smaller boards, but for some of us who wants a numpad sometimes, we'll get a separate numpad that we can put away whenever we like.
Some boards have it as a part of the kit, and can be wireless or have a quick disconnect setup. It's pretty cool.
I didn’t even think about this but you’re right. Current set up kind of defeats the purpose of ultra wide monitors lol. Might as well just have a giant screen instead
Lol that second paragraph is simply devastating to his effort plus cash.
It’s true though! Mathematically he is getting the same result but with a shitier end product.
Is there a way in software to seperate a 16:9 display into 2 32:9 displays virtually? If not, then there is still some merit to his setup at least. Kinda. Not really.
You can get displays with multiple inputs to deal with this. Dell used to do a 50” 4k monitor that could be used in any compilation of 4 smaller panels, 2 ultra wides, mix of both or a single large one.
Yes as long as the game supports windowed mode and whatever resolution you have set the zone to be. If you made a zone with a weird aspect ratio the game probably won't support it, but most games support 16:9, 21:9, 32:9, and 4:3, so just make a zone with one of those and then configure the rest of your screen however you want since windows apps will scale to any aspect ratio.
I really wanted a solution like this when I was using a TV as my monitor. It would have to be in the driver or be entirely external to the PC. The driver already lets you combine displays. Why not the reverse?
I feel OPs setup may be very good for work, where you just have two very wide separate spaces to place your windows. Aligning apps on a single big screen would be bothersome, unless your running a tiling window manager (not possible under Windows I think?). Plus curvature is great if you're sitting really close to the screen.
For gaming or watching movies double screen like that makes no sense at all IMO.
The funny thing is two ultrawide (32:9) screens atop each other like this just equate a single normal wide (16:9) screen, except with a huge gap in the middle indeed, so a pretty useless idea overall ^^'
Are the bottom bezels thicker than the top ones? If so flip the top monitor and tell that monitor to display “upside down” to help with the gap. I personally think the gap is fine but reducing the space between the pixels would be nice and I hope my suggestion might be of use.
My wife was the same but she now is glad she tried it out bc she fell in love with the split screen mode so essentially the odyssey g9 is both of her monitors and she got rid of her 2nd one
Give her the top one dude , that room will look a lot better, let’s be fair it’s just cool but not practical and definitely not easy on your hardware. I bet you don’t use it as much as you planned it in the first place!
She is not jealous, the size is ridiculous and it is not even smart to achieve this size like that. But then again, why does it matter as long as you like it? I do ridiculous stuff regularly and feel good about it. I even find it funny that some people get annoyed by it.
TVs have high refresh rates now. Did not a few years ago unless you were willing to shell out way too much cash
TCL is the dark horse. They manufactured in house so their prices are cheaper not because it's cheap shit but because they don't deal with 3rd party manufacturing, which everyone else does.
Yeah my LG CX is a 48" OLED that I bought in 2020 for £800. 4K, 120hz, the best picture quality, and HDR that outstrips monitors by a long way.
This screen is one of if not the best upgrade in visual quality I've ever gotten. More than when I first moved from CRT to LCD, more than when I went from 1080p to 4K. The move from SDR LCD to HDR OLED still blows me away.
5 years later every time I watch something great in HDR it just puts the biggest dumbest smile on my face.
The day display originally comes from a rainmeter skin called mond, not wallpaper engine. You could try that out if you want to use your own or a different wallpaper
I've never really considered a setup like this and y'know, I don't really mind it. I think the comments are viewing it the wrong way, it's not meant to act as one giant screen so the gap doesn't matter. I'd use the bottom one for two productivity windows, half the top one for youtube/media and the other half for whatever. Then for gaming I'd just use the bottom one while using the top one for media/wikis/whatever.
Actually use the same configuration with two regular 21:9 ultrawides, but they're both on fully articulating arms and I put the bottom monitor just in front of the other one so the seam is barely visible.
I never game in full size on both screens at once, but it is a really killer setup for gaming and productivity.
Well yea she is.... you should have the top one flipped over so the thinner bezel is toward the middle and positioned so there's no gap between them....
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u/Few-Statistician8740 16h ago
A bit, but now I can show my wife this and use it to justify my new 49" monitor. " See honey, it's not like I did what this guy did"
Thanks for the help.