I play on the right. That is also where I tend to keep videos and music open. Left is for general web browsing and the terminal.
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Depends... my left monitor is an utlra-widescreen. Some games look/play great on that one. Other games feel/look better on the other monitor which isn't quite as wide, but physically has more vertical height.
I play strictly on my left screen, but I couldn't actually tell you why. The monitors are identical, and it's no more of a strain to look at one over the other for extended periods. Left just feels right to me.
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Right screen just because it happens to be closer to me on my corner desk arrangement.
Amateurs u should have 4 screens. 3 for game and 4th for wiki
One for the game, one for the official wiki, some for the unofficial wiki, and one for discord.
I do that with non first person games but I do like the immersive experience of having such a wide perspective especially as my screens are curvy
I game on one virtual representation of my real monitor at 4k60hz, and one entirely virtual monitor at 4k120hz. When I am playing a game my sister wants to watch, I play it on the screen that also exists in real life. When I am playing just for me, I play it on the 120hz screen. They are one on top of each other, at the touch of a button they swap exact places with each other. I put the one I'm playing on currently at the bottom.
The main reason I do top/bottom is because the screens are quite large. About the equivalent of sitting a foot away from my real 55 inch TV, but the screens are 20 feet away for eye comfort. So I can effectively only see one screen at a time as they each nearly fill my vision. As big as they can be without having to turn my neck to see parts of them. The top monitor is tilted down towards me, and basically on the roof. Oh, I should mention I generally play from a recliner when playing desktop games, so even the lower monitor is tilted down to face me.
When I want to play something in ultra-wide, the virtual screen can be set to 5740x1080 at 120hz(equal to 3 1080p screens side by side, but as one screen, flat or curved to any degree you want), but for the most part anything that works in ultra-wide works in VR, and full VR is likely gonna be the better option.
Although most of the time I'm playing full VR games and standing to play them. No apparent screens there, just living in the game.
What do you use the virtual monitor for?
When not playing on it, it's usually a browser window. When playing on it, I use it for 120hz, cuz my physical monitor/TV is only 60hz.
How would one access it? Is it like network streaming?
Yeah, I use Virtual Desktop, there are other options, but from my experience, there really isn't... hehe.
Nowadays I run a dual 4k monitor setup with the left centered in my FoV and the right one alternating between portrait and landscape. My laptop usually sits under the primary or to the bottom left. I connect over thunderbolt so I can easily swap out my work and personal laptop on the dock. Effectively I get 3 screens: my main focus, my distraction, and my comms on the built in display. If I'm gaming on the desktop I toggle the left monitor to another input. I used to have more screens but things are a lot more ergonomic now.
I do feel like I could switch to right monitor dominant, bit I think it would not be ideal considering sloppily moving the mouse to the top left on the primary would cause the mouse to jump to the secondary screen whereas on a left monitor dominant layout it would hit the border. You could offset the displays slightly to catch the mouse, but it's not worth it.
Before I went ultrawide, I used to have my better monitor center, and my extra monitor to the left.
Game on the right, but I have no choice over it, I might have chosen left if my wall mounted monitor wasn't on the left.
But, the positive is that it takes up no desk space because in the left, it's just air.
Right monitor is 16:9 and VRR, left is a 16:10 monitor my work gave me during covid. So games go on the right.