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MonitorMixer finds mixed multi-monitor layouts & shows layout specs.
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Windows 10 offers a promising feature that lets user scale individual displays in a multi-monitor (MM) setup. This screen-scaling type of feature is desirable for MM gaming freedom.

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Game looks basically perfect & FOV proper. Menu, text & HUD are proper & display on center screen (except some minor HUD stats often on sides, hugging center's bezel). FMVs & loading screens pillarboxed. Rendered video (cutscenes & dialog) is full hor+ (& partially letterboxed **).

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Game looks perfect & native borderless. All proper: FOV, menus, text, sparse HUD (latter's elements spanning full width). Rendedered cutscenes & loading screens full hor+ (there are no FMVs).

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Gameplay looks quite good, FOV proper; common HUD looks proper (but occasional ugliness, e.g. using Camera ***). Rendered cutscenes full hor+.

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Game looks great. FOV proper, rendered cutscenes full hor+. FMVs & loading screens pillarboxed (with game-world visible on sides). All text, menus & sparse HUD are proper.

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Game spreads well, FOV looks proper. Weapons look & aim proper (details **). HUD, menu & text proper. Rendered cutscenes full hor+; FMV (rare) pillarboxed to center & letterboxed (usually ***).

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Game looks good, FOV proper. But some text is big (not a problem. Long subtitles may occasionally get cropped off).

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Game looks good, but minor imperfections *.

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Game spreads decent; gameplay looks quite good. Enviros either proper or tiny bit FOV+ (negligible, looks great). Guns all look & aim proper size. Vehicle & swim views look proper. Rendered videos full hor+. Pop-up messages look proper. Minor issues *.

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Game spreads well & no problems. FOV & HUD look proper. Rendered video full spread. Menu & loading screens pillarboxed to single-screen.

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Consideration of your next PLP layout's approximate size & shape is important. The features you pick will impact your enjoyment of games, for a long time. Users will have different preferences. To help with your decision, each screen scenario's impressions are described below. The goal is to pick ...

Game looks acceptable. Good immersion, but not ideal PLP *.

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Game looks good. Hor+ & FOV looks proper. HUD & all text perfect, FMV cutscenes & loading screens are single-screen. But minor issues *.

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Do you struggle with games that involve shooting? This is correctable & fun to fix. Near-limitless immersive adventures await, if you can just get past the gun.
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Game update 1.2 required. Add 2 things to (path-to-game) folder: SoftTH (fullscreen, DX9 x86 game) & Widescreen Fix *. In game launcher, select base PLP resolution.

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Fullscreen (best choice *): SoftTH (DX9 x86). In-game select massive resolution. OR Borderless: In-game windowed, quit. Edit %LOCALAPPDATA%\EA Games\Dead Space 2\system.txt. Window.Height & Width = your PLP resolution + border. ShiftWindow (+ border = borderless).

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Game renders all well, hor+ & FOV looks proper. But minor issues (none a problem): A. Zoomed text on loading screens. B. Rendered video is mostly single-screen that requires key-press for proper FOV. C. When heavy damage is taken, the bloody red overlay which appears starts as shrunken square, then ...

Game looks great. FOV, HUD & all weapons are proper. Rendered cutscenes full hor+, FMVs & loading screens pillarboxed. Text & menus proper.

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Game looks perfect. FOV proper, rendered cutscenes full hor+, FMVs & loading screens pillarboxed. Menus, HUD & text look proper (all on center screen). But occasional pop-in textures, & boot-time is far longer than single-screen.

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