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One thing game devs, from my experience playing games on linux steam, need to work on with linux is how to deal with multimonitor setups. Every game I have in
by stormbrew 13y ago
One thing game devs, from my experience playing games on linux steam, need to work on with linux is how to deal with multimonitor setups.
Every game I have in steam that runs on linux attempts to spread itself out across all my displays, which is especially busted when I have a vertical monitor. Entire sections of the screen are just cut off completely as the height of my virtual display is higher than 2 of my 3 monitors.
Now, I use intel's video support and not nvidia, so I'm using randr to set up my monitors and not nvidia's proprietary stuff. I wonder if that's the issue.
- jdjb 13y agoI use the nvidia drivers and have the same problem.
- kevingadd 13y agoMultimonitor support in games is terrible on Windows too. Game devs just almost universally get it wrong. (I don't understand why; literally every dev I know uses multiple monitors...)
- stormbrew 13y agoWell, my experience on windows was always that the 'getting it wrong' was just choosing to play the game exclusively on the primary display. This at least leaves the game playable, and it never bothered me, I could never get used to paying attention to two screens joined into one for gaming. The result on linux is to literally make the game unplayable unless you manually disable extra displays.