Out of all you PC gamers out there, who is still only using just one Monitor/Display? Not I, said the saberwolf. A-matter-of -fact I’d probably have 3 Monitors if I had the room, but that’s a different topic entirely. After viewing the image PXXL made in our Battlefield: Mass Effect post I thought, “How cool would it be to strech that image across both of my screen as a wallpaper. If I can play HoN on one screen and watch pr0n on the other why can’t my desktop background use on continuous image?
I did some investigating and the solution was much easier than I thought it was going to be. I’m immediately went back to the days where you would have to run some flaky 3rd party software to force your display drivers to do such a thing. Well, in the days of Windows 7 we don’t have to worry about such problems.
Follow these steps in to display a large image across multiple monitors:
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Right click on the background and select Personalization.
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Click on Desktop Background
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Select a background image that is at least as wide as the combined resolution of both of your monitors. For Example, I have two 24” monitors that have a resolution of 1920×1080. I need an image of 3840×1080 or greater so that it can be displayed across both monitors.
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Next, this is the step that most users would never even think about trying: Select the Tile picture positioning option as shown below. This is the only option that will display your background image across multiple monitors.
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Hit OK
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If for some reason your desktop does tile the image just find it’s location, Right Click the image and Click Set as Desktop Background
Your background image is now displayed across both monitors instead of having the same image displayed on both monitors.
For your additional pleasure I took the time to corral some of the best gaming related backgrounds to spread across both of your glorious displays.
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