Using more than two monitors used to be a luxury for those with the biggest PC building budgets.

These days, large, high-resolution displays are affordable, and graphics cards are more powerful than ever.

Do your homeworkodds are someone’s managed to make your favorite game work.

Even if they haven’t, there are plenty of other games to choose from.

If you only have two, all isn’t lost.

Many video cards still support multiple displays connected to the a single output using a video splitter.

That’ll work for everyday use, but likely not for gaming.

Similarly, mixing outputs from your graphics card can be tricky.

Some video cards will work with any combination of connections, but others demand you use specific ports.

If all of that sounds like a pain, it is.

Some great, high-quality panels that come come cheap sacrifice input options for keep price down.

If you have a graphics card with a bunch of DisplayPort outputs, that could make things more difficult.

Of course, the whole thing is a bit of a chicken and egg situation.

With luck, they’ll all work automatically.

Right-click anywhere on your desktop, then select “Screen Resolution.”

If one of them is missing, try clicking “Detect” to double-check Windows sees them all.

Try lowering the resolution on that display to see if it starts working.

Here’s what you’ll need to do:

Before anything else, upgrade your graphics card’s drivers.

Head over toAMD’s driver download pageorNVIDIA’s driver download pageand get the most recent drivers for your card.

plant the drivers and cycle your system.

Next, we’ll set up your displays for multi-panel gaming.

NVIDIA owners can click “Configure Surround, PhysX” to do the same thing.

After your display groups are configured, fire up one of your favorite titles.

Experiment with different values.

You could go as high as possible, but you may wind up with distorted, fat-looking objects.

Play around and see what works for you and the game you’re playing.

The pieces fit together easily enough, but the devil is in the details.

Once you get the kinks ironed out though, the rest is cake.

Gaming on three displaysespecially when the game you’re playing supports itis a lot of fun.

Photos byJon BandKyle James.