Civilization – Civ:BE not containing mouse on multiple monitors

Some considerations about IPS vs TN competition:

• IPS costs more than TN
• IPS reproduce colors better than TN
• IPS has a wider viewing angle than TN
• IPS has a slower response time (latency) than TN monitors (5-8 ms vs 2-5 ms)
• IPS (at the moment) does not support a 120 Hz refresh rate. Therefore if you want to play 3D games (e.g. using NVidia 3D Vision) on IPS monitor you can have 30 fps maximum (60/2).

These are general assumptions about these two different monitor technologies. Then every product has his own story. You can read some good reviews on websites like, for example, Digital Versus.

Said this, if you do not plan to watch many movies or to play a lot of FPS/action games and you have the budget I suggest you a good IPS monitor because their are wonderful to work with (program, web design, etc.). Otherwise, go for a good TN monitor.

Dungeon Defenders was not designed to split the three screens in the way you're looking for. The split screen direction option only applies to the first split for two players. When a third player joins, it always halves the second player's screen in the opposition direction of the first split. Four players always results in the screen in four even parts; at that point it doesn't matter what direction split screen you have set in the options.

A potential solution to your dilemma would be to connect two vertical monitors to eyefinity, making your resolution 2160x1920. You would get the left vertical monitor to yourself, while your friends would get the top and bottom half of the second vertical monitor.

The only other solution I could think of would be to connect four monitors to eyefinity in a square (3840x2160) and have a fourth controller join but not select a character. That way it properly splits the screen into four equal parts (everyone gets their own screen) but only three people actually play.