# How to play on 2 screens with 3 monitors

**URL:** <https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-to-play-on-2-screens-with-3-monitors/115967>\
**Category:** General Issues\
**Created:** [October 26, 2018, 7:21am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-to-play-on-2-screens-with-3-monitors/115967 "2018-10-26T07:21:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![MoonwishHUN](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/moonwishhun/32/103386_2.png) [@MoonwishHUN](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/MoonwishHUN)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 7:21am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-to-play-on-2-screens-with-3-monitors/115967/1 "2018-10-26T07:21:01Z")

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Hi! I have 3 monitors (1080p). Already tried 3 screen setup, it works great, but I would like to keep one screen free for stuff. However in the display options at resolution I only see 1920x1080 and 5760x1080. I don’t know how could I set the game up to only use two monitors instead of one (in fixed window mode, normal windowed mode is terrible)

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**Author:** ![MoonwishHUN](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/moonwishhun/32/103386_2.png) [@MoonwishHUN](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/MoonwishHUN)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 7:37am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-to-play-on-2-screens-with-3-monitors/115967/2 "2018-10-26T07:37:23Z")

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I came up with a workaround.  
In your settings file  
c:\Users[]\AppData\Local\CCP\EVE\f\_steam\_steamapps\_common\_eve\_online\_sharedcache\_tq\_tranquility\settings\_[]\core\_public\_\_.yaml  
There are two fields where you need to change 5760 to 3840 :

BackBufferWidth: 5760,

WindowedResolution:

- 131850127593980529
- [5760, 1080]

The game then will start using only 2 monitors. Drag the Camera Center slider to 50 under graphic settings to shift your view center to either side.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 7:37am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-to-play-on-2-screens-with-3-monitors/115967/3 "2019-01-24T07:37:36Z")

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