Multi-monitor gaming

Managed to dig out spare monitors from the storehouse, now I can finally play games on 3 monitors!

My graphics card is the Chinese Colorful GTX 750. It has 3 ports at the back, 1 VGA, 1 DVI, and 1 HDMI. I used 1 HDMI to DVI cable for the first monitor, 1 DVI to DVI for the 2nd, and 1 VGA to VGA for the third monitor.

Here's the outcome:

I now have one super wide desktop. Panorama wallpapers look absolutely awesome!

3-monitor Payday 2. All 3 monitors have 4:3 aspect ratio

3-monitor Payday 2

In this experiment, I tried to determine if the same monitors (the same aspect ratio) is needed for 3-monitor gaming to work. For this and the following photo I replaced the center monitor with a widescreen one (16:9 aspect ratio). To my surprise, the center monitor isn't skewed or stretched; it worked perfectly!

Aspect ratios of monitors from left to right: 4:3, 16:9, 4:3. No problems with the graphics!

After playing several rounds of Payday 2 I discovered that the side monitors really help in spatial awareness. I can remember map layouts much better with the side monitors around!

Using Yowsup to send pictures to a group

So, I intended to send pictures to my whatsapp group...these are the steps I took.

1. Buy a cheap SIM card, take note of that number
2. Edit the config file, use yowsup-cli to register using that phone number and input the subsequent verification code

Register a Whatsapp account using phone number

3. Extend the ListenerClient to listen for group messages, ask one of my groupmates to send the group a test message. This allows me to obtain the JID of the group.

Listen for group messages to obtain JID of the group

4. Extend CmdClient.py and fix it, and add in my own additions to yowsup-cli to be able to send

Sending images to group chat

Here are all my files at the end:

Examples\GroupListenerClient.py
Examples\UploaderClient.py
Examples\CmdClient.py
yowsup-cli


References:

Using the yowsup-cli, registering a new account
http://hacktracking.blogspot.sg/2013/02/yowsup-cli-send-whatsapp-messages-from.html

Getting JID of the group
https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup/issues/162

Sending images by SamsonBox
https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup/issues/178

Creating preview images
https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup/issues/35#issuecomment-41364453