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I've a pair of wall mounts on either side of the window. They are almost at full extension but allow the two monitors to meet in the center of the main one. For the main mount I got hold of some older satellite TV dish mounting hardware and converted that to hold the beast then mounted that to the desk. Turned out to look nice, esp. after a good coating of hammered brown paint. It did require me to remove the "monitor shelf" from the desk - which wasn't doing any good anyway. I just mounted that under the desk and use it to hold the soundbar out of the way.

I noticed that you dialed down the UI size. I have glasses with -4 diopters, they shrink everything.

How did you mount your 16:9 above your Odyssey?

While you're in the Interface settings, check into setting the train visualization length. That is the number of boxes it shows for the train when placing signals and stops. If you have a standard train size you use it's quite nice to see exactly how your train fits. New in 2.0 is that the last wagon space is a yellow box instead of white, so you know if the count is full without counting the boxes.

Those settings are global, apply to all games, but they can also be changed while in the game from the same menu as saving.

I'm happy with what I've got. The 32:9 is perfect for building factories. I actually down-scaled the UI. The default for Factorio is to set the UI to 125% at this resolution. I've dialed it back down to 100%. I keep the 16:9's above the main one so I can still do things for planning without having to switch desktops. (Well and to keep Discord in view as well.) Originally I wanted an OLED, but the burn-in issue is one I don't want to repeat. CRTs had that and I didn't like the results.

I might do minor upgrades, esp. to change the smaller monitors to match the 1.0 curve of the main monitor, and more SSD space. Other than that, I think the system is as good as I can use. I've mostly stopped coding, so I don't really need the compute power, but the rig was spec'd with Space Age in mind and it lets me run 4 copies of the game without any FPS/UPS hits so I'm content.

The spec'd plan for the build. [pcpartpicker.com]

That comes in very handy

Just when scouting and walking south/down I would need to show less. I have the whole UI magnified a bit to see better.

I was once playing this game on an Odyssey G9 OLED with the same resultion as you have. while it was very comfortable in general, walking south was always a bit dangerous on that screen so I swapped my monitor to a 21:9. Plan was originally to buy a 4K 16:9 monitor, but I got used to widescreen and couldn't imagine to miss out on the sides.

Hence my new plan is to go 5K and keep my 21:9. Since basically one year I am wating for the Geforce RTX 5090 which should allow the best of two worlds:

Your 5120 and the 2160p from a 4K monitor, resulting in 5120 x 2160 in the 21:9 format. LG released such a 5K 45" monitor now, but I am waiting for Samsung to bring it's own monitor, because one thing is for sure: The Odyssey G9 OLED hat the much more vibrant colors and much more contrast than my present LG 45" 3440x1440. When I increase contrast on this monitor now then the whole picture gets *pale*, because it makes dark areas brigther (prolly to see more in shooters) but which translates to actually have less contrast if I increase contrast here. On the Odyssey, when I cranked up contrast, then the whole picture became very vibrant and intense.

Actually, that last one would be Active quickbars. Shortcuts are the tools. Same thing though, 1 to 4.

Main menu -> Settings -> Interface -> Shortcut bar rows. Options are from 1 to 4.

Thank you for the tip

Question: How did you manage to show three toolbelt bars on the bottom center of your screen?