Comment on Steam deck triple monitor setup with the official dock
Cikos@lemmy.world 5 months agoi forgot to specify. yea, currently im running two external monitors. one 1080p and the other is 1440p.
the wacom movink is a display tablet with pen touch so i’d assume basically an external monitor hence the third monitor.
thats a bummer, thanks for the info.
desentizised@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Ah yea I didn’t realize the official dock has 2 ports for display output. Valve is bae.
There are definitely docks that have 3 display outputs, which would be a viable option if you also buy the Wacom Link Plus. I personally don’t know of any docks that have 2 display outputs and a USB-C port that is display-capable. There may be Thunderbolt ones but Steam Deck doesn’t do Thunderbolt unfortunately.
So yea I guess your only option is a different dock plus Wacom Link Plus. I don’t see any other personally.
Cikos@lemmy.world 5 months ago
thank you for your info. seems like searching other docks is the most cost efficient for me. other commenter said that steam deck has a hard limit of 2 external displays, i cant find info if its true or not.
eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Check my edited comment, I’m pretty certain my limit was wrong.
Cikos@lemmy.world 5 months ago
thank you for your time for do a bit of a research
desentizised@lemm.ee 5 months ago
according to some redditor the limits are
one monitor 8K 60Hz or one monitor 4K 120Hz or three monitors 4K 30Hz or three monitors 2K 60Hz
which makes a lot more sense to me than a hard limit. driving displays as far as graphics processors are concerned is just a matter of data bandwidth. so the more pixels you want to drive the fewer monitors you will be sble to run
Cikos@lemmy.world 5 months ago
thats pretty generous limit. then im sure at least it wont be a problem from the steamdeck itself