A little double monitor fun :)

[LazerTag]

I actually just set this up to see what it was like. To darn hard IMO to play games like this.

(sorry for the quality had to resize a little)

 

[alexa999]

Why did you do it? How did you do it? :huh:

 

[LazerTag]

Why did you do it? How did you do it? :huh:

1) Because it could be done.

2) Just hooked up two monitors (see video card below) and changed my res to 2048x768

I'm actually already considering hooking it back up. I already miss having the second monitor for various situations. Such as playing CS on one screen while running HLDS for my server itself to admin from. Stuff like that.

 

[Knuckles]

If I had a digital camera I could make you some 3 screens shots.

1st screen: TV, on my GF4
2nd: analog on my GF4
3rd: analog on my Diamond Fusion

but looks horrible when in strech mode.

 

[LazerTag]

Not sure if this has been posted before but check this out.

11 monitors!!!

 

[Lex]

You'd almost think he/she likes fs

 

[joel_029]

How'd you do that one? Are you using all of your systems shown in that pic, and just using the dual support on each of them?

 

[Lex]

I don't think so because you can see 1 cockpit. And if you are using more computers you cannot have 1 cockpit, correct me if i'm wrong .

 

[alexa999]

Not sure if this has been posted before but check this out.

11 monitors!!!

Woah, sweet!

 

[Knuckles]

Woah, sweet!

Another useless post

Lex, true, and look at the two screens at the bottom, they aren't in game. They are simply pictures on the desktop....

 

[joel_029]

Well Lex. I'm sure that you can hook up all of those monitors to one computer through a series, but I was thinking that perhaps they put each comp at the same place in the game, and just used dual support and a different view from each comp to make it look like a complete scene.

 

[LazerTag]

If I remember correctly I found that pic on http://www.realtimesoft.com And it truely is the person playing a flight sim that sapns accross that row of seven. I'm not sure if the other 4 monitors are connected elsewhere.


Here is a cool pic of a six pack on 3 cards

http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/gallery_browse.asp?ID=380&date=desc&nummon=false&mon=desc

 

[Quvack]

Dual Monitor support is kinda cool Havent really had a chance to try it out much with n64 emulators though, might give it a try later, i have a feeling stretching a game over 2 screens would be a lil tricky to follow though

 

[LazerTag]

Dual Monitor support is kinda cool Havent really had a chance to try it out much with n64 emulators though, might give it a try later, i have a feeling stretching a game over 2 screens would be a lil tricky to follow though

Yes it is. To my understanding 3 (or any odd number) is much easier to follow. Puts your focus on the main middle monitor while using perif vision for the rest.

 

[Stezo2k]

yeah, but surely having it spread over many monitors would take up more CPU/GPU power wouldnt it?

 

[Quvack]

Yes it is. To my understanding 3 (or any odd number) is much easier to follow. Puts your focus on the main middle monitor while using perif vision for the rest.

That makes sence actually, well I have two going all the time usually (monitor and tv-out anyway), adding another monitor into the setup would be kinda interesting i spose! :alien2:

 

[Knuckles]

Just wanna know, which (recent) games currently supports dual-display?? any ideas?

 

[Lex]

Well Lex. I'm sure that you can hook up all of those monitors to one computer through a series, but I was thinking that perhaps they put each comp at the same place in the game, and just used dual support and a different view from each comp to make it look like a complete scene.

Could be, but it is a bit tricky.
And if you use one controller you can't control them all.

 

[LazerTag]

Just wanna know, which (recent) games currently supports dual-display?? any ideas?

I personally have played

Raven Shield, Midnight Club II, Quake III, UT2k3, and a few others I can't think of offhand. All of the games I have played like that so far support multi monitors natively also. No need to screw with configuration files by hand or anything.

 

[joel_029]

Perhaps this could help a little.

http://www.cablewholesale.com/popupspecs/41h1-28608.htm