Multi-monitor gaming

I never noticed before but that's actually quite close to a normal wide aspect

 

The problem with selecting 1 screen is the view is zoomed in a lot more than it is with a single monitor
selecting 3 screens fixes that but because 3 screens was designed for a curved screen each monitor is rendered with a different view frustum (correct term ???) and the horizons of the side monitors are angled downwards (i think if you were to angle your side monitors at a 45degree angle it would fix it)

You can see the angled horizon problem below (not my picture)

 

Those Civ 5 screenshots look great. The fact that I have to scroll on my 30" to view all of one. . . .

 

ty ;p
(Shameless plug)

 

I'm *really* enjoying Rage, which I picked up for $15 on a Christmas Steam sale, so if you can create a few screenies of it outside while racing that would be great. The Shogun 2 shots, maxed out, would also be nice. If this 30" dies on me I'll have to seriously consider going with two quality 24-27" screens instead of a replacement 30".

I'd probably enjoy the heightened vertical too with the 3886x1920 res. And you're right, racing games and flight sims need the wider view. . .I'd love to see Rise of Flight at 6028x1200.

 

And to think, at the beggining you had doubts, oh ye of little faith...

ps: I had the choice of multi-monitor or 3d and I think I made the right choice, how about you ?

 

nv still support anaglyph dont they (aka 3d vision discover)
while amd leave it to a 3rd party

 

Sigh, you guys have me seriously eyeballing 24-27" displays now. I'll probably stick with just two since I prefer single GPU setups and NV boards (though that's assuming the next-gen NV will continue supporting only two displays per board) and I can rotate those two screens if desired.

My Dell 3007 that I picked up in 2006 is aging, the backlighting is uneven in the middle now and getting slowly worse, so that's an incentive to upgrade and looking at the U3011's sticker price of $1300 or $1200 for the HP ZR30W is somewhat daunting. If Dell runs a sale on those U2412s again that's basically .5m more pixels for half the price. I'd almost prefer rotating them for web browsing too.

 

you dont want just 2 because the bezel will be in the middle