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Eyefinity fraps video
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5760*1200 is 3 x 24" monitors running at 1920x1200 each.
Clear advantage over other players
In which case no one should use anything bigger than a 4:3 res or a gaming mouse, or a steering wheel etc. etc. etc.
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well if you spend so much money on additional gear like this, why shouldnt you be allowed an advantege? if i spent so much i would expect an advantage! otherwise there would be no point in spending so much on such a setup as it would be pointless =] hopefully i can afford the eyefinity setup someday xD just need another 2 24" monitors. haha ><
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well its all to do with resolution. if you can find a really wide HDTV with a massive resolution, same as the resolution as you would get with 3 screen eyefinity, then you will see exactly the same with 1 screen instead of 3 =]
Hmm partially agree... resolution should never be limited, but this guy has a massive FOV advantage which is not really fair. I don't see the problem in SP or spec ops (in fact it's pretty damn cool!), but I don't really think it's appropriate for use in competitive play.
On a related note, I get annoyed when RTS games limit resolution or the amount you can zoom out (Dawn of War springs to mind). Again, I suppose this is kind of limiting FOV, but fog of war mostly negates the advantage you gain anyway so...
Hmm, it's debatable!
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On a related note, I get annoyed when RTS games limit resolution or the amount you can zoom out (Dawn of War springs to mind). Again, I suppose this is kind of limiting FOV, but fog of war mostly negates the advantage you gain anyway so...
Hmm, it's debatable!
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but shouldnt FOV scale linear with resolution anyway? otherwise it would distort the image onscreen i would think?
Good point, it certainly gives an unfair advantage which is out of the financial reach of 95% of gamers.
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I'm guessing that is because you're viewing the video on a normal monitor. Think about it, on a 3 screen eyefinity screen, the side monitors will be viewied from an angle and hence will have a sort of 'reverse warp'. Hence the warping you see in the video above will effectively cancel out and it should look normal ... in theory.
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No it doesn't
And as for advantage, your main monitor is still displaying what you would normally see, you can see more to the left and the right, but its distracting, you deffinatly play worse with 3 monitors. Its far too much to take in, I use 3 24" for work everyday so i'm more than used to the setup, but its so hard to scan the sceens for enemies, its great for racing sims and the like, but for fps online; 90% of the time its worse.
Exactly. Often, after changing the on-screen res to a higher mode, I even need to adjust my monitor's screen size using its manual screen size/shape controlls because half of the image is off of the screen, and the other half is too short.