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Postby Dokujisan » Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:49 pm

I was looking at some interesting desktop setups and I was wondering if Nexuiz had support for multiple screens like this one.

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Or is that just a function of your operating system / video drivers?

I would think a setup like that would give a major advantage since you'd have such a wide FOV.
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Postby KadaverJack » Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:12 pm

I know it works on dual-screen setups (haven't tested it myself, but LordHavoc posted screens some time ago). Of course 2 screens are not that usefull, since the crosshair would be exactly between both screens.
I guess that isn't your setup on the photo, is it? (btw: that setup looks like 2 different PCs, one with dual-screen, the other with a single display to me)
I have little experience with multi-screen setups, but the main problem would be that 3 screens are not possible with most graphic cards, so you need to use 2 cards. I guess running Nexuiz on that is not the problem, more difficult is probably to get OpenGL acceleration working on all 3 screens.
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Postby Dokujisan » Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:19 pm

No, that's not my screen setup. I just imagined that it was using a KVM switch between the two computers, but then I see two mice, so maybe you are correct.

This is interesting, I wonder how they accomplish this?

http://www.widowpc.com/2006/03/triplehead2go.php
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Postby Dokujisan » Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:22 pm

ahh more on that...

http://www.surroundgaming.com/

TripleHead2Go delivers the ultimate PC gaming experience, allowing full screen DirectX and OpenGL on three screens at up to 3840x1024 resolution and a 45" total diagonal. Using your system's existing graphics (including SLI™), the TripleHead2Go will take your gaming to the next level with the most immersive environment ever - nothing else comes close. You'll have to experience it to believe it, but once you do, you'll find it hard to go back to a single monitor. Surround Gaming fully engages your peripheral vision with games running at up to 135 degree wide-angle field of view.

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Postby Dokujisan » Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:25 pm

A list of current multi-screen 3D games

http://www.multiplemonitors.org/Pages%2 ... aming.html

I'm just wondering about the Linux compatibility of it all.
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Postby torus » Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:29 pm

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Lucky bastard.
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Postby KadaverJack » Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:30 pm

Dokujisan wrote:No, that's not my screen setup. I just imagined that it was using a KVM switch between the two computers, but then I see two mice, so maybe you are correct.

Not to mention the 2 keyboards ;)

This is interesting, I wonder how they accomplish this?

I guess they are setting the graphic card to render at a resolution that's 3 times wider as usual and that box is just splitting the signal...
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Postby KadaverJack » Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:32 pm

torus wrote:Lucky bastard.

http://www.plastk.net/highres/24mon/
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Postby torus » Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:17 am

KadaverJack wrote:
torus wrote:Lucky bastard.

http://www.plastk.net/highres/24mon/


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Postby narvik86 » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:21 pm

There is an application for multiple screens:
http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
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