On Monday my 3 x Asus VW266H 25.5" monitors arrived from newegg, because my overclocked i7/5870 rig was just begging for more pixels (gaming at 5760x1200).
I setup eyefinity (for those of you that are living under rocks, here's the youtube link: Youtube) and everything looked great in my games... for the first hour or so.
After the novelty wore off, it became very annoying to look at things with distorted and stretched ratios, plus the fact that the black bars between the screens really took away from the games' atmosphere.
Then at a friend's house yesterday, I got the chance to play some games on her 50" Samsung HDTV. It was just at 1920*1080 resolution, but sitting from a bit further away games such as Resident Evil 5 and COD: MW2 looked just as good plus the fact that there weren't black bars all over my FOV and images weren't horribly stretched.
On top of this, eyefinity is practically useless in desktop work, because Windows' extended desktop gives you much better productivity as it treats each monitor as a separate display, which is much more organized and easier to work with than having a MASSIVE 5760x1200 single desktop.
So, in conclusion, I dished out $900 for a 3x25.5" eyefinity setup, but IMHO, a $1000 50" HDTV setup would have served me much better.
I'm displeased that the internet has lead to the degradation of the English language to the point where multiple people merely respond "lol" to a long post about gaming at stupidly high resolutions vs gaming on stupidly big screens. I will take the high ground and use the proper response of something more accurate and less insulting to language and say that I find your attempts of gaming at a resolution of 5760x1200 to be humorous.
On March 05 2010 06:41 decafchicken wrote: I'm displeased that the internet has lead to the degradation of the English language to the point where multiple people merely respond "lol" to a long post about gaming at stupidly high resolutions vs gaming on stupidly big screens. I will take the high ground and use the proper response of something more accurate and less insulting to language and say that I find your attempts of gaming at a resolution of 5760x1200 to be humorous.
On March 05 2010 06:41 decafchicken wrote: I'm displeased that the internet has lead to the degradation of the English language to the point where multiple people merely respond "lol" to a long post about gaming at stupidly high resolutions vs gaming on stupidly big screens. I will take the high ground and use the proper response of something more accurate and less insulting to language and say that I find your attempts of gaming at a resolution of 5760x1200 to be humorous.
in fps and in driving crap eyefinity when working right makes the other 2 screen basically just crappy peripheral vision stretching the screen all ugly like "for a more immersion feel"
Frankly if i did eyefinity i would turn 3 widescreen monitors into 1 widescreen monitor
by buying good monitors turning them on their side then sandwitch them together so i basically have 16:10 still instead of 21654:11 although the bezels for gaming would piss me off so much.
Weren't these issues apparent before you bought them? There was massive coverage all over about eyefinity and it's drawbacks. Aside from big dick swinging, it's not that great to look at but useful for some games (FPS). 50" TV might have been a better choice if your current TV sucks. But having a nice triple monitor setup is very useful if you use computer a lot too.
I don't think you lost out on anything. Perhaps just dissapointed in eyefinity.
On March 05 2010 07:29 Navane wrote: I read there exists bezel compensation?
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That way the black bars are still disturbing your vision, but at least they don't 'break' the vision lines.
Besel compensation is actually coming out in this month's ATI Catalyst video drivers I believe. (though I'm sure it existed in other platforms, this would apply directly to the OP) Can you mount your monitors sideways so you get 3600x1920 (1.875:1 aspect ratio)? I would imagine that would look a lot better.
On March 05 2010 07:29 Navane wrote: I read there exists bezel compensation?
[vid]
That way the black bars are still disturbing your vision, but at least they don't 'break' the vision lines.
Besel compensation is actually coming out in this month's ATI Catalyst video drivers I believe. (though I'm sure it existed in other platforms, this would apply directly to the OP) Can you mount your monitors sideways so you get 3600x1920 (1.875:1 aspect ratio)? I would imagine that would look a lot better.
It does but that requires usually a 300 dollar mounting device or for you to spend 300 dollars on actually good monitors that can turn sideways and go be raised and lowered and crap like that besides the avg cheap monitors little oh it can tilt up and down just a little.
Out of all the brag blogs, this one is not trolled enough I liked how the one with someone posting a picture of the girl that he sleeps with turned out. And the blog that was response to it was cool as well
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