Planning on playing PS2 with Triple monitors?

[IHateMMOs]

Just get a bigger screen. Like seriously, what's next, 9 monitor compatibility?

[Duskguy]

Originally Posted by IHateMMOs

Just get a bigger screen. Like seriously, what's next, 9 monitor compatibility?

they might have that already lol, i know i saw a showcase of an nvidea card powering 8. but i agree, a larger monitor is simpler unless as stated we can put specific thing on seperate monitors

[Hunterzen]

I would love this setup if I was playing Microsoft FSX.

[Roidster]

Originally Posted by Harasus

I already got a really big screen, having 3 of them would be overkill. :P

i know some one that has 3 55 inch Sony TV's for his iRacing rig,and some guys have 3 over head projectors,so they dont have to deal with bezels

[VaderShake]

I could see running 1 monitor with the game and another with the app to keep an eye on the big picture.

[Galron]

Originally Posted by Renegadeknight

The color on the side screens looks odd. I would be way to distracted by that. Not sure if that is normal since I never really seen triple monitors in action.

Originally Posted by Boone

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The thing is though you better have IPS panels cause TN will look like shit with those 2 monitors that are turned in some.

Boone is right, Dude in the vid is running TN panels. Though to be fair you wont be seeing them from this viewpoint, you will be closer to perpendicular to each panel face.

Sub 24" eIPS monitors with 5-6ms refresh rates aren't all that expensive compared to TN panels, though you have to get 3. (full IPS larger panels would be a different story cost wise) The main cost is the video card(s) needed to get good quality/FPS at that resolution.

However the nice part about this is, next cycles video cards will run current games even better, so later on in the PS2 lifespan these costs will continue to drop to where more people can run multi-monitor setups with less relative horsepower compared to today.

The vid is not the best example of these setups, but not bad.

If PS2 confirms multi-monitor gaming (dont know why they would leave that feature out since most modern games are supporting it), ill drop some good $ on it.

Originally Posted by IHateMMOs

Just get a bigger screen. Like seriously, what's next, 9 monitor compatibility?

At the moment crossfire allows for more than triple monitor gaming (nvidia currently limited to 3x monitors for gaming, and 1 monitor for not gaming) and since you asked and its quite badass, ill refer everyone to check out this setup for a good example of whats possible right now. (no this isnt me)

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?...post1038974558

[Roidster]

you can get a single ATI card ,that has 6 mini DP ports

[zomg]

Did that with Live For Speed and BF3 (although not much with BF3 as it performed way poorly on my setup).

1 IPS panel in the middle, 2 cheapo TN panels on the sides. As long as the TNs are oriented properly you won't really have much probs with color distortion.

You can do this with most ATI cards using their Eyefinity features with just one card, and as far as I know, many newer Nvidia cards will also run Nvidia 2D surround or whatever it's called with just one card. It generally works if you hook up two monitors with DVI and one with DisplayPort or HDMI.

But good luck getting good performance out of it with a single card. 5760x1080 resolution needs some muscle in the GPU dept

[wormywyrm]

I switch over to my big screen TV and wireless keyboard/mouse for games usually and I can't imagine liking anything else more than that it satisfies my need for extravagance completely. :-)

[ccrumley]

I have three 27" monitors that are 1920x1080. I play alot of flight sims and 3 monitors really add to the immersion. Although for PS2, ill probably orient them in landscape mode. I have them mounted on adjustable arms, so changing the orientation is very simple. Having them in landscape mode instead of protrait mode should give me a resolution of 1920x3240, which will get rid of the stretching on the outside monitors, give me a shit-ton of vertical viewing area, and still be roughly a 16:9 aspect ratio.

[james]

I have 3 its more nice for rts games vs fps. So probley not i may get one of the 2560 x 1440 monitors though

[Sunrock]

Originally Posted by Comet

The two side monitors distort the picture way too much for my liking.

That is way you want a monitor like this.

[fxpoint]

This is what mine has looked at for well over a year now (can't remember the last time I used all 3 screens either):

[JADO]

I was planning on doing this at the end of the year if i've got some spare cash. Would sli gtx 670's work?

[Roidster]

Originally Posted by JADO

I was planning on doing this at the end of the year if i've got some spare cash. Would sli gtx 670's work?

yup!