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115 months ago by
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Will this game support surround gaming, multiple monitors, like ATI Eyefinity?

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115 months ago by
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The game has been tested in Duel, and Triple Head monitors. So Nvidia Surround 3D is bound to work. Also if I understand the ATI Eyefinity, it just makes your display card render the output onto up to 6 monitors. I don't see why it wouldn't work, this is in Direct 3D 9. So I'm guessing the answer to your Eyefinity question is Probrobly. However I don't know anyone who's tested an Eyefinity card... Anyone have one?

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115 months ago by
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QUOTE: and Triple Head monitors

Who the hell got those 3 monitors ? I'm jealous now.

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115 months ago by
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I have enough monitors but bought new phones instead of new video card =( .... eh gimme a month or two ;D

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115 months ago by
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i "have" 3 moniters (2x15" 1x19"w) only use too of them... 3rd wont fit on my desk (one of my 15s is a huge CRT thing) plus i only have 2 slots in my GPU =[

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115 months ago by
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Okay first of all:

QUOTE: only use *too* of them...

AAAAAAAAAAAAGAaaaaRAaaMMARGHHHNATGGGTZIIIIGHHHHHH!!!...

And Secondly:

... I have an old washing machine sized monitor (more like large microwave oven size) does that count?

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115 months ago by
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whups i mixxed up my twotooto2's didnt i =D

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115 months ago by
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+quote+Who the hell got those 3 monitors ? I'm jealous now.+quote+

Drakon :P Drakon has everything.

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115 months ago by
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QUOTE: Drakon :P Drakon has everything.

Now I'm even more jealous. I just got enough space for 1 monitor and that's all :P
I wonder how it would be with 2-3 monitors while playing ArmA 2 ... *twistles*

PS : You failed your quoting. Caps ftw.

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115 months ago by
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Here is the game running on Tripple Head Monitors at 5760x1200

http://i.imgur.com/OsoaU.jpg

This is being done with SoftTH, I will be upgrading my computer to try and test this with Nvidia Surround but I need more money lol. SoftTH is a work around for people that dont have Triple Head2Go or Nvidia Surround or Eyefinity.

SoftTH has FOV issues though with most games but will get a game to run on all 3 screens ^_^

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114 months ago by
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What if I have 2 monitors but no fancy eyefinity or something like that?

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114 months ago by
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drakon... invu... i wants that joystick setup!!!! all i have is my laptops (as juiced up as it is) power means nothing without a way to show it. i need like $20 for that exact joystick, i was looking at it a few days ago.

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103 months ago by
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Wow Nice Saytek Joystick....!
Now I want one of those, U should post a picture of a different scene tho'
more rocks and ships for us to see how can we improve our gamming with panoramic vision.
U need a co0l desk for that eyefinity setup: http://www.primadera.4t.com/

okay my issue is: I have an eyefinity card (ATI HIS HD5770) but running on Win XP 64 bits.
As far as I understand eyefinity is not enabled unless you run Win Seven, Am I right?
Besides, I am running ultramon 64 also. What happens is that I see the video option double screen and triple monitor in the game video settings, but everytime I pick that one I get an error message...

Any help?

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103 months ago by
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Hi Rickymon,

if it's Miner Wars crashing then we would appreciate if you send us log files. Here is description how to get them and where to send them: http://www.minerwars.com/Troubleshooting.aspx

Thanks,
Marek

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101 months ago by
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Hi Marek I just received my 3rd monitor Still upgrading to win 7, will tell you in a couple days if my HD5770 runs flawless....

cant Wait for online multiplayer

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101 months ago by
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Could not wait, I just tried Minerwars and eyefinity, It worked like a charm, there is no issues within the game and the game itself did not report any problem.

BUT after closing the game windows 7 did report an issue, the explorer needed to restart.

Dont know if its related to the game itself or perhaps its related to Ultramon, latest version.

Will keep testing this and will have more info later.

Win 7 Ultimate 64 bits
Phenom X3 8650 @2.7ghz
ATI HIS HD5770

Update 08/29/2011
I am still playing Minerwars on eyefinity, No issues, no bugs, everything is working great even with ultramon.
While playing the game automatically render the view at 45 angles or perhaps little bit less (no way to measure this) because I believe its almost imposible to render a frontal view of 5400x1200 view, at some point it just start showing the sides. This happens also in NFS world, and PointBlank World from kaybo.

Is there any chance thay anyone can join me in a multiplayer session? I have read in the instructions that might be possible, just by inviting friends

great Game.....!

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101 months ago by
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Oh man, thanks for the SoftTH info, Drakon! I never knew about it! Once I get my new video card after I get paid in a week, I'm totally going to try that out! If only I had three monitors that were the same size. I've got a 42" LCD that I use as my main display, a 28" LCD that I use in my cockpit, and a 22" that is on my guest computer. If this works well, I'll have to spend the cash I was going to spend on a TH2G on two knockoffs of my 28"!

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101 months ago by
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Good Luck...!

I just experienced miner wars and other games on 3 monitors, and it is too cool to explain with my limited english knowledge

I'm just waiting on ONline multiplayer for Minerwars and I'm ready for 2012

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101 months ago by
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To do real triple head rendering, you need a significantly bigger horizontal FOV. The best solution for this is not to render the scene once, viewer facing forward, using a wide horizontal view angle, but to make three renders with a smaller FOV and different view directions (like e.g. 45 deg to the left, straight forward, 45 deg to the right). Afaik that's the (only) way to get the most out of a wide angle screen setup.

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100 months ago by
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Update 08/29/2011
I am still playing Minerwars on eyefinity, No issues, no bugs, everything is working great even with ultramon.
While playing the game automatically render the view at 45 angles or perhaps little bit less (no way to measure this) because I believe its almost imposible to render a frontal view of 5400x1200 view, at some point it just start showing the sides. This happens also in NFS world, and PointBlank World from kaybo.

Is there any chance thay anyone can join me in a multiplayer session? I have read in the instructions that might be possible, just by inviting friends

great Game.....!

System:
Phenom X3 8650 @2.8
4gb DDR2 Patriot Viper @1066
Ati HIS HD5770
Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bits
Ultramon 3.1.0
SpacePilot as a Game Controller.

Photo082911006.jpg

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100 months ago by
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On your photo it is clearly visible that currently the game output is simply stretched enormously. You would see the area to your sides in a properly rendered triple head setup.

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100 months ago by
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So it is possible to get a non stretch render on my side monitors?
is it somehting on the ati driver? or ingame? any patch? or I just cant?

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100 months ago by
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That's an in-game renderer thing (if the renderer doesn't support it, you can't have it, and I doubt Minerwars can do this yet. It wouldn't be a big deal to add that though, probably even automatically via the aspect ration). I tried the same with D2X-XL, but just increasing the horizontal FOV doesn't work sufficiently well. You need to render several frames side-by-side at different view angles. Your view is a typical example of overly stretched horizontal FOV. The big deal about a triple head setup is that it will provide somewhat of a surround view, so you need to render what is at the sides of the player.

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100 months ago by
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I understand that, however and AFAIK this is the way how most of the eyefinity compatible games works. I have tried this with NFS world, PointBlank, and it is about the same. Do u know about a game that does support this feature natively? Crysis? Left4dead? Drift? Would like to see and compare the difference betewen what I have and the real deal

Thanks alot for your support.

Update:
What about playing with these eyefinity settings

dialog.jpg

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100 months ago by
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I am not entirely sure, but Colin McRae:Dirt seemed to do that.

Doing it the way I have outlined it would in any case provide the best possible surround video experience.

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100 months ago by
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QUOTE: Here is the game running on Tripple Head Monitors at 5760x1200

http://i.imgur.com/OsoaU.jpg

This is being done with SoftTH, I will be upgrading my computer to try and test this with Nvidia Surround but I need more money lol. SoftTH is a work around for people that dont have Triple Head2Go or Nvidia Surround or Eyefinity.

SoftTH has FOV issues though with most games but will get a game to run on all 3 screens ^_^

Hard to believe this when the desk is so so SO clean ;-)

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100 months ago by
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Have any of you have tried http://www.widescreenfixer.org/
it seems to manage the aspect ratio of the FOV, any comment?
Will try this later, no time now

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