Playing WoW On 24 Million Pixels
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iTZKooPA on Monday, September 14, 2009 - 16 Comments Tags: 6 monitors, ati eyefinity, directx 11, eyefinity, graphics card technology, screen resolution
iTZKooPA on Monday, September 14, 2009 - 16 Comments Tags: 6 monitors, ati eyefinity, directx 11, eyefinity, graphics card technology, screen resolution 
World of Warcraft On Six Monitors - Powered By One Graphics CardThe hardware aficionados out their likely heard of ATi's new invention. The graphics card maker recently unveiled a new technology, Eyefinity, that allows a single discrete (read add-in) video card to power six high resolution monitors. And you thought your fancy two monitor rig was something to gloat about. Upon its unveiling, we saw things like DiRT2 under DirectX 11, Microsoft's latest Flight Simulator and even a little zombie mayhem courtesy of Left 4 Dead. What we did not see was World of Warcraft.
Well, we can now. Yeap, that is a screenshot of World of Warcraft running at 7680x3200 resolution. 7680x3200, and you thought that 1080p or 1920x1200 was high tech! Eat your heart out "Full HD" moniker.
You may be asking yourself "Why the hell do you need six monitors?" Of course most of us don't, but ATi felt that they had to do something new to push the company's latest line of graphics cards, the HD 5800 series. Considering that video games haven't really pushed the graphical envelope in a few years, arguably no major leaps since Crysis, the manufacturer needed something to tout the upcoming card's power. Powering six high-resolution monitors off a single GPU while keeping the games playable certainly got my attention.
For most of us, the only thing to take home is the fact that one, two, three, six, eighteen monitors can now act as a single entity. And that you'll finally be able to locate Gnome rogues in Battlegrounds. Thanks to Eyefinity, gamers will no longer have to struggle with Windows' terrible multi-monitor implementation. Things should just work, and work well, once the technology is out in the wild.
Hmm, 18 30" monitors at 2560x1600, could our brains even process that magnitude of pixels? Looks like monitor manufacturers need to start making units with as thin a frame as possible.
Reader Comments (16)
Wow, just wow. I may have to look into making a gaming rig to take advantage of this. That looks like it would be amazing for FPS games.......it would be cool with RTS games if you could micro manage each monitor to watch something you want to keep an eye on like certain units or bases......
I really don't need more than what I am using for WOW though...but if I had the set up might as well take advantage of it :P
been there done that,i dont like it..i prefer a huge LCD
now i want to go and play on a movie screen or the cowboy's stadium new largest HD screen in the world
I had a friend who had done something like this with a three-monitor setup. He went back to one when he started getting motion sickness.
Anything larger than about 30 inches and you will find yourself having to move your head to see the screen eventually after one of those 8 hour sessions you will find yourself getting physically ill. I run 4 monitors in a landscape config and I have seen this first hand.
Eighteen 30″ monitors at 2560×1600...and some of you idiots would still open your web browser to fill the entire screen.
Whoa. As cool as that is it seems to be a little (erhem a lot) overkill. WoW graphics really aren't THAT good to where they warrent such an elaborate set-up.
Who would do this? I mean, yeah it's cool for a tech show or something, but who would devote the space, the time and the money in a practical environment? I run off a 27 inch HD LCD. Been running it for the last year. No complaints here. I understand the IDEA of it being cool.... but really.... isn't it just progress for progress' sake?
Do it is like doing a "fashion week": first, you show the "stravaganza" of the product; second, you make it more simple; third, you sell. That's how it works.
why no more videos being made????
@dilkesy STOP ASKING THAT QUESTION the answer is on another thread.look it up
I knew those 18 moniters would come in handy once :p
jeez. Invented. lol and roflol
3-sli and bingo 6 monitors with the same setting up and you have it, no need to invent anything else. They've just invented the hot watertab when every one else allready had microwaves
and before anyone says, yeah well what about 18 monitors?
Ever heard of beowulf clusters? You can have unlimited mainboards, each with 3-sli on it working as one if you really wanted to and have the money to spare (granted it would cost you an arm and a leg)
im running a 28" viewsonic atm.. i want BIGGER :D
viewsonic, lol. i hope everything is okay and there aint foam etc. coming from your mouth while watching that crappy screen :D