FFXI Eyefinity (FFXI across three monitors)- it works!

[Atomic_Skull]

Just found this on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7uIyPhdb2I

So FFXI can work on three displays.

The only problem is that without the correct aspect ratio you're stuck arranging the monitors into a very large 16:9 display.

So what we need to make this work properly is:

Custom aspect ratio.

Some sort of "only draw the overlay X width" setting in order to restrict the UI to the center screen. So if you were using 3x1440x900 monitors you'd tell it to only draw the overlay 1440 pixels wide.

Neither of these things seem like they would be very difficult to implement in FFXI.

[Nidhogg]

what's that purple text next to his chat log? and the numbers around his status icons, I never seen those before.

[Mnejing]

what's that purple text next to his chat log? and the numbers around his status icons, I never seen those before.

Plugins..

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[Buffy]

what's that purple text next to his chat log? and the numbers around his status icons, I never seen those before.

I feel a breeze.

[Francisco]

Wow, cool. His display looks like my TV if I put some plastic dividers to break up the picture.

[Atomic_Skull]

Wow, cool. His display looks like my TV if I put some plastic dividers to break up the picture.

Normally you put the monitors in a landscape configuration for a super wide display. (can't do this with FFXI because it has discrete aspect ratio rather than assuming pixels are square like most PC games do)

If you're wondering how he got FFXI to support three monitors, he didn't. From an application's point of view it's just one very large display.

A few minor changes to FFXI and you'd be able to run the game in a super wide landscape with the UI restricted to the center monitor (see my original post)

With those two changes we'd be able to do something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW93Ib_LEG4

[Alhanelem]

I really don't like this setup simply because oyu have black bars in your picture due to the physical constraints of the monitors. I suppose you could hack it all together if you were that type of person, but, I don't really understand the appeal of a ridiculously wide display. I'd rather maintain the 16:9 aspect ratio.

[Atomic_Skull]

I really don't like this setup simply because oyu have black bars in your picture due to the physical constraints of the monitors. I suppose you could hack it all together if you were that type of person, but, I don't really understand the appeal of a ridiculously wide display. I'd rather maintain the 16:9 aspect ratio.

You keep all the UI stuff in the center monitor. The left and right monitors are just additional viewports. The center display looks exactly like it would on a 16:9 display, only now you have extra displays on the left and right showing more of the game world.

Like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IL3hTH1YeQ

If you just can't stand bezels, even when they aren't blocking anything important there are always monitors like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDBwK...eature=related

[Finuve]

I've been planning on doing a tricrossfire build for eyefinity, it would be sweet if FFXI added custom aspect ratios so that it would work, for now I'll just be happy playing ff14 on the setup

[Inafking]

anyone tried this?

http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-3d-games.html

or this?

http://www.amd.com/us/products/techn...ages/hd3d.aspx