Panoramic Ifrit

[Corrderio]

I don't think there's any way I could focus on 3 screens at once. But it does look awesome.

[Molly_Millions]

I don't think there's anyway I could focus on 3 screens at once. But it does look awesome.

You mainly use the middle one, which is where your character is obviously. The other 2 provide peripheral vision. Unless you're afflicted with some sort of tunnel vision, its actually quite natural.

[nasomi]

I don't think there's any way I could focus on 3 screens at once. But it does look awesome.

It's very natural actually. When ifrit would jump, and come down, i could see him out of the corner of my eye, to the side. It was litterally like having real peripherial vision in game. Same with running through town or killing mobs, you have a fuller field of vision.

To me when I see that massive distortion, i interpret it as not being correct, they don't have anything in place to show that much data on hte screen at once, which would make it not truly 3monitor capable, but rather stretching it to compensate for the additional resolution you're pulling out of it. 5760x1200 is almost a 5:1 ratio, maybe the max they have it set up for is 4:1, similar to setting the ration in ffxi.

[Molly_Millions]

To me when I see that massive distortion, i interpret it as not being correct, they don't have anything in place to show that much data on hte screen at once, which would make it not truly 3monitor capable, but rather stretching it to compensate for the additional resolution you're pulling out of it. 5760x1200 is almost a 5:1 ratio, maybe the max they have it set up for is 4:1, similar to setting the ration in ffxi.

AFAIK, that's your Radeon drivers doing the stretching not FFXIV.

[nasomi]

AFAIK, that's your Radeon drivers doing the stretching not FFXIV.

But my cards are 2 GTX580's. there's no radeon action going on. I keep away from radeon like fat kids keep away from exercise.

[Jennestia]

But my cards are 2 GTX580's. there's no radeon action going on. I keep away from radeon like fat kids keep away from exercise.

Which is funny when you think about it -- I avoid Nvidia like the plague because I personally find them low quality cards and always had issues with them and love my Ati and haven't had issues using 3 monitor setups and I haven't noticed distortion, however I did have to tinker with drivers since XIV is still not that well optimized in general.

[nasomi]

Everyone has their own preference. The 580's are the best on the market at the moment, and I really wanted to see nvidia surround at maxed graphics. It plays other games without distortion, not sure why it distorts this one.

[Jennestia]

Everyone has their own preference. The 580's are the best on the market at the moment, and I really wanted to see nvidia surround at maxed graphics. It plays other games without distortion, not sure why it distorts this one.

XIV is poorly optimized, that's pretty much all it comes down to.

[Rydin]

I'd hate to do it on a radeon card. I have dual gtx580's and barely squeeze 40-50fps out at 5760x1200, which means 3d is almost not an option without scaling the graphics back. According to this chart, I'd need 3x 6970's to get the same performance out of the ati cards.

Remember when Passmark was relevant?
Anyway... At resolutions that high you would end up having to sacrifice textures or AA quality at the moment...
But hopefully the new game engine will so much more efficiently that it doesn't matter
as far as AMD vs NVidia for 3 monitors.... Its a tricky deal
AMD makes it so you need to use display port on at least 1 monitor...
But Nvidia makes it so all three monitors have to be the exact same model...
Also Nvidia needs at least a dual GPU set up to do it whereas even single GPU AMD cards will do it...
and technically Mr smart stuff... the HD 6990 gives consistently better 3 monitor frames than the 590
Both are super expensive and hard to find these days though....
You could go with the HD 6970 or even HD 6870 that are single GPU set ups.... and maybe just lower your settings a little...
but you cannot go with the Nvidia GTX 570 or 580 unless you use an SLI setup
So from those bullet points... AMD wins the 3 monitor race....

[nasomi]

True, you need a minimum of two gpu's to do nvidia surround, but I have two gpu's, so I don't count that against them. However I have yet to see a chart that compares nvidia surround to ati eyefinity. If you happen to have one I'd love to see some comparrisons. I'd think it has a lot more to do with drivers than it does with gpu horsepower as well.