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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: Agent4054 on March 17, 2006, 04:41:13 PM

Title: Tell me this isnt cool as hell
Post by: Agent4054 on March 17, 2006, 04:41:13 PM

(http://filebox.vt.edu/users/plastk/research/quake3/quake-highres-plastknet.jpg)

'nuff said

Title: Tell me this isnt cool as hell
Post by: Biggles on March 17, 2006, 08:37:07 PM

Just need one of those things like the Nintendo Zapper to work with that...and that would be REALLY cool lol

Title: Tell me this isnt cool as hell
Post by: zx2slow on March 17, 2006, 09:43:35 PM

Saw this on digg, 12 linux servers to run that display?  Any multiplexing monitors looks cool but the gaps between screens would suck.

Title: Tell me this isnt cool as hell
Post by: Czar on March 17, 2006, 10:30:08 PM

does that say 15 fps or 45 fps in the corner?

Title: Tell me this isnt cool as hell
Post by: Agent4054 on March 17, 2006, 10:56:01 PM

15. According to the website where i found this from, they were generally getting between 15-30fps with that setup. a small price to pay for the uberness of it.

Title: Tell me this isnt cool as hell
Post by: Dwg115 on March 17, 2006, 11:37:40 PM

did you guys see that matrox is releasing a box that extends the video output from ur video card to 3 screens and it doesnt affect framerate at all.  I'm actually thinking of checking this thing out as long as i can afford 2 more LCD's

Title: Tell me this isnt cool as hell
Post by: TekieB on March 18, 2006, 08:50:20 AM

Quote from: "Dwg115"

did you guys see that matrox is releasing a box that extends the video output from ur video card to 3 screens and it doesnt affect framerate at all.  I'm actually thinking of checking this thing out as long as i can afford 2 more LCD's

yes it does, it tricks windows into thinking you have a REALLY wide high res single screen, you still have double the pixels, it has to render them somehow

Title: Tell me this isnt cool as hell
Post by: Dwg115 on March 18, 2006, 09:05:06 AM

yea but not to the degree that the old parahelia did.  Actually it should be thes same as if you were running wide screen on one monitor.

Title: Tell me this isnt cool as hell
Post by: _!Rathe!_ on March 21, 2006, 06:43:40 AM

Quote from: "Dwg115"

did you guys see that matrox is releasing a box that extends the video output from ur video card to 3 screens and it doesnt affect framerate at all.  I'm actually thinking of checking this thing out as long as i can afford 2 more LCD's

They also have one for $130 less that will span across 2 displays.  although if you have a dual head video card it can do the same thing internally.  Though if you get 2 of these and hook each one up to one output on your video card you could span across 6 monitors.  Or have 2 rows of 3.  That might work out pretty cool.  Would probably definately need SLI for that many pixels though.  And a trailer to bring it to the LAN.

Title: Tell me this isnt cool as hell
Post by: The Nstuff on March 21, 2006, 05:45:04 PM

Just thought i'd promote my college.  My senior year, a couple guys in my class built a video wall.  After making a prototype, they were given the funding and space to build the full version that I have linked to below.  Pretty amazing to see it close up, especially when they have something like the sea demo with the fish or playing quake 3 on it.  Talk about motion sickness...

specs of each pc behind each monitor
http://videowall.joshland.org/index.php?page=specs

couple pics
http://www.immergetech.com/visualization/