I've uploaded Surround Comparison videos of the benchmarking runs on my new GTX 295. They are in YouTube in 720p HD. You can see them in the WSGF Video gallery. The videos are of: Half Life 2: Episode 2, Crysis Warhead and Far Cry 2.
With the recent WOW updates, it now properly supports Hor+. To showcase the proper FOV, I've uploaded a Surround Comparison video for each of the opening cinematics. There are 13 individual cinematics showing the difference between 1680x1050 and 3x1680x1050. Additionally, I have created a montage for all of the Alliance cinematics, and for all of the Horde cinematics.
General Admission put together a Surround Gaming video of the first six minutes of Just Cause.
I've gone through and updated the videos in the Gallery (and re-uploading to YouTube where needed), to take advantage of YouTube's new offerings. The default video format and resolution is now the "High Quality" version displayed at 840x525 (1/4 of 1680x1050). Under each video is a link to view the 720p version in full 1280x720. It's really nice to see the videos in HD; and the Surround videos have a much bigger impact now.
infernus posted a few days ago that YouTube had gone widescreen. This certainly helps all of our videos, and makes the Surround Gaming videos easier to see. In addition, most everything uploaded after May 2008 is available in 720p HD. By adding "&fmt=22" to the end of the video URL, the video will play in 720p (if available).
The "&fmt=18" string still works to get rougly 480p resolution. I will be re-uploading all our older videos to the WSGF YouTube Channel so we can take advantage of the new 720p capabilities.
Two months ago the WSGF launched a contest to win my TripleHead2Go setup - a TripleHead2Go, Ergotron triple monitor stand, and Ibrin's three HP LP1965 monitors. GeneralAdmission won the contest with his widescreen and TripleHead mods for Battle for Middle Earth II. These extensive mods update the campaign maps in both games to work with widescreen and TripleHead displays.
Mobster007 put together a Surround Comparison video using a timedemo from COD4. You can grab the video on this page in the Video Archive.
I have posted a new video, showcasing Age of Conan in the new Surround Gaming widescreen modes. I've posted the video to our Video Gallery and uploaded it to all of our video communities.
Mobster007 put together a Surround Comparison video using a timedemo from Counter Strike Source. You can see it in our YouTube channel.
