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Blizzard Confirms No Eyefinity/Surround for Diablo III

One of our forum members linked to a forum topic over at Battle.net. In it Blizzard confirmed that Diablo wouldn't support multi-monitor such as Eyefinity or Surround. The specific response is quoted below:

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It's a single-monitor only game, and that's because the game literally only pulls info from the servers for a specific distance away from the character for bandwidth reasons. The game is also built with those limitations in-mind: edges of maps don't extend way out.

Also, being able to see way out to the left or right of your character really wouldn't help that much. Triple monitor is cool for first/third person where you're getting a larger peripheral view, but in a fixed isometric camera it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Hit the source link for the battle.net forums, and be sure to bitch and moan a little about it. ;-) Hit this WSGF forum thread for discussion here.

Stereoscopic 3D Gaming FAQ

Overview
Humans have two eyes which are capturing light from slightly different positions and therefore produce slightly different images. The difference in observed images is unconsciously processed by the human brain and results in sensation of depth, or 3D sensation.
Stereoscopic 3D refers to a technique for creating or enhancing the illusion of depth in an image by presenting two offset images separately to the left and right eye of the viewer. Both of these 2D offset images are then combined in the brain to give the perception of 3D depth.

Nvidia Releases GeForce 280.19 Beta Driver

NVIDIA has released the first beta in the Release 280 series. Major improvements and updates in the driver include:

NVIDIA SLI on AMD Chipesets - Enables SLI configurations on SLI-certified motherboards based on the AMD chipsets: 990FX, 990X and 970.

NVIDIA 3D Vision Controller - With the Release 280 drivers, the 3D Vision Controller is now included with all GPU driver installations. Users no longer need to install a separate 3D Vision Controller driver.

AMD Releases Catalyst 11.8 Preview Driver

In addition to the 11.7 Driver release, AMD has released a preview of the 11.8 driver. It includes several key updates for gamers and Eyefinity users:

AMD HD3D - Enables support on DisplayPort panels such as the Samsung 750 and 950 series displays.

Eyefinity 5x1 - Includes support for Eyefinity 5x1. Support for 5x1 is considered "beta" by AMD, and has not been included in every driver release. The last driver to include this support was the 10.4 Preview driver.

AMD Releases Catalyst 11.7 Driver Update

AMD Catalyst™ driver 11.7 Features

There are few features or fixes specifically for Eyefinity users. Most of the improvements and fixes revolve around Blu-Ray and 3D Blu-Ray playback, and other video playback features. The gaming related fixes are:

  • All issues experienced with mouse cursor lag have been resolved
  • Resolves system hangs seen in the AMD Catalyst 11.6 driver on specific HDMI and DP displays
  • Random screen corruption is no longer displayed when changing desktop themes.

The Witcher 2 Patch Released: Now Hor+ in Widescreen

CD Projeckt has released path v1.3 for The Witcher 2. The patched added support for 5:4, 4:3 and 16:10 displays. The game is now Hor+ in widescreen, rather than being Anamorphic. It also added support for NVIDIA Surround. However, the patch did not enable Eyefinity support. Those users will still need to use the fix from HaYDeN.

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Sony says PSN hack was "great experience"...

Sony exec Tim Schaaff proves once again that big corporations live in some bizarre otherworld where reality intrudes but rarely. GamesBeat reports that he said it was a "Great experience, really good time. Though I wouldn't like to do it again."

Was he joking? Or could he actually be serious? The hacking of PSN was probably the worst and most public intrusion of a major developer or publisher in recent history, although it was quickly followed by the hacking of Codemasters, Sega, Nintendo and SquareEnix, among others.

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