EA has the original Command & Conquer, Red Alert and Tiberian Sun (plus Firestorm) available as Freeware download. The original C&C and RA were reported as 16:10 anamorphic, while Tiberian Sun is pixel-based. Would be nice to get Detailed Reports for these. Also interested to see about Surround/Eyefinity support in Tiberian Sun.
The WSGF in joining in with Kyle Bennet and [H]ard OCP in their Boycott of Global Agenda. In a thread on the developer's forum (which is filled with WSGF members), the developer responded to a request for Eyefinity support with, "No, since it would give an unfair advantage." The game is Vert- without proper WS or Surround/Eyefinity support.
Csokis provided some comparison shots of BioShock 2 being Vert-. Considering that we went through this exact same thing on the original BioShock (and the WSGF event made X-Play! on G4TV), the FOV issues are surprising. This thread on the 2K Forums picked up our original posting and users there go on to say that other issues fixed in patches to the original BioShock are missing as well.
"2K Elizabeth", (Community Manager for 2K Games) forwarded me this Formal Announcement of a Hor+ Patch. To quote the page, "We always meant to have our FOV expand horizontally, but a last minute bug fix for a related issue changed this back to a vertical FOV just before ship. We feel rather silly about this, and agree that horizontal expansion is much more awesome, and that you'll have it very soon."
While beta testing some drivers for ATI I found that 5040x1050 was now selectable (rather than the previous and unusable 3840x1024) on my 3x24" Eyefnity setup (with a native res of 5760x1200). Upon asking ATI when this would be released, they informed me it had been released with Catalyst 10.1. Somehow this flew under the radar of both ATI's PR folks, and the Eyefinity users here on the WSGF.
PC Games Hardware picked up on our story about Mass Effect 2 having broken Eyefinity support. They were able to get in touch with people at EA and AMD to get more information. Both parties were aware of the issue (our AMD rep was involved in the discussion here), and BioWare is working on a patch. No ETA on the patch yet, but it is forthcoming.
AMD has released the the AMD Catalyst 10.1 update. Below are the updates relevant to Eyefinity gamers:
There weren't many monitor announcements, as CES 2010 seems to be all about Tablets, Tegra and Netbooks (oh, my!) along with the usual assortment of iPod and iPhone accessories. There were a few monitor announcements to be had.
While there weren't a lot of new Eyefinity announcements at CES (something on Eyefinity6 would have been nice), it was in strong showing. AMD had a strong Eyefinity presence at CES with multiple demo rigs. They were also touting strong Eyefinity support in key titles from 2009 and 2010. Dave Baumann passed along this slide from their latest Eyefinity presentation deck, which outlines a number of those titles (Mass Effect 2 included!).
At CES 2010 NVIDIA announced it's foray into the multi-monitor gaming world with its announcement of "3D Vision Surround." The technology will launch alongside the Germi cards, but will work with the existing GT200 family as well. This solution allows for combined implementation of 3D, Surround and PhysX.
