Widescreen Gaming Forum

You will miss it, case and point.

I've been playing Bf3 on my 5870 until my new PSU comes in. I've had to play on a single monitor to get any good performance.
At 2560x1600 or 2560x1440, I feel blind. Like I cant see enough, so I made many custom resolutions:
2560x1200, 2560x1080, 2560x900, 2560x800, 2560x768, 2560x480 (Actual Eyefinity Aspect Ratio)

The smaller the vertical, the more I saw in Horizontal FOV, but the smaller it got, the more I felt cheated.
You start not being able to see as far as you used to as the screen infront of you becomes less detailed.

I ended up playing BF3 at 3840x800 fullscreened on my 3 monitors because I didn't want to give up the immersion.

Don't get me wrong, I still cant see far off, but I'm loving it way more this way.

If you want to go bigger, I'd say save up and go bigger in a big way.

I made the jump from 5760x1080 to 7680x1600. Going 7680x1440 seems to be popular lately. Especially with all those korean 27" 1440p monitors for cheap on ebay. $300 a pop.

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What's the point of going to 27"? It seems neither here nor there. Go up to a 30" instead if you're gonna shell out the money.

I know one avid Warcraft 3 player who found out that
30" is way too big
27" is manageable
24" is his sweet spot

Bigger is not always better. Each to his own I guess.

I think the added immersion provided by side monitors gets most people excited about multimonitors which you didn't mention at all. Did you not value this feature or maybe you didn't really notice it if you were running in portrait?

I don't see negatives as bad as some people make them out to be. Bezels, fisheye, multimon hud, increased comp requirements are all part of PC gaming like modding.

There are a lot of pro's to multi-monitor gaming. However, there are plenty to a single screen as well.
Less heat/cost with one screen and driving them (count the users of crossfire/sli on this forum!) Not to mention update, update, update!
Widescreen is native in todays world. Multi is not always.

Honestly I looked into it, but for the cost of gear, electricity, and my time (I'm fearful I'd do nothing but game); it wasn't worth it to me. For instance; I am still running my 2006 purchase that WSGF originally helped me find. With a display size of 1680x1050 a simple 550Ti keeps everything spinning at high textures and AA/AF.

That being said, I do want a 30" monitor for light gaming and photo/video work.

That doesn't really make a lot of sense, move the monitor further away and adjust the height if people think it's too big. Either way the image is going to be more crisp (higher PPI).

If you could find a 27" 2560x1600 monitor I guess that would be pretty great, most I've seen were 1920x1200 which at that point were just larger PPI 24" monitors (everything looks more pixellated at the same distance). The few 27" 2560x1600 I saw were close to the same price as a 30".

3x1 portrait hands down!