Widescreen Gaming Forum

hello.
i am new to this forum and i come from italy.
i am looking for some information to buy my new next gen pc and monitors.

i am very attracted by the 3x1 display mode..... but it have a VERY LARGE visual...(too much) and i have not so much space at home to use 3 monitor side by side.
...........and i also would have a 3d capable monitor because i love stereoscopic images.
SO......the choose is.... 3d or widescreen gaming? what is better?

......in the while.. i fonund A STRANGE RESOLUTION.. that i did not knew to exist :) the 4960x1600 resolution made from a 30 in 2560 display + 2 1600x1200 display.
but..is it pissible to use a CENTER DISPLAY setted in 3d vision.... while the 2 lateral displays remain 2D ?

the portrait- landscape-portrait display mode SEEMS TO ME THE BEST WAY TO PLAY WIDESCREEN..... or am i wrong?
using 3 display in landscape is a TOO LARGE SOLUTION. but i've heard that to use 4960x1600 i should use a software called sofTH. because ati and nvidia does not(still) support this resolution.
IS THIS RESOLUTION COMPATIBLE WITH MOST GAMES?or is a too much strange revolution and it is accepted by only few games....?

in theory..... a person LIKE ME that would a 4960x1600 resolution and also like stereoscopic content.... ... could have a dream to use a 4960x1600 with center display landscape setted with 3d VISION. or there is a software incongruence that does not allow this?

................in alternative.. i should play 3d with only 1 monitor ON.... and play with 3 monitor only with other games that does not support 3d.

3d or widescreen gaming? what is better?

Well you can have both. They make 3D widescreen monitors. On top of that, you can even run 3 x 3D monitors in landscape mode with nVidia's solution.

......in the while.. i fonund A STRANGE RESOLUTION.. that i did not knew to exist :) the 4960x1600 resolution made from a 30 in 2560 display + 2 1600x1200 display.
but..is it pissible to use a CENTER DISPLAY setted in 3d vision.... while the 2 lateral displays remain 2D ?

No. They don't make a 3D 2560x1600 3d display. On top of that, nVidia Surround requires all the displays be the same resolution and in most cases the same model of LCD.

the portrait- landscape-portrait display mode SEEMS TO ME THE BEST WAY TO PLAY WIDESCREEN..... or am i wrong?

That's personal preference. I personally like my 3x30"rs, but my favorite setup is 5 LCD monitors in Portrait.

using 3 display in landscape is a TOO LARGE SOLUTION. but i've heard that to use 4960x1600 i should use a software called sofTH. because ati and nvidia does not(still) support this resolution.
IS THIS RESOLUTION COMPATIBLE WITH MOST GAMES?or is a too much strange revolution and it is accepted by only few games....?

The resolution itself is support in a ton of games. The trick here is to get SoftTH to play nice with the game. Fortunately there's a few forums out that that deal with SoftTH. There's generally no one way to get a game to work with SoftTH and is system independent. You basically have to fool around with it to get it to work. :P

in theory..... a person LIKE ME that would a 4960x1600 resolution and also like stereoscopic content.... ... could have a dream to use a 4960x1600 with center display landscape setted with 3d VISION. or there is a software incongruence that does not allow this?

Well again there are no 30" 2560x1600 displays that work with nvidia 3D surround. There is a driver called iZ3D that works with ATI/AMD hardware that will allow you to use Anaglyph Stereoscopic 3D. Anaglyph is the technology that use Red / Blue glasses to work. You could also buy iZ3D monitors and use them in eyefinity.

................in alternative.. i should play 3d with only 1 monitor ON.... and play with 3 monitor only with other games that does not support 3d.

This will only work if you get a 3D monitor in the middle obviously, but so far the only monitors that do this are CRT or 1080p LCD monitors.

Hope I could Help.