We have been talking for awhile about ATI’s Eyefinity and how great it is for gaming. Recently AMD has enable 5×1 Eyefinity where the screens are set up in portrait mode instead of landscape mode. Widescreengamingforum.com has posted a nice video showing off the benefits of this new Eyefinity mode, assuming you have the money to purchase such a setup.
This demo real shows setting up the new Eyefinity 5×1-Portrait Eyefinity mode. It also shows off footage of:
– Heaven Demo (v1)
– HAWX
– Half-Life 2
– Just Cause 2
– Battle Forgerunning on five screens. The gameplay video is off an HD Cam, so you can see how it looks while playing.
Note that while you are seeing screens in a 1080p video, the actual setup spans a diagonal of approximately five feet. You’d have to play the video on a 60″ TV and sit about 18″ from it to get the full immersion. The setup is 5x1080x1920 – 10.4M pixels. These five 1080p screens offer 5 the pixels and resolution of an HDTV.
Impressive to see the amount bandwidth that can be pushed around, but to be completely accurate the screens should be setup flat not on a curve.
All the demos shown in that video give a single wide field-of-view. The left & right screens become progressively more glancing views of the single viewpoint.
However people will naturally setup on a slight curve, AMD & nVidia need to lobby game developers to properly handle curved setups!