Counter-Strike and Parhelia?

[Rimfaxe]

I play strictly one game. I am very intrested in surround gaming, so my question is:

Does Counter-Strike work well with Parhelia and surround gaming? (or half-life that is)

[103er-Fan]

I heard that it works fine, I think the Icrontic review has some CS benches, and in some other review there have even been Triple-Head benchmarks of CS/Half-Life.

[KeiFront]

The review at neoseeker also has some CS v1.5 impressions.

[EvilDonnyboy]

It seems too good to be true. Can anybody confirm that you get true Surround Gaming with Parhelia? Countless of Hardcore CS players will buy this card of this reason alone!!! I know I will.

Or is it just normal 1600x1200 streched out to 3 monitors. That would be pointless and look retarded.

[Kruzin]

Half Life and it's mods do NOT support surround gaming.

[Rimfaxe]

will there be any support for it and when? if so, i'll run down and buy one today!

[magog]

Originally posted by Rimfaxe
will there be any support for it and when? if so, i'll run down and buy one today!

I don't know who said there will be a patch (Haig?), but I read TH should be supported.

Maybe it's good idea to sent an eMail to Sierra and/ or Valve.

[Pace]

Does CounterStrike allow you to change FOV? I believe Valve think variable FOVs are cheating, so SurroundGaming....?

[Kruzin]

The HL engine allows for changing the FOV. It does not allow for custom resoltions wide enough for surround gaming.
It will be up to Valve if they want to address this in a patch or not...

[EvilDonnyboy]

Surround gamming would give Parhelia users an incredible advantage over everyone, wheter they're experieced or unexperieced players.

I doubt Valve will do that. One of the reasons why CS is so popular is because any computer with a voodoo2 card or better can get more than playable frame-rates.

Forcing seasoned and casual players to buy a $400 card to compete will turn off way more players than even what CS 1.5 did.

[Pace]

Does Quake and Quake2 support such wide resolutions?

What's wrong with CS1.5 btw?

[Liquid Snake]

I don't think they would allow Surround Gaming to work. If they did, my friend would get banned from ALL the servers instead of the few hundred that he's banned from now if he gets a Parhelia

What's wrong with CS 1.x? Other than not being fun anymore, nothing is really wrong I guess.

[mute]

I read a quote somewhere, from someone at valve or working on counter-strike , that they played CS with surround gaming and liked the feeling

[EvilDonnyboy]

I'd expect so. Surround gaming must be great. but still unfair and until Nvidia has a card out with Surround Gaming, i doubt they'll implement it. Anything not Nvidia isn't "mainstream".

CS 1.5's new "physics" pissed just about everyone off. For some, enough for them to drop cs. For most, they either learned to like it or keep playing and compain that every death they have is because of cs 1.5.

[Wombat]

What did they change? I haven't played CS since 1.2 or 1.3. The cheating scared me off enough to not come back.