Experience with Sourround Gaming

[yuppi]

Hi,
As I just started playing arround with sourrounding Gaming I would really be interested in the opinion of others who tested it.
Don't take money as a constrain. Just tell how you felt playing in sourround gaming. ie. UT..

[Dr Mordrid]

Like it says; a whole other dimension to gaming (and video editing!).

Dr. Mordrid

[yuppi]

I just tried to look a movie spreaded over two monitors, but that doesn't rock :-(
Even 18mm brezels are too thick for doing that.
But when you play, you really don't see them. I wouldn't imaging how much the peripheral view can influence the 3D experience.

[piaxVirus]

I only had a few hours to test out surround gaming. I wasn't able to get UT to work. Actually I just couldn't get the OpenGL patch to work. The only games I had to test with was IG3 demo and Racer . So I am not able to make a proper decision.

It will be another 2 weeks before I can get a third 19" monitor.

[Tony Ostinato]

I have Quake3, Elite Force, Battlefield 1942, and a few others working in surround now.

The only game im still playing a lot thats not surround capable is Allegiance and my heart sinks at the thought of those 2 side monitors standing there darkened.

I could go on for hours how cool I think surround is. I bought Parhelia mainly cause i do music production and its great to have 3 screens for editing and gaming was a low priority.

From a lot of the stuff I read i didnt think Parhelia would be so good at games and I thought surround would have slower framerates but it turns out to be damn cool and I'll be paying attention to what games support it when buying.

[Drizzt]

The only time I have had occasion to try surround gaming was with two girl at the same time. Does it count?

[GT98]

For me Surround Gaming was kinda an afterthought,but after coming back into possiesion of my old 19in monitor that I lent my GF for use at her apartment (we moved in together at a new apartment this past weekend) and me scoring another Optiquest 19in montior on Ebay for fairly cheap I was set.

I've been playing the demo for BF1942 alot this past week (nothing else to do while waiting for furnture to show up at my new place ) and this game totally kicks ass with Surround gaming. I get so much better Situtation Awareness with Surround gaming. I usally like taking out the Sherman or Chi-ha tanks they have and causing all sorts of havoc. I laugh when I see the enemy Inf come and try hit my flanks, because I can see them with extra monitor real estate, and then backup and turn the turret at the same time to engauge them. I messed around with RTCW with surround gaming and that works pretty good too.

Worst part about surround gaming is that you could get a slight case veritgo, due to the extra monitors filling in your perfrifial vision

[yuppi]

I had the feeling of becoming sick, when I played long UT-Sessions. I think this comes from the periphal-view that isn't used to see there something and gets confused. It felt a bit like when tuning around yourself quickly. I can't explain it any better. But my sum stays the same. Great STUFF. The poll speaks the same.

[leech]

Originally posted by Drizzt
The only time I have had occasion to try surround gaming was with two girl at the same time. Does it count?

I think it does.

Leech