Review: Eyefinity

My PC has had multiple monitors for a while, and I have always loved multi monitor gaming.  3600x1200 is a really fun experience, but most games don't have native settings for multiple monitors.  For the longest time, your only options were to buy a triple-head-2-go for a fairly large chunk of change, or not use the other monitors for your game.  Enter Eyefinity.

Just Cause 2 is a good game to showcase how awesome Eyefinity gaming is.

Eyefinity is a program that makes your computer believe that instead of two seperate monitors, you have one large monitor connected to your computer.  Setup is easier than almost every other multi-monitor application I've seen, and most games I've tried will stretch your game across all of your screens. Eyefinity gaming is best with shooters, sims, racing games, and RPGs.

I'm using 2 monitors, but Eyefinity supports up to 6 monitors
at the same time!

There are some limitations to this amazing technology, though.  First and foremost: you must have a ATI graphics card (sorry NVIDIA users!).  Second, if you want to use three monitors, you have to have a Display Port connected monitor (this, however, can be solved by getting a VGA/DVI to Display Port adapter from here).  Also, games that have native support for multiple monitors won't allow you to use any features that came with native support and instead will make your main screen larger (Supreme Commander 2 is a good example, you will have a larger main screen but no full-screen mini map on your other display).  Like always with multi-monitor gaming, in some games the UI will appear strange/distorted, and some will not load at all, but for the most part, games work just fine.

Overall, I think that multi-monitor gaming is a unique and exiting way to play your games, and it's never been easier to do it thanks to Eyefinity.  If you have the hardware to do it, it's something neat that you should definitely try out.