DDO at 7680x1600 resolution

[Roman]

Just posting for fun...

Screenshot at 7680x1600 resolution. 80+ fps on ultra settings with Radeon 7970. Of course, now that I have a fun rig to play on, I have no time to play.

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1461/dndclient20120119192354.jpg

[ArcaneMelee]

That looks awesome... Now you need a collar that pans your camera to the right and left as you turn your head :D

[Bolo_Grubb]

wow

[Missing_Minds]

You are sadly lacking in the number of hotbars you have up. ;)

[Willibold]

If you have no time to play, you could always send them to Salisbury,UK, where I will look after it until you do have some time. Drool. :) Nice one

[Bacab]

I wanted to say something snarky...but that does look really cool!

Oh I got something...

In that resolution, you can't play Halflings...you would not be able to see them.

Thats the best I can do atm...

[Psiandron]

If you have no time to play, you could always send them to Salisbury,UK, where I will look after it until you do have some time. Drool. :) Nice one

If it'd be cheaper for you to send it somewhere in the states, I'd be happy to look after your rig for you. Wicked sweet dude. Christ you need sherpas to carry your pointer from one side of the screen to the other. :eek:

[Cordovan]

That is awesome.

[Captain_Wizbang]

Its like DDO in Imax

[somenewnoob]

Might need to do that if I add anymore freaking hotbars!

Nice!

[Syllph]

So sad. I can only have about 4 toolbars on my screen. Even with two they almost overlap when side-by-side. I had to squint to even see your bars.

Laptop woes.

[Bindox]

Get an XBox Kinect unit and download the Windows SDK for it. Make your own sensor for gaze following. :)

Microsuck is making a Windows version shortly, so you can just wait it out also.

[RedDragonScale]

OP, what is your monitor setup?

[Roman]

lol - some funny posts!

I need like two glasses of wine before I can play otherwise it makes me f--- dizzy.



Get an XBox Kinect unit and download the Windows SDK for it. Make your own sensor for gaze following. :)


Now that would be awesome!



OP, what is your monitor setup?

Monitors are 3x Dell 30" U3011 on an XFX 7970 Black Edition GPU.

[RedDragonScale]

Monitors are 3x Dell 30" U3011 on an XFX 7970 Black Edition GPU.

I've been looking into a similar setup. Do you get a decent "wrap-around" feel with just the Monitors and the Radeon or do you also need some additional special software to accomplish that?

If so, what's the name of the software?

[toaf]

my guess is you could have 200 some odd hotbars and still play. do it do it now. :D

[GeneralDiomedes]

Can u kindly refrain from posting in the minimum screen resolution thread?

[Roman]

I've been looking into a similar setup. Do you get a decent "wrap-around" feel with just the Monitors and the Radeon or do you also need some additional special software to accomplish that?

If so, what's the name of the software?

With 3x30" monitors you will have complete immersion. beyond what your peripheral vision can see. It's almost too much, you actually need to turn your head to fully see the sides. For gaming I think 3x27" would be better. Less resolution to drive and not as overwhelming.

I use an AMD card and they call their technology eyefinity. The 7970 is the first single card to be able to drive 3 monitors. Before this you had to have at least two GPU's. When setup through the cards driver the 3 screens appear as a single high resolution monitor to all software that can support non-standard resolutions.

Many games do support this multi monitor tech, but not all. And a game may support one platform, but not another. For example, Alice: Madness Returns works fine with nVidia Surround but does not support AMD Eyefinity. Skyrim also has no official support for either, but there is a work around to make it work. I've not tried it yet, but I hear it looks phenominal.

There was a free 3rd party app at one time that would allow you to have wide screen gaming on just about any game. But it was a single developer that created it and he was unable to maintain the updates for every game after every patch, so its no longer being supported.

There's an entire forum dedicated to gaming on these types of setups. Good luck with your setup!

http://widescreengamingforum.com/

[RedDragonScale]

Thanks Roman!

+1 for you for all the helpful information.

[oberon131313]

Nothing like having to look over your right shoulder to see your buffs

[redmexz]

I have just gotten the new amd 7970 also. But I only run 1920x1080 , on a Asus monitor. I run my card max out "oc", and I run the game on ultra settings, but I only get 60 fps. Could you give me some tips on how you get 80+ fps.

[Roman]

I have just gotten the new amd 7970 also. But I only run 1920x1080 , on a Asus monitor. I run my card max out "oc", and I run the game on ultra settings, but I only get 60 fps. Could you give me some tips on how you get 80+ fps.

You have fat lazy pixels!

sent you pm...

[TheDearLeader]

I'd love to see other views similar to this one.

Actually, I think it'd be pretty cool to have a wallpaper that was five or six of those stacked on top of the other.

Like...
-Classic DDO
Marketplace
House J
House K
House D
House P

or
-The Devil Invasion
Marketplace, Chronoscope style
Amrath Explorer
Vale of Twilight from the highest point/perch/whatever explorer
Subterrane, by VoD
ToD Throne Room

It makes me wonder if there's a way to do that in high enough detail, and at appropriate dimensions, to make the wallpaper unique and interesting.

[Drwaz99]

I have just gotten the new amd 7970 also. But I only run 1920x1080 , on a Asus monitor. I run my card max out "oc", and I run the game on ultra settings, but I only get 60 fps. Could you give me some tips on how you get 80+ fps.

Do you have Vsync turn on in the Options for graphics? That syncs your FPS to your monitors refresh rate (usually 60). I have the same monitor probably (the Asus 27" one) and a 7970 as well. If I turn off the Vsync, FPS's jump waaaay up to 150-200. But I prefer Vysnc on as it create a much smooth game experience.

[balancetraveller]

WOW

Can you make one for Amrath? That'd be AWESOME...

[WTFFowler]

That sir is just pornogrophy for the eyes. And I can't get enough of it!

[sda3]

I have been away for a bit over a year, but with the new update in Faerun I am looking at getting back into it. Family and such has made it hard over the last year, but the kids are getting bigger and I am hoping to have a little more game time. Anyway. I recently built an eyefinity 3 machine with a new 7900 card as well and was curious how good the support for it was in DDO. Is it buggy or does everything display well, how is the FOV? Any insight would be helpful!

Thanks

People use to know me as Gilbatorix or Ulugar on Sarlona.

[Denegrator]

Holy flurking shmitt, that...is..awesome!!! :)

[ShadowFlash]

Have you tried Portrait mode for more hight and less width ? I would think better immersion, with less head/neck movement.

You might want to look into TrackIR for head tracking. It works very nice for flight sims.

Very nice Rig....still drooling :)

ShadowFlash

[MrWizard]

um....wondering something odd here.

I have two monitors.

was wondering if I could use one to view what is behind me while playing?

:)


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[Zyerz]

Caster heaven!

[Roman]

I have been away for a bit over a year, but with the new update in Faerun I am looking at getting back into it. Family and such has made it hard over the last year, but the kids are getting bigger and I am hoping to have a little more game time. Anyway. I recently built an eyefinity 3 machine with a new 7900 card as well and was curious how good the support for it was in DDO. Is it buggy or does everything display well, how is the FOV? Any insight would be helpful!

Thanks

People use to know me as Gilbatorix or Ulugar on Sarlona.

No bugs that I could see. Pretty sexy right out of the box... Star Wars The Old Republic looks nice too...



Holy flurking shmitt, that...is..awesome!!! :)

Thanks :)



Have you tried Portrait mode for more hight and less width ? I would think better immersion, with less head/neck movement.

You might want to look into TrackIR for head tracking. It works very nice for flight sims.

Very nice Rig....still drooling :)

ShadowFlash

That TrackIR is freakin Awesome! not sure how it would work with a multi monitor setup but thinking of giving it a try...



um....wondering something odd here.

I have two monitors.

was wondering if I could use one to view what is behind me while playing?

:)


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Ask BendOver, he knows about things from behind :)

[wax_on_wax_off]

How does the monitor edges affect the immersion, wouldn't the inch or more at the sides of each monitor leave blank spaces or did I miss something?

[Roman]

How does the monitor edges affect the immersion, wouldn't the inch or more at the sides of each monitor leave blank spaces or did I miss something?

At first it is very annoying and distracting and you will focus on and be aware of the bezels. Kind of like the first time you wear eyeglasses. But then you get pulled into the game and you stop noticing the bezels; they vanish and your left with this incedible immersion in the game. The overall experience becomes rather aweseome...

[Flavilandile]

It also depends of the size of the bezels.

I have a 4cm interruption between my two displays ( 2 bezels side by side ) once you get used to it, it disappear from your mind.

The really important thing is to have the same screens if you go dual screening. Not same resolution, same screens.

Before my current setup I had two different screens ( with the same resolution ) and as the bezel colors weren't the same it was really noticeable and annoying. ( as the color change will attrack your eyes when you go from a screen to the other )

I won't even go into screens with different resolution, because that's not a workable solution for dual/triple screening in games like DDO. ( though it works well at work, one screen with the mails the other one with whatever you're doing at that time )

[Kinjal]

Roman, I was so in love with what you did I researched and purchased 3 monitors (much smaller, 23" monitors) and have the full screen setup. It is an odd sensation running around with things surrounding you. Like you said, very immersive with 3 23" monitors; I can only imagine 3 30" monsters! :eek:

I am running at 5760 x 1080 and have only been able to run in full screen mode. Just curious if you have tried running in a windowed mode and have you been successful.

Anyway, great post. You are an inspiration to gaming geeks everywhere.

[Jasparion]

my guess is you could have 200 some odd hotbars and still play. do it do it now. :D

Imagine the UMD lag on that !!

[Sonos]

I actually play on my 105" plasma with full amenity Captain's Chair with recline and tray. It's cool.

Or maybe that's just my fantasy and I play on a laptop with a meh graphics card and a Microsoft mouse. sigh. Reality sux.

As mentioned I too volunteer to look after your rig.

Sweet pic! SS some moar wide shots of different areas!

[Epitome]

Hopefully you have those hotbars hotkeyed or at least a ton of real state for the mouse to work you way over, lol.

Looks sick.

Using a 46" 1920x1080 LED TV. 3D is kinda cool in this came but limited down to 24 fps because of hdmi 1.4 tech limitations.

[fco-karatekid]

Just posting for fun...

Screenshot at 7680x1600 resolution. 80+ fps on ultra settings with Radeon 7970. Of course, now that I have a fun rig to play on, I have no time to play.

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1461/dndclient20120119192354.jpg

Looks like DDO needs an "fov" command like iD games... fisheye would drive me nuts. My god that's beautiful, though!

[Cyprine]

and the xp bar gets even longer to fill *sigh*

[Cordovan]

It seems like every once in a while folks stumble onto this thread and are wowed by the OP. Also, it makes everyone want new computers. Talk about showing how nice DDO can look! So nice, in fact, we're just gonna move this thread to the Hall of Fame!

[Arovin]

Just noticed this thread today. I have not used a triple monitor setup in some time, but I used to a few years ago.

Here are some screenshots at 3048x1024 back from 2009:

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2566/3924558761_8761a962d7_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/15932860@N02/3924558761/)
ScreenShot00020 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/15932860@N02/3924558761/) by arovin.summers (http://www.flickr.com/people/15932860@N02/), on Flickr

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3516/3705154269_9ebc0729be_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/15932860@N02/3705154269/)
ScreenShot00021 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/15932860@N02/3705154269/) by arovin.summers (http://www.flickr.com/people/15932860@N02/), on Flickr

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2450/3925345326_2478e484eb_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/15932860@N02/3925345326/)
ScreenShot00013 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/15932860@N02/3925345326/) by arovin.summers (http://www.flickr.com/people/15932860@N02/), on Flickr

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3481/3705665148_960c338154_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/15932860@N02/3705665148/)
ScreenShot00004 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/15932860@N02/3705665148/) by arovin.summers (http://www.flickr.com/people/15932860@N02/), on Flickr

[ZzpxpzZ]

Just a bit of clarity of information for some in this thread:

When the eyefinity technology first came out, I believe around the time of the Radeon 5870, it was true that you did infact require two GPUs to run the triple monitor display with Eyefinity, that meant at the time either 2x 5870, or 1x5970 which was the dual GPU card at the time.

Eyefinity was improved and integrated with all the standard cards ever since then, and beyond having a card powerful enough to actually perform reasonably at these super high resolutions, you no longer need two cards to run triple monitor eyefinity.

If you are trying to connect 3 monitors to a single video card however you are going to at least need one with a display port connector, either an actual display port monitor or a DVI->Display Port adapter. (You no longer even need a powered active adapter, passive adapters work fine now.)

As far as bezels go, you will notice them... sortof.

Realistically playing on a triple widescreen set up is not a 3x wider version of the same experience as playing on a single monitor.

The biggest benefit you will find is a huge amount of additional realestate for interface components. Most of your commonly used interface parts you will set up on your middle monitor exactly the same as you would with a single monitor. You can even see this occurring on the OPs screenshot.

The nice thing is however you will be able to move all non priority interface components off your main screen to avoid any clutter - chat windows, the map, the inventory, etc.

Since you are primarily using your center monitor in a similar way as a single monitor set up the bezels have very little impact on your play. As far as the view off the sides, in general, its pretty to look at, occasionally allows you to notice things you wouldnt otherwise notice, and otherwise when you are playing seriously and focused, you dont notice it a lot.

For this reason, I strongly recommend that one never tries to play the game multimonitor with an even number of monitors (you do not want your bezel in the middle of the playing field, you want a true center monitor)

That said, particularly in MMORPGs, the extra realestate for interface is unbelievably convenient, and once you switch you will never want to go back.

I personally run 7 chat windows, 14 hot bars, and almost always have my full map open, and yet never experience any screen clutter. If you are considering trying out such a set up, I highly recommend it, and it is easier nowadays than ever before.

Any of the recent top Radeon vid cards (say top 2 or 3 of the last 2 generations) can handle a resolution of 5760x1080 without much difficulty at very high settings with just some minor tweaks, the lower level cards you may want to drop shadows and AA a bit.

[Taojeff]

Just posting for fun...

Screenshot at 7680x1600 resolution. 80+ fps on ultra settings with Radeon 7970. Of course, now that I have a fun rig to play on, I have no time to play.

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1461/dndclient20120119192354.jpg

Been playing on 5760x1080 for about 3 years, guess its time to upgrade

[Tscheuss]

This is still a beautiful image. Awesome setup. :)

[Skyrunner]

how did u set up for this resolution?

i just bought 3 monitor for my notebook but the game won't load at 5760 it always show 1920 max :(((((

[OldCoaly]

how did u set up for this resolution?

i just bought 3 monitor for my notebook but the game won't load at 5760 it always show 1920 max :(((((

1) Configure your desktop to stretch across the monitors ("Extend Desktop to This Display" for each monitor).

2) Run DDO in a window and stretch the window across multiple monitors.

[Flavilandile]

how did u set up for this resolution?

i just bought 3 monitor for my notebook but the game won't load at 5760 it always show 1920 max :(((((

Your issue is the notebook... we have desktops with a real graphic card ( or more than one ).

Then we configure the display driver to go into extended desktop mode ( it fools windows into thinking that the Pc is connected to a single screen with the relevant display [ in my case 3840*1080 ] ).

So if you use a notebook with an integrated graphic card there's probably no chances you can do it. If you have a Radeon or a GeForce in your notebook, you will have to see if the chipset support the extended mode. ( most notebook graphic card don't support it, and even if it supports it, you might end with a slideshow due to the bandwidth limitation between the CPU and the GPU. )

[Skyrunner]

i've GTX 765M with 3gb dedicated and 3 port hdmi... I played Assassin's Creed Unit at max resolution, Skyrim with a tons of mod and didn't get any problem, it's just ddo that i'm not able to play with a collaged desktop

[Flavilandile]

i've GTX 765M with 3gb dedicated and 3 port hdmi... I played Assassin's Creed Unit at max resolution, Skyrim with a tons of mod and didn't get any problem, it's just ddo that i'm not able to play with a collaged desktop

Ok then you just need to coax your graphic driver into extended mode... after you'll be able to play with 3 screens.
DDO is an old game and doesn't know how to handle collaged desktop so you need to fool it into thinking that you have one huge screen.

[Skyrunner]

Ok then you just need to coax your graphic driver into extended mode... after you'll be able to play with 3 screens.
DDO is an old game and doesn't know how to handle collaged desktop so you need to fool it into thinking that you have one huge screen.

that's my problem, my desktop atm is 5760*1080 (i'm using the "MSI matrix display" that take the place of the nvidia control panel) so in all other games i get in the menù the 5760ecc resolution, but in ddo is still loked to 1920 .. and i'm getting real mad

[Seikojin]

that's my problem, my desktop atm is 5760*1080 (i'm using the "MSI matrix display" that take the place of the nvidia control panel) so in all other games i get in the menù the 5760ecc resolution, but in ddo is still loked to 1920 .. and i'm getting real mad

So uninstall the nvidia control panel and let windows manage the desktop composition.

[Bill_Jones]

These images are stunning.
Gives depth to the game world and shows off some great art.
GJ to all who posted the pictures!

[Cordovan]

These images are stunning.
Gives depth to the game world and shows off some great art.
GJ to all who posted the pictures!

Totally, this is one of my favorite threads. The time is coming soon-ish where I get to spend some money on a computer, maybe, and I think I will be looking at this thread prior to making any purchase.

[patang01]

Just posting for fun...

Screenshot at 7680x1600 resolution. 80+ fps on ultra settings with Radeon 7970. Of course, now that I have a fun rig to play on, I have no time to play.

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/1461/dndclient20120119192354.jpg

Time to consider a GPU upgrade and add some monitors. The idea of having the map open in one monitor and other stuff on the other side monitor intrigues me. I use 2 monitors now but only for work and utility stuff, not gaming.

[Mortas]

I have a 23:9 widescreen monitor that is like the older 3 monitor setup just one screen. Hopefully this summer I can upgrade to a true 4k 23:9 with the slight curve. I use a Radeon 7970 1Ghz Edition with everything turned on and getting 100fps. My research, as of this posting, is the nVidia GTX 980 (or Titan) is the only single card that can give us 60 fps at 4k resolution.

I hope there is a graphics update in the works to bring DDO on par or better with other modern MMORPGs. Game play is fine but be nice for a graphics update. Something along the lines of what Anarchy Online was doing (there is a youtube somewhere with, I think, their Conan engine doing the rendering). I liked the game play and they were leaving that alone so very little hours used for game logic updates; just UI interface glue basically and some internal trigger for the action code for fx etc.. Not sure what happened there but there are a lot of decent, reasonably priced model shops around for the grunt work :)

Good Hunting !

[Seikojin]

Totally, this is one of my favorite threads. The time is coming soon-ish where I get to spend some money on a computer, maybe, and I think I will be looking at this thread prior to making any purchase.

Same here. But I am sticking with a single display for now. If I was going to do something with multiple screens or a large resolution, I plan on removing the bezels and making a custom frame so it just is a single large screen.

[Natashaelle]

I'm running with a 2560x1080 job, and cool enough, but no screeny 'cos still have an overly trashy graphics card ...

ultra-widescreen HD is pretty good for gaming -- though in an ideal world, I'd have an ultrawide UHD 4K version ... (not cheap LOL)

[Skyrunner]

So uninstall the nvidia control panel and let windows manage the desktop composition.

ok, I get what is the problem (I think), wheni use the directX11 the extended mode in ddo doesn't work, even if i set with ultralow quality in a 800x600 resolution, but when i set DDO for DX9 the game will load at 5760*1080 with ultrahigh quality, now i'm trying to unistall and reinstall the DX11 but still don't know if will work

[DrenglisEU]

Just a small 2-cent question, is it really worth the financial investment and neck pain???..... just wondering

[gravisrs]

I don't think hi-res textures in this game are even half that resolution :)

But at least you could put all 20 hotbars in a "small" corner

[Flavilandile]

Just a small 2-cent question, is it really worth the financial investment and neck pain???..... just wondering

Any semi-decent recent computer will be able to pull it ( after all at the time of my first answer in that thread I was dualscreening on a 8800GTS and a Pentium D930 ) so the money investment is not that important if you replace your computer and wants to play with it.

As for the pain, it's mainly knowing that you need to fool windows into thinking that all the screens are just one single huge screen... once you know that it's relatively easy.

[Gonnakillu]

Holy ****, that's like a dream but a nightmare at the same time.

[morkahn82]

I would be interested in some decent 3D technology. Occulus rift without actually wearing goggles. ;)

[CernunnosM]

Yeah, I didn't quite go that high res, but I didn't go way $$$$ for it, either. Single vid card, single ultrawide monitor.

http://cmorrigu.com/media/games/DDO_Ultrawide.jpg

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/pwzJLk

http://cmorrigu.com/media/games/DDO_Ultrawide2.jpg

[adamkatt]

Does anyone still have the ops original pic saved? Id like to see it.

[cdbd3rd]

Does anyone still have the ops original pic saved? Id like to see it.

Maybe....

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/QesSTp0PHv5B4HT3Kt35yCfZ8R6uGFzUuJDr0ZTW4Tz_HDiogi 9OvYyq6fI6tRd3e-wPouPLZLvKEM9L7Wzlt8-0hTVfS9n6iQ

That's what Google dug out of the dust.


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Might also try PMing the OP. Has posted within the past year - and/or try on Sarlona, character name Kongo.


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edit Interesting, pic disappeared. :(