What I'd would really like from SLI....

[RaiderJ]

Granted, all that performance increase is nice, but I'd really like to have dual-monitor gaming. As nice as it is to have two monitors for Windows, I can't imagine two monitors for games would be any less useful. One for the main screen, one for the map (or whatever), or just maybe a larger field of view?

 

[wuggle]

I think that this is more of a software issue than a hardware issue...

 

[RaiderJ]

Originally posted by: wuggle
I think that this is more of a software issue than a hardware issue...

Yes, but dual screen are hardware intensive (since more rendering is required), so SLI would help alleviate the bottleneck associated with dual screens.

I guess what I'd like is developer's to have more incentive to implement dual-screens - hopefully SLI can be part of that. Wishful thinking on my part...

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: RaiderJ

Originally posted by: wuggle
I think that this is more of a software issue than a hardware issue...

Yes, but dual screen are hardware intensive (since more rendering is required), so SLI would help alleviate the bottleneck associated with dual screens.

I guess what I'd like is developer's to have more incentive to implement dual-screens - hopefully SLI can be part of that. Wishful thinking on my part...

As far as dual monitors (at least for a 'larger field of view'), you can already do this with NVIDIA (and Matrox, I guess...) cards by using 'spanned' video modes. However, the utility of this is diminished somewhat by the fact that the 'middle' of the screen is split between the two monitors. The game just needs to support nonstandard widescreen modes (as you get an effective resolution of 1600x600, 3200x1200, etc.) There's a matrox card that can do the same thing across *three* monitors, but the 3D performance is pretty lousy.

3-screen gaming is apparently not possible (at least with NV40 SLI); NVIDIA's current SLI drivers disable the monitors attached to the second card, according to Anand's review.

 

[PumpActionWalrus]

That is if they are running in SLI, I would imagine you can run them as two seperate cards just like you would off of agp/pci

 

[Demo24]

I would only do it if I could fuse two monitors together so I didnt have the edge of both monitors messing up the view

 

[Mik3y]

n/m

 

[Mrvile]

Go Gameboy DS!

 

[Blain]

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