It was a fun ride. I was planning on switching all my video uploads to you for your high quality HD compression. You pushed streaming video further than Youtube or Apple could have with on-demand HD streaming in faster than anyone else.
You will be missed.
Stage6.com 2006 - Feb 28th, 2008
According to a report over at Engadget, ATI is getting ready to roll out new CrossFire X drivers that will enable you to CrossFire diffrent ATI GPU’s. Examples of RV670- and R680 were given. This is good news for those who piece together their Multi-GPU systems as the technology gets old and show up for sale used.
Wake me when you can enable multiple GPU’s and Multiple Monitors.
Kegen “kegetys” kotisivu has just published the latest installment of SoftTH, that monitor spanning DX9 hack we all know and love.
* 1.07beta
- Autodetection for various settings such as secondary
resolution, device ID, etc. (default)
- Support for D3D9 swap chains (for Call of Duty 2,
Company of Heroes…)
- Persistent win32api hooks for more reliable hooking
- Uses debug access to write memory if regular access
fails (requires admin/debug privileges from user)
- Some default settings adjusted for better compatibility
- Improved device release detection & handling
- Mouse compatibility fixes
- Config file settings separated for OpenGL & Direct3D
- Global config file support in user home directory
- Autosquash option for automatic squashing when no 3D
elements drawn
- Forced multihead use (useMultihead=2) for games that
do not immediately initialize the device with the
triplehead resolution (Such as Test Drive Unlimited)
- Misc fixes & improvements
Thank you kegety’s, I cant wait to give CoD a shot!
You can download the application and find support here.
Samsung has just announced the SyncMaster 2263DX a 22-inch LCD monitor that features an additional 7-inch monitor
connected to the display. The 7-incher’ is a USB display, and is designed to meet the needs of people who want an additional display without the costs or deskspace of a full sized additional monitor.
Personally, they are moving in the right direction, but a screen that small should be positioned above, not to the side. That way I can add 2 more SyncMaster 2263DX’s on both sides! You see where I’m going here?
Edit: It looks like Samsung was not cutting corners with this monitor, the arm that extends the secondary display can be repositioned to above. Thanks Betty.
NOT JUST TWO LCD SCREENS MOUNTED ON THE SAME STANDBrea, California and Munich, Germany - January 7, 2008 — EVGA Corporation, a trendsetting graphics card and motherboards manufacturer announced today the release of Interview™ Dual-Monitor System, a brand new concept in dual-monitor display with two rotating wide-screen LCD screens.EVGA Interview™ Dual-Monitor System offers two 17″ wide-screen WXGA LCD screens and can receive input signals from dual DVI Digital or dual VGA Analog sources. Two LCD screen panels can also open and close horizontally.
EVGA Interview™ also features an integrated 1.3-megapixel webcam, a microphone, a headset output, USB 2.0 ports and two stereo speakers.
EVGA Interview™ comes with a 3-year limited warranty and is available through leading resellers.
More information can be found at http://www.anandtech.com/Gallery.aspx?id=19
Each panel can be flipped around 180 degrees and will automatically flip the image, so you can be working on a document and showing someone else either the same screen or a different desktop. EVGA expects the InterView to debut in March at a price point of around $750.
EVGA also demonstrated some USB video adapters. EVGA UV Plus+
Running Crysis with SoftTH was a piece of cake. No special configuration, just past the files to the root of Crysis, set the resolution and go. While tweaking the setting I found one nVidia 8800GTS can run fairly smooth at medium quality and 1024×3840 resolution.
I purposefully did not focus on scripted scenes to minimize the spoilers.
Should you accidentally set Crysis to an unsupported resolution and can no longer enter the game to change it, you will need to follow the steps below to reset it.
Make an “autoexec.cfg” file in your Crysis root directory and put the following in it:
r_Width 1368
r_Height 780
And a extra special thanks to www.tweakguides.com for making Crysis rock out at “Very High” settings without needing Vista!
Toms hardware has a couple sexy photos but nothing new along the lines of performance.
Nvidia took the opportunity to show of its new three-way SLI technology at CES 2008 this week. While packing three GPUs into a single desktop PC may seem excessive, think again. Nvidia was running Crysis on a custom Q6600 quad core system with three 8800 GTXs running at a full resolution of 1920 x 1080. And if that wasn’t enough, the game’s settings were all cranked to very high.
To sum it up it looks to be a multiple DLP display enclosed in a case. But it gets the job done, and so far looks to be the closest anyone has come to a consumer Multi-Projector display.
To see more shots, head on over to Engadget.
This is an early version of the fix, and Microsoft recommends non-advanced users to wait for SP1 when it will be probibly tuned.
SYMPTOMS:
In some scenarios, games and benchmarks perform more poorly than expected on a Windows Vista-based computer. This issue occurs when the games and the benchmarks use multiple display adapters in a Linked Display Adapter (LDA) configuration.
You can get it here.
Gizmodo interviewed Mersive and got some sweet footage of their 360 degree Hummer Simulator in action, check the link for more videos.
We haven’t played any games (yet!) in the domes you saw in the videos. We have however played Quake on large, multi-projector, multi-wall environments. Because the source code is available for Quake it is possible to put the “hooks” into it to use our display technology. Coordination would be needed with the developers of other PC-based games or consoles such as Playstation or Xbox in order to get them running on these displays.
Remote Desktop Connection (Terminal Services Client 6.0) just came out last week and on their list of improvements is the ability to span high resolutions on the client computer across multiple monitors on your PC.
Monitor spanning
Remote Desktop Connection supports high-resolution displays that can be spanned across multiple monitors. However, the total resolution on all monitors must be under 4096 x 2048 pixels. The monitors must have the same resolution. Additionally, the monitors must be aligned side-by-side.To have the desktop of the remote computer span multiple monitors, type Mstsc /span at a command prompt.
Not exactally riveting news, but every little bit counts right?
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Presenter View in PowerPoint makes Excel cry!
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Happy Halloween to all our U.S. readers! I am currently celebrating with a cool drink somewhere in the Caribbean on my much needed vacation, but that wont stop me from bringing you more great information.
Presenter View is a severely under used feature of PowerPoint 2007, and can improve presentations for even the most experienced presenters.
You can do a lot more with the Presenter View in PowerPoint 2007.
Easily and privately preview upcoming slides and notes. Research information to answer questions during slide shows, and more, without the audience ever realizing it.
I recommend you view the PowerPoint Presentation (4.3MB) on the topic so you can try it while reading along.
If you do not have PowerPoint 2007, I have saved a PDF version (1.4MB) as well.
Enjoy!
While ACME Portable is no stranger to releasing triple screen luggable PC’s for more workstation related tasks, they are now offering dual nVidia 8800GTX’s in SLI mode (sic). A lot of things do not add up with their statements on the website and you have to wonder how they accomplish spanning. Spanned gaming and SLI? Are they using a triple head to go in there? But im sure it all adds up to one fast lan party rig reguardless.
Todays Dilbert comic has to be one of my favorites so far.
Edit: Image removed. United Media wants $160 to give me the right to copy their comic here, instead Ill just link to it.
Thanks Nick for sending this one my way!
If you find yourself flipping between your Outlook Calendar and E-mails a lot, you can open both at the same time. Just right click the lower left icon you want to open, such as Calendar in this photo, and open it in another monitor.
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