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The beta will be out this month, but what are the odds it will support surround? I really doubt it cause blizzard is pretty anal about making it "fair". But seeing how WoW worked, who knows. Did WC3 work?

The beta will be out this month, but what are the odds it will support surround? I really doubt it cause blizzard is pretty anal about making it "fair". But seeing how WoW worked, who knows. Did WC3 work?

I imagine their stance will be very measured on Starcraft, regardless of which way they decide. It's not that big a deal for WoW, but for starcraft there is a very active (serious) competitive community. America is to Baseball as South Korea is to Starcraft. :D

Personally, I don't think multimonitors is a big advantage in a RTS. Just played AOE3 the other day in eyefinity and it was more cumbersome than anything... (super stretched menu aside). The only awesome RTS in triple wide is Sins of a Solar Empire because you lean back and enjoy the view instead of managing your army all that much.

That said... I hope SC2 works with eyefinity even though it'll only be a novelty for me. Most likely going to go back to single monitor to play seriously.

Multi-mon isn't a big advantage in RTSes cause none of them have done it right.. the only game that has come close is Supreme Commander with its dual monitor support - you get 2 viewports, 1 per monitor. Unfortunately the secondary monitor was missing all the HUD elements.

Proper done multi-mon support would mean let people have as many viewports as they want by default split 1 per monitor. Then you could use one monitor just as a giant mini map, one perhaps for base building or any "watch spot" , and the middle one for all the action.

I have a friend who has tried SC2 in eyefinity and confirmed that it works. That being said it could still be vert- for all I know.

WC3 was stretched, but that was prior to widescreen.

What does all that vert- hoz- thing mean? I see it all the time.

What does all that vert- hoz- thing mean? I see it all the time.

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I have it, and it would not detect my 5040x1050; however, i didn't try to force it either.

Multi-mon isn't a big advantage in RTSes cause none of them have done it right.. the only game that has come close is Supreme Commander with its dual monitor support - you get 2 viewports, 1 per monitor. Unfortunately the secondary monitor was missing all the HUD elements.

Even with distortion at both extremes, I think it´s and very considerable advantage, much more than in shooters (though less than flight sims).

In DoW2 and CoH, I still need to move frecuently the camera, and I can´t control perfectly units at the very left/right side of lateral mons, but I can watch way more of the terrain and get a better idea of what It´s happening now in the terrain, wich I think It´s a clearly advantage (in DoW2 In can see from corner to corner in some maps). For that, I sit way more ahead than usual for FPS. Peripheral vision is not important for strategy games, extended vision is.

Proper multimon would be better, of course, I agree with that.