[beazil]

Running a triple setup is something I've done for about five years now. I started with a triplehead2go, and got rid of it after nvidia released the ability to do "surround" as I had sli 275's at the time.

In this game I was very frustrated with the inability of my SLI 470's to render well in this game at anything more than very low settings. I was getting about 25 (med to high settings) fps where I'd have liked to get over 30. Low settings look like garbage in this game - you cannot tell when you hit ea, there are no effects for fire, etc. so you really lose out on alot unless you set effects at medium. This is automatically a 15 fps cost, so I'd go from about 40 fps to 25. And 25 is not enough to enjoy this game...\

Fast forward to today. I recently upgraded to a pair of SLI'd 680's. I get absolutely no stuttering on "high" settings. If I go to "very high" settings my framerate will stutter(mildly) due to the fact that I only have 2gb on each card. I could have spent more for 4 gb cards, but that would have defeated the purchase (2 680's for < $1000 shipped), but it was a game changer for me. Now I enjoy around 40-60 fps on the "black death" track. PS all framerate settings are taken from this track.

This game is very poorly optimized for modern systems imho, at least accross large fields of view, and it takes a high end modern machine to get a good framerate accross three views. I'm certain it was the same for the first people using the "use3renders=1" command before.

The good news is that the game runs very well on one monitor, but if you really want to play accross three monitors you will need a SOLID system to run it.

My specs are Intel 2600k at stock speed (can't get overclocking to work reliably even with water cooling so I gave up) the two sli'd 680's, 8 gigs 1600 ddr3, 128 Gig SSD (OS) and 1 terabyte storage drive. All works fine and dandy, but I suspect anything short of SLI'd/Crossfired LAST generation very high end or better would be needed to get "good" framerates with good graphics. At least at triple sized resolutions.

Another alternative that gives a similar field of view is to do two projectors. You get a similar view to 3 screens, but at the cost of only rendering two screens instead of three. The other advantage you have of course is that you are not stuck with rendering in "native resolution". You can opt for a lower resolution (and it won't look like ass) on a projector and it will render fine, as opposed to doing the same thing with LCD's.

Now you can also dumb down your resolution. Even with my 470's running 3x800x600 in this game looked and ran good, but it looked terrible on 3x1680 x1050 native res monitors.

So you guys can get an idea of what resolution I'm using for my comments (except where noted) it's 5040x1050