What looks best for IL2 (& therefore SoW) - 3 22" screens, or 1 27"?

[Triggaaar]

I'm planning my PC acquisitions, and my main dilema is guessing what would be best for SoW, Eyefinity with 3 22" screens, or 1 27" screen. I already have 1 22" screen (which I need to keep), so if I'm going for 3 screens, they can't be 24" or 27". But I could move my 22" display to the side (for when I'm not flying) and get something like a 27" monitor for SoW.

Can anyone with some experience of either set-up give advice?

Thanks

[JG53Frankyboy]

well, will your graphic card be able to handle the 27" resolution with BoB........................

[kimosabi]

Well, put simply, you'll get a hell of alot better peripheral view using 3 monitors. Going up on just the monitor size will only give you a larger picture. It's all a matter of preference but who wouldn't want better peripheral view in IL-2? All the wide mods just stretch the picture when looking around and makes you kinda feel you're looking through a wide lens, instead of real view.

YouTube has some good vids on eyefinity and IL-2.

[Triggaaar]

Thanks for the replies.

Originally Posted by JG53Frankyboy

well, will your graphic card be able to handle the 27" resolution with BoB........................

Well we don't yet know what BoB would like, but I haven't bought the GC yet (which is why I'm asking this question anyway) and I anticipate getting a fairly quick card. A 27" (with high res) should require less processing power than Eyefinity anyway (less total resolution).

Originally Posted by kimosabi

Well, put simply, you'll get a hell of alot better peripheral view using 3 monitors. Going up on just the monitor size will only give you a larger picture. It's all a matter of preference but who wouldn't want better peripheral view in IL-2?

Well with standard IL2, you have wide, normal and gun view, and I switch between them a fair bit. Having a larger screen will allow you to see the wide picture and have to zoom in less. I don't know if SoW will allow an even wider view, which would suit large monitors, but if not, then I agree with you. I would like more view, and depending on the SoW settings, a larger monitor might give you more vertical view for a given physical size (ie, if the size of your gun site is an inch on your screen, a larger monitor will give you more vertical view than 3 small monitors). Not sure if Oleg has commented on the view settings.

YouTube has some good vids on eyefinity and IL-2.

I've been on youtube searching for eyefinity IL2 this morning, and came up short. I saw a lot of Dirt2 demos though.

[lbuchele]

I have a 26'' Acer and is pretty good...
Three 22" I don´t know.
You will have 5760x3060 resolution.People who has three monitors use to have 2 or 3 SLI setup and this is $erious business...

[kimosabi]

Originally Posted by Triggaaar

I've been on youtube searching for eyefinity IL2 this morning, and came up short. I saw a lot of Dirt2 demos though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDu9NZHkRUE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1NE8n42EQA

Originally Posted by lbuchele

I have a 26'' Acer and is pretty good...
Three 22" I don´t know.
You will have 5760x3060 resolution.People who has three monitors use to have 2 or 3 SLI setup and this is $erious business...

A squadmate is running 3x22" monitors on a single 5850 in eyefinity. Depending on the card model ofc the main reason to why most Nvidia guys run 2-3cards in multi screen setups are mostly the lack of outputs. Even a GTX260(which is still a good card) can run triple monitors alone with a TH2Go set. It's when you start messing with multi-24"> @ 1920x1200/1080 each, that things start to get really demanding.

Ofcourse, it's never wrong to have the extra horsepower but what you really need and what people think you need are often two different things.