The Other Worlds Shrine

Your place for discussion about RPGs, gaming, music, movies, anime, computers, sports, and any other stuff we care to talk about... 

  • DUAL WIDESCREENS!!!

  • Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
 #100094  by Imakeholesinu
 Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:37 pm
Pics to come. Bought two viewsonic VA1912wb's at Circut City for $225 a pop. I know newegg had them cheaper but this way if I had dead pixles I could just return them that day.

After two driver updates (nVidia's drivers and then Viewsonic's) and setting the brightness to the same setting as the contrast they look FANTASTIC! I've got my primary desktop on the digital and my secondary desktop on the analog so I can play EVE online windowed on my primary and have webpages and vent open on the other one. I was thinking about adding one more monitor but I'd need a PCI video card and I think that would fit too close to my AGP card and not allow enough airflow in the case to be created. Very cool shit.

I recommend getting duals for anyone now!

 #100096  by Julius Seeker
 Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:38 pm
Yeah, a few friends of mine use duals. I can use duals myself, and I have two monitors, unfortunately, one of them is 8-10 years old and is dark as hell.

 #100109  by Nev
 Sun Jul 23, 2006 10:07 am
I'd love two widescreens. I have dual 17" mnitors myself.

EDIT: Check out my desktop pimpage.

Bigger, better, twice as hard

The dividing line where the colors cross over is also where the monitors cross over.

 #100114  by Julius Seeker
 Sun Jul 23, 2006 5:16 pm
hahahaha! nice link =)

 #100115  by Lox
 Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:17 pm
Having just finished that game, it made me smile.

 #100116  by Imakeholesinu
 Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:42 pm
Really fucking large desktop pic that was linkified because I hate the left-right scrolly thingy

Unfortunately, this version of Astonshell doesn't support dual monitors. The new version is coming soon though so I can't wait and I'll be able to have widescreen stuff for that. So for now, it looks like shit.

 #100117  by Julius Seeker
 Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:13 pm
Phoenix Wright has become very popular among the hardcore gaming audience, but it is still fairly
unknown among the main portion of gamers. I think with the right marketing Capcom could
really make something huge out of the series. Perhaps the genre as a whole will make a huge return.

 #100119  by Imakeholesinu
 Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:42 pm
Think bigger than the biggest bar

This was taken about 7 steps from my door. I just got a new Verison Phone so that's the box in the background there, along with my work pager.

Think big, that's only half as large

This shot is from straight on while I'm reclining completely in the back of my chair.

Bigger than the closest star; Bigger than the motor car

Here's a shot of my beast. P4 2.4C overclocked to 2.8 with 2 GB PC3200 Dual Channel memory and a GeForce 6800 OC by BFG Tech.

On the desktop that's my buddy's private vent channel for MMO's and such. Anyway, enjoy.

 #100120  by Shellie
 Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:51 pm
Id just be happy with ONE LCD :'(

 #100121  by Imakeholesinu
 Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:53 pm
Seraphina wrote:Id just be happy with ONE LCD :'(
*nudge nudge sine* I think she wants one of these for her anniversary present. Just a hint *nudge nudge*

 #100124  by Shellie
 Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:58 pm
Heh..Id rather have a big screen TV over an LCD. I have a 21in(22 maybe?) CRT that is really nice, just super f'in HUGE.

 #100142  by Ishamael
 Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:06 pm
If you can get a flatscreen big screen, you can double that as a computer monitor too, Seraph!

OK, I'm also officially in tech envy mode now. It just seems wrong that Barret has a cool dual screen setup and I don't. And no there is no logical reason for that. :)