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Games that Support Dual-Head Setups?
Milo_Mindbender writes "It seems like almost all the new high-end 3d cards now support dual-monitor operation as a matter of course. I'm wondering if the game savvy people out there can recommend games (Linux or Windows) that have special features or modes for playing on a dual monitor system. I seem to remember seeing at least one C&C like game awhile back that let you have two views on the world (one on each monitor), there must be a few more that take advantage of this. Anyone know of any good ones?"
They have a large list of games with dualhead support-not all of them simply wrap your display. Serious Sam (and the second encounter) allows two players to use the same computer by giving them independent displays, while Dogs of war allows you to view the battle from a distance while in close on the other. So not only has this been around for quite some time, it also has plenty of current games out for it. This is in addition to the triple monitor support (surround gaming) which was mentioned earlier.
Remember, there were no nuclear weapons before women were allowed to vote.
Just watch out when doing 'multi-pipe', things can get nauseating real fast. If the monitors do not update in unison then the 'jitter' can be disconcerting enough to cause nausea. This is well documented with profesional flight sims. This is why many profesional($$$$) cards come with genlock connectors that force all the monitors to refresh simultaneously.
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We did this once....just to see if it worked. It required 3 PC's on a LAN, and you started each computer up with a different command line option...Doom FAQ or a README.TXT from 1994, anyone?