24 LCD Gaming

Mathew Everett 13 Mar, 2006 at 6:34pm ET Article published in Tech

Virginia Tech known for some of the worlds most prestigious computer and technology research seems to also be experimenting with today’s gaming computers.

Virginia Tech’s 24 display workstation is running at 10240 x 3072. Apparently it takes 12 Linux servers running distributed computing software to operate the mass of screens. But at least you can brag your system is pushing 31 million pixels.

It’s amazing how much more fun games are when you can play them on really large, high-resolution screens.

Source: plastk:net

Comments

13 Mar 2006 ~ 7:04pm lemonlime lol! that is insane.. lets see that done with CRTs
13 Mar 2006 ~ 7:51pm RADA

lemonlime wrote:

lol! that is insane.. lets see that done with CRTs

Better have a hell of a table to hold up that many CRTs....
13 Mar 2006 ~ 7:56pm looks stupid to me.. if that was one screen then that would be something
14 Mar 2006 ~ 1:26pm Sledgehammer70 I'd buy it if they could get 60FPS out of it
14 Mar 2006 ~ 5:10pm TheSmJ Just get two identical LCD projectors with VGA inputs, run them in dual screen mode and butt the two projected images next to eachother. That'd be a lot easier, capable of a much larger overall image and could easily be run from one machine.
14 Mar 2006 ~ 5:45pm Sledgehammer70 True but a projector can't do wrap arounds!
14 Mar 2006 ~ 7:26pm TheSmJ As a matter of fact they can. You can get it to work by adjusting the keystone of the projector (nVidia's display drivers also support this with software) and shape the projector screen accordingly.