I don't think it's too much to ask at all. Just add a few more resolution settings and such. It shouldn't take too much effort to implement this option onto the initial release.

No, the two monitors give you the added peripheral view.

Since in fallout 3 for example, i had to change the Field of View a billion time, first person, third person, pipboy, mini games ect ect.

It was a pain in the ass. I would be lovely if triplemonitor was supported out of the box.

However they would have to support a lot of resolutions anyway and many laptops has non standard resolutions, worst case you have to enter resolution and field of view in the ini file.
No it’s noting Bethesda should use time on but it's probably posible.

why complain about having extra features? No, I don't have three monitors but triple moniter support would be fantastic and if The Elder Scrolls 5 did have this feature I might just go out and buy one more monitor for the experience that it offers

The world does not revolve around one person, and if it did, that one person would be more than likely not you

So is this game gonna work with quintuple monitors?

Three monitors each time more common...
Since when 2 5770 or one gtx 460 is an outregeous system ?
I know people that have an E6600 4 giga of ram and 1 285 that game and work with three monitors. You just have to have a small trinket called TH2G (Tripple head to go).
3 Monitors give you an awesome situation awareness, your natural FOV is quite wider than what bethesd give you and even if three monitors give you a wider than normal FOV, the fact that small neck movement paired with eyes displacement compensate for SA.
So 3 monitors, even if i don t have such and don t plan to have some for now is awesome for 90% of games, especially those who explore first person view.

3 monitor today is expensive only in the 3 monitors, which by the way you could easely have just buying used ones.

Because that's what people do here, complain :rofl: Or sharpen their debating skills, although that's not too often. Also, there's the hackneyed arguement of adding options takes away from developing something else. At what cost, man AT WAHT COST!


Actually, in TES, the world does seem to revolve me...seems I've had to save the damn world in at least the past two games

ON topic, erm, I don't know much abot multiple monitors, so thanks for the thread and edumacating me

we allways have people who dont want spectacular ideas

Probably one of the least important things to focus on.

Would be much more important to focus on something like DX11, improve graphics, performance tweaks for the PC. Improve the look of rapids as well.

All well and good saying you'd like them to focus on those 4, but they will all take a hell of a lot longer than making the game work with 3 monitors. I'd love to have 3 monitors ( I have 2!!!), so it would be nice if they supported it . Not really altogether essential, but nice

The only thing needed to do 3 monitors is.....

3 monitors, 1 ATI card. They do a grety job with eyefinity

Well, other than the fact that the time could be spent adding support for features that most players can use rather than wasting it catering to things a small percentage of players will ever see- or in the case of your extreme example above, that nobody can use but somebody might be able to "real soon now."

This is the same flaw as all the "OMG why not support [feature] even if you wouldn't use it yourself, add everything and let people choose" threads: Time from now to 11-11-11 is finite, the number of possible features to add isn't. "Niche" players want their multimonitor support, a few dozen people want the display on their http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1170473-keebord-suport/ used...should Bethesda call the game "done" now and spend the rest of the development cycle in "Cater to the niche players" mode?

There will of course be guides/mods on the side that probably will support it, but hey it's a pain in the ass to get it working most of the time.

But i don't think it will take so much time to make a scalable hud.

Other developers (including companies far smaller and with less resources than Beth) include such things as multi-monitor support and 3d support for PCs out of the box for their games, so it's not an off the wall suggestion, it's perfectly reasonable and a well renowned firm such as Beth should not be falling behind in such areas. I get truly fed up with all the arguments I read here against such suggestions.

Wow I know nothing about computer gaming that that looks insane.

So if you get 8 monitors can you form them into an octagon and have a 360 degree view?

But do those other companies make games as good at TES though?

In all seriousness though, it shouldn't be an awful lot of effort to put it in, and it would be nice for those that have it.

The only reason I'd want more than one monitor when gaming would be something like. Having the game world on the centre screen and have something like the map and/or menu system on the other(s). Otherwise spreading the game world across two or three screens would be a pain to see everything unless you had a very deep desk and so could sit a fair bit back.

Except as previously stated this does not take time. Exactly like how 3D mode does not take time. Bethesda ain't gotta do nothing.

There's nothing magical about a 4:3 or 16:9 ratio. At all. The ability to output to different shaped rectangles is just inherent in a renderer, as is different fields of view. The only thing they really need to do is design a UI that can scale well to those superwide resolutions, and that's not something that takes more time, it just has to be a consideration as you design it.

Your assumption that everything takes extra time is ridiculous, like every game engine starts out as a base and for every single little feature they have to use some of the certain amount of time they have. It's like I'm saying that the gold daggers should have little white spots, and you're telling me that's bad because they should spend the extra time on making new weapons - great, but they're making a gold dagger *anyway*, they just have to make it slightly differently.

To put it bluntly: If you don't know what you're talking about, don't talk about it. That's why I don't take part in high level rendering talk, or discussions about the realism of weaponry, because I know I haven't a clue.

I am totally the same way!!!

I dislike multiple monitors...the break between them really annoys me. I would rather have something like http://www.computerriver.com/images/ostendo-curved-monitor.jpg and you still get your http://www.letmedefine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ostendo-crvd-2.jpg support although I know that screen has it's flaws (old tech and what not) atleast you don't get the gap between the monitors...

The more I think about it, it does make sense. This is the first I'd heard of it (that I remember) minus a similar thread. At first I thought each monitor would display something different (which is how it usually is in business) such as map on one screen, character on another. But I see now it's about having a realistic field of view.

Anyways...the whole thing seems kind of primitive, actually. Like, it's such a slapdash solution, I'm surprised a company hasn't come out with a monitor that curves around in that way for the same (or similar) price of 3 separate monitors. In a few years people are going to shake their heads and be like "Wow, we really thought it was cool to play on 3 separate monitors just stuck next to each other? That went out with saggy jeans and emo hair." It's the kind of thing that someone would do in their basemant before any else had thought of it, not something that has become a somewhat widely adopted practice among hardcoe gamers.

BUT I also just realized I have a teleconference class where we have a bank of three 50'' monitors that display a video feed from the other classroom. Am now formulating a plan to sneak my xbox/pc in and hook it up.

*edit...add in Kinect (which is being debuted for PC now) and the field of vision will change as you move your head. That would be sweet.

thats a nice little set up you got yourself there .. jealousy levels are.. WAIT!!.. IT'S OVER 9000!!!!!

There have been many headtracking solutions for PC previously, and while unfortunately I've never owned one myself they are rather good. I'm hoping kinect gets some decent uses with this stuff on PC so I can finally justify buying one.

@ Keltic Viking

Look up OLED screens, they can curve and such. Or they will, at least .