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Just wanted to get my first post in. I am a newbie Eyefinity gamer, Here are some of my early experiences.

I started with playing Civ V. Before I patched it, the FOV (I am JUST starting to learn so I am not sure if I am even saying it right) seemed better without that edge 'screen bending' that I am getting after I updated. With the Civ V update there are other eyefinity issues that were resolved and that is a good thing. I am not sure if I am right, I AM a newbie and update pretty fast but I only remember when I rebooted the game w/ the patch I noticed the side monitors looked odd. Still a playable 3 screen game but it could REALLY use some improvement, this is not a game where we you are viewing in a 3d world, it should be flat across all monitors.

I tried out one of my favs, Fallout Vegas (not as good as Fallout 3). I liked what I saw but I was not in the mood to get back into the game, when I do I am going to do a total restart and stomp the vegas wasteland another time.

I saw A LOT of eyefinity hype and one of the games they focused on was Dragon Age II. You know, not REALLY my type of game. The most RPG I like to go is Fallout but one game I ventured 'out of my own box' a long time ago was Knights of The Old Republic. As much as that was NOT a game I ever imagined I would like, it sucked me in. Even the point and click combat I at first HATED, I started to enjoy and have fun with. So, I figure, I tolerated Oblivion and that Fantasy stuff, I will make my first game purchase DAII. I am not done and I have played a LONG time. It is a very good to almost great type of a game. There are is some greatness but there are some elements that drag it down.

Once again, the view and the bending at the screen edges is TOO MUCH. I am not sure how happy I am with the FOV (I think that is what they are calling it) and how / where to adjust. From my initial look it seems that games do not offer ANY adjustments unless you 'hack' and that forcing this adjustment within the video drives is not practical.

BTW, I am almost exclusively a 1st person gamer, so these first two games I am playing is also out of character. I bet when I go to something like AvP then I will be more blow away by Eyefinity.

I am joining up because I am sure I will spend much time reading, learning because this whole multi view thing is more of a rogue operation that if we want to get to work decent we have to do our part. I also do not see it ever getting more popular, too bad because there is potential. But I do not see Monitor resolutions expanding anytime soon, the mainstream will stick with the 1080 max for quite some time. So MORE monitors IS a viable future option but 2 is NOT really with the bezel at eye center. So, 3 'might' get more popular. Let' hope so!

Nice to make your acquaintance. I'm usually not a big fan of RPG games either but I really like "The Witcher 2". Do you have your 955 BE running stock core speeds?

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Nice first post. I played and loved Oblivion, Fallout 3 and New Vegas, but haven't tried DAII so I might give it a bash.

In my experience, you'll nearly always find some level of screen bending at the edge, as you put it, when playing Eyefinity. It is the view of many people here that the outside screens are there more to add to the immersion than to be perfect displays, but definitely some games are worse than others here. Changing the FOV (Field of View) doesn't always help, it just changes how much you see but sometimes the bending effect at the edges remains constant.

Anyhow, welcome to the forums!

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