Eyefinity Game Reviews

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Eyefinity - Left 4 Dead
Crysis Eyefinity - Perfect shot of the sunrise

Upon loading up Left 4 Dead after setting up Eyefinity it will auto adjust to the higher resolution and aspect ratio with all the menus working correctly, but this is where the good times end. When you load one of the campaigns you will realise the first issue, the gigantic crosshair! Now this isn't t much of an issue as you can still accrately aim without having to adjust your play style and there is a way to shrink it if you don't mind losing the dynamic animation, but there is another UI problem, a much more serious one which I will get onto later. To quickly fix your crosshair so it will be a more usable size (as seen in the below picture) just type this simple command into console "cl_crosshair_dynamic 0", this will give you a much smaller crosshair minus the dynamic movements of recoil, better than nothing I suppose. 

Crysis Eyefinity - loading screen at 5760x1080

In left 4 Dead when one of your teammates is downed by some zombies it alerts you with a yellow warning symbol which is all fine and dandy until Eyefinity is involved. Instead of a reasonable small symbol guiding you to your injured teammate you get a humongous yellow triangle blocking a huge perportion of your fov. At times this can destroy your campaign and it will be extremely frustrating for some players. There is a HUD fix which can be gotten from here but there is only a few resolutions it supports so more than likely you will have to put up with stretched HUD items.

Crysis Eyefinity - streched sight in 16:9

The final issue is the default streched field of view which can be seen in the image above, yep your side monitors will have huge faces which can be distracting at times but its still very manageable. But this problem can't be fixed, I was hoping to be able to use the command "fov_desired 'chose degrees'" within the console of Left 4 Dead to change your field of view but it doesn't actually have any effect on your fov so you are stuck with giant Zoey faces.

Valve proves again that it is one 

Final Rating - Silver