Multihead

Hardware concept

Supports multiple display devices simultaneously, usually showing additional info on the other displays or alternatively expanding the field of view to them.

games

platforms

Alternate names: Multiple monitors, Multiple adapters
Name variations: Eyefinity

LIN ? *

LIN 1999

ARCD 1995

ARCD 1988

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ARCD 1971-09-01

WIN 2009-02-05

Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance

WIN 2007-09-05

Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide

WIN 2003-06-17

World in Conflict

WIN 2007-09-18

Neverwinter Nights

WIN 2002-06-18

Wings of Prey

WIN 2009-12-25

Not to be mistaken for display devices or in-game multiple displays.

May be implemented to offer multiple displays, but this is not the only possible use for multihead, alternatives such as expanded view (e.g. ATi/AMD EyeFinity) is not covered by the multidisplay tag.

Due to technical limitations, multi-head display is impossible on Windows and Linux with ATi CrossFire and NVidia SLI multi-GPU setups.

Expanding the view to other displays is usually accompanied by rather exotic display aspect ratios, such as 8:3 (two 4:3 monitors) and 12:3 (actually 4:1, three 4:3 monitors).

This is NOT for cloned displays.

Parent group

Auxiliary displays

Games by year

The first Multihead video game was released on September 1, 1971.

Atari and THQ published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows		18
Linux		5
Arcade		3
Mac OS X		2
BSD		2
C128		1
Unix		1
Solaris		1
Game & Watch		1

Multihead

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