I know you can have an extra wide desktop spread across two screens with the Matrox cards, but can you also play games across two monitors with them or is that just too many pixels for them to handle in 3D?
I remember trying to use a Matrox G400 with 2 monitors on NT4 @ 1600x600 but I don't think it worked because there was no DirectX3D support in UT with the driver I was using or perhaps there was some other issue I don't remember. I'm sure you could never choose a big resolution like that using 98SE that is when the driver worked and didn't give me a general protection fault on bootup. (that is pretty much what has played 98SE for me lately although recently I did an ME install for fun and had the smoothest 9x experience I'd had in ages which made me very confused) anyway 9x doesnt combine to one big resolution so I'm sure UT would only display on 1 monitor instead of 2 like I wanted. I never tried any other games though so maybe I didn't do something right.
No, unless the game supports 2 screens which is rare (ms flight sim, x2 and x3 are a few that do)
your better off with 3 screens because with 2 you get the bezels right in the middle
to do what you want would require triplehead to go or soft triplehead
soft TH
http://www.kegetys.net/SoftTH/
triplehead2go
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/
Deus Ex using ati eyefinity (3 screens)
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wrote:No, unless the game supports 2 screens which is rare (ms flight sim, x2 and x3 are a few that do) your better off with 3 screens […]
No, unless the game supports 2 screens which is rare (ms flight sim, x2 and x3 are a few that do)
your better off with 3 screens because with 2 you get the bezels right in the middle
to do what you want would require triplehead to go or soft tripleheadsoft TH
http://www.kegetys.net/SoftTH/triplehead2go
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/Deus Ex using ati eyefinity (3 screens)
How did you get that pic? Shouldn't there be bars between the screens?
The graphics card actually sends out a 3840x1024 (or whatever) full picture, then the Matrox box splits it up for the monitors.
But when you take a printscreen, you'd of course get the stuff from the graphics card - frame buffer pre-matrox, i.e. a full barless picture... 😎
http://techgage.com/print/matrox_triplehead2go
Check "The Premise" in link above.
wrote:The graphics card actually sends out a 3840x1024 (or whatever) full picture, then the Matrox box splits it up for the monitors. […]
The graphics card actually sends out a 3840x1024 (or whatever) full picture, then the Matrox box splits it up for the monitors.
But when you take a printscreen, you'd of course get the stuff from the graphics card - frame buffer pre-matrox, i.e. a full barless picture... 😎
http://techgage.com/print/matrox_triplehead2go
Check "The Premise" in link above.
For $299 though? I can buy an HD6950 that does triple monitors out of the box at higher resolutions for less or a 6970 for just a little bit more and I'd get better performance, too. .
@sliderider you dont see monitor bezels when you take a screenshot 😁
ps: its 5284x1050
i use a 6950 the triplehead2go does have the advantage of working with any gfx card and xp (eyefinity is win7 only, possibly vista)
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