DOuble Th2go using 6 monitors possible ?

[zendesigner]

Hello,

i have a 7950gx2 card + th2go on 3 lcd monitors currently.

When i look in my Video card properties i still can extend my desktop to the second video outlet of my videocard.


Is it possible to Run 2 TH2GO from the same card?

That way i would have 6 monitors with 2* 3840*768 resolution ?

:wink:


current setup

[MatroxRulez]

It may be possible, but it would be extremely difficult to find any graphics card, that would be powerful enough to run all those monitors smoothly in games...

[JKeefe]

Matrox has said a few times that this is not officially supported. I don't know what would happen if you tried it...

First of all, the res would be a whopping 7680x1024. No game physically do that that except for maybe something coded for DX10, and then you'd need an 8800 to support the resolution. Then you need actual support from the game. That means that it would run at 7680x1024, with the correct aspect ratio (not too much of a problem) and the correct FOV (holy cow that's a big number - like maybe bigger than 180).

Then you have to deal with the image stretching. You have the massively wide rectangular viewport stretched over about 180 degrees of in-game vision - you're going to have serious distortion on the side panels.

Finally, you have the issue of an even number of screens - you have a bezel in the middle of your vision just like you would if you were gaming on dual screens.



If you want to do it just for the desktop, then you can do that anyway without an additional TripleHead2Go - just get two secondary GPUs and extend you desktop onto them.

[durrthock]

If you have that kind of money to throw around send some my way.
6 monitor that would be sweet.
http://realtimesoft.com/multimon/gallery_browse.asp?ID=808&date=desc&nummon=true&mon=desc
Can you run a game on two monitors without a dual head2go

[g00seberry]

First of all, the res would be a whopping 7680x1024. No game physically do that that except for maybe something coded for DX10, and then you'd need an 8800 to support the resolution. Then you need actual support from the game. That means that it would run at 7680x1024, with the correct aspect ratio (not too much of a problem) and the correct FOV (holy cow that's a big number - like maybe bigger than 180).

What if he put the 3 above the existing 3 to add to the vert?

You could do that anyway prob and jus use em as desktop/xbox/tv screens while playin games on the other 3.

[skipclarke]

current setup

What monitors are those? looks like you've got a 4:3 in the middle and a 16:10 on the sides?

[zendesigner]

HI

What if he put the 3 above the existing 3 to add to the vert?

That was actually my intention , sorry if i didn't specify that.

It would give 3840 * 1536 (2 times max widescreen res of TH2go)

i tried yesterday to get the second outlet to work with a normal monitor (stretch desktop) but it didn't seem to save . So maybe some issue with the matrox drivers or resolution

What monitors are those? looks like you've got a 4:3 in the middle and a 16:10 on the sides?

3 times Dell e207 20 inch widescreens with native resolution 1680/1050.

So the monitors are the same, it's possible that this picture was taken when i used a 16/9 instead of 16/10 resolution or vice versa.

The sides are a litlle stretched horizontally , but that doesn't bother me.
it could also have somethig to do with my camera lens , cause it doesn't look like the middle monitor is that small in real life.

[JKeefe]

Aha, 3 on top and 3 on the bottom...

Well, that reduces my doom and gloom predictions. I await someone trying it out. :)

[JKeefe]

Can you run a game on two monitors without a dual head2go

Yes, as long as you have dual outputs on your video card.

[JohnnyWakko]

I thought TH2G could not support 3 Widescreens. What gives?

[Paddy the Wak]

See here ... June 13, 2006
http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/node/6459

More info here ...
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gxm/support/th2go/tmet.php

[sevenalvan]

Hi Zendesigner

I think this may be possible and have been thinking of doing it myself.

When Matrox says "it is not officially suported" this is a very different response from "does not work"!

I run my flight simulator with 2 x 7950 GX2 cards with the 4 outputs going to the following screens:

Card 1 Output 1 : 3 x 21" LCD with Matrox TH2GO (front window)
Card 1 Output 2 : 10" LCD (Virtual GPS)
Card 2 Output 1 : 24" LCD (left window)
Card 2 Output 2 : 24" LCD (right window)

With all the screens set to 1280x 1024 (except for the little one running at 800x600 for the GPS) I get an effective span of 6400 x 1024! This equates to 7,033,600 pixels all up.

This works great in FS2004 (a bit fiddly undocking all the windows and them lining them up again) and ok in FSX though with the latter, even with my powerful pc, frame rates start to be become an issue.

So my guess is that FS2004 with 2 x TH2GO and 6 LCD might be ok. You might have to run at 2 x 3072 x 768 to get good frame rates but an effective span of 3072 by 1536 would be impressive. I suspect you would need to make up a frame to hold all of the LCD's in place on VESA mounts and would need a strong table!

With my dual 7950 set up I am wondering if 7 24" LCD's might be possible ie

Card 1 Output 1 : 3 x 24" LCD with TH2GO (front window)
Card 1 Output 2 : 10" LCD (Virtual GPS)
Card 2 Output 1 : 2 x 24" LCD with DH2GO (left window)
Card 2 Output 2 : 2 x 24" LCD with DH2GO (right window)

That would give me 8960 x 1024 or 7168 x 768 in FS2004! (9.655M or 5.985M pixels respectively).

Do you know anybody with a DH2GO or TH2GO to run a test?

Best of luck

Sevenalvan

[Tecno]

Before the TH2G, I had two monitors running off of the same video card. Any time I tried to span a game across more than one monitor (either making the game a window or some other hack) the frame rates dropped drastically. Rendering the game unplayable.

Essentially what you would be wanting to do is try to span the game across two huge monitors. So even if you where to span the game across the two TH2Gs if the pixels being rendered wouldn't kill you, the video card's architecture limitations would.