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Three screens!!! I found some 3840x1024 wallpapers, the equivalent of 3 1280x1024 screens, which is the limit of the 3 Dell 1905FP 19" monitors I have here, as well as the output maximum of the Matrox TripleHead2Go, so everything's all matched up pretty well then, no? I thought so. Everything's at it's natural limit.
I've researched quite a bit, read things by Nvidia staff, and talked to hardcore gamers, hackers, professional programmers, and even those who program things like video drivers, and no one anywhere online or off seems to have a good solution for driving 3 displays with full hardware acceleration with 2 cards.
I couldn't find a card with 3 DVI outs, and with 2 dual-out cards, you can get hardware acceleration on 2 monitors, but the third will render in software, and you can't play a game across all 3. There are videos on YouTube of people playing everything from Quake to Microsoft Flight Sim on everything up to 24 monitors, maybe even more, but they're either custom hacking the software somehow, or using many PCs.
E.g. the video in which the guy uses 24 monitors also has him using 12 PCs networked together, and maybe some software hackage. The only option for me, without paying thousands and thousands of dollars, and greatly increasing my energy bill, and decreasing the space in my room was the Matrox TripleHead2Go, which simply tells the PC that it's a super-wide monitor, then takes that single, wide, hardware accelerated signal, and divvies it up to 3 monitors. I have 3-display hardware rendering now :)
IMG_2628.JPG
Three screens!!! I found some 3840x1024 wallpapers, the equivalent of 3 1280x1024 screens, which is the limit of the 3 Dell 1905FP 19" monitors I have here, as well as the output maximum of the Matrox TripleHead2Go, so everything's all matched up pretty well then, no? I thought so. Everything's at it's natural limit.
I've researched quite a bit, read things by Nvidia staff, and talked to hardcore gamers, hackers, professional programmers, and even those who program things like video drivers, and no one anywhere online or off seems to have a good solution for driving 3 displays with full hardware acceleration with 2 cards.
I couldn't find a card with 3 DVI outs, and with 2 dual-out cards, you can get hardware acceleration on 2 monitors, but the third will render in software, and you can't play a game across all 3. There are videos on YouTube of people playing everything from Quake to Microsoft Flight Sim on everything up to 24 monitors, maybe even more, but they're either custom hacking the software somehow, or using many PCs.
E.g. the video in which the guy uses 24 monitors also has him using 12 PCs networked together, and maybe some software hackage. The only option for me, without paying thousands and thousands of dollars, and greatly increasing my energy bill, and decreasing the space in my room was the Matrox TripleHead2Go, which simply tells the PC that it's a super-wide monitor, then takes that single, wide, hardware accelerated signal, and divvies it up to 3 monitors. I have 3-display hardware rendering now :)