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Thanks all! sometimes, age is not such a bad thing:)

Markdude, do you have TrackIR? if not this is THE most incredible immersion factor you can have. Do you have a HOTAS also? JEFX

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You might be good with 850W since you have the right connectors. I am no tech here. I am sure that you can find the exact energy consumption of the card somewhere on the net (Tom's hardware maybe?). JEFX

Pilotasso, It is difficult to tell exactly the improvement because at the same time that I changed my card (from a 7950X2), I also went from a 21'' CRT in 1600X1200 to a TH2Go setup with 3840X1024, which my old card could not handle very well... All I can say is that it did an amazing improvement with the new setup. (like going from as low as 7 FPS on takeoff at AirBases to 30ish FPS). Be warned though that you might have to change your PSU. I had a 600 Watts and it was definitely not enough. I dont know about the 800 that you have. You need a PSU with both a 6 pin plug AND a more recent 8 pin PCI plug. It really works great (it makes quite some noise though, but I still love it because I can really enjoy seemless motion, even through dark smoke and explosions.) Here is a really deep review of the card on Widescreengamingforum : http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php/NVIDIA_GeForce_9800GX2_Review hope this helps, keep us posted! You can see my post about my new setup here : http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=513139#post513139 :D:D:D JEFX

Just a quick message to tell you all how amazing Flaming cliffs looks with TH2Go! After reading a lot here (our forum) and there (including the excellent forum on widescreengamingforum.com), reviews of hardware, graphics cards, etc, I decided to give myself a proper 50th birthday present and went ahead with buying TH2Go with 3 monitors and a new graphics card. My computer is average good with a Core2Duo E6600 (2.4Ghz) and 2 Gigs of DDR2 memory, and previously I had a nVidia 7950X2 card. When I plugged my 3 new Samsung 19'' flat pannels in through the TripleHead2Go digital edition recently arrived, the FPS were disastrous. I ordered then a new XFX Black edition (slightly overclocked) of the great 9800GX2 card and now everything is fantastic. I get FPS around 20 to 30 on the airbases or above cities flying low, or with dozens of explosions going around and of course, if I fly high, or above water, it can go as high as 200. Anyways, for me, the FPS is one thing but more important is the impression of fluidity without discontinuity... Which is what I do get now. The image is so big now with 3840x1024 that it fills one's vision and even if things are a bit too zoomed in, it is OK because it looks much more realistic (with dials being big like real ones, and trees and details pretty big in the hud). The feeling of everything being more real because bigger was my greatest surprise. It requires quite a bit of fiddling to make it work properly. I was lucky to be nicely helped by a few people including RATCATCHER who really summed up all the previous discussions about it here : http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=491571&postcount=59 Most of this info comes from ggg87 and TekaTeka, thanks to them. Here is the original full thread on the problem by ggg87 : http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=17306 Here is a thread that is informative on the Widescreengaming forum : http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4374 and yet another one : http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16713&highlight=lockon#16713 Finally, for those who dont know about it, here is a detailed review of the Matrox TH2GO: http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php/Matrox_TripleHead2Go_Digital_Edition_%28Featured_Review%29 Together with a good HOTAS and most definitely TrackIR4, it is the most immersive simulator experience! (looking forward to BS with this!) JEFX (less young but more happy:D)

@ _-Phoenix_- Thanks a lot, you just made me solve my problem. I just got recently that amazing nvidia geforce 9800 GX2 black edition from XFX and it is just fantastic. My only problem was the flicker (clouds, canopy and MFD). I just put force alternate frame rendering1 in the nVidia control pannel for LOCKON specifically and the problem just vanished! Thanks! JEFX

Thanks Groove, I had missed that post. I am sorry to hear that, since Thomas is operating one of our best ressources... Ihope that everything reverts to normal. JEFX

The site is all weird, either not working, or real slow, and this morning, it is all screwed up???

Hi! and Welcome to the forum! Once you start using Tir for a while, you cant go back. I must say that I found the adaptation difficult at first, but as Aphelion said, you have to make your own profile with a small dead zone in the middle, where you can rest your head and neck without being stiff. You also need to program a key that is easily reachable (I have it on my HOTAS) to recenter the Tir (the minute you stand up of go away you will need to recenter, and the feeling of ease of use depends very much on how you did center with your head really relaxed). I also use another startegy. I have programmed a button on my HOTAS that takes me directly to the snapviews and I have edited my snapviews (within LOFC with the alt-KPdel key). Therefore, with the press of one button I get a fixed view (say of the dashboard, or a zoomed in view of the HUD) and it comes in handy if you get desoriented looking around. Some people (my younger bro for example) hate it because it moves too much : make yourself smoother curves and add some smoothing. Anyway, I cannot imagine how to fly without it (just padlocking a spot on the ground while making a turn at 60 degrees is so realistic!). Good luck! JEFX

I think we went through the same here... Sounds like me... I connect here too guys! what a pleasure! JEFX

GG, despite the fact that it will turn on automatically on launch, will we have to wait for the laser to be ready again for a certain period like in FC before we can launch? What will be the limit of working time for the laser before shut down? thanks JEFX

Thanks Ratcatcher, I will give news in 2 days (cant wait...). Lockon is fine but I am really looking forward to learn and drive that great shark with such a display! JEFX

Thanks again Ratcatcher and ggg, I finally got my TH2Go and it works as you said. I got my three screens and the matrox thing yesterday and it worked right away with your numbers. It is awesome but as you said, it slows down the system a lot (because of the zoomed out increased FOV). but :smilewink: In two days I will get a new 9800GX2 black edition from XFX, (and unfortunatly a new power supply because this monster eats up a lot of power...) and I will report back with the results. WOW JEFX

Here you go, two older threads on the matter : (trackball, mouse, TDC) http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=20777&highlight=rugg+trackball and http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=22346&highlight=rugg+trackball

The key to it is to use the MOUSE! Or if you have one, use a good trackball! JEFX

I agree with you, I think this forum is very quiet these days (maybe vacation in lockonland?). I am as curious as you to get more Dev reports and screens... JEFX

WELL WELL that is what I call a great and detailed answer! Thanks a lot! I will keep this preciously and am ordering my new setup as soon as possible! Fantastic post!:) JEFX

Thanks a lot! Very appreciated! Hoping that all this will get TH2go more attention! JEFX

Thanks Ratcatcher I am very tempted! I am wondering about monitor sizes? If one goes LCD, it is said that those work in native resolution, that means it is best for triplehead to go with 3x19'' , correct? How come you are using 20''s? JEFX

ggg I just looked again at your pics in post #16 (http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=222680&postcount=16) and I really want one like that also!!! Can you just make a synthesis of the values that need to be changed exactly (sort of a tutorial for newbies at THtoGO) thanks! JEFX

edit... It is Ratcatcher who has the THtoGO and touchbuddy together. Can you explain your setup please? JEFX

SPYBAZ What are your settings in order to make THtoGO work? I am trying to get as much info as possible because I might buy one also! (you said you got it running smoothly in 3 hours... mind sharing the numbers?) I am a bit lost in the actual physical configuration of the system for it to work properly : do you need 2 video cards to make thtogo work with 3 screens? You also have touchbuddy, do you have another card for it or another computer in network??? thanks JEFX

ggg Thanks again for sharing all your efforts! Does THtoGo require more than one graphics card? I saw on their website that the thing connects via ONE cable to the comp. (and of course 3 cables to the monitors), does that mean only one card? (I see in your sig 2x 8800ultras???) If you have 2 cards, how do you set this up? I am very tempted to go THtoGO (by the way, they say that they are out of stock on their web site...). If ever I get there, would you mind sharing your configuration numbers, what did you change and for what reason? I dont know what to configure for such a resolution (and the famous zoom issue, etc) thanks a lot! JEFX

Thanks guys for all replies. I am thinking about all this... JEFX