3 screens from 2 videocards in 1 computer

[Groove]

i put a new thread up to not hijack this one for just on graphic card and 2 monitors.

[Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN]

any ideas how i could setup an windos resolution of 1024x1536 ?

 

im trying with Powerstrip but it aint let me do the change...

 

make a custom res with nvidia control panel and make one with powerstrip, but your monitor would have to be able to have such a high vertical lres of 1536.

[Groove]

thx scotman i found some kind of what i asked for in the ati drivers :)

[Wags]

that is a fake setup, look at the mini huds on both sides, if that wasnt fake, then you wouldnt get the huds on the side windows

 

This screen was from the Brietling booth at this years ITC conference in London. Several members of Eagle were there obsevering it in action.

 

Three monitor support has always been a feature of Lock On since 1.0 when using the Parhalia series of cards. I still remember personally getting this support put in.

 

-Matt

[Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN]

well then why is there huds on 3 sides ?

 

and also i did see the brietling thread and shit, but too me that doesnt look as tho its real.

 

so can you answer why there is 3 huds on the screen ? cuz as far as i am aware there should only be one.

 

also, are you 100% sure that is the very same one that brietling was showing ? as even the dude who posted said its fake and was just a setup using 3 pc's, he never just took that out of thin air and decided to post it.

 

also if it is the real brietling one, it wasnt this years, it was last years.

 

nobody is deny that lockon can be run on 3 pc's but what we are saying is that one isnt properly running 3 montiors via 1 lomac process.

cuz i sure as f00k cant explain why there would be 3 huds on the screens, maybe thats a feature but why would it be ?

[Groove]

Guys, easy going :)

[Wags]

well then why is there huds on 3 sides ?

 

and also i did see the brietling thread and shit, but too me that doesnt look as tho its real.

 

so can you answer why there is 3 huds on the screen ? cuz as far as i am aware there should only be one.

 

also, are you 100% sure that is the very same one that brietling was showing ? as even the dude who posted said its fake and was just a setup using 3 pc's, he never just took that out of thin air and decided to post it.

 

also if it is the real brietling one, it wasnt this years, it was last years.

 

Wheather or not that is a shot from the brietling show I don't know (have not compared), regardless, whatever was shown at the show was not a fake and demonstrates that 3 monitor support is quite possible with the proper card.

 

-Matt

[Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN]

i am not disagreeing with ya, all i am saying is, why did it have 3 huds, now you have answered that cool, but why the dude said it was a fake setup i dunno he must of read it somewhere before he posted it?, i saw last years thread with the same setup as above ( which you reminded me that it was breitlings) but i cudnt remember whos the setup was, i also saw a fake 3 screen setup not long ago which was just positioned so that it looked real. so i couldnt remember if the one that is shown above was the real one or not. I knew one was a fake, and the 3 huds on ^ that one threw me.

 

but i know with the right kit lockon can support multiple monitors as it has it in the options menu when u get to huge screen rez's.

 

once 1.12a comes out i will install lockon and i will test this but it will have to bemax of 1024x768 x3 as thats the smallest montior i got.

 

it was the 3 huds that was throwing me.

 

when i come to think about it, i think breitlings ones were huge, they just look like normal monitors, if i can remember correclty the breitling ones had huge screens and some sort of pit ?

[britgliderpilot]

I believe it's just to do with the way they've got it set up.

 

It doesn't appear to be one field of view spread over three monitors, but rather a single FoV out of the front and one more out of each side. Maybe they're linked for head movement so all three move together, maybe not . . . . but I bet that's why.

[Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN]

whatever it is bgp, it sure is nice, and my 1024x768s limitation in rez aint gonna do it justice :(

 

http://lockon.ru/img/forum/P1010016.jpg

 

 

the breitling one which is HUGE and doesnt have 3 huds. ^

 

so conclusion is, that the other pic is the faker that was just positioned to look real, that must of been the one i seen not long ago.

[Wags]

I made the assumption (perhaps false) that the screen shot was from the brietling show. I would be curious to compare it to the show shots that were released a few months ago. Link?

 

The multiple HUDs could most likely be a simple artifact of the three separate rendering paths that the Parhelia supports (each at a different view angle) and the software simply does not "know" not render the mini-HUD according to each view render (not really surprising).

 

-Matt

[Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN]

link is in the post above that i just edited in seconds before you posted :)

 

http://forum.lockon.ru/showthread.php?t=7588&highlight=breitling

 

thats the thread it came from, it was a good few months ago it was posted.

[Wags]

Thanks.

 

At this point I don't at least see anything that indicates that image is fake. The only difference between it and the show pics could be that the image has taken with mini-HUD option turned on the show pics turned off. However, in the end it really doesn't matter in that we both agree on the principle that 3-monitor support is indeed posssible with the right card.

 

Sorry if I was a bit snippy.

 

-Matt

[Guest EVIL-SCOTSMAN]

na, dude, it is i who should be sorry, me forgot u be mod and kinda came back arrogantly at ya

 

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[G3]

ok team, its all good, as from all this i have learnt about this brietling setup and i was previously unaware of it so that a bonus as it looks great

 

wags, the screenshot is indeed a fake in the sense that its not actually 3 screens in the one game, its 3 pc's with the game running on each one with a view panned in the side screens.

the image in the the second post is my home setup and not the brietling setup but i do agree it looks very similar, although it seems more zoomed in, very cool all the same, just to clear the mud.

i understand you can parhelia it across three, unfortunately i don't know if this is really powerful enough these days so that is why we are here.

 

groove, thanks for making your own thread about dual, this is an honourable decision, as it keeps this thread focused, thankyou.

 

let keep it casual and benefit from each others efforts and knowledge.

so far its working for me :) so keep it civil and play nice, its easy to get heated but its counter productive, and usually regretted.

 

just now got home and installing the fx5200 pci, with any luck some new results to come.

[G3]

after some experimenting with the 6800gt and the fx5200 i have been unable to accelerate the 3rd screen, i can get as far as stretching a window into the 3rd monitor but it is just a still shot and does not display game action.

 

i have so far only tried it with different driver versions for the 2 seperate cards and perhaps this is where the problem lies.

 

others have got it t work with fps games like quake 3, yet i only get two screens working even with this quake3 game so i think once the driver issues are sorted we might see some more progress.

the system specs of the rig i saw running it had a ti4600 as the main card, and it therefore was also compatible with the same driver as the pci card, i'd say thats the key to success.

i have also heard you can modify the driver files to make it think its written for your card, by editing the config or ini or whatever, this would be good too as at the moment if i try and install the same driver for both cards it just won't do it, saying its not compatible.

an older driver and the gt complains, a newer driver and the old pci card complains. something around the forceware 56.xx series may be suitable for both cards.

 

if you are familiar with editing them or know a driver that will work with both a 6800gt and a fx5200 please let me know.

[G3]

update: after several days of driver testing etc, it seems that my desire to have 3 monitors accelerated in a agp/pci setup does not look good.

 

i am now waiting on confirmation of wether on not this is possible with a modern sli setup, we will see.

[Arwid2]

Check this http://www.matrox.com/graphics/offhome/th2go/press_release.cfm

 

=) Brand new...