Matrox Triple Head To Go

longbow · Post by **longbow** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:32 pm

As it seems this multi-screen enabler will be supported by RS Upgrade 2, any thoughts from existing Matrox users as to whether this quite costly add-on will be worth having?

RSAdam · Post by **RSAdam** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:48 am

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RSderek · Post by **RSderek** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:56 am

That is a classy set up Adam has there...

JunGRail · Post by **JunGRail** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 2:03 pm

Looks good but a bit stretched.

And what settings it being run at, im guessing full

I tried it on mine using Boot camp and works but frame rate is really lagging

RSAdam · Post by **RSAdam** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 2:57 pm

Tried it already?? Support for triple monitors has only been available for about 30minutes!

Website · Post by **Easilyconfused** » Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:13 pm

JunGRail wrote:Looks good but a bit stretched.

And what settings it being run at, im guessing full

I tried it on mine using Boot camp and works but frame rate is really lagging

Correct me if I am wrong but is Bootcamp a way of running Windows on Apple hardware i.e. some sort of emulator ? http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/bootcamp.html

If so then why would you expect a high performance Windows application to work correctly ? I have used similar tools like VMware to run Unix and other applications on top of the range PC hardware and the performance sucked.

raildumper · Post by **raildumper** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 1:10 am

That's nice having 3 screens for RS. I have 2 but i can't get them to work in dual mode. The main screen is a 17" one, with a max resolution of 1280x1024, the second one is 15" and 1024x768. How should i set them up?
It would be nice if all windows like F3, F4, F5... could be moved to the smaller screen, having the main screen clean with only the cab view. Is that possible?

Greetings

Manuel

overmarze · Post by **overmarze** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 1:48 am

I think thay all need to be the same resolution

longbow · Post by **longbow** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 6:38 am

It would be nice if all windows like F3, F4, F5... could be moved to the smaller screen, having the main screen clean with only the cab view. Is that possible?

Don't think so. As far as I can see both Matrox and the RS dual window option merely spread the RS image over multiple screens

nwallace · Post by **nwallace** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 10:55 am

Looking at those screen shots of Adams the one of the interior shows a problem, it's stretched that to fit and then Adam has angled it in so it looks almost daft. Ideally you would have a huge wide-screen monitor and the appropriate camera angle

Failing that the next best is the 3 monitions on the same horizontal plane and the software set up to show that or set and known angles and the screen rendered based on that, I reckon the later is asking a fair bit.

RSAdam · Post by **RSAdam** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:24 pm

Hiya,

Sorry that the images arent that great Overmarze. It is true that still images on mis-matched monitors dont really do the feature justice. I'll try and get some Youtube videos up of the setup using matching monitors. It is a cool feature that really adds to the experience if you can do it.

overmarze · Post by **overmarze** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:40 pm

Is there anyway we can have tripple view on 1 moniter lol thats a stupid queston i bet

RSAdam · Post by **RSAdam** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:54 pm

Celotape and black paper......

overmarze · Post by **overmarze** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:09 pm

It is possoble then? lol

Post by **NeutronIC** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:39 am

Just for clarification, will this feature work with dual output video cards or is it just for single outputs running through splitters like the triple head to go unit?

I have a dual monitor set-up at home and when I tried this I was quite confused about how to set it up - they are not the same resolution (one is 17" 4:3 and the other is 20" 16:9) so none of the available resolutions made any sense and when i tried one and set it to 2x1 monitor set-up I just ended up with a quarter sized rail sim window squeezed in to the center left of the main screen, ignoring the second screen entirely.

It also couldn't let me tell it where the screen was relatively - i.e. my primary screen is on the right with the secondary on the left, which I believe means that zero coordinate is going to be in the middle of the "virtual" screen where if the primary was on the left then zero would be on the very left.

Am I right in thinking that you can only use a single output, on to which you create a big screen and leave it up to the matrox to split in to multiple monitors, then the monitor configuration (2x1 etc) is what then lets you cut that big screen up in to multiple displays?

If that *is* the case then I really do have to wonder why the effort was spent on it since there are probably five people out there with Rail Sim and a Matrox splitter.

If it isn't the case and dual output graphics cards work, then if the problem is that it requires matched resolutions then again that seems to me to be a rather silly design decision - most people with dual monitors will have got the second one to upgrade the first and simply hooked the original one up because they can, so probably only another five people who have a suitable configuration to make the feature work.

Can you shed some light on this please Adam or Derek?

Regards
Matt.

Atomic Systems

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