Hi
I am looking for info from gamers using a triple set up if they had success with most games and how they rate the wide view gaming?
thx!

wow! is this area slow!

anyone running triple set up?

what monitor?
how is it gaming?

thx!

Well, nobody seems to want to answer so heres my experience..

I bought one without looking into it properly.

I run 1 X 24" @ 1920 X 1200
and 2 X 21" @ 1680 X 1050

Using 2 X Nvidia 8800GTX's

Without THTG Windows Desktop is great, native resolutions no issues.
I can even use SoftTH to run some games with no issues.

So... I plug in the THTG and realise, I have to unplug it again to reset my screen resolution to one supported by THTG, otherwise I get the lovely diag lines and cant see the screen, fair comment.

Using THTG under windows obviously wont let me run at native resolutions, it doesnt support 1680 X 1050 X 3 which would keep my desktop looking pretty normal.

Getting games to work, well theres a whole other problem.

Ive yet to find a way to easily plug in the THTG, load a game and play it in stereo widescreen.

SoftTH supports 5040 X 1050 no problems
THTG doesnt !

Using the supported widescreen resolutions available on the THTG digital edition produces fair results which look ok and perform ok, especially with SLI enabled, but its not an easy transition.

On most occassions I find it very difficult to get into the game to enable the widescreen profile without the screens going crazy or it crashing.

When I finally do, a few hours later it works very well, with decent framerates too.

Overall, I should have researched it more, it would also have been nice if the packaged cable was longer than a foot, which is barely enough to get it off the floor from behind your PC.

Personally... I think SoftTH has a lot more going for it, its just a shame about game support.

Now if I find an easy way to set up my system for THTG which allows me to swap back to my native 3 screen setup & back again when I please, then I may be happier.

But until then, the THTG is sat on a shelf and occassionally plugged in if I can be bothered to try and get it to work.


System :

Intel QX9650 Quad Extreme (Water Cooled)
OCZ 4GB RAM DDR2 800
2 X 8800 GTX
Vista X64 Ultimate
TrackIr & TripleHead2Go Digital

My analog TH2G has basically gone unused for a year now. Problem is I never bought 3 identical 1280x1024 small bezel LCD's in hopes I'd get setup with 3 projectors instead. Overall, I thinks it's alot of fun for the right games if you have decent monitors. But for me I'd want it setup on a spare machine and still have normal single 22-24" widescreen gaming available at anytime on my main machine.

I have three 26" Soyo Pearl LCDs, M3A32MVP Asus with 9950 Quad Phenom, three HD3870 ATI crossfires, and four SATA II Seagates. The TH2Go is nice, but it has a 5:4 supported solution, my monitors are all 16:9 which makes for an oval sight and squatty little soldiers running around. If the aspect rations and FOVs could be changed easily and according to game, the triple head would be great! With Vista 64, Horizontal Spanning has been discontinued and with crossfire for good frame rates, a single dvi output is a necessity! Too bad that matrox has left this sit for the last year and a half, a little more development would make them a mint. Power Desk SE is barily enough to make windows do what you want, a more elaborate version is necessary also. The short dvi supplied cable is also a let down. At this point, if you have vista 32 or 64 with the new WDDM drivers and / or SLI or Crossfire, it is the only choice for multi screen surround gaming. The vista desktop will still work on three, using hydravision supplied by ATI in Catalyst 8.10. I wish that Matrox would make the SGU gaming start program work for all current games on the market, that would be enough for me. 143 FPS in COD4 on three monitors is great, except for the oval scope and squatty soldiers. :-( Jetdome

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