Subject: Re: LockOn on three monitors?
Date: Samstag, 3. Dezember 2005 16:53
From: "bigger1" <
bigger1@mchsi.com>
Hi Peter,
When it comes to multi-monitor gaming, the game itself has to be created in a way that can utilize it. Unfortunately, not many games are written this way. I believe (not an owner myself) that the Matrox Parhelia card along with its Apptimizer utility has been able to trick some games into multi-monitor resolutions. Because some games listed on their web site (
https://www.matrox.com/mga/3d_gaming/surrgame.cfm) I was unable to get working. on my system. (ex: The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind) My Nvidia based system can play the games shown on my site, but not very well (performance wise) And I had to use such low resolutions for them (640x480-16, 800x600-16,) and all bells & whistles turned off. When you blow that size up to my monitors 48" x 12" screen just 24" from your face, the game kind-a resembled the look of original Nintendo. (very disappointing.....
The reason I mention this is- you mention LockOn having more graphic requirements than the Parhelia card can handle. I agree that the Matrox card seemed low on ability to me on paper, But I can't recall ever hearing of anyone that has one complaining about their Parhelia cards. (and I know a place where there are a-lot of owners)
(
https://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/g ... =false&mon
=desc)
I appreciated the offer of the game for trial. (and it was the thought that counted)But, I went ahead and downloaded the Demo for that.238 Mb-Whew! even on broadband it took over an hour and a half.Unfortunately, I was not able to get the game above 1280x1024-32 (1 screenonly)The game would run in "windowed mode", which was promising.But when I adj. the config file, the game just wouldn't display-it was stillrunningjust nothing on the screen.Plus-even if I was able to get it across all 3, 800x600-16 @ 2400x600-16with all the extras turned off would probably be the best I could I have achieved anyway.Sorry, and good luck.....JB----- Original Message
[b0rj] klingt nicht so erfolgversprechend also....
ich frage mich noch, ob die demo, die er da gezogen hat, technisch dem 1.11 stand oder noch 1.02 niveau entspricht.... aber ehrlich gesagt, schwindet meine hoffnung nun schon ein wenig, dass ein triple monitor setup (außer mit "schwacher" parhelia) funktioniert. werde wohl nochmal matrox benchmarks suchen.
warum er allerdings lockon nicht mal auf nur 2 monitore verteilen konnte, hat mich zunächst gewundert, denn das habe ich ja schon mit meiner gf6800geschafft. vermutlich liegt es daran, dass ich den test nur mit einer einzelnen grafik karte gemacht habe,.... mal sehen was unser scotsman naechste woche herausfindet....
Sieht fast so aus, als würde Weihnachten für Calli dieses Jahr "ausfallen"
[/b0rj]
-----From: "PL" <
webmaster@leuders.de>To: <
bigger1@mchsi.com>;
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woodstock@virtual-jabog32.de>Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 1:55
PMSubject: LockOn on three monitors?
> Hi Jeff Bigger,
>
> I ran across your website while searching for multi monitor
> setups for gami ng. I specially looked for possibilites to run
> flight simulators on this kind of setup. Now I learned from
> your webpage how to config several games to make them work
> on three displays using two graphic cards. As I expected
> FS2004 from Microsoft directly supports this kind of configuration.
>
> Unfortunately after checked the (whole) web for two weeks now I
> did not found any information about the flight simulation "Lock On"
> using three or more monitors with more than one graphic card.
>
> The only solution which is proven and tested is with a single
> Matrox Parhelia card, which directly supports three displays.
> But this card is quite a poor performer regarding 3D
> acceleration and therefore not feasible for being used with
> LockOn which is a highly hardware demanding application.
>
> Now my question: Do you see a chance to install and test the
> simulation LockOn on your rig to check if this game is capable
> of supporting a two card w/ three displays configuration?
>
> I plan to buy suc h a system but would highly appreciate
> knowing a proven test of this game explicitly before spend so
> much money on this. If you dont have the game I would
> suggest to purchase it for you, so you can perform the test.
>
> Thank you very much for any contribution on this and
> kindest regards,
>
> Peter
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