Help!! 3 screen system

I know this thread a few weeks (months?) old but I’d like to chime in as it’s my first post in the forums and I can offer some helpful advice in the matter of the pros and cons of using Matrox hardware.

The Tripple-head2go device can output a virtual display size of 3840 x 1024 (or 4080 x 768 if you have 3 widescreen format monitors). That’s a lot of pixels. As such, you need a graphics card that can push all those pixels. But it can be used in dual-head mode if you don’t have 3 monitors laying around, you can add another monitor later.

The new tripple-head2go digital edition has bezel management which allows you ‘hide’ parts of the image behind the bezels (doesn’t work in dual-head mode). This feature has a price, the width is removed from the flanks of the display reducing overall image size.

Wideview ( http://wideview.it/ ) is a more practical option in terms of using bits you have laying around the house, although you look at some set-ups and have to wonder and how much it costs to run 5 to 10 PCs with monitors.

I find the the Matrox GXMs practical and can almost justify it as a work expense (as a developer I find the desktop real-esate bloody marvelous). In the UK “Scan” computers had them for a good price (good = cheapest I could find).

Clear skies

Sherburn aero club fs user group

That looks great pity you can’t bring it along to one of our meetings to show it off I am sure it would create a lot of interest amongst our members.

thanks for sharing it with is!!

crozzy

My WidevieW Setup using 3 PC’s

It’s been a long, long time from I done anything to my flight sim. In fact I took down all my hardware and put it away. Recently I linked three of my computers together via a LAN HUB with three 19″ LCD monitors, and with the use of WidevieW I loaded up my flight sim (FS2004). Here are the results. It has rekindled some of the fire in me for flying, well at least flying my flight sim setup.

I did notice that the 3D cockpit images are a little off in their alignment, but it’s a small price to pay for having such a great setup.

[QUOTE=’lectra;1214742]Another alternative (cheaper if you have a second PC and a bit of network knowhow) is to use wideview (http://wideview.it/) a software solution to allow you to link mulitple FS copies over a network.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for that I will take a look!!

Another alternative (cheaper if you have a second PC and a bit of network knowhow) is to use wideview (http://wideview.it/) a software solution to allow you to link mulitple FS copies over a network.

oops

I Do Fly

I already fly but just use the sim to practice instrument flying and VOR/NDB tracking, but it would be good to have the realism of side views I use track IR which is pretty good!

Why not just learn to fly with that money?:confused:

3 monitors

Thanks for that info Steve! I never thought it would be cheap nothing good is!

you will need one off these http://www.matrox.com/graphics/surroundgaming/en/home/

and 3 monitors with the same size bezel

so it not cheap