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[Hardware] Things *not* to do on the day before pay day...
While reading about multi-screen gaming in sims like iRacing I realised I
only had to tweak my Nvidia settings to get dual screen gaming on my games box. Ok, we're talking about a setup where you're looking straight at the bezels, but it requires no extra hardware or messing about, just two monitors connected to the dual outputs. And, er... wow! No, I mean WOW! The piddly little extra bit of FOV you get on a normal widescreen monitor has never done anything for me... you pay over the odds for that extra bit of monitor (or lose vertical resolution). That's why I've stayed with 4:3 monitors so far. But I can honestly say that when I saw LFS, then iRacing running in 8:3 'wide-o-vision' (2560x1024) for the first time it was one of those rare moments when the PC world shifts beneath your feet. As I always suspected, it makes a *huge* difference to the driving experience and immersion, and a bit of quick experimentation with Crysis & HL2 proved the same there... though to a lesser degree (for me anyway). I think I now have to take a three screen setup very seriously, because a single gaming screen now looks so constricted... and that's only after half an hour of playing around! SoftTH would probably be the best answer for me, but I only have one PCI-E slot, and a vanilla PCI 'slave' card won't cut the mustard... even if I had one. A new motherboard would be a pain to sort out. Mmm... this could get very messy and rather expensive. The Matrox solution is complicated by the fact in the short term I'd want to use a combination of mix & match analogue (non-DVI) monitors, which would rule out the superior digital triplehead solution. I think I need to sit back and contemplate this for a while. Or maybe apply my iRacing technique... ignore it for a while in the hope the urge will go away. :-) Andrew McP |
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[Hardware] Things *not* to do on the day before pay day...
Andrew MacPherson wrote:
> While reading about multi-screen gaming in sims like iRacing I realised I > only had to tweak my Nvidia settings to get dual screen gaming on my > games box. Ok, we're talking about a setup where you're looking straight > at the bezels, but it requires no extra hardware or messing about, just > two monitors connected to the dual outputs. > > And, er... wow! > > No, I mean WOW! > > The piddly little extra bit of FOV you get on a normal widescreen monitor > has never done anything for me... you pay over the odds for that extra > bit of monitor (or lose vertical resolution). That's why I've stayed with > 4:3 monitors so far. I thought about Matrox, too, while I used a 22" LG Monitor for my racing cockpit. But a couple of months ago I realized how dirt cheap LCD TVs are now, so I picked a 32" Samsung LCD TV. At 1366x768 it's looking great and "size matters". You almost get the impression you're sitting in that cockpit. I'm not sure if Matrox & Co let you easily (and for all games) put different views on the left and right monitor, or is it just the regular front view distributed over the three monitors??? If it's the latter, I could not accept looking at the two bezels but rather have one big screen. Meanwhile I'm once a week looking at prices for 40" LCD TVs (Full HD) but currently way too high to be used only for a racing cockpit... l8er ronny |
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[Hardware] Things *not* to do on the day before pay day. (multiple screen
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[Hardware] Things *not* to do on the day before pay day. (multiple screen
"Andrew MacPherson" > wrote in message ddress_disguised... > (Andrew MacPherson) wrote: > >> I must resist the urge to use that... 10% off something I regret >> later won't be a bargain! :-) > > However at the moment I'm very tempted by a 28" Hanns-G 1920x1600 for > about 240ukp. Good real estate bang for buck, average monitor, but for > gaming only it'd probably be fine. I could try running a simple, no > complications, two screen setup with that, and the centre point would be > on one side of the 28". > > Mind you, while my 17" LCD sits happily beside the 19", it'd look a bit > small next to the 28". > > Mmm... the temptations of a cheap solution rather than the *right* > solution! > > Andrew McP Matrox recently updated their Triplehead2Go Digital to support widescreen resolutions. It can now run 3 1680x1050 screens. I'll have to upgrade to be able to run at this resolution. |
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Things *not* to do on the day before pay day. (multiple screen
Andrew, I'd really like to try this... Do you have a link to a guide
how to setup a 2nd monitor? Thanks. |
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Things *not* to do on the day before pay day. (multiple screen
Actually I've just realised that idea won't work. I think both monitors
have to be set to the same resolution for the spanning to work properly, which is a bit of a bugger. There goes another cheapskate solution to the multi-screen problem! I am *totally* converted to the idea now though. I was just running 2 screens again and despite the middle bezel mess I was still about to lap in iRacing at normal speeds. Mind you, normal for me's not much of a challenge. Andrew McP |
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Things *not* to do on the day before pay day. (multiple screen
On Aug 30, 3:30*am, (Andrew
MacPherson) wrote: > Actually I've just realised that idea won't work. I think both monitors > have to be set to the same resolution for the spanning to work properly, > which is a bit of a bugger. > > There goes another cheapskate solution to the multi-screen problem! I am > *totally* converted to the idea now though. I was just running 2 screens > again and despite the middle bezel mess I was still about to lap in > iRacing at normal speeds. > > Mind you, normal for me's not much of a challenge. > > Andrew McP That's cool... I just had to buy myself a new monitor and really I'd love to get another when I have the $$. I'll try the scan thing... But if I understand right, the middle of the car is the frame of the monitors? Eeek! |
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