Author Topic: Aces High - 3 monitor setup (using triplehead2go) (Read 2630 times)

Birddogg · « **on:** October 02, 2006, 01:20:42 PM »

So i visited http://www.widescreengamingforums.com couple days ago and asked somone with triple monitor setup to try and run AH to see how it would work/look. Folks there were super helpful and here are some results.

1 monitor

3 monitors

Check out more screens here:

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=65369#65369

MrRiplEy[H] · « **Reply #1 on:** October 02, 2006, 01:49:17 PM »

Tew bad I can't make out the fps number on that baby

indy007 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 02, 2006, 01:51:53 PM »

Very cool too look at... but I have to question if it's actually worth the $$ considering you're still only getting 1 FOV stretched across 3 screens, and not 3 independent FOVs that would be much, much more useful.

Not great, but still pretty cool.

Birddogg · « **Reply #3 on:** October 02, 2006, 01:53:55 PM »

Yea. its useless without proper FOV.. Is there a way to adjust FOV in AH?

croduh · « **Reply #4 on:** October 02, 2006, 01:54:00 PM »

He has 191 fps on the lower pic

Enduro · « **Reply #5 on:** October 02, 2006, 02:08:59 PM »

that'd be awesome if you could have the 2 side monitors looking at 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock. still--it's sweet!

thanks for the news! i may consider going out and buying a 3rd monitor. lol

68ZooM · « **Reply #6 on:** October 02, 2006, 02:18:14 PM »

I've been using the triple monitors on my system for AutoCad Drawing that i do for Homes i never could get any video games to work proper on them. If anyone has any luck running games with 3 monitors let me know thanks

Krusty · « **Reply #7 on:** October 02, 2006, 02:33:37 PM »

Look at the images, though. It's larger, sure, but it's taking the same image and scaling up to fit across 3 monitors. Only it's cutting off 1/3 at the top and 1/3 at the bottom, you only get 1/3 in the middle (to get the full image you'd need 3x3 monitors, 9 total)

Birddogg · « **Reply #8 on:** October 02, 2006, 02:44:48 PM »

Quote

Originally posted by 68ZooM
I've been using the triple monitors on my system for AutoCad Drawing that i do for Homes i never could get any video games to work proper on them. If anyone has any luck running games with 3 monitors let me know thanks

You need this zoom
:
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/offhome/th2go/home.cfm

and enough graphical power to power images drawn over 3 monitors.
Something like dual 7xxxx Nvida vidcards or single top of the line vidcard.

Not all games might support it, but list is growing.

Here are some videos of games that work.

http://wsgfmedia.com/uploads/paddywak/screenshots/justcause/Base-Jump.avi

http://wsgfmedia.com/uploads/paddywak/screenshots/yager/Yager1.avi

Krusty · « **Reply #9 on:** October 02, 2006, 02:50:01 PM »

See, that one's cool for 2 reasons:

1) it doesn't just stretch the existing image, you get MORE image on each side

2) it has perspective going for it (with the stretch) so if you put the middle monitor flat you can angle your others in for a 10 and 2 view simulation.

TK_421 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 02, 2006, 08:47:43 PM »

I've been playing AH for about a month now with two monitors (@2560x1280).

I have a AMD XP3000 (1.6GHz) and 2Gigs ram driving an ATI X1800XT.

I get a 50-60 FPS in all conditions (I have Vsynch enabled, natch). Performance is more than acceptable, and I would expect driving an extra monitor with Triplehead wouldn't hurt that much.

The main problem, as mentioned above, is that the field of view is messed up in AH. It zooms everything in to keep the FOV constant. I wish Hitech would work on fixing this issue - or at least telling us how to work around it.

But I imagine that would lead to lots of people using a fisheye (FOV >180 degrees) and others whining about it.

This isn't too a big deal if you use a TrackIR (I do), but without that - there will be gaps where the views do not overlap. That diminishes the utility of the TH2go.

Diche

Sancho · « **Reply #11 on:** October 02, 2006, 11:20:06 PM »

There is no way around the widescreen FOV issue. AH does not support widescreen resolutions, as seen in this screenshot. It also sucks for a single widescreen monitor, unless you play at a conventional 4:3 resolution with black bars on the sides. HTC won't support widescreens "until they are standard on all computers" as it would give widescreen/multiscreen users an unfair advantage.

ajax501 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 03, 2006, 11:32:10 AM »

I'm using 2 monitors for a 2048 X 768 screen.
With that aspect ratio I don't find the FOV issue
to be any problem. With the TrackIR you get
tremendous visability (in my humble opinion)
Unfortunately, it hasn't kept me from being shot down regularly!).

Krusty · « **Reply #13 on:** October 03, 2006, 11:57:11 AM »

If you have 2 monitors, how do you do most of your aiming? I think the monitor split would be MOST inconvenient

ajax501 · « **Reply #14 on:** October 03, 2006, 12:09:23 PM »

Hey Krusty!
Did I say "monitors?" My bad!

I'm using 2 DLP projectors as my "monitors".
Works great, the two screens line up fairly
seamlessly. Also, I set a button on the stick
to the "center trackir" function so that it is
easy to recenter the screen instantly.

No matter what I do I still lose about every dogfight though ...