Matrox Triplehead2Go

[jmig]

Has anyone actually used this for MSFS? If so:What is your computer setup and configuration? Where are the slider settings on the graphics?How are the frame rates?Thanks,John

[Guest Nemeda]

Hey, I haven't got the Matrox Triplehead2Go myself, but I've been doing some reading on the internet about it.It says that it doesn't affect frame rates, and that it is totaly Plug & Play compatible with Windows XP. All you have to do is connect the 'box' itself to 2 other monitors and turn it on.I read this off the Matrox Triplehead2Go website. Hope it helps!Ryan

[GSalden]

Hi,A friend of mine has one and he claims that he sees no difference in framerates between his former dual monitor setup and his triple monitor setup now.

[Guest raymondt]

I have one, but don't have the space yet to create a good setup. So the only ride so far is a testride, wich was good. As soon as i have room enough i will create the following setup ; PC 1 (FS)AMD3000+ 2048MbNvidia 6800GT2 monitors attached to the nvidia card, running as a wideview server (so no outsideview on this one)PC 2 (Outside view)AMD3700+1024Mb Nvidia 6800 UltreTriplehead2goThe testride was good, and yes, it does cost frames, but not too much. I expect to have sliders full on my second pc, and using activesky etc. So far it had acceptable performance. Kind regards,Raymond

[Guest grey]

I picked one up shortly after it came out. I was concerned about framerates as well, so I upgraded my video card from an ATI9800 to a NVIDIA 7800 GS OC, which is the fastest NVIDIA card made for an AGP slot. The framerates have been pretty good for running on an older Dell 2.8GHZ machine. I have the target framerate set for 30fps and it rarely goes below that. I've got some pics of my three projector TH2GO setup on my site: wigrey.blogspot.com

[Magic Man]

The TH2Go presents itself to your graphics card as a 3840 x 1024 monitor. The electronics inside it split the output into three equal divisons and output them to the three monitors.It will therefore obviously have an effect on framerates unless you are already running at 3840 x 1024.

[jmig]

I want to thank all of you guys for replying to this and my other question on the Matrox Triple HEad2Go. I have been a member of this forum for three years. Time and time again you have proven to be the professionals at Flight Simming hardware. I posted the same request in the Matrox TH2Go forum. Now, here is a group of people who all claim to use the product. Know how many answers I received? Zero, nada, none.I decided on the system, using your input and from some computer hardware experts, such as,

[tigert]

You can search the forum for another thread about the same subject a few weeks (I think) ago - basically, it works fine, and enables "matrox parhelia" -type 3-screen visual display but using the latest whizbang NVidia card.Our Cessna sim uses the triplehead2go and it was a drop-in replacement to the Parhelia. We had to upgrade our computer setup, and were anxious to do so, because we did not want to go into WideView for the complexity and cost of three computer systems instead of one beefy one. So we got one kick-butt machine with a fast GeForce and the triplehead2go. Like it has been said, the speed is fine as long as your machine can handle the resolution. A decent gaming machine has no problem, your setup looks pretty close to what we have, and fps are nice. OF course if we install a lot of add-on crap with 100% ai traffic, then it can slow down - but that happens with any computer.//Tuomas