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I got bored today and decided to see if TH2G was compatable with SoftTH and see if I could get 5 screens up and running in surround gaming. Surprisingly enough, it works rather smoothly.

Here is Dark Age of Camelot in 6400x1024 5 screen surround gaming goodness:

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Brad Hawthorne
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Now that is just getting excessive and probably way to hard to concentrate on :roll:

I would be interested to know about performance in new games and how well it works (only some games or all surround capable games)

Now that is just getting excessive and probably way to hard to concentrate on :roll:

The whole reason why this sub-forum exists is to have fun showing surround-gaming solutions. Any surround-gaming setup can be easily labeled "excessive". I've never seen anyone else try TH2G+SoftTH in a 5 monitor configuration, so it merits posting because others might want to know it can be done. I could especially see this as attractive to flight and racing simulator fans. :D

I'm mostly surprised it surpassed the 4096 width limitations, but I learned from the author of SoftTH that limitation is because of video card texture limits. The 8XXX series Geforce cards can do a theoretical 8192 width according to DirectX Caps Viewer. :shock:

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Brad Hawthorne
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Nthusim Pty. Ltd. | www.nthusim.com

EDIT - Oh, I see, it is an extra two to the side! Doh!

Now that is interesting. Maybe in the future for me. :P

WOW :shock:

Very interesting ... did you try any other games ?

Try Crysis at high! lol

I'm gonna try demos of some of the other games mentioned in this forum to get more reliable comparision. I'll see what it does in 3-screen and 5-screen modes and then post some screenshots and fps tables I think.

One thing I will say is the spare room I'm running this setup in is HOT. 5 21" Dell CRTs push some heat. This is definitely a fall-winter-spring only setup with the window open to offset the temps in the room.

I'm a MMO gamer 90% of the time...hence what I usually post screenshots of. :wink:

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Brad Hawthorne
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Nthusim Pty. Ltd. | www.nthusim.com

Thought I'd post my PowerDesk-SE settings from another thread here since it made sense to consolidate all the data into this thread...

Matrox PowerDesk-SE works like a champ with this hybrid setup.
Configure Desktop Divider:
Display 1: Width: 1, Height: 1
Display 2: Width: 3, Height: 1
Display 3: Width: 1, Height: 1

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Brad Hawthorne
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Nthusim Pty. Ltd. | www.nthusim.com

The [config] section of my SoftTHb106 cfg file settings:

[config]
; deviceIDLeft/right: Direct3D device ID's of left and right monitor.
; secondaryWidth/Height: Left/right monitor resolution, set to -1 to use same as middle screen resolution
; secondaryRefresh: Refresh rate of left/right monitors
; secondary16bpp: Use 16bit colour in left and right monitors, this cuts the required bandwidth in half
; antialiasing: Level on anti-aliasing, use this instead of driver enforced setting
; anisotropic: Level of anisotropic filtering, you can also use driver enforced setting
; borderSize: Size of frame border between monitors that is discarded
; useMultihead: Uses multihead features of primary card if available, can increase performance and reduce memory use
deviceIDLeft=2
deviceIDright=1
secondaryWidth=1280
secondaryHeight=1024
secondaryRefresh=100
secondary16bpp=1
antialiasing=0
anisotropic=0
borderSize=0
sideExtraWidth=-2560
useMultihead=0

One card runs the TH2G, other runs the 2 outer monitors.

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Brad Hawthorne
Product Manager
Nthusim Pty. Ltd. | www.nthusim.com