Widescreen Gaming Forum

racing simulations only for me (GPL, R factor and nascar racing 2003) :D

fps, rpgs, rts, race, sim

i mostly use my triple head system for fps games and actually haven't bothered with the rest. not much a fan of flight sims and there isn't a racing sim for pc that interests me too much in comparison to games on consoles like forza and gran turismo. only rts games i still play are starcraft and warcraft3 which don't support th2g. oblivion was one of the games that i fired up and played through again just to have the surround gaming experience.

Great feedback guys - keep it coming! ;)

Redgun, you mention you couldn't find a supported racing or flightsim game that you really liked. -- Which flightsim and racesim games would you like to see supported?
(keep in mind that older games developed before TH2Go existed are difficult to support because they were either made with a graphics API that is too dated to support TH2Go resolutions, OR the dev teams on these games have dissolved and/or no further patches are planned/possible).

the games I'd really like to see in TH would be most notably 'Need For Speed: Porsche' and 'Falcon 4.0' but they are too old, I guess.

basically I'm a huge porsche fan, so any game/sim that would offer a few of these and wouldn't have totally crappy driving physics would be appreciated.
:D :D

I mainly play FPS, RTS and flightsims.

CIV4, there used to be native TH support and it was taken out. Also the native TH didn't allow for zoom ratio adjustment so you had to be very zoomed in and you couldn't see your entire empire.

Big minus for Matrox is removal of technical support forums as they contained lots of tricks and tips for various game hacks. Some Parhelia TH hacks applied for TH2Go also.

You should reopen Tech support forums, even if there's minimum participation and burden on Matrox employees, it allows for search and user to user help. If that's not possible, you should sponsor and participate in some unoficial forum.

1: FPS
2: Racing
3: RTS

Looking forward/hoping to seeing Race Driver: Grid (uses the DIRT engine) natively support triplehead. Think Dirt worked out the box so woot!

The number one enemy to surround gaming right now is Unreal Engine 3. Every game that comes out on this engine is Horz-, please talk to Epic and help get support. For a company that touts hi-def as a company by-line, their widescreen support is pathetic.

EDIT: In retrospect, it really appears that there isn't a single genre of game that can't benefit from TH support.

I definitately second JohnnyWakko's comment about support for a widescreen in the middle. But something tells me this is not feasible until DisplayPort comes out, bc of bandwidth limitations.

EDIT2: Utwig, no offense to Matrox, but the support from WSGF is vastly superior to anything they could deliver. If you have a genuine technical issue with their product, Matrox does have phone support and other ticketing systems to help their end users.

basically I'm a huge porsche fan, so any game/sim that would offer a few of these and wouldn't have totally crappy driving physics would be appreciated.
:D :D

Try rFactor (mods) or GTR2 (stock) with a number of Porche models available.
http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=PCC%202007

We've been trying to convince Epic of this issue for quite some time. They seem to have difficulties hearing us with all that money in their ears. :P

Reminds me of another big game company we all know too well :wink:


Here are the survey results so far:

Of the following game genres, which has the best fit for TripleHead2Go?
Flight Simulation/Air Combat/Space Combat
9% [ 2 ]
Racing/Race Simulation (Cars, Bikes, Boats etc.)
19% [ 4 ]
MMORPGs/RPGs/(Genres with a third-person perspective)
14% [ 3 ]
First Person Shooters
52% [ 11 ]
Real-Time Strategy
4% [ 1 ]

Total Votes : 21


Keep those votes coming!

Well, thanks for working on these issues! As a Matrox Owner of DTH2G I would really appreciate some support from you guys tryinbg to help optimize games. Actually, the SG utility is a great idea, but it never works for me, seems to only crash the game or simply ignorse it.


3 - Flight Simulation/Air Combat/Space Combat
1 - Racing/Race Simulation (Cars, Bikes, Boats etc.)
4 - MMORPGs/RPGs/(Genres with a third-person perspective)
2 - First Person Shooters
5 - Real-Time Strategy

Racing games is my first and only choice, but I do understand the Fly boys interrested in their feel as well!

The primary games I've had trouble with are

Moto GP 07 - will not run/playable in widescreen unless you want a huge fat rear tire and smurf's on the bikes..LOL!

RACE 07 - runs in wide screen but video/images pop in and out on screen

F1 99 -02 - Classic racing sim

Games that run and run well:

GTR2
rFactor runs the best... loading menu on center screen and then running in wide screen in game...i.e. no stretched menu!
DiRT - Runs fine
Crysis - looks great!

System:
E6850 w/dual GTX 8800's

Thanks for your support
Randall

[quote]basically I'm a huge porsche fan, so any game/sim that would offer a few of these and wouldn't have totally crappy driving physics would be appreciated.
:D :D

Try rFactor (mods) or GTR2 (stock) with a number of Porche models available.
http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=PCC%202007

thanks. I'll try these, as soon as my system is working again. :D :lol:

games played so far:

ArmA:...............best geamplay experience so far
Crysis Demo:....grpahics & triplehead = epic win
GRAW:..............looks spectacular in TH (but the game sucks a little bit imho)
Ghost Recon:.....I'm not a fan

Games yet to play in TH:
OFP (FFUR SLX mod) should be even better than ArmA
HalfLife2 + expansions
Crysis
CoD4
Stalker
GRAW2
Rainbow Six Vegas
rFactor
GTR2

Mark,

Per the basic request of the poll, here you go:

1. Flight Sims
2. Racing Sims
3. (I could really care less about the others. I don't use them).

The above said, my main concern about this "poll" is the direction it is taking. Please tell me that you aren't going to determine which "games" get "priority support" based on the results of the poll.

I've been a real-world pilot for over 30 years. The MAIN reason I shelled out over $1500 for my TH2G and 3 new monitors to use it on was for my flight simulators and racing sims. I don't even own a FPS, RTS, or RPG, and probably never will.

Granted most of your "user base" may be buying FPS, RTS, and RPG type games, I hope I can still expect timely support for us poor ol' flight and racing users.

For instance, I just received my new copy of X-Plane 9. I am eagerly awaiting the upgrade of the SGU to support it. Please don't throw that to the bottom of the "to do" pile because as of this time only a fraction of your user base voted for "Flight Simulations".

Thanks!