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« on: December 30, 2011, 08:52:57 PM +0000 »

Anyway, I'm looking at dipping my toe in the world of triple screen racing. The problem is that I have a GTX 560 ti which is quite new and I would be very reluctant to chop it in for a triple head card.

I know about the Matrox TH2GO, but boy it's pricey. I understand there is a way of doing it via software if you have another card, wherein lies the problem, I don't have any space for another card, but I do have onboard graphics. Does anyone know if or how it can be done?

PC World have an offer on at the moment for a 23" AOC LED @ £119.00, which a pair of would go quite nicely with my 24" ACER led without breaking the bank.
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« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2012, 08:48:46 PM +0000 »

It is usually onboard OR card. It is in the BIOS. You'll need to bite the bullet on the card unfortunately.
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« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2012, 10:02:35 AM +0000 »

It is usually onboard OR card. It is in the BIOS.

No, you should be able to run both at once nuder XP or newer - whether it'll perform well enough for SoftTH to work is another question.

Running onboard and a card isn't really fundamentally any different from running two (or three - I've done that) cards for a Windows multi-monitor desktop (my workstation has five screens).
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« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2012, 11:52:49 AM +0000 »

I think Lazlow and Picnic (maybe) run some form of software multi-screen setup.

Surely with the amount of data being transfered around your system the other card needs to be relatively quick?
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« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2012, 01:32:59 PM +0000 »

I think Lazlow and Picnic (maybe) run some form of software multi-screen setup.

I'm currently using nVidia surround vision or whatever they call it. You have to have 2 cards in an SLI configuration to do it.
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« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2012, 11:48:51 AM +0000 »

Bugger, my m/board doesn't support SLI, buy in haste and all that lol.

I guess thinking in the long term it would probably pay me to go with the Matrox, least that way it will not matter if/ when I upgrade the g/ card.

I have been using a triple monitor setup at Puretech Racing recently and going back to a single monitor when at home feels like I'm blinkered by comparrison  Sad why oh why can't things ever be simple?HuhHuh

I was thinking of spending the money instead on a set CSP, but I was talking with BRD the other evening and it seems they working on a load cell version of their ProSpeed pedals, which "should" also be backwards compatible with their Speed 7 pedals, which I have already, so now I'm really undecided!!!!


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« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2012, 03:43:54 PM +0000 »

Gawd, so BRD are still around??
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« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2012, 07:42:39 PM +0000 »

Gawd, so BRD are still around??

As a fan of the 'little guy' and as I was always happy with their customer service that's good to see Smiley Can someone decipher how much the wheel is on its own from here http://www.brdsim.com/download/pro-st&pedals.pdf ? I guess 150-200 notes Wink Is it is good as it looks?
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