markm75
11-07-08, 01:49 PM
I'm trying to do something pretty messy here.. not sure if its even possible..
Short question: Can I use an hdmi to dvi splitter in reverse.. but the DVI portions will only be active one at a time, feed the signal back through one of the DVI's to the hdmi port in an LCD?
Here is the reference to what i'm doing exactly:
This is for doing Flight Simulator X across 3 LCDs with a Matrox TripleHead2Go digital edition:
As of now i just did 3 screens Without a triplehead, moving the left view to the left and right to the right.. this kills fps and makes the head trackerIR only useful in the main window..
So.. i'm hoping to find a way with the ati driver to span fsx across all 3.. i tried stretching it in windowed mode, but this doesnt work.
ATI drivers don't have a span option that i can see, at least with v8.10..
I'm guessing i may out of luck hence the triplehead2go idea below:
In which case i end up needing a config like i have in the attached image
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_xR3F0JJYkt0/SRO7SvBfiiI/AAAAAAAAABU/YZPnM9nkwEc/s800/matrox%20idea.jpg
Where i use splitters if this will even work, to feed each screen two signals.. one from the regular outputs, then one from the matrox output, which will be crossfired as well.. I think ideally, i'd need some sort of dvi toggle switch on the matroxed/crossfired port, so the matrox signal can be disabled when i'm doing regular windows resolutions with the ati driver.. (I'm not even sure if a matrox device can be toggled on and off easily either).
My screens are 24" widescreens, native 1920x1200 each.. with the matrox they would end up at 1024 on the lower end, not looking as crisp. My westinghouse screens have hdmi and vga.. i was guessing the vga wouldnt look as good.
Using the selector switch on the matrox, when not flight simming in crossfire mode, i turn the switch off and go back to the inputs from each video card.
Short question: Can I use an hdmi to dvi splitter in reverse.. but the DVI portions will only be active one at a time, feed the signal back through one of the DVI's to the hdmi port in an LCD?
Here is the reference to what i'm doing exactly:
This is for doing Flight Simulator X across 3 LCDs with a Matrox TripleHead2Go digital edition:
As of now i just did 3 screens Without a triplehead, moving the left view to the left and right to the right.. this kills fps and makes the head trackerIR only useful in the main window..
So.. i'm hoping to find a way with the ati driver to span fsx across all 3.. i tried stretching it in windowed mode, but this doesnt work.
ATI drivers don't have a span option that i can see, at least with v8.10..
I'm guessing i may out of luck hence the triplehead2go idea below:
In which case i end up needing a config like i have in the attached image
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_xR3F0JJYkt0/SRO7SvBfiiI/AAAAAAAAABU/YZPnM9nkwEc/s800/matrox%20idea.jpg
Where i use splitters if this will even work, to feed each screen two signals.. one from the regular outputs, then one from the matrox output, which will be crossfired as well.. I think ideally, i'd need some sort of dvi toggle switch on the matroxed/crossfired port, so the matrox signal can be disabled when i'm doing regular windows resolutions with the ati driver.. (I'm not even sure if a matrox device can be toggled on and off easily either).
My screens are 24" widescreens, native 1920x1200 each.. with the matrox they would end up at 1024 on the lower end, not looking as crisp. My westinghouse screens have hdmi and vga.. i was guessing the vga wouldnt look as good.
Using the selector switch on the matrox, when not flight simming in crossfire mode, i turn the switch off and go back to the inputs from each video card.