Nvidias attempt at a tripple head card

[Wombat]

Originally posted by SaTaN^666
yes they might appear as one card.. BUt it stil needs to recognized both cards as a tripple head resolution

No. If the cards can present themselves as one device, you'd be fine.

[Wombat]

Originally posted by leech
I could be wrong, but I would think the whole purpose of SLI would be to use the two cards as basically the same.... at least that's the way the old Voodoo2 worked.

Yeah, but nVidia calling what they're doing now SLI is got to be one of the most misleading things to happen to graphics in a while. It works nothing like the old Scan Line Interleave.

[[Ch]amsalot]

A single GeForce 6800 card only has two RAMDACs, making triple head impossible.

Clearly, using non-SLI'd PCI-e 6800s you could run four monitors. Although I'll ask & confirm how many monitors SLI'd 6800s can run, from this it appears that you can run 4 as well, even when the cards are SLI'd.

-[Ch]ams

[[Ch]amsalot]

BTW, how the heck are ya Wombat Nice to see you still here after all these years.

-[Ch]ams

[Kurt]

Originally posted by leech
Yeah, I realize this, but that means the game would have to be programmed to do this. And it's already hard enough to get some games to work with the proper FOV for triple-screens. I think Battlefield 1942 had something like that, for Dual-Head displays, it'd put the map up on the other screen...

Leech

Games don't really take Surround gaming seriously. It's almost on-existent anyway...

When (if) Nvidia starts making it a reality, things will change. Matrox doesn't have the means to do so. They tried to pull that string but they cut off support for it when it became evident it wouldn't sell more P's...(my view of things of course)

[Wombat]

Originally posted by Kurt
Games don't really take Surround gaming seriously. It's almost on-existent anyway...

I wouldn't call it non-existant. With game engines using the DirectX hooks that they are, games are getting to support surround gaming by default. Halo, Tribes:Vengence, others....

[leech]

Yeah, there are tons of games already working in Surround. It's just that the newer ones won't run on the Parhelia worth a damn. But just imagine if the SLI'd 6800's would run as one big frame buffer and you could play Surround gaming on those.... though of course you'd probably have to use 6800GT's since I don't know how many people want to have FOUR power connections going only for their video display....

Leech

[Mehen]

If you use software mode you can use as many displays as you want, I've played UT in surround with my card + a pci card, it was pretty damn cool; won't work too great with newer games though.

[Kurt]

Originally posted by leech
Yeah, there are tons of games already working in Surround. It's just that the newer ones won't run on the Parhelia worth a damn.

That's why I'm saying it's non-existant.

It's not because it's possible that it's being DONE. If/when we'll have more powerful cards, maybe it'll become more of a reality. I don't call 60+ games a Reality. It's more of a Project...