multi monitors problem

[richard hutchinson]

Yes you can use two graphics cards and as you say, must have the same driver. However, a PCI-E and a PCi card are highly unlikely to use the same driver as the card architecture is different. You may have been just lucky.

Windows v7 will again support the use of different video cards as this function was taken out of Vista. It should also be pointed out that video cards use a lot of power when they are working hard and older PC's PSU's aren't always up to it so bear that in mind. You may have to upgrade the PSU to cope with it. A lot of manufacturers run the power supplies to the wire with what they have fitted at purchase so when you start adding, the pull-down gets too much.

I would personally still go with the Matrox as it has no power overhead on your PC and is external so you don't have to pull the PC apart and they are easy to set up.

[simpit]

Hi

Not sure what aircraft you are wanting to use, but to run multiple displays you will need a Matrox Triple Head (TH2Go) unit which can then divide your window into three parts. It is then a case of undocking which window you wish and drag it to the appropriate screen. However, without knowing your setup it's a bit of a vague answer. Your video card needs to be a good one as you have to ramp up the resolution really high for the Matrox unit to divide this back down to 1024 x 768 for your three monitors.

Be aware that if you are using WS monitors, the analogue version of TH2go does not support this format so you would need the digital version.

You will also need extra VGA/DVi cables as the tight-wads at Matrox don't supply extras!

Hope this gets you on your way
Regards

Richard (Peterborough UK)

Thanks for the help. It is much appreciated.
Stuart (Andrewsfield, Essex)

[deering]

Yes you can use two graphics cards ....
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Matrox is good. I use one of them. It's overkill for Stuart's requirement, though.
You'd have to be running a pretty marginal power supply for it to be overloaded by the class of graphics card I'm suggesting. It doesn't take much processing to display two or three 2D windows.

[I've removed my incorrect references to using PCIe cards in PCI slots.]

Jim

[BHawthorne]

Multi video cards works just fine in Xp, Vista and Win 7. Those running into issues are either mixing ATi with nVidia, using legacy video cards that are no longer supported by current drivers or quite plainly operator error. I Have a machine with 5 GPUs in it at the moment that works just fine in all 3 Windows versions. It's best if you're going to use multiple video cards that you're at the very least using G92 or newer GPUs if nVidia.

[thomasstuart]

Hi I am Thomas.
Simplest way is to add another graphics card to your system. In a Vista system you must use the same driver for both cards.
This is the simplest way to solve your problem.
Have a nice day.