For a car <A HREF="http://www.vstep.nl/p_s_dsim.htm" target="_new">driving simulator which we are developing</A>, we are looking for a graphics solution with 3 outputs. I know that Matrox has some TripleHead cards, but their 3D performance is not sufficient. Because the latest Nvidia 3D cards have such a good performance and high output resolution, I was more thinking of using a kind of VGA splitter, which would split one of the 2 VGA outputs running at 2048x768 into 2 separate monitors of each 1024x768, each showing a different half of the original 2048x768 image. The 3rd beamer is then driven by the card's 2nd VGA/DVI output.
Technically, this should work, but I haven't been able to find such a VGA splitter device yet. All the splitters just duplicate a VGA signal onto multiple identical outputs.
Does anyone know whether such a device exists? Or could I use the splitter of the Matrox card?
Another technical option is of course to use multiple PCI Express cards in one PC, but I cannot yet buy such PCs here at reasonable prices. Also, a 2 card solution would require some serious 3D programming and possibly synchronisation problems. A one-card solution would be easier.
Ideally, Nvidia would bring out a triple head card, which would make sense, as all the flight sim and F1 sim players would probably love to play their games and sims on triple-head LCD panels, but I haven't been able to convince anybody at Nvidia to develop such a card.
Technically, this should work, but I haven't been able to find such a VGA splitter device yet. All the splitters just duplicate a VGA signal onto multiple identical outputs.
Does anyone know whether such a device exists? Or could I use the splitter of the Matrox card?
Another technical option is of course to use multiple PCI Express cards in one PC, but I cannot yet buy such PCs here at reasonable prices. Also, a 2 card solution would require some serious 3D programming and possibly synchronisation problems. A one-card solution would be easier.
Ideally, Nvidia would bring out a triple head card, which would make sense, as all the flight sim and F1 sim players would probably love to play their games and sims on triple-head LCD panels, but I haven't been able to convince anybody at Nvidia to develop such a card.