Simviation Forum - Triplehead2go help

Sep 7^th, 2008 at 2:10pm

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I never thought I would post a question in here. This is new territory for me. John posted a reply to my question in the hardware section and thought I should post it here to see if anyone had a solution.

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1220806887

I've tried everything on the Maxtor site except call them. I was trying to take a picture of what is going on but I have to wait for the batt to charge on my camera. As soon as it's charged I will post a pic of my megar simpit in this post. Thanks for any help in this matter.

Mike

Was going to call there tech support......They are only open Mon-Fri Cry

Here is a picture of what my screens look like.

See the gaps in the left and right screens? They are exactly the same on the left and right monitors but running on higher resolutions than the center. The center runs full screen but not at res the other 2 run at.

Being that I have 2 cards. Would it be easier to just hook up all the monitors to my cards? If so that would also suck as I don't believe I can return the Triplehead2go to newegg....

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Reply #1 - Sep 7^th, 2008 at 5:57pm

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Mike,

Welcome to the REAL SimV insane asylum Wink

. You've stuck you toes in here now......... be careful ! Soon you'll start wondering if maybe you could just wire up one ittsy bitsy little switch to............. Wink

I don't use the TH2G but I have a couple of thoughts...that maybe you've already checked.

Are all three of those monitors set up (internally) in their native resolution? Is it possible that they are configured differently?

Those look to be three wide screen monitors. Is it possible that they exceed the maximum pixel width that the TH2G supports?

Have you selected the correct resolutiion/pixel width in the sim setup?

I know with the DIGITAL version of the TH2G that there is some sort of set up value that allows you to specify the width of the physical monitor frames so that the part of the displayed picture that will be "behind" the physical "window frames" is cut out of the actual display generated. Is it possible that you have theat part set up wrong?

That's the extent of my ideas. Hopefully someone else with real TH2G hands-on experience will come along here and know exactly what it is.

Good luck.

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......................john

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Reply #2 - Sep 7^th, 2008 at 6:10pm

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After alot of playing around with the settings, I got the res up to 4080 by 768. This has got all my screens running the way they should. If I drop the res to 3840 by 1024, the icons get smaller the way I want but the monitor goes back to the broken up slots as depicted above. This will have to do for now I suppose unless of coarse I get more feedback from here. Thanks John. I will check out some of what you mentioned a little later.

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Reply #3 - Sep 7^th, 2008 at 6:55pm

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Mike.. wrote on Sep 7^th, 2008 at 6:10pm:

Mike.......Starting a possible path towards the dark side Grin

Second image down, picture on the left........ my pit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_cockpit

Light reading, padwan. Wink

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.................john

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Reply #4 - Sep 7^th, 2008 at 10:33pm

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Both side monitors were showing images offset to the left?

My thoughts, and like John I'm not a Triplehead user, the screen res you were trying to use is not a widescreen resolution. A widescreen resolution will be 16 wide*9 high (48*9 for the triple monitor setup). In other words to fill all 3 screens you need the width of your chosen resolution to be 5.33... the size of the height. If the resolution isn't wide enough there isn't anything to draw to fill the other two screens... so blank space is left. Monitors start drawing from the left, so the blank space is on the right.

You can find a chart of the supported resolutions at:
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/resolution/digital/resoluti...

You have widescreen monitors you you will need to use the widescreen modes.

Hope that helps.

Steve (Silver Fox) Daly

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Reply #5 - Sep 8^th, 2008 at 6:07pm

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SilverFox441 wrote on Sep 7^th, 2008 at 10:33pm:

Both side monitors were showing images offset to the left?

My thoughts, and like John I'm not a Triplehead user, the screen res you were trying to use is not a widescreen resolution. A widescreen resolution will be 16 wide*9 high (48*9 for the triple monitor setup). In other words to fill all 3 screens you need the width of your chosen resolution to be 5.33... the size of the height. If the resolution isn't wide enough there isn't anything to draw to fill the other two screens... so blank space is left. Monitors start drawing from the left, so the blank space is on the right.

You can find a chart of the supported resolutions at:
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/resolution/digital/resoluti...

You have widescreen monitors you you will need to use the widescreen modes.

Hope that helps.

Thanks! I clicked that link and noticed that there were 2 new resolutions that the triple head supports. The last one being 5040 X 1050 (3 X 1680 X 1050). All 3 of my monitors are native 1680 X 1050. I went to the powerdesk icon to edit the mode list and it's not there for me to choose? Maybe It's a download I need. I'll keep digging....

Mike

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