Pete, Ben, Greenie and all,
This looks like a good place to come back in....at. Grin.
I have been gone for some time....did a 6 week motorhome trip with my 'dawg' up to see my 87 year old Dad in South Dakota and then we spent two weeks at the one week EAA airshow.
JUST...and I mean JUST before I left...the Fed Ex truck stopped and delivered my 3 Matrox Parhelia video cards.....I had to leave them in the boxes and await the install until I got back from the trip.
Now home and I have been running the Matrox Parhelia cards for about 3 weeks.
Observations....I LOVE EM!
I had planned to run 6 TFT monitors with 2 computers using just two of the video cards.....BUT.....you can only do a 640x480 resolution.......AT THIS TIME...due to limitations of DirectX.....and NOT Matrox....when using the triple head output.
Since I feel that I need at least 1024x760 graphics I run in DualHead mode with 3 computers using the 3 cards and the 6 monitors.
SPECTACULAR.......and my frame rates are all at the 30fps leve with sliders on HIGH. The resolutions and colors of the scenery are breathtaking.....way BETTER than my NVidia cards and with Eddie Denney's Terrain Mesh....you almost need to fly the U.S. all over again to see it the way it is and should be !
I run all 3 computers with a client, server, client setup..and all 3 run in Virtual Cockpit mode at the .50 View setting. This gives me an approximate 245 degree view of the horizon and it is easy to adjust the views for seamless runway lines and horizon lines during turns.
There have been a couple of updated drivers from Matrox and I am looking forward to a newer version of DirectX....to perhaps get to the real triple head mode........BUT if that does not happen.....the dualhead mode in 1024 graphics is the BEST I have yet seen or in my experience.
My cockpit setup did not have to change a bit....so it still looks like the older pictures that I used to send to Ben.....it is just that the outside views of FS2002 are so MUCH BETTER with these video cards.
Regards,
Cap'n Tarmack
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