4 monitor?? = 3 monitors for the game + one external monitor

That is how we did multi screen a few years ago with Flight Sim. Networked PCs rendering different views.

ahhh very very good.
tahustvedt have you some link or key words to read something about?

I don't know of any links. It's a long time sinde I tried it. In MS Flight Sim you couls move the view point around, and be passengers with other people in the network, and that's how it was done I think.

I have a setup the way you want it. 22-24-22 and a 17 for telemtry.

What you need to get this working is 2 videocards with 2 connectors on both cards (DVI, VGA) and SoftTH http://www.kegetys.net/SoftTH/.
Your main videocard does all the rendering, this needs to be a good one, and the 2nd card is just a passthrough so a cheap low end card is enough.
After you configured SoftTH which monitors it should use you're ready to go.

Thx to all! really! :

Hey aldos dude you should check this forum out. http://widescreengamingforum.com/

Very cool forum there! I am reading something and I am amazed by ergotech WSGF edition stand! 5 monitors..
The only thing make me a bit sad is that my 3dof is balanced and optimized (spring, inclinations, runs,center of gravity, seat position and inclination ecc ecc) for using 1 monitor.. Sure If I would to use 3, 4 or 5 monitors I will must to change a lot of constants of my project.

Sure that my 3dof will work good If I put another 2 monitors together with that already present but from my bad experiences in this year of project and tests and I understand that little changes can produce really bad drawbacks.

The spring matter is damn complex dudes (really a lot of parameters from a spring..), the great objective is (in really poor words) that my motor suffer in equal way if they are raising or lowering the platform.. I made a lot of calcs about to have same Newtons (so same amps!!)developed by the 3 motors when they are in max and/or lowest platform position.

In other words I tried to make the spring much as possible equal and mirrored compared to the G gravity! (I could to write 600 pages about.. and sure and obvious the matter is hell complex and this speech is about just VERTICAL work of the platform (without tilts or inclinations) and not considering many parameters about differences of Newtons force depending on the physical/electrical/mechanical situations and on the 3 single motor positions.... (and a motion platform can be in million of physical situations with millions of different motors positions.. then million of variables to have a precision idea of what is the sufference of the 3 motors so the Amps they need to work correctly and smooth ).

Ahaha sorry If I have dwelt and get out a bit from main thread, all this to let all us know how many 3 monitors can to change the optimization of a platform made and optimized for 1 monitor (as mine )

And, of course, all this my discussion just If we want to do something serious or just to try to do something seriously... If not.. so.. I can make move and shake my platform without all these optimizations but before or later the bill would arrive... and it would salted! (lesson already learned here : )

For this reason, today and tomorrow I will work about some tricks to let my 3dof more easly customizable in monitors matter!
It's not a simple thing, but sure is a thing to do 'cause my real objective is a 3monitors 3dof.
And really thanks to all for this multi monitors issue thread! :


PS: my 200nd post here!! By now this forum is like a little but precious family! :thbup:

Just a word of caution here as I've just come across this myself :-

If you want to run three DVI or VGA monitors on Eyefinity then as already discussed you will need to run one of the monitors from the DisplayPort, or rather Mini DisplayPort on the later cards. BUT you will need to ensure that you buy an 'Active' adaptor. If you use an ordinary DisplayPort/Mini DisplayPort to DVI or VGA adaptor it wont work. Although both Windows and the Catalyst Control Centre will detect all three monitors it will only allow two to be used at any one time. This is true for both Windows in Extended Desktop or Duplicated mode and the CCC in setting up Eyefinity.

With the three monitors connected as above you can only have a maximum of two monitors displaying an image at the same time. If you disconnect one of the monitors that is displaying a picture then the third previously blank monitor will immediately display a picture. If you use an Active adaptor then it works. The downside of course is that the Active adaptors are more expensive.

The adapters are inexpensive now. I'm using two of these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/XFX-MA-AP01-PD1 ... 58921f892c

I bought them for $40 a piece from an online computer store.

Yep, good price but the MSI R6950 I purchased very recently has two DVI sockets (1 Dual Link the other Single Link), an HDMI socket and two Mini DisplayPort sockets. The package did include one Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort adaptor but I don't know if other card manufacturers do. Certainly the use of Mini DisplayPort sockets looks to be taking over on the ATI based cards.