I hope to have this triple screen setup in about four months. From the info supplied by Matrox, it should work very well. Any video card setup you have, be it single video card, SLI, or Crossfire, has just one video cable outlet. That goes to the Three in One Matrox box, where it splits the signal onto three discreet parts, and sends them to three separate monitors. The video cards do the hard processing, they still carry the burden of rendering the picture. The matrox box just splits whatever is being sent.
As far as the computer knows, it is outputting to one monitor.
But additionally, Matrox has a software solution that goes into whatever game you have and adjusts the game's resolutions. So you can have the game's output resolution set for 3840 x 1024, or whatever you choose.
TripleHead2Go is not a graphics card but an external box that harnesses your system's existing graphics solution (including SLI™) for rendering of all 2D, 3D and video, and adds multi-monitor support. TripleHead2Go appears to your system as an ultra-widescreen 3840x1024* monitor and simply connects to your computer via a standard analog VGA monitor cable. Using Matrox patent-pending technology, TripleHead2Go then splits the 3840 x 1024 Microsoft® Windows® desktop into three separate 1280 x 1024 screens of information, and displays across three independent 1280 x 1024 monitors. There is no image distortion and no scaling to the original raw pixels generated from the existing graphics accelerator.
http://www.matrox.com/graphics/offhome/th2go/home.cfm
It's a pretty freaky, radical, and expensive way to go, but for this gaming addict, I'm going to go with it.
Mixing modern cars and historic tracks? Yes, and vice versa. People like RH1300S construct tracks and cars. For instance, I have a modern Corvette in Ron Fellows colors, and I run it a lot at the old Nurburgring track. Or on the flip side, I have a Porsche 908 and run it at the brand new Turkish track.
The sim game GT Legends has older cars that run on modern tracks.
http://www.gt-legends.com/ But with add on tracks, I can run an older car on an older track. One of my fun things is to run Mini Coopers at the old Nurburgring.
