Surround Gaming with SoftTH

Wanted to update the video, but camera is messing up. I still have the triple monitor setup, but I went with a hardware version

8800GTS 512mb GPU
Matrox TripleHead2Go
3 19" Dell Ultrasharp monitors @ 1280x1024
1 Gateway 22" @ 1680x1050 for thottbot, vent etc...with the new patch, WoW renders correctly so you dont get all squished...as soon as I get my camera up and running, i"ll update the video

*Update - got rid of the triple monitor setup for a single 30" LCD, since some of the games I started playing didnt render right on such a wide display. Will be redoing the triple setup with 3 22" lcds on dual GTx 275s using NVidia Surrond drivers and setup. Read good things + physx support FTW.

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• Warcraft
• surround
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• softth
• triple
• monitor
• wow

[FinnishMisanthrope]

This will make PVP alot easier, think about it.

Easy to spot enemies. I would propably use this for FPS games.

[ithrial]

@FinnishMisanthrope yes its great for FPS. Ive been playing COD 2 and just pre-ordered CoD Black Ops the other day. Sims 4 looks good on it too

[casanova1135]

so i dont understand how softTH works 2 graphics cards have 2 ports to hook up vga or dvi right, so if this is software how do the 2 graphics cards connect to support 3 monitors (i understand with triplehead2go all 3 monitors plug into 1 box but i dont understand softTH) please help i would like to know

[ithrial]

@casanova1135 The program files of SoftTh that you put in the games root directory (C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft example) intercepts the game, re-renders it at the large display (5040x1050 example) then pushes the extra rendered area (left and right displays) over the PCIe bus to the other card that has the other 2 displays and displays on those monitors. great idea but puts all the rendering job on the single card

[Raonisk]

ATI Eyefinity is about to kill the Triplehead series

[CuddaKine]

Has anybody tried hooking up (3) HDTVs to a Triplehead?

[johannes19969]

how do you setup this?

[ithrial]

@fsdgadfase I wasnt running XP at the time - I was running Vista

[fsdgadfase]

@nithPS2 i thought windows xp din't allow 2 different gpu drivers

[nafedz]

Hey, i have one 20" and two 19" monitors and I'll try to get eyefinity or softth to work(5850 card). So, do the 20" monitors look fine at the smaller resolution of the 19" ones? 1280x1024- I'm concerned that if i have the 20" at 1680x1050, will the unmatched lines from monitor to monitor be a big offset? 19" are taller with 26 less pixels.

Thanks, awesome video, taught me lot of softth! =)

[ithrial]

@nithPS2 Not sure if you can mix and match cards like that. Softh would have to pull from both sets of drivers. My best recommendation is upgrade to Win 7 and use that 5770 for eyefinity and all its glory. Dump XP

[testdirver]

really u only use 1 gpu can show how i can made that settings bye

[jasperytlau]

THis is crazy man, wish i had the ability to do this lol