Re: Care to recommend a multi-head graphics card...?

From: Eyal Teler (et_at_nospam-et3d.com)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:36:39 +0200

IIRC DX8.1 simply treats dual-head as two separate devices, so I'd
recommend doing what I did and getting a second PCI card. I had a
GeForce2 Ti AGP and Radeon 7500 PCI, which had the benefit of letting
me test on two different cards in the same machine. (Although mind
you, driver installation can be a tad problematic, since the companies
don't tend to test machines with competitor cards in them. Still, I
had no serious problems.)

        Eyal

d000hg wrote:
> I'd like to get a dual-head card to make debugging easier and eventually have multi-screen in my game. My current card is a Geforce2MX 32Mb which is a little higher than the min spec I want to have (not a cutting-edge resource-hungry engine). I basically want to get a unit of the min-spec multi-head card I will support but I don't know what this is! I assume some overhead for two screens so what is there?
> Matrox parhelia and ATI 8500 are too high for a basic specification I think, ut what about the 7500 or G400/450 (not too up-to-speed with Matrox cards).
> I'm using DX8.1 but don't need many features - 2 texture units. and ability to do points correctly (the DX8 drivers emulate this so the card needs to have DX8 drivers available I think!).
>
> Any thoughts?