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

From: d000hg (d000hg_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 08:03:02 -0700

While that would let me test 2 cards at once and be useful for debugging, I plan to only allow the game to run on multiple monitors when the graphics adapters are identical (ie a dual/triple-head card) because of performance issues and becuase most gamers woul find it confusing for the game to look different and/or run at different framerates on their multiple monitors. As you say in 8.1 you just get 2 adapters as if there were 2 cards but this is the only real thing pushing me to port to DX9 which I probably will consider eventually.
I could just as easily have a PCI card AND a dual-head card, or even a dual-head PCI and a dual-head AGP but you soon see why allowing any combination of adapters becomes a nightmare for reliability and testing!

So ... what dual-head capable cards are about the same level of performance or slightly higher than the Geforce1? Only Matrox and ATI interest me, and nVidia also of course.

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