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

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

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:02:54 +0200

d000hg wrote:
> 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.

There have been dual display GeForce cards since the GeForce2 MX days.
The only trick is finding one. Some web searching might do the trick
(a tip: NVIDIA called the feature TwinView). All Radeon cards also
support this. The Radeon 7000 is the slowest of them all -- probably
weaker than a GeForce256.

        Eyal