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Old 10-19-2007, 07:38 AM
ChrisZ ChrisZ is offline
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Originally Posted by Gibbage
In order to support 3 monitor views using Matrox products, you only need the game to run at a custom resolution. Like a resolution of 3072x786. Thats 3 1024x768 monitors, side by side. Thats all! Very simple, and I hope that SOW supports wide screen and many more resolution formats.
No, not really... in IL2 you have to enable an option called USE3RENDERS which tells the graphic engine to render 3 *separate* views and "stitch" them together inside "wide view". There are three different POVs there heading in three different directions simultaneously.

You can try it without Matrox as well (in Excellent mode, not Perfect). You will see the difference.

This is absolutely not the same as simply forcing the wide wiew which in IL2 crops the image (truncates upper and lower part) as compared to a 4:3-sized view!

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That's why I'm asking Oleg about support for three GPUs - to have those 3 views accelerated on non-Matrox hardware.