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Krankor 2006-05-27 21:25
Hi All,
Complete newbie here. After a lot of playing around and experimenting with 2 identical LCD Widsecreen monitors, it's becoming apparent to me that I may have made a mistake with going widescreen.
My issue is that I can only go to a max resolution of 2560 * 1024 on my ATI 1900XT Crossfire setup when stretching the desktop horizontally across the two monitors. Obviously the spect ration is a little stretched (especially when playing any games). I guess it's a hardware limitation of the ATI crossfire that I cannot achieve resolutions of 3360 * 1050 (forgive me if that is a nonsense calculation, I'm basing it on 1680 * 2 the native resolution for the screens).
Extending the desktop is fine and I can keep both screens at 1680 * 1050, but that doesn't help me when playing any dual monitor games as the only way I've found of doing it is by stretching the desktop (thinking out loud, I haven't tried windowed launching of the games).
Anyway back to my original question, is this the max resolution I can hope to get for my setup on a stretched desktop for 2 widescreen monitors.
Thanks :)
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Krankor 2006-05-28 00:59
spect ration = aspect ratio
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anon 2006-06-02 02:12
This is entirely due to the games' design, nothing more. Many games only supported 4:3 aspect resolutions until very recently and very few ever supported multiple displays, especially with 3D acceleration. Your solution of running the game in a window and stretching or manually setting it's resolution is really the only solution for most applications.
In short this:
"Extending the desktop is fine and I can keep both screens at 1680 * 1050, but that doesn't help me when playing any dual monitor games as the only way I've found of doing it is by stretching the desktop (thinking out loud, I haven't tried windowed launching of the games)."
is fine, stick with it.
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skinner6695 2006-09-02 20:28
matrox states this for max resolutions based on gpu
http://matrox.com/graphics/offhome/support/th2go/compatibility.cfm#table
2D Windows desktop 3D fullscreen 3D/video in a window
– max window size
nVidia GeForce 6x00, 7x00
nVidia GeForce Go 6x00, 7x00
nVidia GeForce FX 5x00
nVidia MX 4x0
nVidia SLI
nVidia Quadro 3840 x 1024 3840 x 1024 3840 x 1024
ATI FireGL 3840 x 1024 2400 x 600 2800 x 1024
ATI Radeon (pre X1K) 3840 x 1024 1920 x 480 1920 x 480*
ATI Radeon X1K 2400 x 600 2400 x 600 2400 x 600
ATI CrossFire 2400 x 600 2400 x 600 2400 x 600
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