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Triple head question
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Jerera
#1 - 2011-12-14 12:21:58 UTC
Hello GNU/Linux users,

I'm thinking about using a triple head setup to play EVE, because it's just so awesome.

I would install a second video card, and plug two monitors on one card, and the third on the other (the two cards would be Nvidia, but not the same, so no SLI…). Would you be able, with this setup, to have the EVE window span all over the three screens? Again, I will not be using SLI, so I have no obvious answer :(

If anyone here has a similar setup, I want your feedback! Thanks.
Sleekman
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2011-12-14 16:26:34 UTC
I don't know if EVE will switch to that kind of resolution. I'd be interested to know.
Jerera
#3 - 2011-12-14 17:02:05 UTC  |  Edited by: Jerera
Sleekman wrote:
I don't know if EVE will switch to that kind of resolution. I'd be interested to know.


That's not the problem really. A quick Youtube search will give you lots of working setups. It was even officially shown during fanfest 2008 if I remember correctly. However I don't know if you one GFX card can generate a big picture that goes on all three screens, considering they are plugged to two cards.
Talis Mahn
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2011-12-15 06:46:57 UTC
With Nvidia you will need to video cards to run 3 monitors. The first 2 monitors will be on the DVI outputs on the primary video card. The third monitor will have to be on the HDMI output on the primary. The second video cards outputs are disabled.

One of the rare Linux Eve players
Xander Yavorsky
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2011-12-18 03:24:42 UTC
I know it's at least possible to run in that resolution/support. I don't know about Nvidia though.. uhh.. I have an ATI HD 5780 that plays EVE at 6048 x 1080. =]
Talis Mahn
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2011-12-18 05:00:01 UTC
Cool.

Its kind of a toss-up from my point of view. AMD has the better capability video cards right now, but Nvidia has better drivers. That's always been the drawback for me. I can drop in the nvidia drivers and upgrade them easier than I have been able to with AMD/ATI soI use Nvidia.

One of the rare Linux Eve players
Jerera
#7 - 2011-12-18 09:10:16 UTC
Talis Mahn wrote:
Cool.

Its kind of a toss-up from my point of view. AMD has the better capability video cards right now, but Nvidia has better drivers. That's always been the drawback for me. I can drop in the nvidia drivers and upgrade them easier than I have been able to with AMD/ATI soI use Nvidia.


Actually, to be honest, I'm never using ATI cards again. The fglrx driver works, sure, but it's really buggy (just look at all the bug reports on the Wine bugzilla that are just closed because "fglrx is the issue"), and you often have to wait some time before upgrading to newer Xorg versions. There's the opensource driver, sure, but in my opinion it needs some polishing to be on par feature and performance wise. But it's progressing, so maybe in the future…

According to this guy, the setup I want to do works, at least on Windows (he even included a screenshot), so that's a good indicator. It'll probably work on GNU/Linux too, using a virtual Wine desktop that spans on the three monitors.

I'm still looking for a GNU/Linux user that can confirm though, but things look good.