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Does anyone have feedback on the Matrox Parahelia three head agp video card?  Thanks.

best,

................john

Yes it works great

por911t,

Thanks for the info.

What kind of "horsepower" machine are you running it on?  Are you running ti with fs2004?  If so, what kind of framerates are you getting?

Appreciate any additional info you can provide.  Thanks.

best,

...................john

In our lab we have 3 machines setup with Parhelia cards.  They have XP1400, XP2600 and XP3000 processors, with a gig of RAM each.  On the 2600 and 3000 using triple-screen output on FS2004 we get smooth-enough framerates (30+) at 3072x768x32 resolution.  These are the 256mb Parhelias.

It's not sky high, but that is with photoreal custom textures and all texture and terrain detail settings maxxed out (we use a view distance 60nm, cloud draw 50nm, and 3d-detailed clouds on full)... Obviously it goes up and down a bit with the weather settings.  We also don't use autogen, although the impact of turning it on is not appreciable (we just don't like the cartoon trees and buildings it drops over our pretty textures!!)

Overall they seem to be excellent cards.  I'm not mad keen on the antialiasing, but the settings for it are quite intricate so I am not sure if I have it set right (and I'm only bothered by it when looking at a very large projected front view - on a 17inch lcd it is tolerable).

Waldomaniac,

Thanks for the information.  Those famerates sound prety darn good for ACOF.  What CPU / clock speed / fsb speed/ RAM type are you running to drive the sim?

My eventual plan for my simpit is to have a single front exterior view via a projector, and two side "windows" showing the 90 degree side views.  At least that is the "working idea" right now.

I went to your website and that is some nice looking setup.   Thanks for sharing the images.


best,

..................john