[ale] Nvidia Magic for dual head

[Joe]

Dow Hurst <dhurst at kennesaw.edu> writes:

> Okay,
> I went and got an Asylum Geforce 4 Ti-4200 on sale.  Paid enough but
> knew I was in for it since I wanted my "fix" right now instead of
> waiting or hunting around alot.  But, the beauty of this beast is that
> I pulled out the Geforce2 MX card and the SiS cheapo card, dropped in
> the new card and it worked.  Hooked up both monitors thru the SVGA and
> DVI outs.  The card came with the converter for the DVI port to a SVGA
> out.  My XF86Config was already setup for TwinView since I had been
> beating on the Geforce2 trying stuff.  Lo! and behold!  My dual head
> desktop came up beautifully!  I experimented with Gears and some 3D
> games successfully on both monitors.  The trick is to read the docs on
> the 3D games to see if a control on whether the full screen,
> windowing, or window size is available.  So I am screaming down the
> slopes in TuxRacer at 127km/hr while on the other desktop I am showing
> a Mozilla browser or GRip.  Exactly what I had hoped for!
> 
> The performance on the card with Gears is about ~5800fps which isn't

Are you serious? Fifty-eight HUNDRED frames per second? That's so
far beyond human visual time resolution it's not even funny. One
tenth of that performance would be vast overkill. What's the point?

> great compared to the top of the line cards.

?!?!?!?!?

-- Joe Knapka
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