Resolume avenue & Matrox graphics cards

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pipoca
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Resolume avenue & Matrox graphics cards

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Hello eveybody.
I Have a PC with two Matrox graphics cards:
1- Matrox Parhelia 128 (AGP) - It can output to 3 monitors
2- Matrox QID Low Profile PCI - It can output to 4 S-video or composit video (for wide wide screen projection ;) )

I intaled Resolume avenue beta rev. 990 but when I try to start it Resolume says my graphic card is not powerfull enought to run the software and shuts down.

I know these graphic cards are not very recent wit GPU and full of video RAM etc., but they are truly amazing graphic cards, and for what I need (4 video projectors doing 1 single image/movie) I can not imagine a better way to go.

My question is: In a future rev., will I be able to run Resolume with this grapic cards and have 4 projectors doing a single image?

Thank you very much.

Best Regards,

Pipoca

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bart
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Re: Resolume avenue & Matrox graphics cards

Post by bart »

pipoca wrote:I know these graphic cards are not very recent wit GPU and full of video RAM etc., but they are truly amazing graphic cards, and for what I need (4 video projectors doing 1 single image/movie) I can not imagine a better way to go.
Matrox was indeed the only way to go 5 years ago, now we have MUCH more powerfull grahics cards.

For instance, Asus makes video cards that have 2 GPUs and 4 DVI outputs:
Radeon HD 4870X2
http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=2&l2=8&l3=774

Radeon HD 3870X2
http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=2&l2=8&l3=636

We have not tried any of these cards ourself so we would love to hear from someone who has ;-)

The easiest sollution for multi-screen output by far is to connect a Matrix TrippleHead but then you get 'only' 3 outputs, not 4.

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