Widescreen Gaming Forum

Here is a thread to discuss my recent review of the new Widescreen Surround Modes in the DTH2Go.

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php/Matrox_DTH2Go_Widescreen_Modes_%28Featured_Review%29

Hey real nice review, I'll submit it to the other sites I go to and see if it gets picked up in the news.

Just a couple of points:

Under Resolution: such as 1680x1050 (considering that 1400x900 panels are uncommon). Should be 1440. I would imagine 1400x900 are so rare to be virtually non-existent! ;)

A couple of extra links would be nice: your monitor disaster thread ;) where mentioned, your excellent edge distortion vid (although at the top of the page there is a link to the original review, a link to the vid where you mention the vid under gaming would be good) in the gaming section

Under improvements you say: Additionally, an issue was uncovered using 200-series NVIDIA cards in Windows Vista. In this scenario, 5040x1050 was not available as a custom resolution. This error is not just 200 series cards but ALL NVidia cards with the latest drivers. It is a NV driver issue and I think this needs to be made really clear. Matrox get TH working, NV changes their driver set up, we are then chasing ways to get 5040 working again! However Matrox have only fixed it with the BETA GXM on 200 series cards..if you have (for example) a 8800GTX in Vista, your screwed! Unless you can get a custom res to work. Just to note that officially Matrox has this on their compatibility wizard: " 5040x1050 (3x 1680x1050) resolution is only available under Windows XP with Nvidia 200 series GPUs. Under Windows Vista the maximum supported resolution is 4320x900 (3x 1440x900)." Even though 5040 works with ALL NV GPUs in XP , they say 200 series only, dunno why. Hopefully they haven't given up on 5040 in Vista and Win7!

Nice one anyway :)

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They probably say 200 series only because idiots who don't realize their graphics card is crap would whine and complain.

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I had no problems with my 9800GX2 in Vista. I believe it was limited to the 200 series. Based on your txt from the Matrox site, I guess my 9800GX2 worked on old drivers. I've updated the txt to reflect the extent of the issue, and added links to the videos in the review.

That is great, yeah I now of a coule of forum members with 8800GTX and Vista and are stuck with the older drivers. I assume the reason why Matrox pushed ahead with the 200 series beta drivers is that the newer 200 series cards aren't on the older drivers!

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So is 5040x1050 working with vista 64 and gtx 280's now? I am using 175.19 drivers or something like that because thats the only way I could see the resoultion, did this go away with new drivers and the new suite? Or do I have to do some kinda custom res stuff I dont understand? :?

Try the BETA GXM from http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/downloads/wth2go-nv200-vista-beta.zip worked for me with the latest NV drivers in Win7 and has for (almost) everyone else in Vista.

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Link appears to not work, any other sources?

remove the , at the end, this will work :wink:

EDITed out the , Soz!

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