You know you want it, the Triple Head2Go promises all the gaming delight of fantasy, too bad you don’t have $300 lying around. Enter SoftTH aka Software Triplehead. SoftTH is developed by Keijo “Kegetys” Ruotsalainen a 22 year old who hails from Finland, Kegetys feels your pain.
SoftTH allows using three monitor “triplehead” with Direct3D 8 and 9 games without special hardware. You need three monitors attached to PCI Express video cards. Only one card does all the rendering work, so secondary card can be a low end card, only Direct3D support is required.
SoftTH works by rendering the whole scene on one display adapter, which then gets split into three parts to be displayed on each monitor. While it is technically possible to use it on a AGP/PCI card, only PCI Express has the required bandwidth to get good framerates.
Simple right? Kegetys posted a flowchart here.
SoftTH is still in beta, but I could easily see this become a commercial product(read: get it while its still free) if all the bugs were worked out. Sadly Vista is not too friendly about mix and matching video cards and this product could stay XP only. You can expect a review in the near future.
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