Widescreen Gaming Forum

Hello, I have a Mac Pro (with Windows, obviously), with 2 nvidia 8800GT and 3 displays (2x 23" on the sides and 1x 22" on the middle). Does anyone here know how to play widescreen games here? I think apple computers are not configured as sli, but there are still 2 GPUs...

Thank you very much ;)

Edit: i have bought another 23" display so now its 3x23" with exactly the same resolution( 1920x1080 )

no one?

You'd have to use softTH.

I don't get what you mean by 'not configured for SLI' - Does the motherboard support SLI? If it does, then configuring for SLI is purely at the software level as long as the motherboard supports it.

The Mac Pro does not have a SLI certified motherboard, and Apple's Nvidia drivers also do not support SLI. When in bootcamp, you still cannot enable SLI.
I tried to experiment with hacked drivers in bootcamp to enable SLI, but nothing that i found or tried turned out to be real.

You'll have better luck going with Crossfire/Eyefinity in bootcamp with some ATI/AMD cards. Although you will have to do some monkey-ing around with a secondary PSU for the second GFX card if you are going to use a 5870. Already a couple people messing around with it on the MacRumors forums.

softTH is an option that will work, although it does take some toying around with to get the configurations to work out, another option would be to try the good 'ole Matrox TripleHead2Go, but you will likely have to drop to a lower resolution (1680x1050) on the monitors, but your aspect ratio will be a little off.

-Ray