I have removed the image. I understand why the GW shot is misleading/false. That image was pulled from the Matrox site. Looking at how GW supports WS/TH2Go, it isn't a good example. I will see if I can come up with something better.
With regards to Matrox lying or false advertising, their box does what it claims. But, the games need to be coded properly. A WS monitor or TV is made to provide a wider FOV. Would you lay the same claim against every WS monitor/set manufacturer because some games are Vert- or some HDTV is simply stretched?
GW is a bad example for Matrox to use, and I will bring it up with them. I also think they need to adjust their criteria for support, as a Vert- game doesn't do anyone any favors.
They don't need to adjust their criteria for support.
Again, on Matrox's website:
"Use Matrox TripleHead2Go to add three monitors to your gaming system and experience totally immersive gaming like never before. TripleHead2Go currently supports over 200 'pre-configured' game titles in Surround Gamingâ„¢ mode. Matrox is committed to add more titles to this list over time and is working with game developers to have their game supported."
"List of known supported games*" (with an asterisk, mind you...)
(upon finding the asterisk):
"*For detailed specifications/criteria on how a game can be added to our supported game list or for more information on our Matrox's Surround Gaming Utility, please click here."
(following further):
"Notes:
1. For a game to be included in the list of supported games above, it has to meet the following criteria:
2. The in-game FOV (Field of View) must be adjustable to an appropriate wide-angle FOV."
FWIW: Battlefield 2 isn't on their list. BF2, from what I understand, is well known to be V- only. As such, it's not on their list.
But, I don't know enough about GW to comment without ignorance, but if GW truly is V- only, which is what I gather from reading here, why on Earth is it on their list?
I don't think everyone that's a big GW fan and wanted their "surround" gaming would even bother to click on everything I did just above. But I did, and Matrox seems to state that "surround" is, by their definition, H+, and that games that end up on their supported list are going to be H+, or can be adjusted to be H+.
BF2 not being on this list supports this. V- just need not apply.
So, unless GW supports H+ through adjustment or natively, then Matrox should have it removed from their list.
Unless I am reading it wrong, WSGF's report on GW seems to suggest the FOV is not adjustable:
http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/wiki/index.php/Guild_Wars
But maybe I read it wrong. (I didn't find what parameters to adjust to get a wider FOV, not do I think I saw any screenshots, so I am assuming this moment it is NOT adjustable...)
Again: If the FOV sets itself for H+ automatically, then I don't understand this thread. If the FOV is adjustable, then Matrox is in the clear, and the user just needs to learn how to adjust it. (Although it would be nice if Matrox themselves offered this advice... It's only "200" supported games, and damn, that is $1.50 per supported game, given that it is a $300+ device... Can't they list how to adjust this in the few games that don't auto-H+?)
BUT: If they have games listed on there that are V- only, and they state that to list a game it must be able to do H+, and they are aware they are listing games that aren't adjustable to H+, but stubbornly refuse to correct this mistake in their advertising, I'd like to know that's exactly the case.
I have been planning for quite some time to buy a TH2G. But not enough games support H+ for me to bother. I showed my support of this by not buying Bioshock. If Matrox is misleading customers as to games that support "surround" gaming (no more education should be necessary beyond what Matrox is stating on their website, IMO...), I will show my support by not buying a TH2G.
(Potential) Shame on Matrox.
(my assessment of this is pending as I am a bit confused, that although I can't seem to find, to my knowledge, any known (to me) V- games that are on their supported list, I have played some games that I know ARE H+ that are NOT on their supported list, so you'd think they'd want to get everything straight on their supported list... Perhaps there's more than one error on their list?)