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My experience is that of Ulrich's. A year or so ago (thinking that I might
"upgrade" from my older Evo-4 cards), I bought several Colorgraphic LT cards
over eBay (both 2- and 4-monitor cards) and couldn't get them to work
satisfactorily with TS4 and Win 98, so I went back to using my old standby,
Colorgraphic's Evolution-4, and it continues to work fine for me. I've also
had good success with an older Appian 2-monitor card, also available on Ebay
(for around $25-50) - I believe it's called a J2-N.
Ullrich Fischer wrote:
> One option is to get another G450. Win2000 supports as many video cards as
> you can jam into your computer. The only weirdness I've noticed with this
> approach is that if you have an application window that is open but not
> maximized on one or both of the pair of monitors that connect to one dual
> monitor card, then maximize that window, it only maximizes to fill up those
> two monitors. Similarly for the other pair of monitors. It's almost like
> having two semi-independent desktops each covering two monitors. You can
> manually stretch your application window over all 4 monitors but as soon as
> you maximize it, it snaps back to covering just the two 'home'
> monitors. The user who has this system doesn't find this weirdness to be
> a problem.
>
> If you're running WIN-NT and for some strange reason don't want to upgrade,
> you could get a Colorgraphics S3 LT IV card, but I've had problems with
> those and don't recommend them. On one PC, two different copies (bought at
> different times) of the Colorgraphics card failed to configure properly
> under Windows 2000. The mouse pointer image can move freely across all 4
> monitors, but when you try to move an application window off the primary
> monitor, it just disappears. After recommending I upgrade the bios,
> technical support stopped returning my calls. These cards do seem to work
> more or less as advertised under NT.
>
> At 1/19/2002 09:12 PM, erwilm45@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >Hello List,
> >
> >Can you please share your thoughts on video cards that support four
> >monitors? I'm using a Matrox G450 dual monitor setup, and am looking
> >to upgrade.
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
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