garageCube

[scaryxpuppy]

Hi there,

Does anyone currently run MadMapper using 2 (or more!) graphics cards off their MacPro, each with a Matrox Triple Head2Go attached.

I currently have one graphics card, attached to a TripleHead, but am curious as to wether I can install an additional card and also run an additional TripleHead off this, giving me 6 x Outputs.

Can anyone give me any advice, and also a "screenshot" of what the Output Menu tab looks like - does it give options to Output to 1+2, 2+3, 1+2+3 times 2 or does it have 1+2+3+4+5, 2+3+4+5+6 etc etc etc

All help really appreciated

Thanks

PHIL

[franz]

you would have to launch madmapper twice

[orion]

as far as I've seen or heard you can have have as many THC's as you do graphics cards. Here's a club in Austria using 15 triple head matrox card thingys: http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/press/stories/digital_signage/triplehead2go/club_vanilli/

I'm still trying to get my hands on one

[Casey_Scalf]

So can you link them together with one graphics card? Like plug another triplehead into an out from the first in the chain.

I've heard you can but I'd like to hear for sure before I buy.

Would this divide a feed into yet another 3 screens? Is the resolution diminished in this way?

Thank!

[orion]

like daisy chaining the matrox. I wouldn't think that is possible but maybe, i have access to a triple and dual head I'll see if it works.

[Casey_Scalf]

That would be great! Please do tell what comes of it

[vj granda]

you would have to launch madmapper twice

Now I'm not able to open more than one instance of Madmapper.


Retina-MBP-OSX10.8- i7 2.7Ghz_8 Gb-512 Flash-NVIDIA GeForce GT650M 1GB DDR5

[shopturtle]

I too am wondering about this, maybe someone from garagecube can weigh in? The article on the mad mapper blog titled "Nature-graphique gets Triangle Fever" states that the company doing the projection for the show used:
- 2 Mac Pros
- 4 Matrox TripleHead2go
- 12 projectors

Obviously, at a minimum they were using graphics cards with two outputs in each Mac Pro, possibly two gpus per mac pro for the rendering horsepower. I'm hoping that someone can confirm that they were using the trick of running two instances of mad mapper. (Here's a mention of the "hack" required to do so, essentially duplicating and then renaming the mad mapper.app: viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5694&p=23073&hilit=two+instances+madmapper#p23073) And if anyone can confirm that that is how they did it for this instance does anyone have any more specific information on the "hack?"

Thanks

Edit: I made two more instances of madmapper (literally ctrl+click copy) and was able to run all three. Ran out of time at work, but they were all running with 4 simple maps in each instance on my mac pro 3.2ghz with 8gb of ram. Madmapper itself seems to be a pretty resource easy program. Will update once I have a chance to test a bit more extensively. BTW, this was the madmapper demo, but the only difference I can find between the demo and the paid is the watermark on the output.

[wickiss]

Duplicate your MadMapper in Application, run bought of them and use different resolution on outputs.

[dburianov]

Hi
For run two copy Madmapper on one mac, I should have two license for it or one?