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I have run 3 8800's on a quad-SLI based PC running FS9... turns out FS9
doesn't like it :( Undocking fullscreen out-the-window views onto
different cards the whole shooting box gets unstable. Looks bloody
spectacular though <lol><br>
I *think* FSX/ESP support multiple fullscreen undocked views better, but
this is from some very brief testing.<br><br>
I've also played around with 2 TripleHead2Go's on a single 8800, in
horizontal span mode... made for a really really wide view, but still not
360º even though the image was 7680x1024!<br>
Interestingly enough, the framerate drop wasn't too bad considering the
huge number of pixels it was throwing around.<br><br>
If we are trying to achieve a 360º image, TH2GO aint the way to get
there, and I agree with Gene, that multiple PC's rendering multiple views
is the only workable way. FGFS does it, X-Plane does it (with nice
projector alignment and edge blending) and MSFS can do it with wideview
(but I don't like the results a whole lot, especially when you have
clouds or AI traffic)<br><br>
Now what was the original question again?<br><br>
SeanG<br><br>
At 08:46 a.m. 20/03/2009, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Bill wrote<br><br>
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Gene Buckle
<<a href="mailto:geneb@deltasoft.com">geneb@deltasoft.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<dd>On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, William Segal wrote:<br><br>
<dd>>".<br><br>
<dd>You can stack as many video cards into a x86 (win or mac) machine as
you<br>
<dd>have slots for and cards to fit them.<br><br>
<dd>The problem is that you're going to get GPU bound, CPU bound or I/O
bound<br>
<dd>long before you hook enough displays to one computer to do any real
work.<br><br>
<dd>The only way to *properly* do multi-screen video is with
multiple<br>
<dd>computers. A short cut way of doing that is having each machine
use a<br>
<dd>TripleHead2Go. That way you could use three machines and get 9
separate<br>
<dd>video sources.<br><br>
<dd>EECH doesn't have (but I don't think it'll take long) the ability to
use<br>
<dd>multi-computer exterior views. Both MSFS and FlightGear _can_
do this<br>
<dd>currently. With MSFS it requires a program called WideView and
FlightGear<br>
<dd>can do it natively.<br><br>
<dd>The real trick isn't showing the scenery, the hard part is making
sure<br>
<dd>that objects and effects are correctly displayed on the client
machines.<br><br>
<dd>g.<br><br>
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Gene<br><br>
There is a System that is capable of that dual Quad Core 8000 level
Opterons <br>
It's also capable of running 4 Geforce 295's or the new 305 which is not
out yet<br>
and that is a preliminary number. <br><br>
Cost is about $10,000 but that can handle it and today that kind of price
is not that<br>
high when I see top end new systems on e-bay for $6,000 <br><br>
<br><br>
Regards<br><br>
Bill<br><br>
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