[simpits-tech] Interesting news on the EECH front

[Sean Galbraith]

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>
I *think* FSX/ESP support multiple fullscreen 
undocked views better, but this is from some very brief testing.

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!
Interestingly enough, the framerate drop wasn't 
too bad considering the huge number of pixels it was throwing around.

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)

Now what was the original question again?

SeanG

At 08:46 a.m. 20/03/2009, you wrote:
>Bill wrote
>
>On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Gene Buckle 
><<mailto:geneb at deltasoft.com>geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, William Segal wrote:
>
> >".
>
>You can stack as many video cards into a x86 (win or mac) machine as you
>have slots for and cards to fit them.
>
>The problem is that you're going to get GPU bound, CPU bound or I/O bound
>long before you hook enough displays to one computer to do any real work.
>
>The only way to *properly* do multi-screen video is with multiple
>computers.  A short cut way of doing that is having each machine use a
>TripleHead2Go.  That way you could use three machines and get 9 separate
>video sources.
>
>EECH doesn't have (but I don't think it'll take long) the ability to use
>multi-computer exterior views.  Both MSFS and FlightGear _can_ do this
>currently.  With MSFS it requires a program called WideView and FlightGear
>can do it natively.
>
>The real trick isn't showing the scenery, the hard part is making sure
>that objects and effects are correctly displayed on the client machines.
>
>g.
>
>
>Gene
>
>There is a System that is capable of that dual Quad Core 8000 level Opterons
>It's also capable of running 4 Geforce 295's or 
>the new 305 which is not out yet
>and that is a preliminary number.
>
>Cost is about $10,000 but that can handle it and 
>today that kind of price is not that
>high when I see top end new systems on e-bay for $6,000
>
>
>
>Regards
>
>Bill
>
>
>
>
>
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