[simpits-tech] Interesting "big sim" tidbit............

[geneb]

> Nvidia has excellent support for Linux, although it's a closed 
> source/proprietary driver (more an idealistic issue than a practical 
> one). I have long since given up ATI in Linux....actually I have long 
> since given up ATI period, far too many bugs and problems. Anyways, what 
> cards have you tried? Perhaps if I were on the latest video card 
> technology I would see an issue (running a 9800 GT right now), although 
> like I said, Nvidia is pretty great about supporting Linux, at least for 
> their video drivers. Are there features you are seeing in Windows video 
> drivers that the Linux counterparts lack?
>
Yeah, ATI has always sucked.  I've never had issue with the proprietary 
drivers with NVidia, but you should hear some of the FG guys whine about 
it. :)

>> You're using FlightGear, right?
>
> Nope, X-Plane all the way.....while I love the concept, FlightGear has 
You might want to give it another look.  With the new Rembrandt shading 
system, it looks really nice.

My biggest issue with XP is that I can't drive three projectors with it 
from a single machine.  You have to have three of them networked together 
to make it work.  It's absurd. :)

>
> As far as hardware and software options, I would have to agree that COTS 
> hardware support for MSFS is more abundant than for X-Plane. But that is 
> changing as more vendors recognize X-Plane's rising status (and the 
> relative death of MSFS as an evolving platform, at least for now). The 
> software situation is a little better, with lots of people making all 
> sorts of interesting things with the X-Plane SDK (which seems to be a 
> better development platform than FSUIPC, which never really got official 
> MS support AFAIK, and was most certainly not developed in-house like the 
> X-Plane SDK was). A great example is Pilot Edge, which Justin just 
> pointed me to a few days ago: http://www.pilotedge.net/ It was not made 
> by the X-Plane community, but has full X-Plane support.
>
You might also take a peek at XSUIPC - it allows MSFS add-ons to work with 
XP.

g.

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