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General Forums => Wishlist => Topic started by: eagl on September 10, 2009, 08:30:18 PM
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Please oh please ask AMD to send you guys some development hardware and any required SDK... 6 monitors at full resolution with full DX11 acceleration, on one card. Put 4 cards in one system and you get 24 fully accelerated monitors.
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3635
This is just PERFECT for flightsims. 6 monitors is probably enough for a 1/3 dome with projectors, or a 180 deg horizontal view using 5 monitors and the 6th monitor sitting up above the center monitor for the all-important fwd-up view. Go with 4 cards and you've easily got a full dome. Yea it might be CPU limited but intel is quite busy working on that so no worries there.
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Seems it is all handled transparently to the application, thus it should just work.
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Yea, but... Can AH handle 5 monitors across in a row plus one monitor sitting above the center monitor? The viewable area would not be a rectangle. Wouldn't the game need to know that it needs to render just the inverted "T"?
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no eagl: It is still the same, just simply choose a Field of view you wish and resolution, nothing is different as far as AH is concerned it is sill just 1 big monitor.
HiTech
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Thanks for the reply HT. That would look amazing... I doubt it'll make it to market in time for the convention this year though. The 3-monitor cards should be out soon but the 6 monitor cards won't be out until the end of the year.
Although... multiple 3-monitor cards can be matched to make larger arrays... That might be possible by the con date. I wish I could attend this year but I don't think I can make it :(