Ive been running celestia successfully on two monitors using both a
Geforce2 MX400 64M twinview
and
Geforce4 MX440 64M twinview.
respectively of course.
Id like to know what other multi monitor cards will run celestia.
Particularly high end cards that will handle more than 2 monitors.
My aim is to get celestia running on three projectors.
Has anyone used a quadro4 NVS 400 with celestia?
Know of any other high end multimonitor video cards that might do the job?
Multi monitor celestia
Multiple monitors
Hi,
I am running Celestia successfully on 3 projectors. I am using three 2-year old Electrohome Marquee 9500LCs (only about 250 lumens each), projecting onto a 2 x 8 m curved screen (more or less). The images are blended, with 25% overlap zones. (I can't wait for blended, curved screen, active stereo DLPs to come along... hopefully we'll get some next year.)
I am running Celestia on a not-very-good 300 MHz PC with a Colorgraphics Predator 4 card, which is very old and slow but does the job. It seems that although many newer cards support three montiors, I am not sure they will do the blending. If anyone knows more about this, I'd love to hear your thoughts. I run it in 2560 x 768 x 16 or 32 mode, as I do with my desktop.
So, Celestia runs nicely. The images are beautiful but of course, no night-side lights and fairly poor performance for flying etc. I work in a visualization room at an energy company, and use Celestia to talk about the power of visualization, with the June 14th 2002 MN asteroid flyby as a demo. I usually start off with it --- all the lights out, no text in the display, just Io with Jupiter floating past. It's great, especially for younger people. Hats off to all the developers.
I also have a very nice SGI Onyx 3 in here, but cannot for the life of me get Celestia to compile on it. I would obviously get better performance on there, and can also do 3 projectors, even in stereo, if Celestia ever gets that. Full res on that is 3200 x 1024, or 2560 x 768 for stereo.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Matt
I am running Celestia successfully on 3 projectors. I am using three 2-year old Electrohome Marquee 9500LCs (only about 250 lumens each), projecting onto a 2 x 8 m curved screen (more or less). The images are blended, with 25% overlap zones. (I can't wait for blended, curved screen, active stereo DLPs to come along... hopefully we'll get some next year.)
I am running Celestia on a not-very-good 300 MHz PC with a Colorgraphics Predator 4 card, which is very old and slow but does the job. It seems that although many newer cards support three montiors, I am not sure they will do the blending. If anyone knows more about this, I'd love to hear your thoughts. I run it in 2560 x 768 x 16 or 32 mode, as I do with my desktop.
So, Celestia runs nicely. The images are beautiful but of course, no night-side lights and fairly poor performance for flying etc. I work in a visualization room at an energy company, and use Celestia to talk about the power of visualization, with the June 14th 2002 MN asteroid flyby as a demo. I usually start off with it --- all the lights out, no text in the display, just Io with Jupiter floating past. It's great, especially for younger people. Hats off to all the developers.
I also have a very nice SGI Onyx 3 in here, but cannot for the life of me get Celestia to compile on it. I would obviously get better performance on there, and can also do 3 projectors, even in stereo, if Celestia ever gets that. Full res on that is 3200 x 1024, or 2560 x 768 for stereo.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Matt
Multiple monitors
Hi Marc,
Good question... When I wrote yesterday, I was absentmindedly thinking that the card does the blending, but actually it doesn't. If I had thought about it, I would have mentioned that the three video channels go via three RGBS converters to a Panoram Matrix Switcher (Panoram are at http://www.panoramtech.com), which controls the various video and audio sources, and then to a Panoram Integrator (a glorified PC). The Integrator does the blending, and sends the blended signals to the projectors.
Hope that helps,
Cheers,
Matt
Good question... When I wrote yesterday, I was absentmindedly thinking that the card does the blending, but actually it doesn't. If I had thought about it, I would have mentioned that the three video channels go via three RGBS converters to a Panoram Matrix Switcher (Panoram are at http://www.panoramtech.com), which controls the various video and audio sources, and then to a Panoram Integrator (a glorified PC). The Integrator does the blending, and sends the blended signals to the projectors.
Hope that helps,
Cheers,
Matt