On Thursday 14 July 2011 19:19:56 [email protected] wrote: > > Asking on the wine forums was met with "buy Nvidia". > > > > Make sure you turn xinerama off and use XRandR - took me a while to get > > an answer on that. > > I'm not asking for fantastic performance, certainly not what it expected > from modern games... but I am doing this specifically for a racing game > > <advert> > Speed-Dreams - GPL'ed Open Source Racing Simulator > > Buy^H^H^H Download it at > http://speed-dreams.org > </advert> > > To put it in perspective, my current machine has a 8400GS with Nouveau > driver in a 1X PCIe slot and can just about cope with the graphically > simpler tracks. (I'll pause whilst you stop laughing ;-) > > My understanding (so far) is that Nvidia can only do 2 screens with > TwinView, any third screen will not be accelerated within the same > viewport. > > What I'd like to do is build up a cockpit with some old monitors and > therefore need 3 outputs. I can do this with a DualHead2Go and split one > of the outputs down, but that is at least $200 (A2D variant which gives > more resolution options). > > So far the best (ie cheapest) option is to go with a eyefinity ATI card > for around $120. If there is a Nvidia solution I'd love to hear it.... > Simon > >
Given that it's a proper OSS game, you may have better luck than playing directX stuff in wine. Just buy it somewhere with a decent exchange/return policy :) _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
