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Mark Hargrove:
I've been searching this forum for this, but I'm not seeing a crisp answer.   Can GSX be deployed in a multi-pc simulator environment with some PCs driving external views and one PC acting as the 'master' flying PC?  If multiple copies of GSX have to be purchased to make this work, that's fine -- but CAN it work (with, obviously, the vehicles and services that GSX provides visually synchronized across the various displays).

-M.

virtuali:
Nothing in GSX provides for synchronized displays over a network, and doing that would place a significant load over the connection, since all objects positions and animations for all vehicles would need to be synchronized at at least 30 fps, likely resulting in lots of stuttering.

It's much, much, better if you would rely on a single PC driving multiple monitors for the visuals, and this is even more true nowadays, where the newest video cards (think the new 1080 Ti) have so much spare horsepower, required to drive 4K monitors and VR, that would be able to deal with multiple flight sim screens easily, and with far less software compatibility issues.

Mark Hargrove:
A simple, "no, we don't support that" is fine.  The fact that you even suggest using "multiple monitors on a single PC" with your little lecture about "modern graphics cards" shows that you haven't even the slightest idea what you're talking about.  I currently run five 4K displays + two panel displays across 4PCs.  Running Prepar3D v3.4, every single one of them is CPU-bound running the latest and greatest i7 CPU -- and overclocked to boot.  All of the systems are running GTX 1080 cards -- which aren't even breaking a sweat, because the CPU, not the GPU, is the issue.  This true for everybody running P3D if you're running at any significant level of detail and especially if you're running 4K displays.  FSX and (to only a slightly-lesser degree) P3D depend upon single-core performance; the main rendering thread it both can only us a single core.  This is a well-known fact and literally thousands of explanatory posts in a dozen sim forums have been written about the way the two simulators work.  Could I downgrade to lower resolution monitors, run fewer displays, and get decent frame rates on a single-PC simulator?  Yeah, I could.  But doing that just to get GSX eye-candy isn't worth it.  Looks like I wasted my money on the single license I purchased.

-M.

Rainer:
Quote: "..that you haven't even the slightest idea what you're talking about etc...

I can´t understand why people are reacting that harsh when someone other (in this case Umberto) just gave an answer
with a little explanation to make it obvious (instead just to say "yes" or "no"; what even would be again criticized) and add just a suggestion???
Rainer

Eisbahn:

--- Quote from: Rainer on May 06, 2017, 10:49:33 am ---Quote: "..that you haven't even the slightest idea what you're talking about etc...

I can´t understand why people are reacting that harsh when someone other (in this case Umberto) just gave an answer
with a little explanation to make it obvious (instead just to say "yes" or "no"; what even would be again criticized) and add just a suggestion???
Rainer

--- End quote ---

I agree entirely. This is obviously an arrogant person who thinks he is the only one who understands what he's talking about.
We do not need people like this on the forum.

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