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[Bram Hengeveld]

iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations check it out

 

[Willem Fischer]

I run a 24 inch monitor in the middle with a 19 inch either side using softth. Hope to get another 2 24s in the future.

How is the performance? I'm worried about Soft TH sucking up CPU. But as the middle screen is probably rendered directly by the GFX card (is it?) and the side screens are just for looking left and right, I guess some delay left and right is ok.

Are you running full resolution left and right? Are the screens the same height as your 24" or how did you adjust the size difference?

I'm running a 27" screen as my single one at the moment and I can imagine buying cheap 5:4 19" screens for left and right, together with a new ATI 5850 or 5870.

 

[Willem Fischer]

I wonder if they were listening to the real world pro drivers when they planned fasttrack. I mean, if I were a pro driver, I wouldn't want to wait for like more than a year before I can race my series.

We'll have to see how it works out. I really hope that you really have to be good to be promoted to C, B and A class.

I was lucky somehow and got my D license in about a week, enabling me to race C races shortly after I started iRacing (after getting the D 4.0 rating). And it was too soon. From that experience, I guess that fasttrack will be toned down soon, because with fasttrack, people with too little experience are enabled to join higher classes.

 

[Willem Fischer]

If the Indy cars would be C or at least C 4.0, that would be great... I want to drive them again ever since I did in Indy500 on the Amiga nearly 20 years ago!

 

[Aritan Maia]

I'm veeeeeeeeeery happy!!!! And now we're gonna have Indy and maybe Corvette... Time to spend some money there...

 

[Aritan Maia]

From what I've heard on iRacing forum, Willem, Indy Lights is gonna be C 4.0+ and IndyCar is gonna be B 4.0+. But since now we're gonna have the fast track thing, they're gonna be B and A classes respectively. :wink2:


EDIT:
the 2009 season schedule is out... No Indy Lights yet, only IndyCar! That means only A license...

 

[Aritan Maia]

2009 Season 4 Schedule

Hey, guys!

The 2009 season 4 schedule is out: HERE!

Corvette, anyone? :smile-big:

 

[Richard Torp Jensen]

Corvette, anyone? :smile-big:

No - Skip Barber or VW Jetta.. :skywalker:

 

[Richard Torp Jensen]

only IndyCar! That means only A license...

Or B above 4.0 in Safety Rating :tongue:

 

[Aritan Maia]

You're right, BUT BUT BUT with the fast track thing, only a few people are gonna be at 4.0+, since they are gonna be promoted when they have achieved the MRP... :tongue: :smile-big:

 

[Douglas Lundberg]

The new schedule is great. too good, because now i want to drive like at least 5 series and i dont have time for that

 

[Aritan Maia]

The new schedule is great. too good, because now i want to drive like at least 5 series and i dont have time for that

lus1:

 

[Richard Torp Jensen]

You're right, BUT BUT BUT with the fast track thing, only a few people are gonna be at 4.0+, since they are gonna be promoted when they have achieved the MRP... :tongue: :smile-big:

:smile-big:

 

[Ricky Willox]

It works well considering.

Im running at a res of 4120x1024 with frame rates around 70 fps it drops a bit in heavy traffic but never below 40 fps. I have also turned down the detail in iracing to low and medium with no shadows. There is a performance hit using softth but the view you get for me makes the reduction in eye candy well worth it. To be honest I dont notice the difference when concentrating on keeping on the black stuff.

The res on the sides is set to 1024x768 just now I think but you dont really notice the difference.

This is with an 8800GTX as the main card doing all the processing and 9XXX series card outputing to the sides.

With the ATI 58XX all screens would need to be the same resolution I dont think it wiill do mixed res in a display group.

Ricky

 

[Willem Fischer]

I wish I only had a 19" screen at the moment... I really have to run the 27" at the native resolution or I can see every single pixel.

Maybe I'll just replace it... The comment "I'd go for option 2 everytime" (meaning he prefers 3x 22" screens) below sounds reasonable. And if I spend > 1500 for new hardware, I don't want to tune to gfx quality down.

 

[Willem Fischer]

That means I could TT my sr into A class...

But no, it's better if I just stay with the trucks a little longer, they're really not that bad either, and I need that extra experience.

 

[Willem Fischer]

I only have time to prepare for one series... But that's ok, as long as iRacing doesn't go out of service, I can pick my next favorite series any time

Btw., your link didn't work for me, but it's easy to find, just under Announcements in the iRacing forum.

 

[Willem Fischer]

The best is I get part the money back I spent a short time ago

 

[diabolesco]

my opinion based on my personal experience

I have played in 1 and 2 cases, things like 3d vision, I am sure that you can't play more than 2 hour without headache... (this is I supose...)

My brother has a 37" and playing in his computer is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING....

but....

My setup is an intel 2.6 with 8800GTX (main card) and a 8400GS (second card, only for image spam thorught monitors) 2x17" and 1x20".... using softth software (it permits DIFFERENT resolutions, matrox th2go only you can same resolution).... with my computer I get on GTR 60 to 90 frames at 1680x1050 and 2x1024x768,,, you can see you have more machine than me.... all details MAX,... , but for the sides, needs to be 16bit and no AA at all for get the high rates)

I think two cases are gorgeous.... but I think I prefer triple wide gaming..... you get the panoramic vision.... and I think this is great...

 

[Bruce Saltzman]

Follow this link to see the differences in performance between all nVidia and ATI cards. The specs on the 5870 is absolutely amazing.

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/132

 

[Kevin Watts]

Great news, I'd like to get back into iRacing after a few months out. I didn't have a problem with the pricing before, just no time to use the service so now its cheaper all the more reason to dip back in again.