The Ultimate Oolite Gaming Set-Up?

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 12:19 pm

DaddyHoggy, I’ll make you a deal. You send me one of those, and I’ll prioritize real multi-monitor support. ;-)

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 12:28 pm

You know, if I thought I could, for the benefit of the community as a whole, I would - you'd have to pay P&P though...

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:52 pm

MOD say no.

So you can get 2 screens working with a mac (if you make a really big window that is (not full screen)).

How many screens can you get this working on in linux and windows?

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 2:09 pm

ClymAngus wrote:
MOD say no.
So you can get 2 screens working with a mac (if you make a really big window that is (not full screen)).

How many screens can you get this working on in linux and windows?

It works with a TH2G over 3 screens on a PC but that's because it thinks its one big screen of 3840x1024 (even though Ahruman points out Oolite doesn't support this res!)

All my linux boxes are single screen, so, pass!

treczoks · Post by **treczoks** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 2:15 pm

DaddyHoggy wrote:
Friday will be the best day - Being a mostly military site the tradition of POETS still holds strong.

Edible POETS?

drew · Post by **drew** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 2:40 pm

treczoks wrote:
DaddyHoggy wrote:
Friday will be the best day - Being a mostly military site the tradition of POETS still holds strong.
Edible POETS?

I'm assuming the fatherhog is referring to common practice in the UK which is P*** Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday.

Friday is thus often referred to as 'Poets' Day.

Cheers,

Drew.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 2:55 pm

drew wrote:
treczoks wrote:
DaddyHoggy wrote:
Friday will be the best day - Being a mostly military site the tradition of POETS still holds strong.
Edible POETS?
I'm assuming the fatherhog is referring to common practice in the UK which is P*** Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday.

Friday is thus often referred to as 'Poets' Day.

Cheers,

Drew.

I am indeed, it's a maxim that most of the Military lives by, they often plunge us into darkness at 3pm on a Friday in the main arena as they leave (the military control the lighting in the building I work in)

Post by **Kaks** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 3:29 pm

DH, you jammy b so-and-so!

I wonder if you'll have to disable the fourth monitor though.

Do let us know how it plays in full screen!

Sendraks · Post by **Sendraks** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 9:30 pm

And there was, in the office after 6pm on a Friday, in a building next door to MoD headquarters on Whitehall pondering "what do they get up to in there at this time." Now I know.

*jealous*

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 9:34 pm

Sendraks wrote:
And there was, in the office after 6pm on a Friday, in a building next door to MoD headquarters on Whitehall pondering "what do they get up to in there at this time." Now I know.

*jealous*

What they get up to in Main Building is very scary (in parts) I'm glad I'm not there any more!

Sendraks · Post by **Sendraks** » Fri Nov 27, 2009 9:54 pm

DaddyHoggy wrote:
What they get up to in Main Building is very scary (in parts) I'm glad I'm not there any more!

I just knows a bit about Defense Medical Services and is so far as I can tell, they don't do anything scary.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 12:12 am

Having spoken to my boss tonight I have discovered two things about my mega-gaming sim for Oolite:

1) The sim will actually belong to the military not the University :¬( - this will make it trickier to access - although the military has no in-house expertise to set it up or run it - so it should fall to us...

2) It's actually going to come supplied with four separate PCs each powering a different screen - it was originally a clustering demonstrator - So I would have to hope that I could run four instances of the same game of Oolite and leave each one in a separate view...

I know the answer to this is "no" - but I just wanted to mention it anyway!

Oh Well - we shall have to see how it pans out!

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 12:23 am

DaddyHoggy wrote:
I know the answer to this is "no" - but I just wanted to mention it anyway!

It’s not only “no”, it’s also “yeah, right” and “what are you smoking, man?” :-)

Killer Wolf · Post by **Killer Wolf** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:27 am

"Obviously, photographic proof will follow as soon as I have it."

did you never gt a chance to play w/ this, DH?

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 12:53 pm

Killer Wolf wrote:
"Obviously, photographic proof will follow as soon as I have it."

did you never gt a chance to play w/ this, DH?

If you go to the waiting for things to go quite thread - you see that the answer is yes, but not on the really big screens - I managed to get Oolite to run a 2x2 mosaic of 1280x1024 (2560x2048 effective) monitors and it worked very nicely, but such a shame that pneumonia got in the way of some proper play time.