CAT 8.1 brings Multiview Any experiences

starfighter · Post by **starfighter** » 22 Jan 2008, 17:04

Hello,
the new Cat 8.1 brings the so called Multiview feature providing "full hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering across multiple graphics adapters setup in an extended desktop display configuration." In short, MultiView "allows for a 3D [application] to have the same performance running on a secondary or third display device as if it were running on the primary display device."

Full story here
http://techreport.com/discussions.x/13946

What are your opinions about it?
Can it improve the SoftTH gaming experience ?
Does anybody own 2 AMD/ ATI vgas to test it?

avioni · Post by **avioni** » 23 Jan 2008, 05:51

softh is not yet using opegl so it will not improve since

full hardware accelerated OpenGL

Tucson · Post by **Tucson** » 23 Jan 2008, 06:48

this is great. not many games use opengl though. quake and unreal i think?

Mesh · Post by **Mesh** » 23 Jan 2008, 23:49

ut2k4 has both d3d and opengl paths, ogl one is slower a bit but overall has faster response time since it's not as hardlinked into the shell. the quakes are all opengl that I know of.

fretsonfire is one too

hmm can't think of any other atm.

truthfully, I've always liked ogl better then dx, it's just visibly more stable to me, shame the MS behemoth has all but wiped out the use of it.

Tucson · Post by **Tucson** » 24 Jan 2008, 03:13

Plus you can usually play those games in linux or osx.

Savage 2 is also openGL, which everyone should play. Been waiting for quite a while for this game. Free trial client too!

https://savage2.s2games.com/

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