9th March 2005, 1:06 PM
lazy, I need to point something out to you. Two screens doesn't mean that. It CAN be done that way, but it's not needed. As I've said before, to the computer, a second screen is something it can be completley oblivious to. You see, the part where it decides how the image should be shown is done by the actual moniter itself. All that need be done is have the extra moniter hooked up and a program designed to use it. Two totally different game engines, as you say, can ALREADY be run simultaneously. As for duel processing, that doesn't require two screens, and two screens doesn't require that.
What I'm saying is, they seem to have set up some duel processing, but it doesn't NEED two screens to work. The programs can easily be set up to simply partition one really big screen into the two displays. It is exactly no different than 4 Swords Adventures where when everyone is on the "move to next screen" zone a big image showing exactly where the missing player is underground will show up. The second screen wasn't needed for that to be shown all at once at all. In the case of that game, there is lots of power to spare, but my point is the same.
A SECOND SCREEN DOES NOT MEAN THEY CAN RUN TWO STUFF AT ONCE. Programming is all that does that. Let me describe one last thing. Basically, they could simply divide the image, via programming, so that it is partitioned VERTICALLY, so the left half of both screens shows one set of stuff and the right half of both shows something else.
What I'm saying is, they seem to have set up some duel processing, but it doesn't NEED two screens to work. The programs can easily be set up to simply partition one really big screen into the two displays. It is exactly no different than 4 Swords Adventures where when everyone is on the "move to next screen" zone a big image showing exactly where the missing player is underground will show up. The second screen wasn't needed for that to be shown all at once at all. In the case of that game, there is lots of power to spare, but my point is the same.
A SECOND SCREEN DOES NOT MEAN THEY CAN RUN TWO STUFF AT ONCE. Programming is all that does that. Let me describe one last thing. Basically, they could simply divide the image, via programming, so that it is partitioned VERTICALLY, so the left half of both screens shows one set of stuff and the right half of both shows something else.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)