3 views with SLI

[737NUT]

I know what you mean and frankly, there is no real way to compare them. However, DX10 does look better. I've seen some pix of it and it has more of the smaller details that give realism. Just need to get a nice new machine that will run it.

I agree 100% I'm waiting till spring to build my new system for vista and DX10. It just frustrates me to see people complain they see no difference when in reality, until they upgrade thier machines, they never will!

[AndyT]

Some people feel the need to complain to be happy. I mostly ignore them.

[Prof Bill]

Bill,

Thank you! But I do have another question about the Load Sharing that you were discussing. Do you mean load balancing by evenly assigning the work across the 4 CPU's?

Hi James,

What I discovered when I experimented with load balancing was that an even workload distribution did not work efficiently. I very laboriously constructed a spreadsheet that allowed me to measure and document the processing efficiency of the Q6600 as I moved processes around. I spent considerable time stripping out redundant processes within the operating system prior to assigning FSX (taking into account where possible what SP1 does with multithreading), needed processes and applications etc. to various processors.

It would have been impossible to mantain control and repeatable configurations without the spreadsheet!
The alternative would be a combinatorial nightmare!!

The way in which multithreading is executed has an effect on repeatable results but nevertheless allows you to generate a semi stable window where results can be generated and usefully utilised.

Eventually you get to a group of configurations where the best description would be that "you have balanced the load distribution on your quad-core"!

I supect and optimistically hope that lots of user friendly tools might emerge eventually that will automate this activity to benefit all!.

Bill.

[James Twomey]

Bill,,

Thank you again. That is very eye opening. I too hope that there will soon be some user freindly tools released. I would really like to capture the full potential of my quad for FSX use.