DIY motion simulator - How many PC's required?!

Hi Forum members,

I was just wondering if any one could point me into the right direction regarding how many pc's are required to get a motion simulator up and running. On other threads, people post diagrams with 2 pc's in it?!

If anyone could help me I would be most grateful,

Harry

You only need one PC, No clue where you got the idea you need 2 from, But you dont. So Ya.

Welcome to the forum.

using the old software there were the possibility to use one computer to run your game, and then, connect that computer via net cable to a second computer, that proccess the movement calculations to your sim...

as far as i know you can still do this but it is only recomendable if you have a really old or slow pc

best regards

fer

Interesting.

@Harry Woodhead et al.: You can use SimTools with 1 or 2 PC's – whatever you prefer.
I personally run it on 2 PC's because then I can fiddle with the GameEngine settings on the 2nd PC without interfering with the game.
This is especially handy for games that can only be run in full screen mode.

For the installation on two PC's see here: http://www.xsimulator.net/community/threads/how-to-set-up-a-dual-pc-installation-of-simtools.4974/

As I am spoilt for choice. I have 2 sims, I run one with gaming pc and laptop , as value1 says, easier to fiddle with numbers, and my other sim uses one pc only, just have to alt tab or run game in window to fiddle with tuning centre numbers.
But a decent quad core machine is the way to go for a one pc setup.

I was intending to run everything off my overclocked Q6600 (quad core at 3Ghz) with 8800GT graphics card and 8Gb of ram.
I 'think' once I do a fresh windows install and have it running it should be more than fast enough to handle everything on one machine but it's an interesting concept running a second PC for settings. I have a netbook which could be really neat and tidy and would be good for that. I assume it would be powerful enough to run everything from what I've read on the tutorial thread.

you should be fine wit all that, games will play ok. I have a mate whom has a 2.4 gig dual core intel, 4 gig ram and a decent graphic cars running everything. I am surprised that it does.

Just a thought here but could a raspberry pi be used to run the settings part of the sim or is it not powerful enough?

Raspberry pi run a windows app ?

BTW your machine shouldn't have an issue running it all SimTools is very light on the resources, if your setup can run a decent game then it shouldn't be an issue.

Machines I have tested - AMDx6-3.9 ,AMDx8-3.9,Dual Core 2.8 only one I had issues was a single core 2.4 with a decent video, Grid2 used to test with.
And a done in Windows 8 and 7 both 32 and 64bit systems plus most ran an Ardunio dashboard too.

ah yes, I need to get more sleep.

whats that?