Re: Running TORCS without display

Hi William

No, the commandline and blind mode do not render the visual output at 
all. Technically it would be possible to achieve this. as long as you 
have an API which allows you to get an OpenGL Context without binding it 
to a window.

What you could try is to start TORCS in normal mode and iconize (minify) 
the window, but I guess the OpenGL Driver/OS will then stop rendering as 
"optimization".

Kind regards

Bernhard

On 24.06.2016 22:56, William wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to train an agent to drive in TORCS via reinforcement
> learning with visual input (first person view). I was wondering if it's
> possible to have TORCS still render without actually firing up a
> display? (basically still compute everything it would by default show on
> the screen, but not have it actually be shown on the screen...)
>
> Thanks
> William
>
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