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The 2D Display shows a number of lanes in a view that's like looking down on a swimming pool, with each boat shown as a dinghy-like shape in its lane.
Although the 2D Display doesn't show the rich graphical detail of the 3D display, and there is no rower or stroke action in each boat, the 2D display has some key advantages over the 3D display:
| • | The 2D display is far less demanding on your PC's graphics system, and will therefore run well on older, less powerful PCs at a reasonable frame rate. |
| • | The 2D display shows between 100 meters and 1000 meters of the course, which means it is better suited to Online Rowing, where competitors can be quite a distance apart and would not be onscreen at all in the 3D Display. |
The main features of 2D display are:
In Online Rowing the boats only report their positions to each other every few seconds. RowPro smooths the boat movement between position reports.
The default 2D view is to show 100 meters of the course. If the gap between the leading and trailing boats exceeds 100 meters, the 2D Display automatically rescales to show more of the course, so all boats remain onscreen. This continues until the leading and trailing boats are 1000 meters apart, at which point the course stops scaling and the trailing boat or boats disappear off the left side of the 2D Display.
There are also some information features that are not always visible on the 2D display:
RowPro gives some user feedback in the area below the lanes in the 2D Display, for example showing if you are in the Warm-up, Main row or Warm-down part of the session.
During Online Rowing and Venue Racing, a pace bar appears on the right edge of the screen showing the current pace of each boat and the number of meters each boat is ahead of or behind you. When each competitor finishes, the pace bar in that lane shows the final time or distance and the placing of that boat.