I finally got the projector mounts and 15 foot DVI cables from monoprice. I also purchased a 12x7 foot of projection screen material that should arrive later this week. It should be interesting building a screen frame that large.
I spent most of the weekend framing and putting up the walls and ceiling. Here are a few pics of the progress. Nothing that wonderful to show, but it's progress. :wink:
Primering the front wall after it's been framed and panels are up.
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A bit more progress. A majority of the ceiling is up now.
Here is a pic showing the 2-projector front screen configuration. This'll be the configuration for watching HDTV and movies. The circular screen setup will be added in after I get the 2 screen setup working and the projector mounts located and wired. The 180 degree circular screen will use all 3 of my projectors and will be a removable screen that I can velcro up as needed and remove when I want to watch TV or movies on the back wall 2-projector screen setup. That'll allow the room to have 2 configurations.
I'm running into a few minor configuration issues with Sol7. Apparently, it only currently likes 32-bit versions of Windows. That's not a major issue. It just means having less memory available for gaming (for now). I'm going to go ahead and test it using XP, Vista and Windows 7 32-bit versions to see how they work with Sol7. Everything seems to be ok with it other than that slight hiccup. The configuration and setup all works fine, but with it being a 64-bit OS, I think DirectX 64-bit doesn't see the 32-bit Sol7 DirectX tie-ins. The screen blending within the configuration window works perfectly though, so it just means going 32-bit for now.
One thing I found out about the EX525ST projectors is the scaler in them works quite well. I'm just as happy with using 1600x1200 on the projector as the 1024x768 native. It's a rather clean downscale. I've been running desktop and in games at 3200x1200, which gives a lot more room for interface windows than 2048x768 native does.
I'm anxious to get the room in a more permanently functional state this week so I can start using it and working out the bugs. As you can tell above, for now I've just been projecting onto the primered wall until I get the 2.39:1 back wall screen built. It seems to be working well enough to get rough numbers on where the ceiling projector mounts need to be. It should actually be decent looking in about 2 weeks (I hope). :lol: