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Seems all of you guys give positive comment on the proposed setup.

Yes, a main idea is no border between the projected images. If I use LCDs or CRTs, I hate having monitor borders. Room space is a problem...I can buy the screens but I cant buy a bigger house....lol

Yes, thanks for reminding me that the drivers for Quad SLi is not ready and I am aware of that. I am hoping to run with just 1 x 7950GX2 or two 7900GTX in SLi.

Any of you are using Triplehead? Even if you are not using it with projectors but with LCDs or CRTs, I like to know what game software and hardware you are running with. Thanks.

I use the TH2G with 3x Samsung 740N 17" LCDs. My main gaming rig is an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe, AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice @ 2.4Ghz, 2GB of OCZ ram, and an eVGA 7800GTXKO 256MB card. I'm a real MMORPG fanatic, so I play it with DAoC, Eve-Online and WoW. As far as 3x projectors, I'm actually planning this out for my Fighter Ops gaming simpit. I'm wanting to do 3 ceiling mounted projectors with a half-circle screen. Each projector doing 60 degrees FOV. I'll work something out on the projector mounts so I can adjust FOV to various games.

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BTW, I ran into some pretty crazy examples of surround projection in the link below. Interesting stuff. :shock:

http://www.simhq.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=30;t=004894;p=0

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Paddy, the guy who did the THTG review for WSGF uses the fx55 coupled with two 7900gtx cards. i have used his system and can say at max res it is still a flying machine. fear, oblivion etc all ran fine. NFSMW was a little choppy, but i am sure for the flight sim stuff it would be overkill. never see much benchtesting of flight sim stuff :) i know me a Paddy joked before about setting up 3 projector sin his studio, but never happened. maybe when he comes back from the states with a big cash advance on orders he will think about setting this up again, lol...

Dude I wanna see this idea happen. I also would love to know the $$$ it would take to do it! Cause I planned on buying a nice projector myself someday, but NOBODY (retail stores) will demo them so I cannot see what the HELL a consumer model projector can do. I love harassing Best Buy, along with other retailers, for selling projectors and NOT having a way to show the customer how they look. It's like trying to sell a big screen TV and being asked to turn it on to showoff the picture and being like "No I can't do that". :roll:

Anyways... I'd also love to see Paddy do this setup as well. Would make for some crazy gaming experiences. I played a VR game up in Canada back a long time ago that did a BIG very wide screen (It was maybe like a 130 degree view) Flight Sim of sorts. It had you sit in a chair and everything, it was kinda cool but very badly done. If done right I know it could be amazing :)

Any of you are using Triplehead? Even if you are not using it with projectors but with LCDs or CRTs, I like to know what game software and hardware you are running with. Thanks.

I use the TripleHead2Go with a 2.85 GHz Opteron, a 256MB 6800GT, 2048MB DDR400 RAM, and 3 P1110 21" Trinitron CRTs. Even on CRTs with big bezels it's great. I play flight sims and racing sims.


Over at RaceSimCentral I announced my TripleHead2Go SimHQ review in the GPL forum (I used GPL in the review). At the end of the thread a Parhelia owner posted some pics of GPL with 3 projectors projecting onto a single curved screen.
http://forum.rscnet.org/showthread.php?t=251408

I dont think most games can render 180' FOV.

At least source crashes when I try it.

Try checking out the FOV Calc tool we host. The widest TH2Go setup provides a viewing ratio of 16:3 (3x16:9). Painkiller has a default FOV of 95 degrees (the widest in our list). The 16:3 setup only pushes it to 154 and change. "Regular" Surround of 16:4 pushes the FOV to 146.

Yeah I was actually surprised when my calculations using ratios came up with the same FOV as the calc. Guess college is working, eh?