Building The Ultimate Gaming Room, pc gaming at 3072 x 768 Options

[twisteddman]

Hey everyone,

I am new here. I am curently working on building three 15" projecters That i will be connecting together with a triplehead2go. I plan on using one large screen that curves 45 degrees on each side for an emersive experience. I just found this site and it is going a long way in helping me as i was saving to buy three store bought high quality projecters and now i already have enough to acomplish my goal. If anyone has experience or has already done this i would apreciate any advice you could give.

Here are some pictures of the raceing simulater i built. It has a fully adjustable seat from an astro van that worked perfectly. I cant wait to use it with my three projecters. Just wanted to show it off





This post has been edited by twisteddman: Dec 5 2006, 09:23 PM

[ShamanDave]

That's pretty cool. I'd love to have room to set up something like that.

It's gotta have a low WAF, though.

[tameone]

thats badass. I always want to build a racing simulator chair but then I need to remind myself I don't play any racing games.. but then I tell myself well thats because I don't have a simulator!

[tameone]

wow that momo wheel is available for less than $80! and I have plenty of old car seats.. HRM!!

[twisteddman]

wow that momo wheel is available for less than $80! and I have plenty of old car seats.. HRM!!

You should definetly build one then. its incredibly cheap and easy. i recomend a van seat though if you got one, as it has a pedistle it sits on and mounts symetricly,where a car seat would mount directly to the floor with not so symetricle mounts ,a truck seat might be the same.Get some pvc and misc elbows and tees .I used a couple of peices of press board to mount the pedals and the wheel to.

[twisteddman]

Here are some pics of the 3d model i made of my plans. I am curious if the crossing of the projecter image projection is an issue or if i need to stagger them to avoid this.

[blackoper]

it's a cool idea but it's very hard to pull off. Matching up the edges perfectly takes some work. Good luck though.

[twisteddman]

I figure if i cant get them acceptably aligned,wich im going to work very hard to accomplish, i can just seperate the screens slightly so its not so noticable.The triplehead2go is designed for three lcd moniters that would normaly have about a 3/4"- 1" gap between screens anyway.I would rather get them alligned and see what adding curved bends would look like.
I cant wait to get my parts in the mail to build my first projecter. I purchased a NEC MultiSync 15" LCD 1560M on ebay.I plan on building this first one> then buying 3 matching high quality,but hopefully inexpensive 15" or 17" moniters.(If any one would like to reccomend a certain one for my application i would be much appreciating).
By the wat has anyone noticed that the models most availiable on ebay have ffc issues and the ones that dont never seem to go for very chaep? I just was wondering if its from people doing this or just a coincedence.

This post has been edited by twisteddman: Oct 2 2006, 07:39 AM

[foamcows]

how would you run the 3 monitors at once? do they have video cards that can do this?

[tameone]

how would you run the 3 monitors at once? do they have video cards that can do this?

the matrox triplehead2go does all the work.. you only need 1 video card with VGA out.

[tameone]

what PC games are compatible with that logitech wheel? Is that the PC or the PS2 version?

[twisteddman]

what PC games are compatible with that logitech wheel? Is that the PC or the PS2 version?

It is the PC version, So all PC driving games are compatable. If the game dos not work with force feedback. you can calibrate the force feedback from the logitach software.

[tameone]

It is the PC version, So all PC driving games are compatable. If the game dos not work with force feedback. you can calibrate the force feedback from the logitach software.

I looked at some reviews at circuit city and it seemed people were having problems finding games 'compatible' with the pedals? people said they were using it without the pedals for a lot of games.

[twisteddman]

I looked at some reviews at circuit city and it seemed people were having problems finding games 'compatible' with the pedals? people said they were using it without the pedals for a lot of games.

i wonder what games they were talking about.are you sure its not the ps2. Every racing game i have tried workes spectacular.In fact a majority have been set up for the wheel from the get go .others have the abilty to change the contol settings.So a little tweeking and your good to go.Maybe they mean games like GTA, as ive never tried it with those kind of games.

I have played Need for speed underground 1-2, NFS most wanted, Flat out 1-2, GTR 1-2 , Toca 2-3 (i think or is 1-2), Midnight club 1, and some really bad european rally simulator. All of them worked flawlessly with the wheel and pedals I think that any of the good race games are going to be copatable with this wheel.

[tameone]

i wonder what games they were talking about.are you sure its not the ps2. Every racing game i have tried workes spectacular.In fact a majority have been set up for the wheel from the get go .others have the abilty to change the contol settings.So a little tweeking and your good to go.Maybe they mean games like GTA, as ive never tried it with those kind of games.

I have played Need for speed underground 1-2, NFS most wanted, Flat out 1-2, GTR 1-2 , Toca 2-3 (i think or is 1-2), Midnight club 1, and some really bad european rally simulator. All of them worked flawlessly with the wheel and pedals I think that any of the good race games are going to be copatable with this wheel.

sounds good! I really want to get behind the wheel and play some GTR 2 Wish they made gran turismo for PC

[twisteddman]

sounds good! I really want to get behind the wheel and play some GTR 2 Wish they made gran turismo for PC

Gran tourismo would be cool. I gotta say though those GTR games are a little too realistic for me. Its hard to even start the engine let alone race the car. I end up pulling my hair out for a while before I can have any fun with those games.

[tameone]

Gran tourismo would be cool. I gotta say though those GTR games are a little too realistic for me. Its hard to even start the engine let alone race the car. I end up pulling my hair out for a while before I can have any fun with those games.

yes I've heard they are very realistic.. but I race cars for real so I'm interested in checking it out

[twisteddman]

yes I've heard they are very realistic.. but I race cars for real so I'm interested in checking it out

Right on. what class do you race?

[tameone]

Right on. what class do you race?

used to race in SCCA SARRC HP (road racing), but now I've relegated myself to Solo I and II nothing spectacular.

[OKflyboy]

how would you run the 3 monitors at once? do they have video cards that can do this?

Tom's Hardware did a review of this device, check it out here

[twisteddman]

Tom's Hardware did a review of this device, check it out here

Hey thanks for the info, sounds like it will work perfectly with my system and for what i want to do. I cant wait to fire up oblivion. Its funny, on there review they are comparing it with gaming on a 30" moniter. I already have a 52" moniter(hd rear projection tv) and im tying to get an 18' long moniter. and they were complaining about having to look around on 3 17" moniters. Hehe .As far as im conserned it should give me periphial views to increse the immersion and allow me to turn my head and look. or i can always turn my character to look at things as usual. Racing games will seem like your actually there especially ones where you can view from inside the car.

[RaginRudolph]

This should be a vary intresting project, I had to go to matrox triplehead2go site to see how you would accomplish the the panarama vision view, you my want to consider only using one light source since our projector are based on focusing on the light source and by doeing so increasing the lamp size wouldn't be such a problem because your inclosure would be bigger,if I had somewhere to project this I would have to take on the challange myself but I,ll have to wait to see yours good luck.

RR

[OKflyboy]

Hey thanks for the info, sounds like it will work perfectly with my system and for what i want to do. I cant wait to fire up oblivion. Its funny, on there review they are comparing it with gaming on a 30" moniter. I already have a 52" moniter(hd rear projection tv) and im tying to get an 18' long moniter. and they were complaining about having to look around on 3 17" moniters. Hehe .As far as im conserned it should give me periphial views to increse the immersion and allow me to turn my head and look. or i can always turn my character to look at things as usual. Racing games will seem like your actually there especially ones where you can view from inside the car.

No problem. I'm really looking forward to your results. I'll be honest, I'm not a gamer (I bought Doom3 when it came out really just for nostalgia) but if this turns out 1/2 as good as it looks in concept, I may just have to start!

[twisteddman]

This should be a vary intresting project, I had to go to matrox triplehead2go site to see how you would accomplish the the panarama vision view, you my want to consider only using one light source since our projector are based on focusing on the light source and by doeing so increasing the lamp size wouldn't be such a problem because your inclosure would be bigger,if I had somewhere to project this I would have to take on the challange myself but I,ll have to wait to see yours good luck.

RR

I considered the one light source option. The problem i ran into is that for that to work the lcd screens would have to be placed next to eachother at a 45 degree angle for the light source to be directly in the middle of each fresnel lens. wich would be great exept i wouldnt be able to pull the projector back far enough to line the screens up, as it woulld have a fixed position very close to the screen.

If anyone has any thoughts on how i could actualy acomplish it that would be awsome. i woulld love to use 1 verticle 1000 watt for all three.As i see it though even if i could place the lcd's at a shallower angle to pull the projecter back i would experience horizontal keystoning.

please prove me wrong about this

[twisteddman]

Got my lcd and my LL products today. stripped down the NEC 1560m. only to find an ffc issue that its not supposed to have. here are some pics



easy tear down



oops ffc



I am trying to locate an extension. it is a 16 pin .05mm . wich digikey does not seem to carry.
This moniter should have its ffc issue on the index changed from no to yes.