Is TrackIR & three monitors a good idea?

[Dallas]

(I needed to be more precise in my question, so I rephrased)


My new GTX 680 will run 4 monitors right out of the box. (cool huh?)

I now have a new three monitor option. I've never considered running
three because I'm perfectly happy with TrackIR. If I want to see the
side view, I look to the side.

But now I'm beginning to think 3 might be pretty cool with TrackIR.
For one thing you wouldn't have to set the acceleration as high and
wouldn't have to make as much movement to see to the side. It might
make using TrackIR even better.

But... then it could be hell will all that movement, looking at
different screens... or it could just an unnecessary expense.


I'd like to hear from somebody who uses 3 monitors in the VC. How is
it?



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[Vic Baron]

"Dallas" <Cybnorm@spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote in message
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCtH68u85D8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hw6nY5DLTc

Haven't tried it myself but it seems to work.

I have two monitors but I use the main 28" Hanns for the flight and the 22"
Viewsonic for PlanG. Also use a HannsPree 7" tablet for IAP.

Personally, as much as I LOVE TIR, I don't think I would like it spread
across 3 monitors.

Vic

[Dallas]

Vic Baron wrote:

> Personally, as much as I LOVE TIR, I don't think I would like it
> spread across 3 monitors.

That's the kind of feedback I'm looking for. [thumbs up]

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[Dallas]

Vic Baron wrote:

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hw6nY5DLTc

Actually, still a tough call.. the first video was what I was afraid
of, three screen moving all over the place... kinda chaotic.

The second one (posted above) looked pretty great... :- /

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[sambodidley]

"Vic Baron" <vgb...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Makes my head spin just to watch the videos. I'd probably lose my
cookies watching the real monitors. <g>
Sam

[Vic Baron]

"sambodidley" <tail...@stallout.net> wrote in message
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That was my exact thought, Sam! LOL!

[peter greenstein]

"Dallas" <Cybnorm@spam_me_not.Hotmail.Com> wrote in message

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What's the difference in setup between the two videos?

peter


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[Copter_Six]

Go the whole way.....

You "need" 4 monitors.


4 Monitors on Desktop
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e398/flightsim_usa/4%20Monitor%20Cockpit/6451.jpg


4 Monitors using a laptop
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e398/flightsim_usa/4%20Monitor%20Cockpit/6991.jpg


4 Monitor night landing
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e398/flightsim_usa/4%20Monitor%20Cockpit/4_monitor-i.jpg


Night landing over city
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e398/flightsim_usa/4%20Monitor%20Cockpit/4_mon-d.jpg


If you fly helicopters a lot you can use 6 monitors. Otherwise 4 are
plenty.

6 Monitors - Helicopter
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e398/flightsim_usa/4%20Monitor%20Cockpit/dorgem023902.jpg





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[Copter_Six]

On 7/26/2012 1:09 PM, Dallas wrote:
>

Remember this old video? I didn't use TIR on this one but setting the
3 monitors to a high zoom you can look out through the windows and have
the instrument panel stable. You can then glance down at the
instruments just like the real thing.

Using 3 monitors to include the instrument panel was set to the minimum
zoom which isn't close to what the actual aircraft shows traveling over
the ground. At .31 zoom you appear to be crossing the terrain much too
fast.

This particular approach was set to extreme turbulence so you can see
the controls going back and forth to the extreme stops without a lot of
reaction of the aircraft.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkYoFrfqGpw&feature=channel

[sambodidley]

"Copter_Six" <c...@texas.com> wrote in message
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None of them look very much like the cockpit of anything I've ever
flown.<g>
Sam

[Copter_Six]

On 7/26/2012 1:09 PM, Dallas wrote:
>

> (I needed to be more precise in my question, so I rephrased)
>
>
> My new GTX 680 will run 4 monitors right out of the box. (cool huh?)
>
>

I finally got a 4th monitor for my motion sim and the 8800 GTS crapped
out. I had a 7900GS I got from Ebay but now it's impossible to fly FSX
on this machine. I think I'll forward your progress to Gabri. :)

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>Hopefully, you haven't ignited another flame war.

>Que sera, sera...

[Copter_Six]

On 7/27/2012 5:01 PM, sambodidley wrote:

>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Copter Six
>
> None of them look very much like the cockpit of anything I've ever
> flown.<g>
> Sam
>

Yup..... ya can only do so much with monitors :)


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>Hopefully, you haven't ignited another flame war.

>Que sera, sera...

[Vic Baron]

"Copter_Six" <copte...@XXmail.com> wrote in message
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> On 7/26/2012 1:09 PM, Dallas wrote:
>>
>> (I needed to be more precise in my question, so I rephrased)
>>
>>
>> My new GTX 680 will run 4 monitors right out of the box. (cool huh?)
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
> I finally got a 4th monitor for my motion sim and the 8800 GTS crapped
> out. I had a 7900GS I got from Ebay but now it's impossible to fly FSX on
> this machine. I think I'll forward your progress to Gabri. :)

If she says no, Bob - I have an 8800GTS and a GTX280 that you can have.

Vic

[Copter_Six]

I'll pay the shipping....... :)




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[Vic Baron]

"Copter_Six" <c...@texas.com> wrote in message

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> On 7/27/2012 9:31 PM, Vic Baron wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Copter_Six" <copte...@XXmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:juvi0j$ron$1...@dont-email.me...
>>> On 7/26/2012 1:09 PM, Dallas wrote:
>>>>
>>>> (I needed to be more precise in my question, so I rephrased)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My new GTX 680 will run 4 monitors right out of the box. (cool huh?)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I finally got a 4th monitor for my motion sim and the 8800 GTS crapped
>>> out. I had a 7900GS I got from Ebay but now it's impossible to fly
>>> FSX on this machine. I think I'll forward your progress to Gabri. :)
>>
>> If she says no, Bob - I have an 8800GTS and a GTX280 that you can have.
>>
>> Vic
>
>
>
> I'll pay the shipping....... :)
>

Cool. email me if you want them with your shipping address and I'll send
them UPS.

Vic

[Dallas]

Copter_Six <c...@texas.com> wrote:

> I'll pay the shipping....... :)

I have an old 5.25" floppy drive I don't need any more... want that too?

:-)

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[Copter_Six]

Nah .... I still have a couple laying around here. I actually want to
connect one. I have 2 boxes of floppy's I want to look at. From my
Basic Course and some other silly nostalgic disks. That time seems so
long ago.

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>Hopefully, you haven't ignited another flame war.

>Que sera, sera...

[Chris Curtis]

I found some foil backed stickers the other week which looked vaguely
familiar but I couldn't think what they were for. Now I remember; they
were to make the floppies read only!

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[Dallas]

Chris Curtis <ch...@nospam.net> wrote:

> I found some foil backed stickers the other week which looked vaguely
> familiar but I couldn't think what they were for. Now I remember; they
> were to make the floppies read only!

A pretty good system too... No accidental erasures, no malware
invasions... Bulletproof.



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[sambodidley]

"Chris Curtis" <ch...@nospam.net> wrote in message
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I still have one of those gizmos to clip out a notch in the other corner
so the disk could be recorded on both sides. Got boxes full of blank disks.
Even have the old 486 DX66 that boots from them. Anybody want to pay the
shipping on this little treasure trove?<g>
Sam

[Copter_Six]

On 7/29/2012 10:45 AM, sambodidley wrote:

>
> I still have one of those gizmos to clip out a notch in the other corner
> so the disk could be recorded on both sides. Got boxes full of blank disks.
> Even have the old 486 DX66 that boots from them. Anybody want to pay the
> shipping on this little treasure trove?<g>
> Sam
>
>

Nah..... But I still have my old XT. It had a Turbo setting - 8MHz.


3d Pic down
An all-in-one Cordata with monochrome monitor and 2 5 1/4 floppy drives.
It cost over $900.00 back in '87.

When I got the 30 meg hard card I was at the "cutting edge" :)

[Copter_Six]

I coulda' added the URL.....

flightsims.vze.com/story-strip/commodore/my_early_computers.jpg

[Dallas]

Copter_Six wrote:

> Go the whole way.....
>
> You "need" 4 monitors.
>
>
> 4 Monitors on Desktop
>
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e398/flightsim_usa/4%20Monitor%20Cockp
it/6451.jpg

Is that your set up?





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[Dallas]

Copter_Six wrote:

> Remember this old video? I didn't use TIR on this one but setting
> the 3 monitors to a high zoom you can look out through the windows
> and have the instrument panel stable.

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkYoFrfqGpw&feature=channel


But, to have 3 monitors without the instrument panel you had to use the
outside view? Or are those 2D cockpit windows?


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[Mad Mike]

Looks like an episode of Ice Pilots, Dally
MM

[Mad Mike]

On Saturday, August 18, 2012 2:58:58 PM UTC-5, Dallas wrote:

Ahhh the 'ol Circle to Crash approach. Pretty cool really. Were running that off the laptop?
MM
MM

[John Ward]

Hi Varmit,

What sort of a laptop would that have to be to drive a setup like that,
mate??

Or is the laptop just hooked into the main PC??

Regards,
john Ward



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[Dallas]

John Ward wrote:

> What sort of a laptop would that have to be to drive a setup like
> that, mate??
>
> Or is the laptop just hooked into the main PC??

Gotta be a laptop hooked up to a PC on WideFS.. ?


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[Dallas]

John Ward wrote:

> What sort of a laptop would that have to be to drive a setup like
> that, mate??

I know you're thinking about a FS laptop and you said something about
not dealing with all that spaghetti behind the computer anymore.

Well, I'm here to tell you that I'm using a laptop and all the
spaghetti is still there. About all you can cut out is a video cable
and power cord to the monitor.


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[John Ward]

Hi Varmit,

How so, mate?

I would have thought just a power adaptor, so its not running off the
batteries.

Oh, and maybe a TrackIR.

Oh, and perhaps a printer, and possibly one for a trackball,,,,,,

Rats, nearly forgot the joystick/yoke.

Oh, and the headphones.

Regards,
John Ward

"Dallas" wrote in message
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[Dallas]

John Ward wrote:

> I would have thought just a power adaptor, so its not running off
> the batteries.
>
> Oh, and maybe a TrackIR.
>
> Oh, and perhaps a printer, and possibly one for a trackball,,,,,,
>
> Rats, nearly forgot the joystick/yoke.
>
> Oh, and the headphones.

Now yer gettin' the idea! :- )


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