5 DIsplays, 2 nVidia Cards, 1 PC, P3D and a need for 220° FOV

[dwaviator 0]

G'day,

 

Hello! I'm embarking on a fun little adventure with a simulator for a local aero club. I need a little help, advice, admonishing for my goal of running the P3D terrain view across 5 large Plasma displays. I need to be able to do it with one mean mother of a PC and 2 graphics cards (preferably nVidia). The stick paty here is that it needs to be 5 REAL, and separate views that combined will give me 220° FOV forwards and to the sides. I need to know that it can be done, and maybe a nudge in the right direction to get me started. Cheers and thanks for the help! :)

 

Dave

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[whitav8 98]

Sounds like fun! I suggest using just three HDTVs with the two side views set at the straight left and right view positions - each set at a zoom of 0.6. Then a single Nvidia 770 or equiv and an I7 at 4 GHz and medium settings will give you 40 fps. The fourth port can provide a separate instrument display below the center HDTV. This setup will provide over 200 degrees of FOV with low distortion except that the horizon will bend up and down with pitch change. NVSurround will give much higher FPS but less FOV and more distortion. I like to be able to see when to turn base.

[dwaviator 0]

Sounds like fun! I suggest using just three HDTVs with the two side views set at the straight left and right view positions - each set at a zoom of 0.6. Then a single Nvidia 770 or equiv and an I7 at 4 GHz and medium settings will give you 40 fps. The fourth port can provide a separate instrument display below the center HDTV. This setup will provide over 200 degrees of FOV with low distortion except that the horizon will bend up and down with pitch change. NVSurround will give much higher FPS but less FOV and more distortion. I like to be able to see when to turn base.

Thanks, Mate. I might look at that as an option. I was under the impression that NVSurround only gives you a very wide "normal" view, and not an actual 225° FOV. This is what I need. I've been playing since and have now 2 NV GTX780's running with 5 displays hooked up. Frame rate isn't awesome, but it's certainly enough for the IFR work that the sim will be doing. My problem now is getting just the right zoom and spread for the displays to be accurate. I'm currently working with -90, -45, 0, 45, 90 and soon of 0.63.

 

Another problem is that I have no idea where to look in airplane.cfg to remove the imagery of the aircraft from the cockpit view. In FSX it was just a matter of removing that file. Not so here.

 

Thanks for you help!

Cheers

Dave

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This won't help your rig, but it made me laugh when I saw your post title!