Ian,

I actually saw tis many years ago which led me to buying the digital triplehead2go and setting up a similar cockpit set up. I moved on from there quite a while ago and now settle for a 60inch led 1080p TV to replace the triple screen set up. I combine that with 2 x 32inch screens which are the side cockpit views ie looking out he left and right side windows.  I then added a 40inch ledt v 1080p (portrait mode) for a display of the aft and fwd overhead instrument panels. Added to that is a 22 inch 1650x 1040 monitor which displays my throttle set up and also in conjunction my 2 x FMC and lower DU displays. My last screen is the aft electrical pedestal display and this is a 1200 x 1980  (portrait mode) 24 inch Dell monitor. I find this set up absolutely brilliant and it can be adapted to virtually any aircraft and each aircraft is set up and saved as a cold and dark cockpit. I very seriously considered a cockpit design simiar to the video in your link but eventually rejected it on the basis that is was far too restrictive regarding aircraft and basically limited me to GA.

Incidently, I found that using the triplehead to go made no difference to frame rates at all in any of my sim platforms. My oft stated problem is that this set up using 6 monitors brings every sim (other than FS2004) to its knees and they are unusable.  Again, oft stated, is the fact that I find this level of immersion impossible to replace with any less than four screens (deleting the side cockpit views) and even that, for me, is not satisfying.

So I am now looking at VR or Mixed Reality (Samsung Oddyssy) to try to reach a new level of immersion.  I must add that the only reason for this is an attempt to move up to the 64bit platforms and this is only because of better scenery, aircraft and utilities. Further development of FS2004 unfortunately exists only as a frustrated figment of my disturbed imagination and in reality, "just ain't never gunna happen"

I do not believe that VR and or MR for FS2004 is going to happen for me and as my limited (very) finances allow, I will go the route of the MR Oddyssy, hardware upgrade (MB, CPU, RAM) and then invest in some addons to which ever platform I adopt. This is going to be a slow and financially restricting process and in reality will probably take a couple of years (I am actively seeking a sugar daddy LOL) By this time, of course, all the VR MR and AR systems and specs will have been upgraded and changed. The concept of using FS2004 was simply a desire to get better VR/MR performance as a stopgap prior to hardware upgrade. Sadly, I do not think this is going to be possible.

Thanks for your link and post. It actually brought many happy memories.

Regards

Tony

Here is a quick answer. VR does not work in FS 2004. FlyInside only supports FSX, P3D, and XP11 and FS9 does not have any native VR as P3D and XP11 do. If you want VR you will have to use either FSX, P3D, or XP11. Regarding your CPU, it will work fine if you use P3D v4. A lot of the processing is done on the GPU and not on the CPU. 

MikeT707,

I thought I had alluded to the fact that I did not think it possible for FS2004. I was aware that Flyinside did not support my ancient platform and was actually doing some research for anything else that may work.  Again, this was only ever going to be a stopgap measure anyway.

Regardless, I now have to decide which platform to go with because I cannot afford addons for both P3d and XPlane and I have not even considered FSX or FSX-se. I am also looking at overclocking my CPU to about 4.0ghz and I have already been advised that my GPU should be sufficient.

So much work still to be done prior to making a decision re the Samsung Oddyssy.  I am also very keen to look at the Pimax8k which is still largely an unknown. With out regard to Pimax I believe the Oddyssy wins on comfort, convenience and resolution and at the same price as the Rift it is probably a bargain. I do want, though, to look at the Pimax before I make my final decision.  Thiago ( a chap I am chatting with on this forum) says that the Oddyssy is close to maxing out his 1080ti and he also has a far more modern and faster CPU than I.  I desperately want to avoid a disappoing first look at VR by using ancient hardware.

 Thanks again for your input.

Regards

Tony