February 3, 20188 yr Hello. I've spent most of the day today looking into this multi-projector setup for my basement cockpit. My curent PC is an i7-8700k and a GTX1080ti. I wanted to look into doing a 2 or 3 projector setup to get at least 180 to 210 degree curved screen setup. I know I'll need to use a program to help with the warping such as Immersive Display, but my main question was can my one PC handle it? Here's mys setup: PC 1: Prepar3d v4, iFly 737 various FSDT and Flightbeam airports, ORBX NA LC, Vector, Base, and Toposim's Mesh. Also using UT Live for my AI Traffic. PC2: AS4+ASCA, My ATC software, and my virtual airline software suite. I've read so many posts my head hurts. Many of them are from a few years ago, and I know with v4 a lot has changed, so I'm curious if I'm asking too much and need to look at the big costs of going multiple PC for the displays or not? As for projectors, I have access to 2 or 3 1080p short throw projectors. I also have read that for every 'view' it is a hit on FPS, so can I do this with 2 views factoring in overlap? So many questions and I'm getting more confused the more I read. Just want some direction so I can properly plan my screen / room layout etc. Thanks in advance. Building a full scale 737-800 Simulator running P3D v5.x 210 degree wrap around screen Jason Lohrenz (@lohrenz737) • Instagram photos and videos Lohrenz 737 Simulator Project (lohrenzsimulator.com)
April 1, 20188 yr Having just gone through the 2 projector each 1080p , 180 degree view using a 2 computer networked system , I feel a bit underwhelmed. Your computer setup as described will be plenty powerful enough. I find on my system , the picture is very big , it "surrounds" far more than my previous three monitors. Monitors being 3 40" 4k LED monitors. But what is gained in size is lost in granularity of the image. Whilst you cant see individual pixels on a projected image it is an image that is not as sharp as those produced by the monitors . In other words there is a trade off that one can describe, but has to be seen for an accurate personal assessment. The Warping software works really well but it takes time to setup a good projected image. But this is only a partial answer to your questions . My experience is in a networked Xplane system . Unfortunately the information you seek re P3D is scattered. Mycockpit dot org and cockpitbuilders dot com are sites where projection systems are described and discussed and P3D and its precursor FSX are popular sims.
April 9, 20188 yr Matrox (Digital) Triplehead2go Works with merely every video card. Edited April 9, 20188 yr by PebbleBeach
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