Triple Monitors?

[wpeters]

I think a 680 is plenty of video card for AH and three monitors. wpeters I have a huge desk with plenty of real estate even with three monitors in landscape. What I did was add a bookshelf on top so that I could get my TV tuner and virtualizer above the top edge of the center monitor in landscape, ad also allow one or the other to fit in below when I use portrait mode. It's designed with two vertical surfaces on which a hinged VESA mount is attached for each monitor. Two monitors share the same mount point, but have separate swing hinges. You can buy the VESA hinge setup from Amazon for $15, or Best Buy online for $11. These cheaper hinges do not rotate, so if you want to change orientation you have to dismount and remount.

Outside of that it is just a matter of using the output options on your card and get an appropriate cable to match your setup.

Do you have some picts

[amulford]

I just set up three of these in landscape: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&cs=04&l=en&sku=860-BBCG

Running off of one of these:  http://us.msi.com/product/vga/N780_TF_3GD5OC.html#overview

I am running at 5760 x 1080P, what a difference in immersion.

I have Track IR set up too, but I am still acclimatizing myself to using it.  My only complaint is peripheral vision.  It's actually too wide and I have to come up withe a creative solution to move it back some in order to fully utilize it.

[ebfd11]

This is my setup and i love it




The triple monitor stand I use is http://www.ergotechgroup.com/monitor-desk-stands.html

And to setup my surround was alot easier than I thought ... Here is an in game shot


LawnDart

[WWhiskey]

I had the triple for a while, but for tanking I didn't like it all that much ,,, if I was gonna do it again tho, I'd stand three 42 inch led tv's on their sides and go with that!

[715]

I'm curious: how useful is an ultra wide horizontal field of view in AH? 

I would think it could be useful for tanking (I'm always swinging my turret back and forth looking for targets), but how useful is it in flying?  When in a dogfight my focus is normally in the vertical, not horizontal, as I am trying to pull around on targets.  What am I missing?  Is the side view useful in slashing high deflection attacks?

[wpeters]

This is my setup and i love it




The triple monitor stand I use is http://www.ergotechgroup.com/monitor-desk-stands.html

And to setup my surround was alot easier than I thought ... Here is an in game shot


LawnDart

Does it make it warp out of focus when you have it like that

[wpeters]

Does it make it warp out of focus when you have it like that

I guess I mean it acts like stretched.

[FLS]

There is no warping or stretching. That is true perspective. Wide angle lenses do not stretch or distort. It doesn't look "normal" when the field of view is set to a wide angle because we consider around 80 degrees of view angle to be "normal". If you set the field of view to a narrower angle it will look normal to you but you'll realize how small your "window" is. Because we typically look at AH through small monitor "windows" we set the field of view to wider angles than "normal" to reduce our blind spots.

If you don't understand why it has to be "stretched", consider that parallel lines meet as they recede in the distance. Those same lines have to diverge as they get closer.

[Bino]

I'm curious: how useful is an ultra wide horizontal field of view in AH? 

I would think it could be useful for tanking (I'm always swinging my turret back and forth looking for targets), but how useful is it in flying?  When in a dogfight my focus is normally in the vertical, not horizontal, as I am trying to pull around on targets.  What am I missing?  Is the side view useful in slashing high deflection attacks?

In combination with TrackIR, it's very useful to me.

[ebfd11]

I guess I mean it acts like stretched.

It does if you look at the 2 side screens directly but after a while you get used to it. If I see a con out of the corner of my eye I use my hat to change the perspective to the center screen and everything appears normal.
When I'm tanking it's easier to see someone off to the left/right of me firing. So changing my view to them Is much easier.

When I get home I can post pictures of the tanking portion of the game.

As the old saying goes.. ones enough... Three is for me.

LawnDart

[zack1234]

Can you get a projector to produce same effect of three screens?

I am seriously thinking of getting three monitors, but i will have to venture into my spare room which is full of crap i am saving.

[danny76]

What are you saving it for

[zack1234]

Because when I throw it out I will need it a week later

And it annoys my mrs

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Can you get a projector to produce same effect of three screens?

I am seriously thinking of getting three monitors, but i will have to venture into my spare room which is full of crap i am saving.

You can do better, project the image from 3 projectors to an orb so you get 180° peripheral vision!

The only downside to projectors is that you need a dark room, lots of space and they get the room hot on summertime.

[danny76]

You can do better, project the image from 3 projectors to an orb so you get 180° peripheral vision!

The only downside to projectors is that you need a dark room, lots of space and they get the room hot on summertime.

I want this

And one on the floor to cover the ceiling too