Fight Sim X on all 3 monitors - Sweet!

Pinter75 · 27 Sep 2007 at 01:09

Howdy,

Finally figured out how to get FSX on all 3 of my monitors :-)

2x 24" 2407's on an X1950XT
1x 15" ELO Touch screen on a FX5500

The touch screen lets me interact with the virtual cockpit, it is not perfect but it does work :-)

Here is a quick video of it all working ->

And some pics:

All of them.

The Touch Screen

The 24" ers.

Pretty sweet :-)

Now looking to get an 8800GTX to replace the X1950XT. The FX5500 has to stay unless I go SLI.

yaboy · 27 Sep 2007 at 01:10

very nice

Dano · 27 Sep 2007 at 01:33

Niiice

Slightly off topic now, do you have the blue backlighting on while using the pc or does it distract too much?

Aod · 27 Sep 2007 at 01:39

looks godly mate.

Ghosteh · 27 Sep 2007 at 02:40

Looks cool, but cant you get your 3rd screen(touch one) just to show your GPS/Radio etc pannels rather than the right side of the cockpit? Just that the size of it makes it look a bit odd (still better than just 1 screen like me

lol).

Droolinggimp · 27 Sep 2007 at 08:05

Very good. If you could have 2 more of those bigger monitors you could have full cockpit view. Could be wrong but dont big planes have 4 windows in the cockpit? You could then use the smaller monitor (touch screen) as your instruments panel..

Still. Looks very good and I wish I could have a setup like that..

Pinter75 · 27 Sep 2007 at 09:01

Ghosteh said:
Looks cool, but cant you get your 3rd screen(touch one) just to show your GPS/Radio etc pannels rather than the right side of the cockpit? Just that the size of it makes it look a bit odd (still better than just 1 screen like me lol).

I do, in the vid you can see that I use it for throttle, and overhead controls :-)

Pinter75 · 27 Sep 2007 at 09:02

Dano said:
Niiice

Slightly off topic now, do you have the blue backlighting on while using the pc or does it distract too much?

Yeah the backlighting comes on when the pc is on. The camera makes it look very bright, but it is not all that bright to the eye.

n3crius · 27 Sep 2007 at 09:32

Awesome setup there.

Is the blue lighting from the back just a feature of that monitor?

Mr_T · 27 Sep 2007 at 09:52

2x24" would justify 2x8800 GTX. What kind of frame rate are you currently getting?

Pinter75 · 27 Sep 2007 at 10:01

n3crius said:
Awesome setup there.

Is the blue lighting from the back just a feature of that monitor?

Nope, its a bog standard cold cathode tube. The inverters are wired to a spare plug in the pc case. Switch the pc on or off, and the lights do the same. Simple.

Dano · 27 Sep 2007 at 10:11

Mmmm.... so verytempted to set that up myself now, I recall thinking it looked great in the desk photos thread too

Nate--IRL-- · 27 Sep 2007 at 10:55

Pinter a Triplehead2go Digital might be worth looking at.

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/gxm/products/th2go/digital/home.php

Nate

p4radox · 27 Sep 2007 at 10:57

That's fantastic, congrats on having an awesome machine.

I did a similar thing with 3 17" TFTs for my local air cadets once. Apparently it works well. It certainly looks good.

Pinter75 · 27 Sep 2007 at 11:27

I was once an Air cadet :-)

I'll look at the triple head digital, I have read a bit about them :-)

Ta.

jas72 · 27 Sep 2007 at 16:24

i'm jealous and I was just about to post that my EVO joystick had arrived after ordering it on the 6th September only to see this thing of beauty. Makes my joystick purchase shrink in shame.... hehe

Nate--IRL-- · 27 Sep 2007 at 17:32

......Oh and I don't see a TrackIR in those pics, that is your next purchase......you will thank me.

Nate

NiccoLau · 27 Sep 2007 at 17:51

nice setup there.

Participant · 27 Sep 2007 at 17:59

Lovely! IMO get another 2407 and use the touch screen in the centre below the others for the cockpit functions. Shame flight sims are dull

andyp · 27 Sep 2007 at 18:02

what plane is that?

parts of it look remarkably similar to a next gen 737 but the EICAS is laid out wrong and there's no LNAV or VNAV on the glareshield.

The whole setup looks very good though - I use 2 17" TFT's together at 2560x1024 and offset the VC camera so the gap in between the monitors is in a non-critical place. I only use VC though, so an instrument view isn't needed.