BHawthorne

My guess is 11.4 final will be out in the next week anyways. I'm suffering from cursor corruption on the latest 11.4 preview so far.

Yes, build your own. Seriously... You can get a lot better by DIY builds. There are whole forums out there that do nothing but cater to helping people do their builds and even help you pick out all the individual parts from the most cost effective places. Looking at the computer specs for your link. The CPU is ok, the memory amount is ok, the graphic card is horrid, the hard drive size is ok, the power supply is horrid.

Incorrect, needs 1 active adapter for 3x1L, 3 active adapters for 5x1P and 4 active adapters for 3x2L. 3x2L is a horrid configuration though. I personally only suggest 3x1L or 5x1P for LCD use. I do agree it being a great card. It was a revolutionary card for port out capability. If I had the money I'd swap for a 6990 though because of the improved architecture. For now my 5870 E6 Crossfire setup does just fine though.

A GTX590 is capable of doing triple-display gaming on it's own. Just plug in one display per DVI port and configure the NVIDIA Surround in the control panel. A GTX590 has 2 GPUs on the same card in SLI mode. Yes, SLI mode is required for NVIDIA Surround, but the GTX590 is one of the few single card NVIDIA Surround solutions by NVIDIA available. No need for a Matrox TH2G or an AMD 6990 if your preference is NVIDIA. Re: LLL, PPP, or PLP configurations. Only SoftTH can do nonsymmetrical display setups. NVIDIA Surround and AMD Eyefinity both require the displays to be symmetrical same resolution. The only reason why Matrox TH2G came into existance is neither AMD nor NVIDIA previously would support multidisplay gaming. Multidisplay gaming for both manufacturers have only been implemented at the driver level in the last year. The TH2G existed to fill a need that is no longer there because both AMD and NVIDIA both now have their own options. There are some configurations where a TH2G might be preferable to AMD Eyefintiy or NVIDIA Surround, but for the most part the TH2G is depreciated goods.

My main suggestion is do an aircraft that there are good interface tie-ins for. Secondly one that you'll enjoy. Everything else is just the fun process of building it. Also, setting some nebulous 3 year date on the project is a bad idea. If you force yourself to always be mindful of not keeping up with some arbitrary timeline you impose upon yourself it'll leach the fun out of the building process. Frankly, once you figure out your design on paper it will go rather fast if you ask the right questions of the right people in the simpit community.

If it was so obvious I would have posted something different directed at explaining simple non-stereoscopic 3D options and omiting anything to do with stereoscopic 3D. Your post is confrontational and not doing anything to address the original topic. :chair: Multi-display options are: AMD Eyefinity NVIDIA Surround Matrox GXM/TH2G/DH2G SoftTH MView The simplest solution is just to go read up in detail on WSGF. It's where the best source is for information regarding multi-display gaming is located.

Seems like a bad target project for a stick mod. Why did they pick the Mirage?

No, merely responding to the topic title where he clearly shows "Nvidia 3D". 3 immediate reasons why it's not preferable to a hardware solution... #1: output latency. The overhead required to do SoftTH adds latency into the display response time. #2: manual text configuration for all games. There is no self-contained user interface for SoftTH. You're also limited it whatever community support if you have configuration issues. #3: universal compatibility. SoftTH must be manually injected into any game you play. It's also limited to DX9, so your compatability is not guaranteed.

Cool, maybe a pet an pee on the display and you spill a drink in your case now to upgrade everything. :megalol:

He mentions he wants 3D in his topic. If 3D is irrelevant I'd just pick up two GTX570 or two 6950. Either will do you good.

Actually, comparing to 500-series it technically around the performance of two mid-range cards in SLI. Mid-range, yes. Equivalent to two cards not one though. ;)

Also, just to clarify, Matrox TH2G is limited to 60hz use. NVIDIA 3D Vision Surround requires 100hz at the minimum and 120hz standard. So you couldn't use a single NVIDIA card with a TH2G and do 3D Vision Surround. If you really want to do NVIDIA + stereoscopic 3D shutter glasses, it's going to require two 200, 400 or 500-series cards in SLI mode. Check their website for a complete listing of compatible cards. Note the only real exception to this 2-card rule is the GTX590. It does SLI on-board and has 3 functional ports out.

Ick, why 3x2L? If you want big 16:9 just use a projector.

Erm, so you're selling someone elses work? Copyright law must be really different wherever you live.

Very strange, something definitely doesn't sound right with that. To the best of my knowledge, ram always uniformly defaults to the stats of the slowest stick installed.

I also run the HAF-X. The case is a beast -- including it's weight. Definitely not a LAN party case.

Only thing Matrox video cards are good for are video walls and desktop productivity applications. Stick to NVIDIA or AMD for 3d performance hardware. Matrox has no track record in 3d gaming. I don't think their GPUs are remotely as powerful as anything in the last half decade NVIDIA or AMD has put out. They hold their own well for video walls and command center desktop commercial settings though.

Wow that thing is a 3 slot beast. Looks ideal for 6-port current series. Too bad it's 3-slot though. I suppose it good to deal with 2 less dispaly adapters though. While DP ports are the future of display connectivity, it sure isn't right now. VESA that writes the port specification for DVI and DP, depreciated DVI awhile back. DP i's to be the DVI replacement. That won't happen until more display manufacturers adopt the port in most products though. :)

I suggest getting an AMD 5870 Eyefinity 6 card with 6 outs. It can run your outside visuals and everything else. They're realtively cheap now that the card is EOL for about a year now.

About time SoftTH got a GUI. It's only been what 4 years waiting for one? :P I know people can do better than that java one. Come on people...

I tend to prefer just getting a motherboard that does onboard sound with digital out to my home theater system for surround. The key thing for me is to have the digital out for good sound quality. With the signal straight to the home theater system being digital, there is no real issue with using onboard vs a card. Both should sound the same, afterall it's sound that is transfered as just a bunch of 0's and 1's regardless of if it's a card or onboard. Analog is a different matter, but all my setups use digital out.

You are aware of NVIDIA Surround correct? It's been out for a year now.

It is newer. 5x1P detection is still broken though.

One where a $10k simpit is a reality to many. The way I see it, money is meant to be enjoyed. :lol:

I'm missing the vertical velocity indicator on my build and I already have an attitude indicator but it might be good to have a spare. The easiest way to go for gauges is to put an LCD behind the panel and emulate the gauges driven by LCD. It's a lot more cost effective than retrofitting aircores or stepper motors to old gauges. The only reason why I'm going with real gauges is I'm using a real fuselage and cockpit and want to keep the detail in the build as close to real as possible.