GTX 590 Triple Projector GeForce 3D Vision Surround Gaming Setup Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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a bit of a behind the scenes look at uh
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the triple projector uh 3D Vision
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surround setup that I've got going here now a lot of you guys in the MC Tech
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tips episode I produced recently complained um with where I did the five
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way 5x1 ifinity setup we're like oh well
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there's too many bezels well here's your solution see right now you can see the
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get the the setup is very ghetto like I've got racks with projectors on them
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and then I've got basically a big white wall that I'm using to uh to fire the
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mat so I'm still going through the driver setup of getting NVIDIA 3D Vision
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surround going but uh I mean just for scale those are speakers that's a
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printer box so that's that's like a laser printer box that's how big this
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display is so uh stay tuned you guys I'm going to do sort of a few more in
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progress shots probably here and then I'll upload this you can see the screens
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aren't aligned just right yet I still got some work to do but we're getting
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there got my G25 racing wheel over here
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somewhere yeah got that going going to be
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good all right guys here's another in progress so you can see I still don't
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really have the screens lined up here's my test rig though and uh here we go if
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I go into the NVIDIA control panel you can see man I got to zoom in so far just
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to even see the screen I've got span displays with surround I had to
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configure it so that they'd be in the right order but I have managed to get that figured out so my desktop starts on
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the left moves to the right and then ends at the very far right okay so
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that's done uh what I have also managed to get set up is the screen resolution
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so the resolution we're running at is
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3840 by 720 so this is basically 3 *
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720p now 720p is not a big resolution in
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terms of uh requiring Graphics horsepower to back it up but 3x 720P
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basically works out to 2.7 million
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pixels so if we compare that to some other common resolutions like let's take
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1920 by 1080 which is only about 2 million
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pixels basically or let's take uh like
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2560 by 1600 so that's about 4 million
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pixels so we're somewhere in between running 1080P and running like HD plus
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uh 30-in monitor resolution here in terms of the horsepower required now
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bear in mind too that we are going to be running NVIDIA 3D Vision here's my 3D
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Vision glasses so that adds some extra burden on the graphics card as well so
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you actually are running at an HD Plus resolution with 3D Vision so you're
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going to need some serious horsepower such as say for example a GTX 590 which
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supports 3D Vision surround natively on a single card and uh yeah so I'm going
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to just do some more work here and then I'll be able to break out like the flight stick and the uh and the wheel so
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almost ready to go I got just got to line things up a little bit better as well cuz that'll that'll be kind of
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distracting during games so I've pretty much got it set up at this point there's
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one of my co-workers uh playing around in Battlefield Bad Company too so look
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look there's a person for scale that's how big that image is uh evidently he's
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also not very good at Bad Company 2 cuz he's like dying already uh use your
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grenade launcher Mouse wheel down there you go fire that at the truck
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there you go anyway um so yeah yeah we're getting pretty close to being able
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to shoot this episode of tech tips and
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what I may actually do is wait till it gets a little bit darker outside cuz
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this isn't really an ideal room for a projector setup but thank you for
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checking out my preview of the 3D Vision
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surround projector episode of NCIX Tech
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tips that will be coming very shortly featuring The GeForce GTX 590 don't
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