Widescreen Gaming Forum

Unlike derthnader on the forum who created a multi-projector thread, I would want to display double or triple surround resolutions, but on 1 projector (1024 X 768) as to have up to a 3074 X 768 image (26 X 96 inch image actual! without buying anymore displays!)

I know you can use the drivers for your video card to scale 16 X 9 to fit 3:4 but what about those ultra wide solutions from http://www.kegetys.net/SoftTH/ or using the triplehead2go?

Do these only output to multi monitors? or can you get them to show on one as an ultrawide picture? It thinks you have a 3074 X 768 device attached, so I assume it should be able to? but do not see that documented anywhere

can anybody confirm?

You can't have a widescreen image on a standard 4:3 panel without sacrificing resolution, and you're on a limited res projector as it is.

You can probably do it, but it will look like complete and total crap spreading out all of those pixels.

Doing it this way would leave you with the game playing at a resolution of 1024x256. That's unusable. You do understand how DPI works?

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yes....understood guys

....it all comes down to having 2 very different ways to play a game

1) in front of your desk with duel (or triple) screens resolution pumped to the max with a triplehead 45 inch diag. image

or....

2) in your home theater in front of a 99.3 inch diag. wide DLP screen with no borders and the ability to use a motion chair or cockpit for sims (not possibly in my little home office area)

yes...basically you sacrefice razor sharp for size and unobstructed view. obviously a 16 X 9 native projector helps even more but just looking for a better setup then large screen 3:4 gaming now

It sounds like this would not be a problem as I assume the triple solutions go to 1 screen if you want them to?

yes 256px high is what I came up with

actually duel view might better and just use trackir for the rest

duel on a 1024 X 768 projector like X3 (what I am looking at getting)would actually be 1024 X 496

sharper then an 800 X 600 3:4 native projector (like X1) doing widescreen movies which I have not really had complaints with.

.....so yea triple will come at a little more penalty but 99.3 inch diag.!!

derthnada,

you have an X3 have you tried this?

My 2 of my 3 projectors are pretty old and bulky. I got them for a simpit project I'm working on. I've not had a chance to run all 3 together yet because I still need to work out the engineering on the half circle screen and to build it in such a way that it can be portable. I'm currently only using the single InFocus SP5000 atm.

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I also have a LCD projector and thougt about the same thing because wehn using 4:3 the picture is very high and fov is not very wide. Maybe the fov can be increase manually at 1024 x768 and the picture have to be stretched horizontally due an anamorpic switch or better a special lens for stretching 1:2.