Well, recently I've started using even smaller monitors (24") for triples and I do not want to go back to a single one. The sense of speed and situational awareness have been drastically improved.
I'm also running triple 24 inch, however if budget allows, going with that size I would buy a 49 inch ultrawide, it's almost as wide as triple 24's. But the triple option was alot kinder to my wallet :D
Count me jealous. Nothing seems to compare to VR, but the fidelity of the monitors trumps the VR headset's grainy resolution. I'm currently using a 43" single and I'm pretty happy. This looks very nice. God bless and race on 👍😎🏁
Glad you came over to the dark side Mike. I tried a VR headset last year and sent it back because it made me so sick. Triples have been such a great upgrade for me. I don't think it makes me drive better but the immersion is fantastic.
Hey Mike - glad to see you with triples! If you have any issues getting AMS2 triple settings perfected, let me know. There is some unexpected nuance...and I've helped a few people in the forums get theirs squared away. I also made a video a while back using AMS2 to compare triples with VR: ruclips.net/video/B7vEf7WSMME/видео.html
Sweet setup Mike. Excellent demonstration of how to utilize a triple screen setup without all the bells and whistles. I am using a single 55 in LG at the moment but I am hanging on to my 34 in monitor just in case I decide to try triples.
Glad you did it mike, always was wondering why you raced on single monitor even spent money on other equipment :) tripples was first thing i did, and it is best, as VR even G2 did not worked for me, comfort and orher problems. Have fun :)
Nice, triples is the way to go Mike- just gotta calculate that FOV! the only disappointment is that codemasters has no intention to give support. Image in side monitors for F1 2021 and Dirt 2.0 is just stretched and distorted
Interesting. DR2 was actually my best experience so far with the triples. My AMD software treats the three monitors as a single 5760 x 1080, so maybe that’s helping? Not totally sure, to be honest. I’m still new here, lol
@@SimRacing604 nVidia surround also treats it as one big screen but with the screens angled correctly it becomes warped without the triple tools most modern sims offer. ACC,rF2,AC,AMS2,R3E all offer great triple screen experiences where DR2.0 and F1 games look bad.
Yes - the side screen distortion in Dirt 2.0 is actually why you get such a sense of speed. You feel like you are going plaid all the time because the side screens are zipping past faster than they should. It doesn't have native triple support in the way iRacing/ACC do where the side screens are rendered differently. That said, that's obviously still cool and it's particularly fun when you're in Monaco or Greece and you can see the mountain you're about to fall down on the side screens.
I can definitely see the appeal, though don't have the space or the budget myself. The distortion is quite severe though - that wing mirror at 3m25 for example - can that be tweaked or is it a necessary compromise?
Mike is using some odd settings here. There's some head/g-force camera movement going on for starters and I can't be dealing with that myself. The view in my games is locked solid. Also, the mirror is warping as the car pivots which suggests to me Mike you're not using true triple screen fov, but instead the basic stretched resolution? It may just be the funky angle you're filming it from :)
@@goodlookinouthomie1757 I feel you! The view has to be locked for me as well. Especially, when there is motion, had a really bad experience at Simexpo with a delay of the motion and this head movement.
Check on you triple screen bezel correction, get them black bars compensated with a little more horizontal resolution. I believe I can see it on the left monitor, had a triple et up since covid lockdowns hit and cant be without it now.
At least go 1440p .. its well worth it. I run one 34 ultrawide centre and two 27s. This makes much more sense as in a car or any vehicle the front flat view is always wider than the angled side views.
Hey! Thanks for watching. The shifter is further than I’d like it in an ideal situation, but it shares a shifter plate with my h-pattern shifter, which is in the right spot.
Do you wish besides for having 32inch but also 1440p res? I am almost ready to pull the trigger between 27-32 and or 1440p think I can run them fine with a 3070 FTW ultra and 5600X.
@@modelltog It’s very subjective and anybody who has an interest should try both if they get the chance. I have both and usually prefer triples. VR is more immersive, but i would say triples are close. I’m not arguing against your point...just want to tell people to try both if they can.
@@DeadBen. VR is objectively more immersive and I really can't understand why anyone would say that flat 2D screens are close to VR when it most definitely is not. That said, I'm sure there are several reasons to prefer triples over VR, but immersiveness is not one of them.
@@modelltog I have and use both. And I find triples to be very immersive. VR does not offer the same level of static periphery as triples. For instance, in VR I must turn my head to look to my left...otherwise I only see what the headset is presently displaying. With triples, the side screens always display what’s to my left and right...which I see with my periphery without having to turn my head. My triples give nearly 180 degrees of surround around my seating position. I’m not arguing that triples are as immersive as VR...just suggesting each has its benefits and one is not necessarily objectively better than the other.
7:00 cool to see you driving the Sprints in Ibarra... I really like that combo :) I am thinking of doing the same setup as yours... 3 x 27inch 1080p so my humble RTX 2070 super can handle it... I think 1440p would be a struggle. cheers
Remember that from 1440p you can always set resolution to 1080p and just get 144hz monitors. I has 3x27” 1080p 75 hz and it is good, just wish i had 144 hz monitors and that i would disable v-sync to get more perdomance.
I bought the best 21:9 curved last year (LG 34GN850; high praise from Hardware Unboxed; high refresh rate, full freesync range,...) and now I'm miserable, because I could get 3x 1920x1080 144Hz for the same price.
I wonder if it’s just the size of display in the room that adds the feel and not the fov I have a feeling a projector with lower fov but same total size would feel just as fast like high fov in say CSGO doesn’t actually make you feel faster does it.
DaveCam made another video saying 27" screens were fine, also based on space limitations and a few other minor items. I do love using the triple setup. Also Dan Suzuki made a stellar video to get around Nvidia surround and the one for AMD, which has worked much better for me. Where did you get the gloves? They look spunky!
One of these reasons why I think it's silly when people use "realistic" FOV's on single screen setups is because you lose so much feel of the car's speed and rotation without that peripheral vision. Good reason to invest in 3 screens for sure.
You call it silly, but if you don't do that you lose the ability to accurately gauge distances, which is probably more important to have than a sense of speed.
@@amsterdan9096 Never had a problem judging distances in GPL or N2003 and I find with low FOVs on a single monitor I can't judge how quickly the car is rotating.
@@rossimessi1 I run Assetto Corsa with CSM and Sol but in triples I am limited to 1080p. Also I have to disable rain effects because that is too much to maintain the 75fps minimum I like. Similar with DR2.0 - triple screens mean I have to run at lower settings at 1080p 60fps for a smooth game. Both of the above run fantastic on a single screen obviously but I'll be honest, it's hard to go back to a single screen so I don't really play any racing games that I can't run smoothly in triples. That's until such time as I can get myself a 3080 for a sensible price lol - but I'm not holding my breath.
I honestly can't believe how expensive that NLR triple mount is considering you have to buy the single monitor stand first - which is roughly twice the price of the triple mount. Jesus.
Triple Monitors are great I agree Mike (that's what I've been using for 5 years now)...but you're not running them in proper Triple monitor mode (AMS2 and AC1) and plus Dirt Rally (and all other codemasters games) does not support proper triple monitor mode...that "sense of speed" is just a fisheye lens type of distortion because it's stretching a single monitor mode over 3 screens (which isn't true triple monitor mode)...the cars and environment shouldn't stretch and shrink like that...a car 10m ahead of you should be the same size if they're 10m to the side of you...not stretched. Of course you can do you, but this isn't the selling point of triples. If you need help setting it up, shoot me a message...just constructive criticism.
Forget the triples, +1 to the patriotic gloves which obviously improved the quality of your driving by leaps and bounds... PS: Admit it already, you do recite the national anthem, every time you put them on and glance at the flags on your fingertips! Right? ;-)
I don’t agree. I have VR, triples, and an ultra wide at my disposal. There’s been no quantifiable difference in Laptimes. Consistency perhaps, but I’m not faster
actually when super ulta wides are 5120 that's only about 600 less width which is next to nothing ~ and bezels are never nicer, not to mention 2 less of every wire to have and run, and all the games that don't support multi monitor setups ~ no brainer
@@spiralmoment yes they are 49" the physical size has little to do with the image displayed as stated above they are nearly similar in the actual image displayed horizontailly which is the width you talk about, and in fact the superultra wide dispyals a bigger image as it's 7,372,800 pixels, where as the triple setup here only displays 6,220,800 pixels so you get more image and a bigger picture with the super ultra wide and again with all the added benifits
@@roadi7 With triple 2k 24´s you get 7680pixels on 72 inches horizontally. And that’s just 24´s. With 32´s you get 11520 on 96. how is that not more than 5120 on 49? the only advantage imo is less cabling. sim racing on 49inch won't even let you see both of your mirrors. with triples you can see out your side windows and who's pulling up beside you. its really no competition immersion wise either.
That setup looks awesome, I tried Rally racing games but I am just not good at it. G/Turismo is my speed.Currently on a 74" flat screen but hope to go triple when I can afford it.
![Triple Screen for Sim Racing [Triple Monitor Setup Guide]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/lft_MXnrSkw/mqdefault.jpg)
Well, recently I've started using even smaller monitors (24") for triples and I do not want to go back to a single one. The sense of speed and situational awareness have been drastically improved.
Same, 3x24inch is good enough!
I'm also running triple 24 inch, however if budget allows, going with that size I would buy a 49 inch ultrawide, it's almost as wide as triple 24's.
But the triple option was alot kinder to my wallet :D
@@silentshock_ In my case, extending to triple 24" was significantly cheaper than buying an ultrawide, so it has been a no brainer.
Are 3x24 inch good enough in terms of FOV?
Count me jealous. Nothing seems to compare to VR, but the fidelity of the monitors trumps the VR headset's grainy resolution. I'm currently using a 43" single and I'm pretty happy. This looks very nice. God bless and race on 👍😎🏁
Glad you came over to the dark side Mike. I tried a VR headset last year and sent it back because it made me so sick. Triples have been such a great upgrade for me. I don't think it makes me drive better but the immersion is fantastic.
Hey Mike - glad to see you with triples! If you have any issues getting AMS2 triple settings perfected, let me know. There is some unexpected nuance...and I've helped a few people in the forums get theirs squared away. I also made a video a while back using AMS2 to compare triples with VR: ruclips.net/video/B7vEf7WSMME/видео.html
i'm on a ultra wide 49 inch...was thinking triples but then i hate gaps but i feel you its amazing feeling the wider you go :D
Nice setup man just got my triples going and LOVE them!! Have fun!!!
As a fellow Cdn, love the ski gloves! Cdn simracing is alive and well! They're cool Mike, well done!
Looking good! I’m considering going triple monitor. Hard to get away from VR.
Yes!! Triples are the best all around solution. Decent view and open access to all buttons, shifter, e-brake etc.
Glad you finally joined the triples crew. This is the way.
Sweet setup Mike. Excellent demonstration of how to utilize a triple screen setup without all the bells and whistles. I am using a single 55 in LG at the moment but I am hanging on to my 34 in monitor just in case I decide to try triples.
Welcome to the party mate, I'm surprised you didn't do this earlier!
Nice setup Mike. Looks like you're having a ton of fun with it too. 🏎
I like your streaming upgrades. Congratulations on the triple upgrades. I've been wondering when that was going to happen 🤣. Love your videos bro
Glad you did it mike, always was wondering why you raced on single monitor even spent money on other equipment :) tripples was first thing i did, and it is best, as VR even G2 did not worked for me, comfort and orher problems. Have fun :)
Nice, triples is the way to go Mike- just gotta calculate that FOV!
the only disappointment is that codemasters has no intention to give support. Image in side monitors for F1 2021 and Dirt 2.0 is just stretched and distorted
Interesting. DR2 was actually my best experience so far with the triples. My AMD software treats the three monitors as a single 5760 x 1080, so maybe that’s helping? Not totally sure, to be honest. I’m still new here, lol
@@SimRacing604 nVidia surround also treats it as one big screen but with the screens angled correctly it becomes warped without the triple tools most modern sims offer. ACC,rF2,AC,AMS2,R3E all offer great triple screen experiences where DR2.0 and F1 games look bad.
Yes - the side screen distortion in Dirt 2.0 is actually why you get such a sense of speed. You feel like you are going plaid all the time because the side screens are zipping past faster than they should. It doesn't have native triple support in the way iRacing/ACC do where the side screens are rendered differently.
That said, that's obviously still cool and it's particularly fun when you're in Monaco or Greece and you can see the mountain you're about to fall down on the side screens.
@@buttdyno ah, interesting. Thanks for that clarification!
I use a 55 inch gaming TV and trackir and it's perfect for me.
Looks good Mike. I love my 32" 1440p triple monitors from ViewSonic. The footage from Silverstone was AMS2 right? Which cars used there?
Excellent, what is FOV in Dirt2.0 and AMS2 ? Manythx
congrats on the upgrade setup mike! always enjoying yours videos. Can you please explain the fov and monitor angle calculation? Greetings from Germany
I've got triple 32"s and yeah - love it! 👍
I can definitely see the appeal, though don't have the space or the budget myself. The distortion is quite severe though - that wing mirror at 3m25 for example - can that be tweaked or is it a necessary compromise?
Honestly I’ve spent next to no time tweaking this. It’s functional at this point, but far from fine tuned
Mike is using some odd settings here.
There's some head/g-force camera movement going on for starters and I can't be dealing with that myself. The view in my games is locked solid.
Also, the mirror is warping as the car pivots which suggests to me Mike you're not using true triple screen fov, but instead the basic stretched resolution?
It may just be the funky angle you're filming it from :)
Now I think of it, that movement is the "look to apex" feature which I hate myself but better men than me swear by :)
@@goodlookinouthomie1757 I feel you! The view has to be locked for me as well. Especially, when there is motion, had a really bad experience at Simexpo with a delay of the motion and this head movement.
@@sebastian_berlin 🤮?
Big fan of the upgrades mike!
Thanks very much!
Check on you triple screen bezel correction, get them black bars compensated with a little more horizontal resolution. I believe I can see it on the left monitor, had a triple et up since covid lockdowns hit and cant be without it now.
Great, now I had to finally buy the 3rd monitor since it was on sale, making the "AOC windshield" complete... Thx bud ;-)
What kind of fps are you getting with ams2 and dirt rally 2.0? I just bought 3 dell 1440 165hz monitors using a Rx 6600 xt and i5 10400f
At least go 1440p .. its well worth it. I run one 34 ultrawide centre and two 27s. This makes much more sense as in a car or any vehicle the front flat view is always wider than the angled side views.
I can see I will move to triples when I can afford it! Looks amazing, thanks for the vid.👍
Awesome set-up!!! One day I'll get there.
Mike got Trip's for the win! I really enjoy mine!
Hey Mike, love the tripples have them myself, do you find that your shifter is too far away?
Hey! Thanks for watching. The shifter is further than I’d like it in an ideal situation, but it shares a shifter plate with my h-pattern shifter, which is in the right spot.
Nice one, what size are those monitors?
Do you wish besides for having 32inch but also 1440p res? I am almost ready to pull the trigger between 27-32 and or 1440p think I can run them fine with a 3070 FTW ultra and 5600X.
It's even better with VR, Mike.
I have VR. I rarely use it though. For me triples is better
When it comes to immersion, nothing beats VR. Triples is not even remotely close, regardless of screensize.
@@modelltog It’s very subjective and anybody who has an interest should try both if they get the chance. I have both and usually prefer triples. VR is more immersive, but i would say triples are close. I’m not arguing against your point...just want to tell people to try both if they can.
@@DeadBen. VR is objectively more immersive and I really can't understand why anyone would say that flat 2D screens are close to VR when it most definitely is not. That said, I'm sure there are several reasons to prefer triples over VR, but immersiveness is not one of them.
@@modelltog I have and use both. And I find triples to be very immersive. VR does not offer the same level of static periphery as triples. For instance, in VR I must turn my head to look to my left...otherwise I only see what the headset is presently displaying. With triples, the side screens always display what’s to my left and right...which I see with my periphery without having to turn my head. My triples give nearly 180 degrees of surround around my seating position. I’m not arguing that triples are as immersive as VR...just suggesting each has its benefits and one is not necessarily objectively better than the other.
7:00 cool to see you driving the Sprints in Ibarra... I really like that combo :)
I am thinking of doing the same setup as yours... 3 x 27inch 1080p so my humble RTX 2070 super can handle it... I think 1440p would be a struggle. cheers
Remember that from 1440p you can always set resolution to 1080p and just get 144hz monitors. I has 3x27” 1080p 75 hz and it is good, just wish i had 144 hz monitors and that i would disable v-sync to get more perdomance.
Triple monitors are awesome for sure - do you not have multi projection turned on (cars on side monitor are stretched) ???
Drop the link for those gloves! 🍁
Thanks dude! Custom order I’m afraid. I’ll maybe create a store at IMB Racewear sometime
It’s at moments like 3:28 that I really feel like a motion platform could really add to that immersion if that’s your thing.
In AMS2 what are your performance/visual settings
Mike, you make it look easy.
Great. Which track is the last? and kind of cars? thx
The track is Ibarra, the cars are sprints, the game AMS2. I think
Hi! Where did you find the hub on right monitor for AM2? Thnks...
Man you make it look so easy.
Your gloves look quite interesting, could you say more about it? thanks
I'd love triples but I don't know if I could go back to 1080p again.
If your GPU has enough power you could run 3x 2k screens.
@@SimRacing604 I have a 3080 so might be able to pull it off for some games.
@@Jt7166 I run triple 1440p on a GTX 1080 without much compromise on quality. ACC & AC both run great, You'll be totally fine on an RTX 3080.
@@Jt7166 you will be fine with a 3080 running triple 1440 in basically any sim that exists today
You must be pushing some fairly high fps with a 6800xt on 1080p monitors.
Project cars 2, Christians tweaked ffb files, 27s triples, nothing beats it 👍👍
I bought the best 21:9 curved last year (LG 34GN850; high praise from Hardware Unboxed; high refresh rate, full freesync range,...) and now I'm miserable, because I could get 3x 1920x1080 144Hz for the same price.
Just resell the lg. I went from 34 uw to triples (27") and would definately recommend.
I wonder if it’s just the size of display in the room that adds the feel and not the fov I have a feeling a projector with lower fov but same total size would feel just as fast like high fov in say CSGO doesn’t actually make you feel faster does it.
incredible.
Hold my beer...I'm going to go rob a bank...er, I mean...
Wow, Man!!! 😃👍👍👍
DaveCam made another video saying 27" screens were fine, also based on space limitations and a few other minor items. I do love using the triple setup.
Also Dan Suzuki made a stellar video to get around Nvidia surround and the one for AMD, which has worked much better for me.
Where did you get the gloves? They look spunky!
yes: ruclips.net/video/-irPlVdDdJo/видео.html
One of these reasons why I think it's silly when people use "realistic" FOV's on single screen setups is because you lose so much feel of the car's speed and rotation without that peripheral vision. Good reason to invest in 3 screens for sure.
You call it silly, but if you don't do that you lose the ability to accurately gauge distances, which is probably more important to have than a sense of speed.
@@amsterdan9096 Never had a problem judging distances in GPL or N2003 and I find with low FOVs on a single monitor I can't judge how quickly the car is rotating.
Welcome to the party....
Dave Cam now feels 27" at 1440p is the sweet spot! If only I could afford the three 1440p monitors and the CPU/graphics card to run said monitors.
I run a modest rig. I have a GTX 1660ti with triple 1440p monitors. I run at 75hz which I find enough for me and iRacing is fantastic.
@@rossimessi1 I run Assetto Corsa with CSM and Sol but in triples I am limited to 1080p. Also I have to disable rain effects because that is too much to maintain the 75fps minimum I like.
Similar with DR2.0 - triple screens mean I have to run at lower settings at 1080p 60fps for a smooth game.
Both of the above run fantastic on a single screen obviously but I'll be honest, it's hard to go back to a single screen so I don't really play any racing games that I can't run smoothly in triples.
That's until such time as I can get myself a 3080 for a sensible price lol - but I'm not holding my breath.
I have triple 32" monitors at 1440p running on an RTX 2070 and I love it
somebody seems to like Silverstone.
Bien x Mike!
I cant even get into it without triple monitors.
Why do you hold your thumbs outside the grips?
So you don't injure yourself in a crash. With a DD wheel this is absolutely possible.
Good if you got the space and pc to run triple setup
Yeah, I only JUST have the space. Even with 27” screens it’s massive
What is the performance hit in ACC ?
2/3 of your current fps.
I honestly can't believe how expensive that NLR triple mount is considering you have to buy the single monitor stand first - which is roughly twice the price of the triple mount. Jesus.
I agree. It’s too much. I mentioned that in my review of the cockpit as well.
@@SimRacing604 Ah, need to check that out!
Triple Monitors are great I agree Mike (that's what I've been using for 5 years now)...but you're not running them in proper Triple monitor mode (AMS2 and AC1) and plus Dirt Rally (and all other codemasters games) does not support proper triple monitor mode...that "sense of speed" is just a fisheye lens type of distortion because it's stretching a single monitor mode over 3 screens (which isn't true triple monitor mode)...the cars and environment shouldn't stretch and shrink like that...a car 10m ahead of you should be the same size if they're 10m to the side of you...not stretched. Of course you can do you, but this isn't the selling point of triples. If you need help setting it up, shoot me a message...just constructive criticism.
I’m still in the setup phase
I loves me some triples Yo
Forget the triples, +1 to the patriotic gloves which obviously improved the quality of your driving by leaps and bounds...
PS: Admit it already, you do recite the national anthem, every time you put them on and glance at the flags on your fingertips! Right? ;-)
VR is far batter than any screen(s) as far as lap times and immersion go.
I don’t agree. I have VR, triples, and an ultra wide at my disposal. There’s been no quantifiable difference in Laptimes. Consistency perhaps, but I’m not faster
Simracing1812...because 604 x 3 is 1812😎
go super ultra wide ~ no bezels
but triples are much nicer, and much wider.
actually when super ulta wides are 5120 that's only about 600 less width which is next to nothing ~ and bezels are never nicer, not to mention 2 less of every wire to have and run, and all the games that don't support multi monitor setups ~ no brainer
@@roadi7 I thought by super ultra wide you meant 49inches. Which obviously is way smaller in width than even a triple 24 inch setup.
@@spiralmoment yes they are 49" the physical size has little to do with the image displayed as stated above they are nearly similar in the actual image displayed horizontailly which is the width you talk about, and in fact the superultra wide dispyals a bigger image as it's 7,372,800 pixels, where as the triple setup here only displays 6,220,800 pixels so you get more image and a bigger picture with the super ultra wide and again with all the added benifits
@@roadi7 With triple 2k 24´s you get 7680pixels on 72 inches horizontally. And that’s just 24´s. With 32´s you get 11520 on 96. how is that not more than 5120 on 49? the only advantage imo is less cabling. sim racing on 49inch won't even let you see both of your mirrors. with triples you can see out your side windows and who's pulling up beside you. its really no competition immersion wise either.
Nice, but i get car sic...
That setup looks awesome, I tried Rally racing games but I am just not good at it. G/Turismo is my speed.Currently on a 74" flat screen but hope to go triple when I can afford it.