Post your GT5 set up and man cave

[CJDA9]

I dont have many pictures of my rig but here is a walk around video. I hope this is a good place to post this.

 

[wajdi1977]

The screens are 23" they look bigger because I set them up to be very close. The center monitor is 18" from my eyes. The angle is 60.

Great,so do you advice me a 60degrees between the monitors over the 45° and why?
I thought that 45° is the perfect(and most used)angle when it comes to a triple monitors!
I will have 3 25"monitors and the center of the monitor will be very close to my eyes!
The last question : where have you bought the monitor mounts ?
thanks

 

[superbike81]

I built the monitor stand, and I bought the VESA mounts from a website called www.monoprice.com they were cheap (I think $8 each) and are fully adjustable.

I chose a ~60 degree angle because that's what gives me a 180 degree field of view. There's no one "best" angle to have the screens at. You can put them at 90 degrees if you really want to.

 

[OwensRacing]

I built the monitor stand, and I bought the VESA mounts from a website called www.monoprice.com they were cheap (I think $8 each) and are fully adjustable.

I chose a ~60 degree angle because that's what gives me a 180 degree field of view. There's no one "best" angle to have the screens at. You can put them at 90 degrees if you really want to.

Entire field of view is exactly why I went 60 degrees.

I'm gonna say its the best. Anything less just isn't covering your entire FOV.


Superbike, what zoom percent you using? As well with the overlapped bezels. What border percent you using in the monitors?

Myself-
74% zoom and border 2% center 4% sides

 

[superbike81]

Entire field of view is exactly why I went 60 degrees.

I'm gonna say its the best. Anything less just isn't covering your entire FOV.


Superbike, what zoom percent you using? As well with the overlapped bezels. What border percent you using in the monitors?

Myself-
74% zoom and border 2% center 4% sides

I've only got a single PS3, and to be honest, I haven't touched GT5 in months. It's mostly a 3D Blu-Ray player now.

 

[OwensRacing]

I've only got a single PS3, and to be honest, I haven't touched GT5 in months. It's mostly a 3D Blu-Ray player now.

Gotcha.

iRacing?

 

[wajdi1977]

Ok,I will go for 60°!

 

[superbike81]

Gotcha.

iRacing?

Mostly iRacing and Grand Prix Legends.

But I also dabble in rFactor(1 and 2), pCARS, etc, etc.

 

[Bye Ya]

Can I ask a question, and I don't mean any offense at all... but some of you guys have such epic setups, with cockpit seats, 3 screens, the works...


All I have is a G27 hooked up to my PC monitor, and when people come over they're like, "Wow, so you're really into video game racing huh? Hmm...". (I'm paraphrasing, etc.)

Personally, I feel somewhat guilty about it, because I'm not a teenager anymore and I have hardly any friends who are into gaming. My friends have kids now, etc. I also don't have any kids of my own to blame it on. That's just me though, and I'm curious if you all feel that way at all, or not at all. Also curious to know what kind of reactions you get from people about having such an investment into video gaming.


I'd love nothing more than to have a triple screen setup, with HD projection, cockpit seat, formula style wheel, and the best pedals, but that is some serious money to play video games. You can buy a (crappy) real car for that amount of money. Obviously all of us here 'get it', because we love sim. racing, but to civilians it can seem overboard, in my experience.

I'm guessing this has been asked here before, but I just didn't know where to find it in these threads, so sorry for the repeat question.

 

[VINCE__]

I reply "it is a race simulator". GT5 is a game, iRacing is a simulation passion. I'm 46 years old, I will purchase what I want. My wife loves that I am at home and not out acting like a fool bar hopping all around town.

 

[TheDabbinDave]

I reply "it is a race simulator". GT5 is a game, iRacing is a simulation passion. I'm 46 years old, I will purchase what I want. My wife loves that I am at home and not out acting like a fool bar hopping all around town.

Not so fast there sparky. Motorstorm is a game. Need For Speed in all of its incarnations is a game. MNR is a game. Daytona USA is a game. Wipeout is a game. GT is mass appeal simulator that is not 100% focused on online racing. PD/SOMY realizes that not everyone is connected to the I Internet. 100% online games have not been 100% successful. MAG had a great premise. But not having a 256 player all out death match ruined it for me. WarHawk had moments of greatness. But no offline anything is why 3 copies of it are collecting dust in our family. I think MAG was a big meh. iRacing requires a significant reoccurring financial investment if you want to maximize your experience.

When your friends are impressed with your setup. Humbly show them the rigs people have in this thread!

Everyone has hobbies of some sort. The extent of your hobby is determined by your disposable income and ability to make things if necessary. Some people's hobby is bass fishing = expensive bass boat requires to truly excel. Other peoples hobbies are flying planes, real ones cost MUCH more than remote controlled ones. Some people's hobby is gardening. While other people like to sit on Facebook for hours at a time playing Facebook games.

 

[heingericke]

civilians

As I like to call them, pedestrians.

 

[Spike125]

With all the other gadgets and stuff, my sim rig is one of the medium investments, so no one really asks.
If they ask for a price I let them take a ride first and then tell them how much
It seems much more reasonable after you get to experience a ride.

 

[Bye Ya]

As I like to call them, pedestrians.

 

[wajdi1977]

It's all about passion man!I'm a 35 years old playing rF,rF2 and Race 07!GT5 is a good game but it isn't a simulator,Now I'm spending about 2000euro to build my new cockpit with a triple screen and i can't wait to finish it!

 

[Bye Ya]

It's all about passion man!I'm a 35 years old playing rF,rF2 and Race 07!GT5 is a good game but it isn't a simulator,Now I'm spending about 2000euro to build my new cockpit with a triple screen and i can't wait to finish it!

Hey man, I'm there with you guys (on a lower budget). I just have a hard time getting other people to understand it.

I just got the first rF and it is definitely something different. Loaded up a championship for the Endurance mod recently and had a blast, even against the AI. Just found out about the Formula Sim Racing league as well, and they share links to their mods, so that's definitely my next stop. 👍

 

[MSTER232]

Mostly iRacing and Grand Prix Legends.

But I also dabble in rFactor(1 and 2), pCARS, etc, etc.

Guilty as charged...

Well I would play iRacing myself if it wasn't so expensive to play .

 

[superbike81]

Guilty as charged...

Well I would play iRacing myself if it wasn't so expensive to play .

If you do it right, it's not very expensive. They normally do special membership deals for anywhere from $49-75 a year (normal is $99 a year). They also do credit deals (buy $50 worth of credit and get $25 free, etc) as well as participation credits (up to $40 a year) for participating regularly.

Also if you plan out well you can minimize the number of cars and tracks you have to buy too. You just have to go in with a plan and research the best way to get to the car you want to drive (asking us in the iRacing thread here on GTPlanet would be a good way).

It's more expensive than your average game, but I've never got as much out of a standard $50 game as I have iRacing.

Ok, no more off topic. If you really want to talk iRacing and potentially joining, just ask in the iRacing thread and we'll help you out.

 

[lemansfanatic]

I reply "it is a race simulator". GT5 is a game, iRacing is a simulation passion. I'm 46 years old, I will purchase what I want. My wife loves that I am at home and not out acting like a fool bar hopping all around town.

Yeah exactly. The money we save by not spending on drinks at the bar or golf trips with the guys we justify spending on expensive racing equipment. (not that I wouldnt enjoy a golf trip). Also, I am 32 married with kids and dont really care what people think of my hobbies. Most of them come over and are like whoa, you actually built this thing?! And when you let them play it, they understand immediately why its cool-No explanation neccessary!

 

[OwensRacing]

Can I ask a question, and I don't mean any offense at all... but some of you guys have such epic setups, with cockpit seats, 3 screens, the works...

All I have is a G27 hooked up to my PC monitor, and when people come over they're like, "Wow, so you're really into video game racing huh? Hmm...". (I'm paraphrasing, etc.)

Personally, I feel somewhat guilty about it, because I'm not a teenager anymore and I have hardly any friends who are into gaming. My friends have kids now, etc. I also don't have any kids of my own to blame it on. That's just me though, and I'm curious if you all feel that way at all, or not at all. Also curious to know what kind of reactions you get from people about having such an investment into video gaming.

I'd love nothing more than to have a triple screen setup, with HD projection, cockpit seat, formula style wheel, and the best pedals, but that is some serious money to play video games. You can buy a (crappy) real car for that amount of money. Obviously all of us here 'get it', because we love sim. racing, but to civilians it can seem overboard, in my experience.

I'm guessing this has been asked here before, but I just didn't know where to find it in these threads, so sorry for the repeat question.

Info: 37 yrs old and raising my two sons 9 & 11 on my own. So I am home most always. With that I have discovered the joys of SIM racing. Beings I don't go out or party etc etc. This is my entertainment budget. LoL

If any of my friends try to talk down about my hobby. I simply ask how much they spent on alky and partying. Now what do you have to show for it all? They hush pretty quickly.

However most my friends are into cars and racing. So it's more an issue of getting them out of my rig then them complaining about it.

As for family etc. I've built real cars for years. SIM Racing is cheap cheap in comparison. So they have grown accustomed to me and my expensive hobbies. My folks like the idea of me siting stationary doing 150 mph vs actually going 150 mph too.

Also note I build everything I can. Saves me a ton of cash. So when you see a rig like mine. The only money invested was hardware. Wheel/screens/ps3's. So the offset of cost by building my own rigs helps out on the expense side.

 

[VINCE__]

Lol, "Sparky".
I'm just saying games are games and Sim racing is not a game. My kids play games on the PS3's. I race on my computer.

Not so fast there sparky. Motorstorm is a game. Need For Speed in all of its incarnations is a game. MNR is a game. Daytona USA is a game. Wipeout is a game. GT is mass appeal simulator that is not 100% focused on online racing. PD/SOMY realizes that not everyone is connected to the I Internet. 100% online games have not been 100% successful. MAG had a great premise. But not having a 256 player all out death match ruined it for me. WarHawk had moments of greatness. But no offline anything is why 3 copies of it are collecting dust in our family. I think MAG was a big meh. iRacing requires a significant reoccurring financial investment if you want to maximize your experience.

When your friends are impressed with your setup. Humbly show them the rigs people have in this thread!

Everyone has hobbies of some sort. The extent of your hobby is determined by your disposable income and ability to make things if necessary. Some people's hobby is bass fishing = expensive bass boat requires to truly excel. Other peoples hobbies are flying planes, real ones cost MUCH more than remote controlled ones. Some people's hobby is gardening. While other people like to sit on Facebook for hours at a time playing Facebook games.

 

[MSTER232]

Can I ask a question, and I don't mean any offense at all... but some of you guys have such epic setups, with cockpit seats, 3 screens, the works...


All I have is a G27 hooked up to my PC monitor, and when people come over they're like, "Wow, so you're really into video game racing huh? Hmm...". (I'm paraphrasing, etc.)

Personally, I feel somewhat guilty about it, because I'm not a teenager anymore and I have hardly any friends who are into gaming. My friends have kids now, etc. I also don't have any kids of my own to blame it on. That's just me though, and I'm curious if you all feel that way at all, or not at all. Also curious to know what kind of reactions you get from people about having such an investment into video gaming.


I'd love nothing more than to have a triple screen setup, with HD projection, cockpit seat, formula style wheel, and the best pedals, but that is some serious money to play video games. You can buy a (crappy) real car for that amount of money. Obviously all of us here 'get it', because we love sim. racing, but to civilians it can seem overboard, in my experience.

I'm guessing this has been asked here before, but I just didn't know where to find it in these threads, so sorry for the repeat question.

I feel like I have a decent setup although I need to repair it since one of the brackets snapped during a race recently. I'm also going to build a shifter mount on it since I'm considering to buy a G27 to replace my DFGT.

You don't have to invest 1 grand into a rig, I spent less than £99 on mine, including buying the wheel for 80 and getting the car seat for free at a junkyard. Good luck trying to buy a car with that kind of money . You just have to make the best use of the things that you have around you.

 

[superbike81]

Yeah, I could have bought a real car with the money that I spent on my complete rig (computer and everything) but then I've got a crappy car that I can do what with? Drive to the grocery store? No, that costs gas money. Stare at it in my driveway? Ummmm cool I guess.

The "you could have bought a real car!" argument really bugs me, and it always comes from people who have never spent a day at a racetrack in their life. Racing is expensive, VERY VERY expensive, from age 5-17 (when I stopped racing) my father spent an estimated $400k on my racing endeavors, and we weren't even using the nicest gear and we were normally sleeping in our truck or toy hauler. People just don't understand what real racing actually takes.

Me spending an initial few thousand bucks (including 100% iRacing content with a 1yr membership) to startup a sim-racing hobby and then maybe a couple hundred bucks a year for membership fees, new content, new games, etc, is CHEAP......SUPER CHEAP.

It's obviously not as fun as real racing, but I still have a great time doing it.

 

[wajdi1977]

Yeah, I could have bought a real car with the money that I spent on my complete rig (computer and everything) but then I've got a crappy car that I can do what with? Drive to the grocery store? No, that costs gas money. Stare at it in my driveway? Ummmm cool I guess.

The "you could have bought a real car!" argument really bugs me, and it always comes from people who have never spent a day at a racetrack in their life. Racing is expensive, VERY VERY expensive, from age 5-17 (when I stopped racing) my father spent an estimated $400k on my racing endeavors, and we weren't even using the nicest gear and we were normally sleeping in our truck or toy hauler. People just don't understand what real racing actually takes.

Me spending an initial few thousand bucks (including 100% iRacing content with a 1yr membership) to startup a sim-racing hobby and then maybe a couple hundred bucks a year for membership fees, new content, new games, etc, is CHEAP......SUPER CHEAP.

It's obviously not as fun as real racing, but I still have a great time doing it.

👍

 

[heingericke]

I think anyone who actually owns and races a real car on an amateur level (perhaps on any level for that matter) would be that much more inclined to get into Sim racing because you still want to experience different tracks in different parts of the world with different vehicles. Saving a grand by not Sim racing doesn't get you any of that.

Those that don't want to/can't afford to/not interested in real motor racing will still Sim race if that's their primary interest in itself. It gives us pleasure.

I never understood the "could've bought a real car" reaction.

1. I already have a car.
2. (Asking them) Why do you own anything you own? your shoes? You could've bought 6 pairs of flip flops for that money! 20 quid for steak? Could've had 10 cheeseburgers!

If they still don't understand the concept of deliberate intentional choice as opposed to compromise, ask them why they're at you're house visiting you and not at one of your mutual friends.

 

[OwensRacing]

Lol, "Sparky".
I'm just saying games are games and Sim racing is not a game. My kids play games on the PS3's. I race on my computer.

This is "Sparky"

 

[TheDabbinDave]

Lol, "Sparky".
I'm just saying games are games and Sim racing is not a game. My kids play games on the PS3's. I race on my computer.

A PS3 is a "computer". It performs computations. Folding at Home ring a bell? It's usage is dedicated. Lumping Gran Turismo with MNR is complete BS and you know it. iRacing doesn't compete with the simulator used by Formula One teams for training. GT, iRacing, F1 sim all "simulate" driving. Some do it better than others. We don't all have a few hundred thousand dollars for n F1 simulator or even the flight simulator Boeing has. Microsoft's flight sim is a game too I guess? In the same group as Pilot Wings and Ace Combat?

 

[JogoAsobi]

My kids play games on the PS3's. I race on my computer.

You seem to spend quite a bit of time on PS3 GT5-related seasonals by your posting stats on just the threads you started, not including your other posts on other threads.

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/search.php?searchid=6738986

I guess that's for your kids.

 

[OwensRacing]

Everyone has a right to their opinion guys. We may or may not agree. However don't argue opinions.

 

[Dragon_Dude]

When you come to this forum, you come to the sub folder of "Sim Racing Hardware" via "Games". None of which really has to do with showing me some more pictures of anyone's creative ideas in the form of a "Sim Rig".