This is how I always envisioned my rig would look. Low profile and with a tight feeling to it's presence. Pretty to look at. Not some aluminum colored oblonged monstrosity. Sick looking rig 👌
2 years later, have to say this is a lovely thought out Rig man, I also went for the one monitor for PC one for sim rig route its just easier rather than setting up switchers etc.
Badass rig, very thoughtfully laid out as well. We have a lot of the same hardware but yours is next level. I also have a work desk right next to my rig so there's a lot of tips in this that I will use. Gonna get a streamdeck ASAP I think.
Extremely cool setup!! Quick tip for the screen switching if you haven’t already found a way that works. If you have a stream deck there’s a plug-in called wintools. There’s a button for changing primary displays which will make your sim display primary display and desktop display secondary. Then when you’re done racing/flying you can just press the button again and it switches back.
I've been planning on building a separate station for my sim race/drift gear using 1 PC but couldn't think of a solution for the monitors ur actually a legend!!
Yo ur a life saver, I want a new setup and I didn’t know if I could have a kbm setup separately with a raving rig both connected to the same pc, I never knew how to word it into google and RU-vid so I just gave up, eventually I watched this video so thank you so much
I'm looking at merging my 1st person shooter setup into both FPS and driving/flying. I'm looking at a bunch of different options at the moment. Ideally I'll have it all at one station with a triple monitor setup, but depending on how uncomforatable the FPS setup is, I might need to do what you have done by setting up 2 seperate stations. Informative video, cheers!
What did you do in the end? I'm waiting for a 2.46 meter long ikea desk (Saljan with two Alex drawers and a leg) to arrive which I'm planning to use for sim drifting with my wheel, and for regular gaming like FPSes.
Awesome setup! As a beginner sim racer, this would be a dream to own. One quick question, how do you manage the 10 foot cable for you headphones? In the video it seem so short despite it being 10 feet.
I really dig these setups, but I just dont want to need to buy another 43" 4k 144hz display. I dig your systems and the clean cable. Very nice. I kind of did the exact opposite, and modded a sim cage to sit higher, seat raised, with mouse area mounted on and keyboard on a laptop mount also connected to sim rig. I note that I also have had zero back pain while being in this chair.
Kinda creepy cool that your setup is so similar to mine as I also have my desktop and simrig in the living room and tried to make it neatly as possible. Same Ikea table top and black wooden drawers on the sides. Dedicated ultrawides, keyboards for desktop and simrig. Similar macro's on button box and stream deck..lol. Your steering wheel and base is cooler tho xD Cheers
Wow, this just popped up in my feed. Well done sir, very nice clean rig. I would love to know what your keyboard tray is and what the fans are above your monitor
I have the same kind of setup with one pc and two displays but you don't have to turn the second display off! You can leave both displays on. Is worth the try, saves extra time and handling.
Thank you so much for all this good sir! I am currently building my first sim rig, which also happens to be my dream rig. The idea of getting cheap belt driven wheelbases and toyish pedals wasn't appealing to me so straight to DD and all the bells and whistles (RIP wallet) lol. I am having many road blocks and questions currently, especially when it comes to monitors and VR. I have the new HP Reverb G2, I bought it for this purpose, haven't tried it yet but from what I hear it's the most immersive. I need some sort of display to run the system still though, because I have a dedicated sim-rig PC, and I can't decide if I want a cheap display setup or something that I can race on besides VR. Now that I spent all the money I'm also questioning if I shouldn't have just moved around my room setup to be able to use one PC for both main & sim-rig, especially after seeing this..... but the problem is my work/game PC is running 3 monitors, and I also have a TV wired to the GPU so I'm all out of display ports. Would love to hear what you think on these issues, thanks in advance! Also wouldn't mind sharing pictures/videos of the setup over discord if that's a thing you're open to.
I tried VR with an odyssey + for a couple months and eventually moved away from it for a few reasons. One of which was the cleanliness and awe of use of my desk area. As you can hopefully tell I invested a lot of effort into getting things set up cleanly here. I have considered a second pc (particularly when upgrading my rig early this year). For my money here only have two displays is a huge QoL improvement for the ease of just turning on/off the second display to lockdown the other one. I have considered additional desktop displays, but that would make the swap over to race mode more complex (the more feature rich your sim rig becomes the more value you will place on this, IMHO the longer the setup time before a session the less you race). In my situation the 38” LG takes up enough of my FOV at the desk that additional monitors don’t make a lot of sense for daily use. If I want a second display for something like discord, yt, comments, etc. an iPad or tablet is easy to plop on the desk on an as needed basis and moved to the sim for an additional screen there as well. In your case you might consider dropping a display or two, or moving the tv to a wireless option (Chromecast, et all). If you don’t have high refresh need on some swappable displays you could use an hdmi splitter with a small remote, but those will add latency (marginal, but still) or hard cap the refresh rate to
this video is a huge help for me i was looking to do the same thing for my room and i am thinking about using very similiar stuff that you are even the same desk so when i came across this is kinda showed me what miune would look somnewhat like in the end which i appreciate very much because i wasnt sure if anyone had done it before and i was wondering if you could measure the wall the desk and sim rig is on and reply with how many inches it was
The Korg nanoKontrol setup sounds fantastic. How do you map Windows programs to faders? [Edit - NK2Tray probably] BTW, running Stream Deck as admin _should_ allow it to run other programs as admin without any additional confirmation popups.
Great rig! Question (hopefully you’ll see this), but I have a similar setup with my Stream Deck to launch all of my respective racing programs like you, but I can’t get it to actually START Crew Chief. Did you run into any problems or have to take any extra steps to get it to work for you?
Hi, nice setup...what kind of damping feet are you using there? Need also a silent simrig as I am living in a flat...and dont want to distrube the neighbours :)
This is what I’ve got. Adore it. LG 38GL950G-B 38 Inch UltraGear Nano IPS 1ms Curved Gaming Monitor with 144HZ Refresh Rate and NVIDIA G-SYNC, Black www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZS1DZM1/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_H730FWFFN1W5QZQEMM6K
There is a usb hub on the rig, and it depends on the display you are using and the resolution. But to my knowledge, yes you need DisplayPort to the carry the additional bandwidth required by doubling the refresh rate.
What most people run into with 2 displays is that the graphics card usually only has one hdmi port and then one display port. So they run their primary monitor on hdmi and the second monitor off display port.
I assume you are talking about this guy: www.amazon.com/Korg-nanoKONTROL2-Slim-Line-Control-Surface/dp/B004M8UZS8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1H8ZM6LZZ2AGV&dchild=1&keywords=korg+nanokontrol2&qid=1617073529&sprefix=korg+nano%2Caps%2C241&sr=8-1 You use it with another app as described in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t16CMLcmeIc.html
It's a Ram Mount using this as the tablet holder: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009NRNBLG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 That is held in place with VHB, a strong double sided tape you can also find on amazon.
The only problem I have when I'm going to build the sim rig is the lack of usb ports on my pc. So I'm wondering is if a usb hub would work? People tell me they are kinda "buggy" so idk
They can be. Built up a collection of hubs trying to find one that worked. Found that anything important (wheel, pedals, etc) should go straight into the pc and the non essential items can go into the hub. A pcie card with unique usb busses can help quite a bit as well.
