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#1- yes , a 2 sd video card is needed , it doesn't have to be a good one as it's not doing any of the rendering , it is just "pushing" the data from the main card's buffer . #2- FAQ is here, thanks for the reminder , I'll edit the 1st post with it ; http://www.kegetys.net/SoftTH/ FAQ is at bottom . #1(again) no install necessary , just place the files in folder , I think it's voodoo really ... #2(again) yep edit options.lua , don't forget to back up first . #3- you are welcome . :D

hi all , here is my config and how to for 3 monitors in BlackShark using Kegetys excellent Softh script . I will update this config as it gets better. here is main Softh page with FAQ at the bottom and previous versions ; http://www.kegetys.net/SoftTH/ link to Kegetys's forums , the very 1 st post has a link to version 1.09b ; http://www.kegetys.net/forum/index.php?board=1.0 this is my first attempt and it still needs a little tweaking , but it's damn close to perfect . the view is still a little too close to the front of the cockpit as it stands , probably a view.lua adjustment is necessary or a zoom fix , didn't find out where to edit that yet . in view.lua edit ; CameraViewAngleLimits[PlaneIndex.iKA_50] = {20.0, 120.0} I got it at 220.0 . I get the same frame rates with 3 monitors at 1280x1024 as I did with 2 monitors (Shkval and abris on right monitor) from the quickstart read me ; my Softh.cfg ; So, put the files in your bin/stable folder where the executable is. my options.lua ; settings are pretty much Maxed in there so edit away if bad performance , or use only the graphics part of this options.lua no edit of the ["multiMonitorSetup"] = "1camera", was necessary . setting is fullscreen . Multiplayer update , Softh has a quick key for "squashing" app+S so Multiplayer works fine . I have my desktop same as game resolution. on Vista Ultimate , check my sig for rig details . I'm still working on it , hope it helps someone . please feel free to share your configs . Thanks P.S. maybe this forum needs a dedicated section for Multi Monitors ? :D

it's the very fist post here ; http://www.kegetys.net/forum/index.php?board=1.0 btw if kegetys ever makes it in here , a big thanks ..

hhaha , thanks man , but not so fast on taking me off the "dumb" list ... I don't really understand, I just test like a crazed rat in a lab till I see an image ... side note , if we talk about triple monitor here , we are hijacking the phantom monitor thread I will post a new thread with my softh config and we can start discussing it there as I'm sure a lot would be happy to see how easy it is to make it work . I'll update with the link when it is done

yeah many games not listed , but BS works fine in triple monitors with Softh 1.09b for me . not sure if what you are suggesting could work though , probably not ...from what I understand ... but you could far more easily send the Shkval and abris to a 4th monitor , I may do it myself but frankly , I have no place to put the 4th monitor .

Thanks bud :thumbup:

cool !! I'm glad I could help

thanks for the info , I'll look into it I admit I have no idea what CUDA does and how a video codec actually helps render game video data .. that's what's fun about PC gaming , you learn things everyday link ?

while this is very true for movies , movies are very stable and fluid . I can "feel" the difference to much higher framerates then that , I see the difference between 60 fps and 80 fps to give you an idea .. and that is because gaming is more involved than just watching a movie , you move around in a game , react and move your view around with your mouse or TIR . surely you can feel it too in how easy it is to click in cockpit when getting better frames for instance ...

dual GPU cards are plagued with issues in most games so far from what I read , that's why I chose the 285GTX but when it works of course they are top performers ... maybe this will be fixed someday , but didn't sound worth the expense at this time to me .

yes of course we all want as much FPS as we can ... try tweaking settings I notice an instant 20% FPS drop when I open up the Shkval , yeah it's bad

here to report that Softh on triple monitor works very well for me , still tweaking as I got it to run at 4 am last night , but so far it's glorious and framerates are the same as my previous dual monitors (abris and shkval) set up . untested in multi . it's on my todo list for today

weird that you don't see the fps counter , have you tried for fun to send data to opposite monitor instead ? might be because fps is trying to be writen on "unrefreshed" part of your abris/skhval display .. I saw some weird after images there myself , but since my main monitor is on the left the fps counter appeared there to me . unfortunately for me :D:D:D,errors during testing this dual monitor thing made me have a 2 wide view at some point and I liked it , so I had to go out and get a new vid card , so I'm now running triple monitors with Softh. I hold cypher responsible and will sue him for the price of extra monitor and vid card .

my understanding of nvidia line up is that above the "8" series you will get DX10 , CUDA and physx capabilities . so far I can't enable CUDA myself , but it might be a Vista issue .

you shouldn't have any problems making it work , but I think you will have to turn sli off , not sure but from what people are saying, cause I never tried sli , people are reporting no gains( or not much) from sli in BS check here first ; phantom monitor fix ; http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=37983

really ?? cool .. thanks for the info man I wonder what's going on with me the error says avisomething.dll

I'm still tweaking but turning off hyperthreading yielded a 40% increase in FPS . everything maxed out 16x AA and 16Q AF @ 2560x1024

glad it worked :) I don't see any increase in frame rates either using the script , but I think that has probably to do with the bottleneck being the CPU and not the GPU . the advantage of it to me is seeing the framerate counter and being able to use 2 monitors in multiplayer . I think that you have to tell the script the total size of displays so that it knows where to move the new center to . maybe cypher will enlighten us by telling us exactly what the script does so that we may better understand the process and maybe get to do it manually when things evolve... also it would be great if anyone could find how to fix the game crashes when taking screenshots with dual monitors under vista 64 .

I think a couple of things may be wrong ; aspects , resolution , spelling , try this ; options.lua: ["graphics"] = { ["multiMonitorSetup"] = "dd_shkabr+cam+phantom", ["color"] = "32", ["heatBlr"] = 1, ["scenes"] = "high", ["water"] = 2, ["fullScreen"] = false, ["visibRange"] = "High", ["aspect"] = 2.725, ["textures"] = 2, ["shadows"] = 3, ["display_mode"] = { ["avi"] = { ["bpp"] = 32, ["resolution"] = "640x480", ["full_screen"] = false, ["aspect"] = 1.333333333, ["height"] = 480, ["width"] = 640, }, -- end of ["avi"] }, -- end of ["display_mode"] ["effects"] = 2, ["haze"] = 1, ["lights"] = 2, ["height"] = 1080, ["resolution"] = "2944x1080", ["civTraffic"] = 0, ["width"] = 3968, }, -- end of ["graphics"] dd_shkabr+cam+phantom: Description = 'Shkval & ABRIS on the left, camera on the center' Viewports = { Center = { x = 1024; y = 0; width = 1920; height = 1080; viewDx = 0; viewDy = 0; aspect = 1.77; } } Shkval = { x = 13; y = 13; width = 486; height = 306; } ABRIS = { x = 585; y = 157; width = 366; height = 447; } ====================== and make sure your dd_shkabr+cam+phantom is spelled like this ; dd_shkabr+cam+phantom and not like this ;DD_ShkABR+Cam+Phantom.lua not sure lua sees caps or not , but let's not take any chances good luck

OK , I now see 8 cores , your DCSMax1.2a works well . it was msconfig/boot/advanced/4 cores was ticked by default . framerates are the same with 8 cores truly reported under task manager . so 25 fps . 40% gain by turning off hyperthreading in bios . up to 35 fps . will test some other games today to see if I will leave it off permanently . thanks again !!

thanks :thumbup: OK , I'm blind and I had missed the bios setting , turns out I had to scroll down ... duh :prop: so , my bios said hyperthreading was on , cores set to "all" , why I don't see 8 in task manager still eludes me .(I'll read that hardforum thread after lunch) I turned off hyper threading and here are the results ; FRAMERATES BS without affinity ============== 20 fps Affinity manually=================35fps DCSMax 1.2a and test8cores========35 fps to be sure I turned on hyperthreading again (still don't see 8 cores anywhere) and I got my "regular" 25 fps with both DCSMax so hyperthreading off gave me a gain of 40% more fps and no difference now between setting affinity manually and with using DCSMax . note about the DCSMaxtest "8 cores on" you provided me to test ; the pop up rectangle that says "affinity set" keeps popping up like crazy , I still see it popping "through" the cockpit . thanks a bunch again , and I will update when I can properly test 8 cores .

first of all , thanks for your hard work , it is apreciated . with your DCStest just provided ,when I go to task manager and affinity , I only see 4 cores and they are all ticked . I'm getting 26 fps . problem might very well be on my end . I just got this system and still learning about it , I still haven't found how to see if I have hyper threading enabled or not . there is nothing in my P6T bios that refers to it and I'm still looking in my system properties , when I go to my device manager under processor I do see 8 processors . but only 4 in affinity and task manager's performance tab . funny thing CPUZ utility reports only 2 cores and 4 threads so I might have a setting somewhere I don't know about , I'm working on it :music_whistling::joystick::music_whistling:

thanks wombat778 , if I run it as is , it loads the game but doesn't set affinity , so I get 19 fps , if I right click it and try to run it with admin rights it can't find the launcher.exe I tried to set admin rights to it in the file's properties but the option is greyed out . ohh and I let it run for 5 min to be sure that it had the time it needed.

personnally I see no difference in framerates by lowering the AA and AF settings , running at 16x and 16Q BS is CPU dependant but it is seeking help .