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I'm not ticked off, just trying to give clear instructions. Guy I am very sorry, I left a ";" out of that file when I edited in your screen absolute values. The attached should now work, just save it to your MonitorSetup folder. Again, my apologies. btw, I didn't realise you were using mods. Always remove them before changing anything. Also, you only need Notepad++ if you are editing the files. 1Camera_Centre_GUI.lua

m2b1, In case you didn't know, "DCS Updater" is the "DCS_Updater.exe" not the DCS update itself. The updater has seen a few updates recently, I think the last one was to improve the updating method largely being discussed here. As for the slow Update download, I thought that had been fixed but as many posts above have said, if you see the update being d/loaded using 'Peer's, Cancel it and say yes to the nest message "shall we use http method instead?" or words to that effect.

1. DO NOT used Notepad, I told you in an earlier thread that it will corrupt the lua files. Use Notepad++ from here: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v6.8.6.html 2. You must delete that file you edited with Notepad. I think a DCS Repair will get you that 'Camera + RMFCD' file back. If you don't get it back I can send it to you. 3. I'm pretty sure your mistake was to look for the filename "1Camera_Centre_GUI". I said in my post to look for "1 Screen Centre GUI" which is the name given INSIDE the file and displayed by the DCS monitor selections. 4. Try using my file again. Paste it into MonitorSetup folder and then start DCS and look for "1 Screen Centre GUI". Don't expect to see it if DCS is running and you haven't re-started it.

I don't know why that wouldn't work but I have now replaced expressions like screen.width with the absolute values you are using. Replace what I sent you with the attached and start DCS again. It should just find the new version weeb this is his monitor lua (MonitorSetup) unless you have something else in mind. Here's the content: 1Camera_Centre_GUI.lua

errrmmmm... riight... I'll pass on the love, I've got plenty of that. Save the attached to your folder: C\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\Config\MonitorSetup\ Start DCS and select a new monitor setup, the one named "1 Screen Centre GUI" See if that helps. 1Camera_Centre_GUI.lua

Regret to say the DCS News still says IV. We know what they mean though :) http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/newsletters/newsletter27112015.html

I do hope that's a typo.

Guy, take a deep breath.... First if all, 5780 x 1080 suggests you may really be using three 1920x1080 screens in Surround which without bezel-correction would mean a typo and actually be 5760x1080. If that is correct you only need select "1 Screen" or "3 Screens" in-game and I don't think you need to read any further. However, if you really meant 5780x1080 and are therefore using bezel-correction (BC) read on... Depending on what you want to achieve, you may need to make your own monitor setup definition. How to do this?.... The screen options are kept in the folder C\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\Config\MonitorSetup\ There you will see the options you can select in-game: 1Camera.lua (1 Screen). 3Cameras.lua (3 Screen) etc.. Now a pause.... to read these files and make your own or to edit one you need to get Notepad++ because the default Windows Notepad does not save the files properly. Don't let the idea of doing this put you off, it's just another editor. You can download Notepad++ from here: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v6.8.6.html Click on Download under the brown parcel. Wherever you save it just double click and install it. It will probably install to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\ OK, now right click on, say, 1Camera.lua and select "Open with", choose "Select default program" and if you don't see Notepad++ listed go and find it, again probably at: C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" When the lua file opens look at the top of the file, second line down, and you will see: name = _('1 Screen'); This is just to let you know how the monitor selections are identified when you are making your in-game selection, in this case "1 Screen". Close that file without editing/saving it. I'm not clear what you want to achieve but lets say you are using "3 Screens" and do you have bezel-correction. You may find strange vertical strips at the right hand edge of one or more screens. This is due to the BC and DCS no longer managing the 3 screens the way it used to. In that case you need a new lua file. So... Copy one of the existing lua files and rename it, say copy "3Cameras.lua" to "3Camera_BC.lua", and change "name = ...." inside the file, just give it your own description, maybe '3 screens with bezel-correction' To set up the monitors correctly try the method I describe in my first post for positioning (x = ...) and setting width (width = ...) for each screen. Note how the bezel-correction values are manipulated. Also, if you are using BC (1 or 3 screens) the GUI may run off of the left and right edges of the centre screen into those hidden bezel-correction pixels. This is where my second post comes in as you can re-position and resize the width of the GUI. To do this follow my suggestions regarding replacing the standard GUI line and set the "x=..." and "width =..." values in my second post, again noting how the BC values are manipulated. I know this is a long read and you may have run off screaming half way through but if you got this far and are in doubt, re-read this carefully and use my first two posts to try to understand what I have said here.

Does this help? http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=153159 The latest patch seems to place the GUI on the centre of "3Screens". If you don't use bezel correction "3Screens" should work fine. If you do use BC you may want to try my suggestions. Ref FOV if you have 4 screens you can have the instruments on the 4th monitor below the centre screen. This allows you to zoom the upper 3 screens in more while the instruments are always visible on the bottom screen and the forward poking "left/right" wing views are barely noticeable.

It does, I ran the P-51D Helios on monitor 4 although I now use it to display the DCS cockpit instruments in all aircraft.

I am running 4 in a line because I think T shaped calls for overall resolution 5900 x 2160 = 12.744 MPixels while 7820 x 1080 calls for 8.4456 MPixels, much lower load on the GPU. As I understand it, to get T shaped result you have to declare 5900x2160 to DCS in the Setup and then your MonitorSetup.lua picks out the parts of that image that you specify for left, centre, right, bottom. With 4 in a line you declare 7820 x 1080 to DCS in setup.

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Following the latest update to 1.5.1.47285 I have been able to get 3Screens and Bezel Correction (BC) working. It works both offline and online.My screens resolutions including BC are: 1920 + 65 + 1920 + 75 + 1920 plus screen 4 at 1920. All are 1080 high. Total in-game resolution 7820x1080. Your monitors/BCs may be different but hopefully the following will still apply. The first three are set up as Surround in Nvidia CP with those BCs (they are different due to different shaped side bezels on left and right). Total Surround res 5900. EDIT!! I have removed much of what I said in this OP as it turned out I was pixel-chasing and 'KirkaFordis Rex' post #23 below was a more elegant solution which I have adapted to my monitor setup'. Screenshot attached Here is my monitor setup for 3 screens over a lower, central, cockpit instrument panel. Thanks again to KirkaFordis Rex .

THANK YOU.......

Hind, read through this thread, the answers are here.

Looks like you are correct. I just cleared some space on one of my HDDs, copied 1.5.1.46722 across and updated that to 1.5.1.47025.99 and that version can see the servers. So I can now run "3screen" offline in one version and "3Screen" online in the other. Or 1.2 in another. Oh Mother!

I don't understand why you guys are arguing about 1943. I don't understand why you are arguing about 'Force at 1st January 1944' when in the same document there is 'Force at 31st Jan 1944'. Nor do I understand what relevance that has to the period defined by Normandy and the Bf109K-4 (late 1944+). I don't understand what the sudden jump to January 1945 has to do with those old arguments unless it is to point out that, according to Kurfursts figures, only 314 of 1435 Bf109s were K model, i.e. 22%, and a G model would have been more appropriate and given much more historical scope alongside the MkIX. As it is we have the K-4 introduced in October 1944 so perhaps we should have had the Spitfire XIV which was introduced in September 1944. But we don't. We have what we have (or will have). You can juggle the variants as much as you like. ED are doing what they are doing.

Well, I lied. After rolling back to 1.5.1.46722 offline worked ok. However in Multiplayer no servers are listed. I can create my own 'New Server' and run a mission but I can't see anyone else's server. Any ideas out there?

Look at Post #2 here: http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2249076&postcount=2 using the method in my post above you can roll back to any version you like.

I don't understand the question. It is a MkIXb. It would appear to be modelled after OFMC's MH434 as illustrated in the pre-releases and to which ED may well have access as it is at Duxford where their associates The Fighter Collection are based (and whose pilot(s) tested their P-51D modelling for them). It would of course have been nice to get the MkIXe with 20mm cannons and 0.5 m/gs....... but we ain't. And anyway the IXe had the Merlin 66 too.

Well, as majapahit pointed out, you don't need to go back to 1.2, just back to 1.5.1.46722 using the method in his link: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=114030 1. Open the Command Prompt window, the easiest method being: In Windows Explorer, Navigate to the Main DCS Folder, Hold Down Left Shift, and Right Click on the /Bin Folder and Choose Open Command Prompt Here 2. Updating or Reverting DCS World to the latest build of a Specific Version: in the Command Prompt Window Type: DCS_Updater.exe update 1.5.1.46722 Hit Enter The DCS Updater will run in its usual way and roll you back to 1.5.1.46722. it really is that easy.

Many Thanks! I am back to 1.5.1.46722 and all is working ok.

Tried again with Preset to Low then turning everything possible to Off or None and loading offline mission. Same crash result except that loading an F-86 mission I get a flash of the cockpit instruments before it crashes. I don't see F-15C or P-51D instruments before the crash.

OK that makes sense. Unfortunately I don't think I can roll back the latest two updates.

In case this is your problem, many of us running multi-monitor cannot load offline missions. Online works ok.