FOV120 (as DCS freeze "fix") - relatively painless solution for triple mon users

[Ayindi]

Hi friends,

 

if you are like me and are suffering from the DCS freezes you have possibly already found out that limiting the FOV to 120 is the only working workaround to "fix" this from happen. However for us triple screen users this is very painfull since limiting the FOV will also greatly reduce the vertical field of view and everything is too zoomed in.

Not sure if anyone already came up with this idea, but I think I found an acceptable solution for it. Via the camera.lua file I split my left and right monitor "into half" and will fully use the center monitor. Please have a look at the attached screenshot which has a FOV of 120 to get an idea how it will look like on triple screens. As you can see the vertical FOV is good and this way its actually usable. Sure, you are losing one full screen of full fidelity flightsim, but still maintains some beauty of triple screen and you can actually play and enjoy DCS.

 

Please copy the attached lua file into the ..\DCS World\Config\MonitorSetup and select it in the settings. After a restart of DCS you should be good to go. This file was made for triple FullHD monitors, in case you have another resolution you need to adjust the numbers. I hope if you look at the file it will be clear what to do.

Once the freeze issue is fixed you can go back to your normal settings with a single mousclick and a DCS restart.

MyFOV120fix.lua

Edited February 5, 2018 by Ayindi

[JimTM]

Thanks Ayindi! Your fix worked well for me.