Multimonitor help

[sweinhart3]

I hate to start another multi-monitor thread but I knew this day would come sooner or later. I just installed a new Nvidia 470GTX to be my primary display running at 1920x1280. I moved my Nvidia 280GTX to the secondary slot in my pc to run my 2 mfds at 1024x768. When I first fired up my pc the drivers set all displays as independant and they all expanded the windows desktop. I fired up BS and tried to run as display+shkval+abris but the sim crammed all 3 on my main display as it has done in the past. I tried several settings including both full screen and windowed although windowed still runs it in full screen and I cant seem to resize anything. I also tried setting the display to 1024x768 so that all screen resolutions matched up but that didnt work either. To make matters worse, I played with the Nvidia control panel settings and changed the mfd displays as clones. Now my too small monitors are acting as clones of the windows desktop but an extension to my main display. For whatever reason, the system is not letting me change anything anymore including restoring default settings. It just reverts back to the way it is now. I tried uninstalling the drivers and reinstalling them but that didnt work either. So I seem to be stuck and I have a few questions. Im running Win 7 home premium x64.

1. When trying to setup multi-monitors in BS, can the main display be run at a higher or different resolution than the other monitors? If so, how do you set that up? Since the resolution settings in BS only give you certain settings, how do you set up different views using different resolutions?

2. Does BS have to be run in windowed mode or can it be run full screen? How do you resize the different camera views?

3. How do you get the abris and shkval cameras to be moved to the other screens instead of being squished onto the main display?

4. How can I reset my 2 smaller displays to not clone each other since the Nvidia control panel no longer seems to respond to changes I try to make in the multi-monitor setup menu?

Edited September 16, 2010 by sweinhart3

[walker450]

1. Yes, just set it up in windows or the nvidia control panel. Set up BS settings in the .lua files.

2. windowed when using multiple monitors the way you are

3. edit the .lua's

4. Don't know this one, but good luck!

 

There are lots of good threads on setting up multi monitors. I have some info in my sig. You can call me on the phone also if ya want. Email me at drew182@me.com for my number.

[sweinhart3]

Ok thanks for the reply. I probably wont be able to mess with it more till the weekend and see what I can come up with. Ill email if I cant figure it out.

[trigen]

There's really no need to keep things in window mode anymore, especially if you have to span it across 2 graphic cards , it will gimp your performance.

 

There's an excellent choice for nvidia users called Softth 2.01 that is free and in my opinion is better than eyefinity and th2g

 

http://www.kegetys.net/forum/index.php?topic=2123.0

 

Its not hard to set up

 

All you do is set the resolution you want in windows , then you go into Eagle Dynamics\Ka-50\BlackShark\data\scripts\options.lua and change

 

["multiMonitorSetup"] = "test",

["color"] = "32",

["heatBlr"] = 0,

["scenes"] = "medium",

["water"] = 2,

["fullScreen"] = true,

["visibRange"] = "Medium",

["aspect"] = 3.675,

["textures"] = 1,

["shadows"] = 2,

["effects"] = 2,

["width"] = 3968,

["lights"] = 2,

["height"] = 1080,

["civTraffic"] = 0,

["resolution"] = "3968x1080",

["haze"] = 1,

}, -- end of ["graphics"]

 

 

You will probably need to edit your camera settings a bit to have it line up

 

Hope this will help you out

[sweinhart3]

one thing I forgot to mention is that my main screen is 16:9 and my mfds are 4:3. They are vga screens with a max resolution of 1024x768.

[trigen]

I see you have written 1920x1280 for your main monitor, is that 1920x1080 ? assuming it is

 

You have to use softth for thiss to work in fullscreen. If you want it to work in window mode you need to set your left monitor as primary.

 

Use the resolution given above.

 

Make a copy of shkval+camera+abris.lua and call it something else

 

Paste

 

_ = function(p) return p; end;

name = _('Mycamerafile');

Description = 'Shkval on the left monitor,ABRIS on the right and camera on the center';

Viewports =

{

Center =

{

x = 1024;

y = 0;

width = 1920;

height = 1080;

viewDx = 0;

viewDy = 0;

aspect = 1.777;

}

}

 

Shkval =

{

x = 0; -- Left side

y = 0;

width = 1024;

height = 768;

}

 

ABRIS =

{

x = 2944;

y = 0;

width = 1024;

height = 768;

}

[Flim]

Man, I wish they made those undock-able where you could move and resize!

[sweinhart3]

thanks Ill give that a try.

[sweinhart3]

Ok got the whole driver glitch worked out. The monitors are properly set up in Windows. I installed soft th and edited the camera file as posted above. Problem is, it still is not getting rendered on the 3 screens. When I look at the soft th config file, it properly recognizes the correct resolutions of all 3 displays and adds a custom resolution. However that resolution does not show up in BS video options. Using the regular 1920x1080 listed resloution only tries to display on my main screen.

[power5]

Can we run unwindowed with ATI cards? I have a 4890 not a new eyefinity equipped card.