3 x 24" Monitors 5760x1200. Two side monitors are acting odd...

[charlesml3]

Gang,

 

I wish I could have come up with a better title but I can't figure out how to explain this. So fairly generic setup:

 

3 x 24" Monitors. 3 across on one nVidia GTX 680. TrackIR 5.

 

All I did was go into DCS and set "3 Monitors" and then select 5760x1200. Other options are:

 

- Full Screen off

- VSYNC off

- TSSAA on

 

So everything starts up just fine and I'm sitting on the ramp. This is where it's weird. The horizon looks like this:

 

/-----\

 

The center monitor has the horizon right across. The left monitor has the horizon going from the upper right of the monitor down to the lower left. Opposite for the right monitor.

 

If I pitch my head up and down, I can find a place where the horizon on all three monitors is streight all the way across. Like this : -------------

 

If I look down a bit, the horizon does this: \____/

 

If this doesn't make any sense, I can setup a digital camera and take a photo. Is it supposed to look like this?

 

Thanks!

 

-Charles

[_Dredd]

Welcome to the issues with 3 monitor viewports.

You need to use one only that spans the total screen resolution to get around that.

 

See PeterP's posts on multimonitor configurations.

[charlesml3]

Wow. I thought this was going to be fairly easy. Three monitors? Sure, just select "3 Monitors" from the setup.

 

Anyway, I've been reading up on all of this and it's a LOT more complicated than I thought. At any rate, I did set it up as you recommended. "One" monitor that spans the total resolution. That keeps the horizon nice and straight now.

 

The only thing I hate is how it distorts the wings if you look left or right over your shoulder. Don't suppose you know any way around that, do you?

 

Thanks a ton!

 

-Charles

[Rockeyes]

Got a similar setup as you but 3x27" monitors and the GTX660 card with no distortion. I've also set DCS as single monitor but have the 'surround option' selected within the graphic card software so the monitors act as a single screen in windows.

[charlesml3]

OK, Rockeyes, I found the setting and set this one up the way you described. It does work quite well. The wings of the A10 are still distorted from what they should look like but everything else is much easier to manage this way.

 

Thanks!

 

-Charles

[Rockeyes]

I've also have the bezel compensation option set ,which helped.

 

Next thing I'm going to try is PeterP excellent mod http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=96116 as I'm finding the cockpit default zoom and height/angle on this monitor set up to be unnatural.

 

Anyway glad I could help.