#4212402 - 01/02/16 10:08 AM
Re: BMS 4.33 with 3 Monitors
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I run triplescreen ok but not at your resolution. I run 3840X1024. If the above from Ice doesn't fix your issues, there is a thread on the BMS forums about modifying the User/Config/dx9display.dsp file with a hex editor to setup custom resolutions. I don't know if this will work to fix your problem, just a suggestion. http://www.bmsforum.org/forum/showthread.php?7429-Custom-screen-resolution&highlight=hexfrom the post by tailblues: In falcon4 BMS, you cannot set the game (3d) window to your own custom resolution, even in the windowed mode. Only some of the well known resolutions upto your biggest screens are appearing in the UI, and there is no editable text configuration for screen resolution.
However, with a hex editor, you can still set it with your own custom resolution.
The file "User/Config/dx9display.dsp" holds screen resolution and other info. Sadly, it is written in binary values. So you need a Hex-Editor to set it to a special resolution.
2 bytes in address 3C (3C and 3D) holds X-resolution in least order first. Hex "B004" is thus, 400b -> 1200. Hex "8007" is thus, 0780 -> 1920, etc. 2 bytes in address 40 (40 and 41) holds Y-resolution. There is a free onine HEX editor https://hexed.it/?hl=en. This is what I think you have to modify your file to for your resolution (the two orange shaded boxes, one showing 8016 and the other 3804:
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#4212545 - 01/02/16 08:04 PM
Re: BMS 4.33 with 3 Monitors
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That used to be the case... I remember having to hex-edit in the early days of 4.32. Should NOT be the case now, but it's there if push comes to shove.
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#4212689 - 01/03/16 08:09 AM
Re: BMS 4.33 with 3 Monitors
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For some reason, in BMS 5760x1080 doesn't appear in the list at all. I was hoping that there was a simple configuration or selection to this resolution as we see with DCS A-10C. I don't have any hex tools on my new rig. I wonder how DCS does this? Also, what version of NVIDIA drivers are you running?
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#4212737 - 01/03/16 03:11 PM
Re: BMS 4.33 with 3 Monitors
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Running latest nVidia drivers, released 21st Dec 2015. Here's BMS with my Surround turned off. As you can see, the 1920x1080 res shows up at the TOP. Here's BMS with Surround turned on. As you can see, BMS detects both the 5760x1080 default res and the 5896x1080 bezel-corrected res and both are shown at the BOTTOM.
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#4213290 - 01/05/16 04:28 AM
Re: BMS 4.33 with 3 Monitors
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Uh... yes. You need your monitors on Surround so that BMS will detect it as one big monitor and display the appropriate resolution. I'm surprised you actually only had 3x 1920x1080 and expected BMS to "combine" it for you. So "link" your monitors together. In AMD, this is called "Eyefinity," in nVidia, this is called "Surround." That will show your computer and any games your run that you have "one big monitor" and the games, if they can, will run on that resolution. The type of connectors should not be an issue. Because I am using DisplayPort, I only had to buy a DP-to-DVI cable (my monitors are DVI). When I was using an AMD card with mini-DP, I had to use an ACTIVE mini-DP-to-DVI adapter, then use a DVI-to-DVI cable. I've not touched DCS in ages but IIRC, you can mod it so that the left and right monitors actually showed you a left/right view whereas most games usually just show you a front view and stretched it across three screens. So I guess DCS is different in that way.... IIRC, FSX can do this as well.
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#4213479 - 01/05/16 06:15 PM
Re: BMS 4.33 with 3 Monitors
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I think you're right about DCS. The reason why I thought that BMS would see that is because DCS sees it and automatically makes the 5760x1080 resolution available in the resolution menu. I don't have to have the driver set to surround mode with DCS. In BMS, when I have surround mode enabled, for some reason the max resolution available is something like 4800x900. Also, the NVIDIA driver keeps locking in surround mound. When I try to disable it NVIDIA control panel crashes forcing a reinstall of the driver. This is 100% repeatable. So, it's enable Surround, play Falcon reinstall the driver. I have a work order open with NVIDIA about this. I now have to figure out get my HOTAS Cougar programmed in Windows 10. Are you using Foxy or that Thrustmaster target program? I haven't tried to install Foxy yet.
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#4213512 - 01/05/16 07:56 PM
Re: BMS 4.33 with 3 Monitors
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I think it was unfair to expect the same from BMS. As others have pointed out, there used to be a hex-editing option that needed to be done for multi-screen displays. I used to do this alongside SoftTH to get my old setup to work! I'm not sure what your problems are regarding the driver though. With a GTX 980, this shouldn't be happening for such a high-end card. Have you tried older drivers? As for your question regarding the Cougar, my suggestion would be to go to the official BMS forums, find out what the popular Cougar profile is, and use whatever profile software they use for it. Might be TARGET, might be Foxy. I personally use TARGET but I'm using Morphine's profile on the TM Warthog.
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#4213712 - 01/06/16 09:17 AM
Re: BMS 4.33 with 3 Monitors
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I am totally new to this triple monitoring thing so pardon me in my infancy. Nothing beats Falcon's dynamic campaign with BMS additions. I have no idea why I assumed you were used to multi-monitor displays, I apologize for making that assumption. I do hope you're enjoying BMS in all it's wide-screen goodness! I do agree that it might be Windows 10 at fault at this time regarding GPU drivers That's one reason I'm holding off Win10. No chance for you to revert to Win8.1 or Win7? As for Foxy, well, I've read some posts about people having problem with it and Win10 as well but as I don't use it, I've not really paid much attention. As TARGET is TM's new software, it is obvious that it is what they'd support. TBH, the only reason to use Foxy is if the profile you are using is under Foxy and there are no other profiles under TARGET. I'm at the other end of the board here, using a hybrid profile on the TM WH to use it under BMS I did use to play Jane's F/A-18 but this was ages and ages ago. My current profile here started in 2005, I can't remember what handle I used before that.... so a good guess is "no."
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#4213912 - 01/06/16 08:11 PM
Re: BMS 4.33 with 3 Monitors
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Know of any games that do this except for DCS and FSX? Supreme Commander and World in Conflict are RTSs that can put the tactical map on a second monitor. I think Rise of Flight does the triple-angle thing. Most games going forward aren't going to explicitly support more than one display because of Surround/Eyefinity making it so simple to create a virtual display out of many monitors. It's a shame OP is having trouble with 5760x1080 with Falcon because once I created an Eyefinity group and ran Falcon once it was available in the drop down menu for resolutions like any other. He says he has some weird "under resolution" resolution. Are the 3 monitors identical resolution? Neither of the 1st party solutions handles mixed resolutions well at all.
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#4213949 - 01/06/16 09:44 PM
Re: BMS 4.33 with 3 Monitors
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Ooo! That would be cool! I wonder if Starcraft II can do it?
TheSilkMan did say on the first post that he had 3x 1920x1080 monitors so that shouldn't be the problem.
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#4214005 - 01/07/16 02:19 AM
Re: BMS 4.33 with 3 Monitors
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Haha! Yeah, 4K is only good for single-screen gaming or maybe one of those wide-screen monitors. For tri-monitor gaming, I suspect SLI/Crossfire is needed and at that point, it becomes "how much money can you throw at it."
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