You overlayed the monitors bevels to get a smaller blind spot/bars between monitors. I don't see many people do this obvious thing. Nice to see.
Setup looks really nice - can see out the right passenger window >_>
If I was you, and I am a bit "mad" so ignore me if you want - I would be bringing that tripple screen right up to the front edge of the desk and piss off the the keyboard to the side and remove the ingame wheel. Be immersed, not a passenger ^_^ Currently you look like a back seat driver. :doh:
Layouts kill your FPS because it's a CPU hog. LFS doesn't seem to clip layout objects properly in the far distance and some particular layouts can be bad news. Even when I got a decent graphics card the FPS still dropped in layouts/autocross until I got a better CPU.
Was fine in racing 250 FPS+ just the layouts - omgz fail.
Some things to try in LFS that might help a lot that you didn't mention....
Options >> MISC
- Multiplayer speedup option YES (reduces detail levels when many cars are on screeen)
- Dynamic LOD reduction set to 1.0 (level reduction factor; higher = more reduced detail levels = more FPS)
- Mulitplayer Car draw 80m (clips cars drawn in the distance, lower number means less cars onscreen = more FPS)
Options >> Graphics
- Try lowering LOD numbers (try extreme low and see the difference)
- Trees OFF (definately, only removes some big trees and moving trees iirc)
- Don't use any +Mirror options because you waste some FPS there.
- Full Scene Anti-Aliasing (not at 8x) use AA 8x or even OFF can increase FPS dramatically. (You might have to change this in your GPU device settings in Windows, or make it Application Controlled
- Textures LOW
- Car and helmet skins COMPRESSED
Options >> VIEW
- Don't use the Multiscreen options 1,1,1 just use 0,1,0 and just use a big FOV
Multiple screen support is great when you can afford to run it, but you are increasing the number of view ports and that can destroy your FPS.
Make sure you change one thing at a time so you know the exact FPS you're gaining/losing. No point reducing everything if only a couple things make a difference.
Well I hope something here helps.
You're doing a huge resolution now (25% more than me @1080p), you need supercomputer to do such tasks. Personally 8800 GTS isn't enough for higher details and res, but hey - what do I know? IDK don't take my word for it, I'm not an expert at multiscreen config. I'm only running one 40" screen at 1920x1080. I got a GTX295 just to run that res because even my 9600GT or HD4890 was not enough for me to run LFS at maxxed out, and I mean with SUPERSAMPLING so it actually looks good.
But maybe the 8800 GTS is enough for racing in LFS at lowest res/details for you, but autoX layouts is death to CPU. What you got CPU wise?