I would like to run Live For Speed across two displays, but with the view center on the left display and the front-right view on the right display. Think of it as if it were running on a triple-head setup, but the leftmost display of the three was just switched off. Is there a way to do this?

I can get Live For Speed to run with both displays, but the "center" is between the monitor bezels, and it's unplayable. I have tried playing with view rotate in the options menu of Live For Speed to, but it never looks quite right, as the perspective is very skewed.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Maybe try Soft TH

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=18847
http://www.kegetys.net/SoftTH/

Quote from ajp71 :

Maybe try Soft TH

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=18847
http://www.kegetys.net/SoftTH/

Thanks for the reply! I did try SoftTH, but unfortunately it doesn't appear to run without actually having a third display. It errors out with the message "Cannot retrieve monitor info for device 1 (left)".

I really have no clue but it maybe worth sending Kegetys a PM.

It's something I've wanted for while, an adjustable FOV centre, there's a thread for it somewhere in Improvement Suggestions. There's no solution from within LFS atm. It's possible Ketegys could adapt SoftTH to render a triple screen image and just lose the left (or right) third, thus moving the FOV centre at the expense of some framerate (due to the larger image having to be rendered).

It´s easy to use only two Displays. Just put that little character ";" before "deviceIDright=" or "deviceIDleft" in the file softTH.cfg. than you can only use two Displays and the best thing is you can simulate the performance in fps as when you have 3 displays, because the software renders the hole resolution you have set up, independant if there are only one or three displays. Very nice to see if your components are fast enough to have good framerates. I appreciate your work very much Kegetys - great job :-) So, my only problem is to find out how it works in GTR2. It seems that it works, but the startsplash with the menue splits and i cannot press the button in the left and right display with the mouse. Seems that the mouse is deactivated in the side displays. Anyone found a solution? regards RaceRay

Hmm, interesting, will have to try that, thanks for the tip!

Quote from Bob Smith :

Hmm, interesting, will have to try that, thanks for the tip!

did this work??

if it did, tell us as i only have a 2 out graphics card so this would be great and i don't mind buying a second monitor if i know this works

Just tested it today, it does indeed work. It's no perfect solution though. Unless you've got a DX10 card you'll be limited to a resolution 1365 pixels wide (per monitor). I was testing without any FSAA, but was only running about 55fps, so I'm doubt I'll be able to crank that up too far. So pixelisation is a problem with this setup.

On the whole I still enjoy racing like this, but be warned, it will make you want the third screen all the more.

I was thinking of getting a twin TFT monitor setup (as i cannot afford 3). The line in the middle would be annoying although if I can find the right TFT's only 2x5mm bezels, further more has anyone ever tried taking the bezel off the outside of a TFT so there is no plastic in the way?? (for better joining)

can any 1 post thier cfg file for 2 moniter
i have no luck doing it
thz

Quote from anttt69 :

I was thinking of getting a twin TFT monitor setup (as i cannot afford 3). The line in the middle would be annoying although if I can find the right TFT's only 2x5mm bezels, further more has anyone ever tried taking the bezel off the outside of a TFT so there is no plastic in the way?? (for better joining)

Sorry for the bump, but..

The plastic is there for a reason. Taking the plastic off would just mean exposed things, that aren't meant to be exposed. You can overlap the monitors, to take away one of the gaps, but the only true solution that I can think of is getting a frensel lens. They work like giant magnifying glasses, as well as getting rid of that center line if you set it up right. I once read that a standard frensel lens put on a 19" screen, can make it appear up to 30" big. Don't know what it does to your eyes, though.

You can slim it a bit (ie 0.5-1 mm), but it's not just the besel that makes it that wide - they're PCB etc past the edge of the visible screen.

I've taken the bezel off a cheap 17" TFT and there wasn't anything dangerous exposed under it.

Obviously the circuit board for the buttons is exposed at the bottom, but other than that, the actual panel was housed in a metal casing that was indeed much thinner than the bezel.

Either way, I don't think anything will make having a line down the center of the game any more tolerable.

Sorry to bring up an old thread, but editing the file didn't work for me. I've got 2 screens, one will be center and one will be right, but when i adjust the file with the little ";" LFS minimizes itself and says "left monitor auto detect failed, set ID manually to config."....

I have one graphics card, and it has two outputs. Running on XP of course.

The card is a XFX 6800 (GeForce) AGP slot (pc doesn't have pci-e). If that helps at all?

EDIT: Also! Is it possible to apply an offset to windows? As running a 22inch and a 17inch monitor is a pain in the A double S ...

Thanks in advance,

Kringle

The only offset settings I am aware of with the 6800 leave black space where the image was. Perhaps some kind of crazy solution would be to set up the computer thinking it was rendering to three screens (some sort of dud monitor setup or virtual monitor or something) so that when you offset the image, the image from the third monitor came onto the screen, so that you weren't left with black space. However, that's just theoretical and it wouldn't be worth the effort, or performance degradation to implement.

All I can say is, do what I did and live with it. After a while you get used to it, and the bar in the center disappears (until some jerk comes up behind you and asks, "Isn't it hard to drive INTO a bar?" and then you spend the next few minutes TRYING to ignore the fact that you are following an EXTREMELY wide car in front of you, lol.) Point is though, it's nice to have the image CENTERED in front of you instead of only to one side.

Quote from MR_B :

Sorry to bring up an old thread, but editing the file didn't work for me. I've got 2 screens, one will be center and one will be right, but when i adjust the file with the little ";" LFS minimizes itself and says "left monitor auto detect failed, set ID manually to config."....

I have one graphics card, and it has two outputs. Running on XP of course.

The card is a XFX 6800 (GeForce) AGP slot (pc doesn't have pci-e). If that helps at all?

EDIT: Also! Is it possible to apply an offset to windows? As running a 22inch and a 17inch monitor is a pain in the A double S ...

Thanks in advance,

Kringle

You're using SoftTH I'm assuming? Can you post what's in your config file, the first section at least.

I'd post mine up but I'm at work.

That's my config file....... LFS now fires up, but still only shows the game in the center screen, the only way to get it onto my right hand screen is if i change the resolution. (stretching the screen and placing the center point between the two...)

What are your screen resolutions?

After you have SoftTH all set up, you still need to select the new resolution in game in the options menu for it to take effect.

What I needed to do in the end was uninstall my graphics drivers, including the nvidia control panel, and let it go back to windows default, then re-install them again.

So now i've got two lovely working monitors, woohoo! BTW...... is there any way to manually change the resolution of LFS without going into the game???? I couldn't find it in a cfg file...

Thanks