Battlefield 4 Multi-Monitor

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Smart kid, looks good.
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Defcoms wrote:Smart kid, looks good.


Thx, yes he is. :)
Hes got an own BF3 account to mess with so he supports his daddys hobby :lol:

Damn, after the latest patch I now got the problems back with the low GPU usage.... wtf! :thumbdown:
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Defcoms wrote:Any of you using 3x1+1 extended notice that the HUD is moved to the outer screens? I disable the extended screen and reboot relaunch game and the HUD is back on the center screen. I tested BF3,BF4 and Mass Effect 3. Mass Effect 3 FOV was incorrect when running 3x1+1. I think there is a issue with AMD drivers and how they detect your resolution when running 3x1+1.


Got this aswell when I added the fourth screen, very weird.
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anteronoid wrote:Damn, after the latest patch I now got the problems back with the low GPU usage.... wtf! :thumbdown:



Yay, I found a fix that worked for me at least.
Someone had put together a custom Sli profile for nvidia with the nvidiainspector tool, so i just imported his profile and now all three cards are working again. :thumbup:

You can find his post about it here, he even did a guide:
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/fo ... 3924438796
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Defcoms wrote:Any of you using 3x1+1 extended notice that the HUD is moved to the outer screens? I disable the extended screen and reboot relaunch game and the HUD is back on the center screen. I tested BF3,BF4 and Mass Effect 3. Mass Effect 3 FOV was incorrect when running 3x1+1. I think there is a issue with AMD drivers and how they detect your resolution when running 3x1+1.


there is more than just an "issue" with AMD Drivers and 3+1 Setup!
Sometimes the Setup sets additional Monitor as 1 and all games want to Maximize on Monitor 1 -> crash
if you have a 1024x768 Monitor 90° turned, BF4 won't maximize the Eyefinity over your other 3 Screens! If you have a 1680x1080 normal, then it's fine.
and a lot more problems i've encountered so far!

So now i've mostly disconected my 4th Monitor.
We gonna send it to outa space!
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Using NV surround.

Has anyone encountered the flickering smoke bug in this game? It's apparently SLI related, and unbelievably annoying. Has anyone found a sure way to get rid of it?
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I have played 3x1 +1 with no problems on AMD cards. All are 1280x1024. It must be some weird resolution bug with the drivers and game.

I tried out that Battle screen window on my +1 but promptly shut it down because it was a resource hog and a half. Nearly halved my frame rate and made the game choppy.
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What drivers are the nvidia users on with this game?
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I'm using latest 331.65 but not really playable on triple screen due to the framerate drops. still needs more patching
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I found a way to remove the flicker. It's the worst fix I've ever witnessed in my life, and EA needs to fix their game, but it works. Shouldn't have to do this to make it work...

Start up the 32bit executable of the game. Quit. Then start up the 64bit version. No more flicker (until you stop playing, in which case you have to redo it).

And although it removes the flicker, and my FPS is normally 60 FPS solid, it sometimes stutters quite tremendously when turning the camera with the mouse. The game is clearly having problems properly syncing both video cards correctly.
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Hi guys, i got a weird issue (it's nothing big but weird none the less).

http://i.imgur.com/RSvBX55.jpg

As you can see in that picture, i got a black dot on the left top of the screen on my new 21:9 29" dell. It's obviously not a monitor issue since it's only in BF4 and it's in the game not on my screen but.. yeah. Any ideas why this would be happening? Cheers.

EDIT: apparently more people have this, it's a game issue both on AMD and NV and res doesn't matter :P
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Any fix for the Commo Rose issue on triple screen? The mouse pointer starts on the left screen instead of the middle so it makes it a PITA :doh:
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If anyone is playing in surround portrait, have you figured out how to fix your hud and menus?

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Strange thing is, some of the stuff is rendered correctly. Like prompts. I've tried using borderless window, but the framerate gets cut in half.
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GitDat wrote:Any fix for the Commo Rose issue on triple screen? The mouse pointer starts on the left screen instead of the middle so it makes it a PITA :doh:



I also get this. Some guy started a post at EA Answer HQ. May as well go over and add to the list. This mornings' patch did not fix the problem.

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Battlefield-4/3-Screen-Commo-Rose-problem-on-BF4/m-p/1848951/highlight/true#M47876

IF the links goes tits-up, just search EA Answer HQ for "3 Screen Commo Rose problem on BF4".

Other than this issue, the multi-monitor is pretty damned good, and the performance seems to be better than BF3.
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I play MP on three screens fine too but I wish there was a little more GPU usage from my one card.
I gave it a go last night again for a few hours on the new maps and it works great. One card 780ti OC. Bit of a beast.
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How do I fix the FoV for monitor #1 and #3? The FoV is way to close and doesn't look correct with the middle monitor. I'm running a GTX 680 sli at 5760 x 1080.
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There is only one camera, thus one FOV in BF4...
The wider the display, the more distorted the perspective on the sides; it's "normal" behavior in Surround. It's the infamous fisheye effect, aka edge distortion. Not much you can do about it, except focus on the center screen.
Or are you referring to a different anomaly ? A screenshot would help.
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Re: Battlefield 4 Multi-Monitor

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To anyoen using a newer AMD/ATI card, the new GPU drivers gave BF4 (and some more games) the ability to use their new 'Mantle' API, which gave me an additional 9-13 fps. Pretty sweet.

Commo rose issues still present, even after half a dozen patches. grr.
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