Skyrim Multi-Monitor User Interface Fix Discussion

[thales100]

I keep getting 3x of the same display and no idea why.

Hey bashprompt, welcome to WSGF, please go to C:Users...DocumentsMy GamesSkyrim; open SkyrimPrefs. ini and check if the resolution is set for multi-monitor, i.e. for 5040x1050 it should be ( iSize H=1050 iSize W=5040).

[bashprompt]

Thanks so much for the tip, screen now stretches across all 3 with a proper FOV.

I've been changing the skyrimprefs in the steam folder this whole time, thank you for spelling out the file loc, I was close to giving up before I got your post!

Finally I can play Skyrim in EF, this game is the whole reason I bought 3 screens in the first place!

Cheers, bash.

[thales100]

Nice, thanks.

[Phrayzur]

I'm very new to the whole triple monitor thing as well as this forum. I may not even be putting this post at the end :)

First thanks to Hayden and Helifax for putting all this work into these fixes. Those of us who can't code really appreciate it!

I'm running a Radeon 6950 setup. I'm wondering what the best resolution would be to run the game in. I keep hearing 5040x1050 referred to as "normal". What do you mean by normal?
I've been getting it to run at 5760x1080. Would it look better at 5040x1050? If so, is there a way to get my monitors to think they can do that? I'm running 3 ASUS VE278Q. I don't think they offer that resolution. Unless i'm mistaken.

Thanks for your help!!

[dopefish]

I noticed that the HUD centering is slightly to the left in other games when using Eyefinity, as well. I never did pinpoint the issue since all of the resolution values and bezel offsets lined up correctly. I'll revisit this when I get a chance and see what I can come up with.

Regarding not making the source code public,
I keep it closed because I see no reason at the moment to make it public. It won't really help anyone. If someone is interested in developing plugins or making fixes for games, just get a hold of me and I'll work with you. Another reason is that Widescreen Fixer itself, and the library APIs, are constantly changing. As games come out and new methods are needed or I come up with better ways of doing things the API will be updated and changed to meet the needs. Making the source public will cause people to create plugins for specific APIs that break during the next update. Just with helifax alone we ran into the API problem. With the source closed this makes it necessary for people to get in contact with me and we can merge plugins, update plugins, add new plugins, etc. and they get maintained more easily that way.

[krys]

Thank you so much Helifax for this update.
It works now perfectly for me.
I only had to desable the auto detect in widescreen fixer and enter manualy my resolution (5040*1050 idem for corrected reso - i do not use bezel correction)
Like this, the HUD is pecfectly centered - verified by an achery training session !
Thanks a lot again!! :twothumb

[htm2112]

Here is my email and response from Bethesda:

Email to Besthesda: ([email protected])

I am sure you must be aware of this, but there is a forum with more than 311,000 views on this issue with Skyrim: http://widescreengamingforum.com/forum/forums/gaming/requestdiscuss-game-solutions/18156/skyrim-multi-monitor-user-interface-fix-disc.

The issue is that the menu is not sizing correctly when playing at large resolutions. I have 3 22” LCDs and use a resolution of 5270 x 1050 (with bezel correction). The game looks great but the user interface of the game does not size and cuts off on the bottom. I cannot read books, navigate dialog, or browse inventory. Will Bethesda please fix this? There are two people who have come up with fixes on the widescreen gaming forum, Hayden and Helifax, and Hayden’s fix worked perfectly until Bethesda updated the game to 1.4.

I find it difficult to believe that what could be the best game of all time does not have an official fix for this from Bethesda and that the only people who can fix it are doing it for free, accepting only paypal donations. This game has made millions of dollars. Please, I implore you, find a way to get this fixed.

Response from Bethesda:

Hi Henry,
We do not support multiple monitor set up.
Best regards,
Justin I.

[htm2112]

Freaking bastards. You know, I do tech support for a major company. Included in all my discussion with customers is some kind of empathy statement. But Bethesda? Nothing. I wasn't really expecting anything, but damn it still pisses me off.

As far as the latest fix from Helifax, it is working great for me!!!

[onthemour]

Why are ppl still contacting Bethesda? They have officially said that 3 screen is not supported nor will they start to support it! You paid for the game to work on one screen not for 3. If you want it to work on 3 then you have to support the modding comunnity and Helifax, Dopefish and Hayden are doing just that.

Even if you gave Bethesda thousands of dollars they wouldn't support it.

:doh

[helifax]

Even if you gave Bethesda thousands of dollars they wouldn't support it.

:doh

Give me a thousand dollars and hell I'll even release Elder Scrolls VI before Beth does :)))))))

:P

[Boduke]

Just wanted to say thanks for all your efforts.
Really appreciated.

[Ryukan]

I have just started to play through Skyrim after having it sit around since I bought it on day 1. Helifax's latest fix for Skyrim via Widescreen Fixer is working pretty well. I think I will set Skyrim to NOT UPDATE automatically, play through it once and then uninstall it.

I would like to say thanks to Helifax, Hayden and Dopefish for all their efforts at making multi-monitor gaming worthwhile where the developers can't be bothered for the most part. The gaming industry is starting to get really depressing for me as it continues to transition from entertainment medium to cash generator machine.

The user support for multi-monitor gaming is the only reason I haven't ditched it and just gone with a big single display.

[ugzz]

Why are ppl still contacting Bethesda? They have officially said that 3 screen is not supported nor will they start to support it! You paid for the game to work on one screen not for 3. If you want it to work on 3 then you have to support the modding comunnity and Helifax, Dopefish and Hayden are doing just that.

Even if you gave Bethesda thousands of dollars they wouldn't support it.

:doh

this might be the worse attitude ive ever heard of ever in my life.
its like a getting a chefs hair in your soup and not complaining and just eating it anyway.

if everyone who was on this forum all complained directly to them, while they might not jump to support it, they might consider it in the futore for upcoming titles.
video game companies like to make money and if everyone says they can't deal with non-multi support maybe they will realize that means thousands of people will be unhappy, thats enough to put a dent in their income.

sure complaining doesnt give instant results, and in the end may do nothing anyway, but its ALWAYS WORTH DOING. Thats what customer service / support exist for, to hear complaints and help. even if they do nothing im sure they at least log the complaint to some extent.

[tooldrmr2009]

Hey helifax thanks for all uve done so far!!! I figured out my issue with the HUD moving after viewing books and maps. It'll switch to the left screen or sometimes the right. I missed what you wrote about this only happening with the 360 controller which I am using. Easy fix though just open menu again. I can live with this otherwise it's perfect!! Thanks a bunch! Only other weird thing is during loading screens sometimes the level meter and wording on the right screen won't show up?? And the item/character will be really blown up. But when I toggle around the joysticks it's fine and shows up correctly? Any ideas? Minor issue but just was wondering if it's an easy setting fix? I'm running 5040x1050? Thanks again!!

[onthemour]

[quote]Why are ppl still contacting Bethesda? They have officially said that 3 screen is not supported nor will they start to support it! You paid for the game to work on one screen not for 3. If you want it to work on 3 then you have to support the modding comunnity and Helifax, Dopefish and Hayden are doing just that.

Even if you gave Bethesda thousands of dollars they wouldn't support it.

:doh

this might be the worse attitude ive ever heard of ever in my life.
its like a getting a chefs hair in your soup and not complaining and just eating it anyway.

if everyone who was on this forum all complained directly to them, while they might not jump to support it, they might consider it in the futore for upcoming titles.
video game companies like to make money and if everyone says they can't deal with non-multi support maybe they will realize that means thousands of people will be unhappy, thats enough to put a dent in their income.

sure complaining doesnt give instant results, and in the end may do nothing anyway, but its ALWAYS WORTH DOING. Thats what customer service / support exist for, to hear complaints and help. even if they do nothing im sure they at least log the complaint to some extent.


Lol you don't understand. Your complaints never go anywhere. Some one who has nothing to do with changing the game reads or hears them and auto generates a reply and deletes it. 3 screen gamers are probably less than 1% of the gaming comunity with consoles being the greatest. Your complaints are so insignificant to the developers that I am sure they ordered the front lines to never bring them forward to them, instead just delete them.

When you go to buy a $60,000 car and it does not come in convertible. What do you do? Do you buy it AND THEN complain to the company that the roof does not decline? lol

If the product you plan to buy does not do what you want it to do then simply do not buy it

[Phrayzur]

I'm very new to the whole triple monitor thing as well as this forum. I may not even be putting this post at the end :)

First thanks to Hayden and Helifax for putting all this work into these fixes. Those of us who can't code really appreciate it!

I'm running a Radeon 6950 setup. I'm wondering what the best resolution would be to run the game in. I keep hearing 5040x1050 referred to as "normal". What do you mean by normal?
I've been getting it to run at 5760x1080. Would it look better at 5040x1050? If so, is there a way to get my monitors to think they can do that? I'm running 3 ASUS VE278Q. I don't think they offer that resolution. Unless i'm mistaken.

Thanks for your help!!

Can anyone help me with this?

[helifax]

[quote][quote]Hi all,

Doing some minor tweaks and the fix will be ready:)

Fixed so far

- Books , no longer require a toggle. Now work 100% (Scrolls too). Minor bug found when using Xbox0360 controller: After viewing a book the hud moves to the left. It can be repositioned by pressing Start button twice. For Mouse+ Keyboard this doesn't happen...weird.
- Map is functional 100% no toggles are required. Map is now proper scaled and markers work correctly. Minor bug is when clicking on a marker: The menu appears on the right monitor but is 100% workable.
- Correct Aspect Ratio and full usage of skill menu. Skills are now properly displayed. Hud is properly displayed. Minor bug: Navigation with the mouse in the skill tree is wrong. I recommend the keyboard. Once a skill is selected to invest in the menu appears and the selection can be done with the mouse.
- Items are automatically scaled and centered based on your resolution.[b]
- [b]Hud is centered. Sometimes when reverting from MAP the onscreen elements might appear on the left monitor. Hit ESC 2 times to correct this.
- Updated to work with the latest WSF build (big thanks to dopefish)
- Support for monitors starting from 2- 1001 monitors with nVidia Surround & Eyefinity Autodetection (thanks to WideScreen Fixer and dopefish for this)
- Text and icons in Loading Screens are now correctly displayed. Minor bug is found only when pressing Continue from Main Menu...
- Looking into an automatic way to start the fix once the game was found.

- The game required alot of modifications to make it work "natively". All modifications are made in the games engine.


Best Regards

Hi all!!!

I have finished tweaking it.. Please read the above description if you run into trouble.

At the moment it doesn't feature automatic activation of the fix (Still need to talk with dopefish and see how this is possible). So enable the fix WHEN the Bathesda INTRO MOVIE is playing....NOT Sooner, NOT later or you will run into unexpected behavior which is not correct.

- Grab WideScreen Fixer from http://www.widescreenfixer.org/
- Download the plugin from this post and put it in WSF's "Plugins" folder.
- Select the plugin and hit the GEAR icon.
- Autodection should work However if you have problems set your resolution manually.
- Click on SAVE Settings [b]
- Launch game and wait for the "Bathesda movie" to appear.
- Enable the fix. Default key is numpad *.


Please test it and let me know how it works for you:)

Best Regards,
Helifax


Plugin is back online:) This one should work :) I also updated it and the bezels shouldnt be a problem now. Again, [b]VERY IMPORTANT
- Enable the FIX during the Bathesda INTRO movie - IF the main menu is not correctly scaled REDO until it works. Otherwise elements will not be correctly placed.

Best Regard,
Helifax

PS: If the fix doesn't work you are doing something wrong so retry.


Hello all, again!!!

Made some various improvements to the fix:

Fix will now enable itself automatically after 4 seconds once the TESV.exe was launched into execution - So no more manually enabling it.. Please test this and let me know if it works (Main menu should be perfectly scaled)
Fixed map markers offset
Improvement in the text placement in books and scrolls Now the text should be placed correctly and all the text should be visible.

The rest is the same:) as above!

Best Regards,
Helifax

Attached files

Plugin.The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim.rar (11.5 KB)

[Exodus]

I'm very new to the whole triple monitor thing as well as this forum. I may not even be putting this post at the end :)

First thanks to Hayden and Helifax for putting all this work into these fixes. Those of us who can't code really appreciate it!

I'm running a Radeon 6950 setup. I'm wondering what the best resolution would be to run the game in. I keep hearing 5040x1050 referred to as "normal". What do you mean by normal?
I've been getting it to run at 5760x1080. Would it look better at 5040x1050? If so, is there a way to get my monitors to think they can do that? I'm running 3 ASUS VE278Q. I don't think they offer that resolution. Unless i'm mistaken.

Thanks for your help!!

No, running this at 5760x1080 is what you want to do and there is no reason to try and change it. It would not look better for you at 5040x1050. You want to run this at your combined nativel resolution for your system, it's just that, for a lot of people, that resolution is 5040x1050. I run at the same resolution you do.

[helifax]

[quote]I'm very new to the whole triple monitor thing as well as this forum. I may not even be putting this post at the end :)

First thanks to Hayden and Helifax for putting all this work into these fixes. Those of us who can't code really appreciate it!

I'm running a Radeon 6950 setup. I'm wondering what the best resolution would be to run the game in. I keep hearing 5040x1050 referred to as "normal". What do you mean by normal?
I've been getting it to run at 5760x1080. Would it look better at 5040x1050? If so, is there a way to get my monitors to think they can do that? I'm running 3 ASUS VE278Q. I don't think they offer that resolution. Unless i'm mistaken.

Thanks for your help!!

Can anyone help me with this?

Hi:) No it will not look better at 5040x1050 if your native resolution is higher. 5040 is normal as in 1680x3. While 5230 is Corrected as in 1680x3 + 95 bezel correction between each monitor:)

Hope this clarifies the thingy:D

[Phrayzur]

[quote]I'm very new to the whole triple monitor thing as well as this forum. I may not even be putting this post at the end :)

First thanks to Hayden and Helifax for putting all this work into these fixes. Those of us who can't code really appreciate it!

I'm running a Radeon 6950 setup. I'm wondering what the best resolution would be to run the game in. I keep hearing 5040x1050 referred to as "normal". What do you mean by normal?
I've been getting it to run at 5760x1080. Would it look better at 5040x1050? If so, is there a way to get my monitors to think they can do that? I'm running 3 ASUS VE278Q. I don't think they offer that resolution. Unless i'm mistaken.

Thanks for your help!!

No, running this at 5760x1080 is what you want to do and there is no reason to try and change it. It would not look better for you at 5040x1050. You want to run this at your combined nativel resolution for your system, it's just that, for a lot of people, that resolution is 5040x1050. I run at the same resolution you do.


Great! Thanks for your help!