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[quote]Is there anyway of editing the (.ini) files or some other fix to allow using only the middle monitor on an eyefinity setup?

[quote]Once this is done, I COPY both files, and paste them somewhere that can be accessed easily.

FIRST: Start the launcher. Everytime I start the Fallout launcher it actually overwrites these two files with some sort of default file, even if Fallout.ini is set to Read Only. The FalloutPrefs.ini file seems to maintain all of the correct settings, but the Fallout.ini file appears to be the one actually setting values like iSafeX and bEnableEyefinity, and this file is being overwritten with the default values.

After the launcher is started, I complete all of the changes to the two files described in my previous post.

Once this is done, I COPY both files, and paste them somewhere that can be accessed easily.

Then I can play Fallout NV with no problems, gamble, pillage, ignore that stupid Caravan card game, what have you.

Now when I quit, I see that the FalloutPrefs.ini file has been overwritten again, no big deal. However, the next time I start the launcher it will once again overwrite BOTH files. The idea here is to start the launcher, then overwrite the copies of FalloutPrefs.ini and Fallout.ini with the ones you previously copied. Every time. Lame. Functional, but lame.

C:

   cd "C:Program Files (x86)SteamSteamAppscommonfallout new vegas"

   Start FalloutNV.exe

   

   Pause

   

   attrib -R "D:DocumentsMy GamesFalloutNVFallout.ini"

   del "D:DocumentsMy GamesFalloutNVFallout.ini"

   copy "D:DocumentsMy GamesFalloutNVfallout - Copy.ini" "D:DocumentsMy GamesFalloutNVFallout.ini"

No mate I'm not kidding. Kotor 2 (Obsidian) inferior to Kotor 1 (Bioware); NWN2 (Obsidian) inferior to NWN (Bioware); Alpha Protocol (Obsidian) = garbage. I don't care who founded Obsidian, their track record in recent years is poor.

Butch - Steam Cloud is the service offered which uploads saves, settings etc to Valves servers so you can play games in your Steam account across multiple PCs without losing where you are, etc. Or at least, that's the idea... I usually end up disabling it.

The only thing that is really bugging me still is that everytime I transition from an area to another I get a black box that quickly appears and disappears on the center screen. Sometimes it takes 3-5 seconds for the black box to go away and sometimes it appears and disappears in less than a second.

[quote]The only thing that is really bugging me still is that everytime I transition from an area to another I get a black box that quickly appears and disappears on the center screen. Sometimes it takes 3-5 seconds for the black box to go away and sometimes it appears and disappears in less than a second.

Apologies if this double posts, been doing these posts all this afternoon via iPhone and a wonky 3G connection.

Upon further research we can avoid the INI overwriting problem entirely by running the game without the launcher:
http://newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=34935
In a nutshell all you need to do is to create a batch file in the directory with the FalloutNV.exe executable with the following code:

Code: Select all

set SteamAppID=22380 

   FalloutNV.exe

I won't be home for a few hours so if someone has some success with this do let me know.

"Steamsteamappscommonfallout new vegas"

Don't start the launcher, just start the game directly, it won't erased your Config.

Now i'm trying to get the scanline off my pipboy and arrange the UI to represent my 6064x1200

Anyone has thoses config?

Came home from work and tweaked a few settings, and now met with total success:


Steps I took to get here:

1) Navigate to Documents>My Games>FalloutNV>Fallout.ini, right click and turn Read Only off
2) Within Fallout.ini, changed values of iSafeZoneXWide, iSafeZoneX, and fDefaultFov to values necessary to properly display your UI and popup screen elements (in this case 900, 900, and 120).
3) Still within Fallout.ini, changed value of bEnableEyefinity to 0.
4) In the same directory within the file FalloutPrefs.ini, changed the values of iSafeZoneXwide, iSafeZoneX, fDefaultFov, and bEnableEyefinity to match the values I set in Fallout.ini.
5) Still in FalloutPrefs.ini, changed iSize W and iSize H to match my resolution (in this case 5760 and 1080).
6) Select All and copied the contents of this file, then navigated to C>Program Files>Steam>userdata>(your UID, probably the only folder in there)>22380(the game ID assigned by Steam to Fallout NV)>remote>falloutprefs.ini , opened this file, select all and pasted the contents of the first FalloutPrefs.ini file into the one I just opened.
7) Saved all files, and set the original Fallout.ini back to Read Only.

The only remaining issue is the blurry text on the PipBoy, troublesome but as long as my UI is in the right damn place finally I'll just live with it. I imagine its possible to use the Fallout 3 text fix for this as well, I just want to finally play the damn game.

EARVH42: Edit your ini file and add the following to the display section:

fScopeScissorAmount 0

This will eliminate the masking the game engine automatically applies.