Skyrim Multi-Monitor User Interface Fix Discussion

[helifax]

[quote]Hello all!

I took some time to perfect my technique:
In short it does:

- It streches the hud so the inventory is now fully accessible
- Level Up menu works properly
- Map Works properly
- Items are properly scaled in inventory
- Loading screen is not broken and texts are also visible.
- Reading books are still a minor issue and must be Read with the included workaround:
1. Go to inventory select the BOOK. Prior of open it press "+"(plus key) then open it.
2. When reverting from the book press "-"(minus key) to revert to normal hud.

How-To use it:
1. You need Cheat Engine installed.
2. Open the table.
3. select "YES" to load the script and start the game.
4. Play the game

I have included 2 formats: 5040x1050 & 5760x1080.

The game is now fully playable. I know is not nicely wrapped in a tool of its own but that takes time and as long as the game works...isn't that what we want?:)

Best Regards,
Helifax

I'm getting "This is not a valid cheat table (Error executing this table's lua script: Access violation)". I'm already running this with admin rights and the resolution is correct, 5040. Could this be because of the TESV.exe? Thanks!

If this "violation" error appears, quit Cheat Engine and re-open the CT table and hit "YES to ALL". You can start the game afterwards or even ALT+TAB. Then use the "-, +" keys to rescale the hud and when reading books:)

[Luke Appel]

Unfortunately, for me at this point, it is not working.

Do I have to load the game through Steam?

I am loading the game via a shortcut on the desktop to the TESV.exe which is in a different drive to the C:. Would that make a difference?

[TheUnk]

No offense or anything, but a hud stretched across all three screens is absolutely horrible. Unless I'm doing it wrong.. Having it on just the left screen alone was better..

[helifax]

Unfortunately, for me at this point, it is not working.

Do I have to load the game through Steam?

I am loading the game via a shortcut on the desktop to the TESV.exe which is in a different drive to the C:. Would that make a difference?

It doesn't matter. If the process is opened and it should hook to it. I also use a desktop shortcut. The drive shouldn't matter also. After the table has been loaded and the game started try to hit "-" & "+" and see if the HUD is rescalled. The fix is not automatically applied without pressing "+".

[helifax]

No offense or anything, but a hud stretched across all three screens is absolutely horrible. Unless I'm doing it wrong.. Having it on just the left screen alone was better..

None taken:) Hayden will provide the fix where everything is centered:) I for one prefer a stretched HUD because I am not playing at 30-50cm from my 3 screens:) So, when we will have 2 solutions everyone can choose the right one for him:)

[c69]

[quote]For those who have eyefinity working (minus any menu fixes), what drivers are you running?

I get 3-5fps with eyefinity when I disable my crossfire and put details on low. Should be getting much more than that. I have seen videos of eyefinity working well, so it must be my drivers. I am on ccc 11.10 and drivers dated 10/12/11.

I am using an HD 5870 @6000 x 1080 (so HaYDens fix is set @ 2000) with 11.10 driver, ultra settings with all distances reduced to 75%, AA off, AF x16 and fov @75 - the only issue that remains is the Book reading. I have a 4th monitor for Elder scrolls Wiki to read books, etc. My FPS is 35 average, which is entirely enjoyable to play.
I even rolled the driver back to 11.9 at the beginning of this whole eyefinity 'fix' situation to make sure that my issues were not driver-related. Use Revo uninstaller and COMPLETELY remove CCC and driver then re-install if you think it may be driver.

Thanks for this information. I just spent 3 hours doing extensive debugging of my system with the new 11.11 drivers released today. Disabling system services, devices, trying at different details, in both crossfire enabled and disabled, with Radeon Pro profiles ,adn without, and multiple detail levels across eyefinity. This with 6850x2.

There is definietly something wrong. Crossfire is out of the question for this game and even when enabled, it doesnt scale well with the game, showing 50-70% utilization.

Eyefinity on a single 6850 should be able to run at some level of detail, but that is not my experience. Sometimes I was able to get fluid framerate outdoors walking around, but it would hang sometimes, and I got a couple ctd.

The game runs really well with a single 6850 with most ultra details checked at 1920x1080, but I just cant get eyefinity with a single 6850 to work. Leads me to wonder if there is something wrong with the vram of the card (perhaps it was never taxed by other games), or if 1G vram is not enough for eyefinity? (Although there are youtube vids of eyefinity with a single 6850..)

I built this system to play AAA blockbuster titles in eyefinity and its coming up short. Crossfire doesnt work, and may never work with skyrim, although it is impressive with other titles. Should I send back and sell the cards and get a 6970?

If I get a better card, it really wont effect my single monitor play at all, as a 6850 runs it on mostly ultra at a high frame rate. And there seems to be no guarantee that I'll get eyefinity working, so upgrading to a better single card could be a waste of money and short my performance on other titles. What crap.

What little play I did see in eyefinity looks amazing. Going from supported with Oblivion, to not supported with Skyrim is lame. This is flagship technology. Are consoles going to kill eyefinity?

[Luke Appel]

I finally got it working.

For some reason it wouldn't work at the start but after running Haydens injector, then playing, then quiting out, closing the injector and running the code, it works.

But I might wait until Haydens, as like someone earlier mentioned, playing it stretched doesn't work well with my monitor and setup.

Thanks though!

And Hayden, when is the word?

[thales100]

The game is now fully playable. I know is not nicely wrapped in a tool of its own but that takes time and as long as the game works...isn't that what we want?:)

Best Regards,
Helifax

Thanks a lot for all your efforts in helping the multi-monitor community helifax, we really appreciate this. :twothumb

[matrices]

[quote]Hm, it doesn't seem to be quite working for me. The map is fine and the favorites menu seems fine, but the start menu is zoomed in and so is the items menu. And the loading screen, probably some other things too.

Not using bezel correction. Just ran the table file via cheat engine and then started the game, as instructed.

Yes! I forgot to say press "-" key to adjust the HUD to stretched format:) You will have to rescale only for the books:) Afterwards even the main menu is rescaled:)

Thanks - works! Awesome job!

Granted, the stretched UI isn't as clean-looking as the other one (stretched fonts, mainly), but the key advantage is that everything is functional. Working map FTW.

[ugzz]

will either of these work on a 3840x1024 setup
i mean of course im going to try with the lower res of the two and see what happens anyway haha, fully understanding things arent streteched properly for me, but thats fine, man im learning quick that there only seems to be a few active members runin this res :P

*sorry missed the other post, trying to edit the files now and see if i have any luck, no idea what to do with the one res. the 5040 one i changed to 3840.. will see how bad it looks, or if it even works haha

[Pittyh]

So Helifax

what would happen if i entered 1920 x 1080 into your programs code ?


would it all be on the left monitor ?

5760 change to 1920

[ugzz]

helifax, thank you so much for this fix. you are the man, im finally gonna get a few hours in tonight !!! :D :D

i thought it was broken because by + / - i thought you meant the numpad keys. but its actually just the reg keys lol, so i Got It Working!!! Yayyyy

[blackrat]

Hello all!

I took some time to perfect my technique:
In short it does:

- It streches the hud so the inventory is now fully accessible
- Level Up menu works properly
- Map Works properly
- Items are properly scaled in inventory
- Loading screen is not broken and texts are also visible.
- Reading books are still a minor issue and must be Read with the included workaround:
1. Go to inventory select the BOOK. Prior of open it press "+"(plus key) then open it.
2. When reverting from the book press "-"(minus key) to revert to normal hud.

How-To use it:
1. You need Cheat Engine installed.
2. Open the table.
3. select "YES" to load the script and start the game.
4. Play the game

I have included 2 formats: 5040x1050 & 5760x1080.

The game is now fully playable. I know is not nicely wrapped in a tool of its own but that takes time and as long as the game works...isn't that what we want?:)

Best Regards,
Helifax

Thanks so much!

I wonder, if you could make a version for 3840 x 1024 ?

[njb1987]

Awesome, looking forward to getting my hands on this later tonight. Thanks for all the hard work, you're a LEGEND!!!!

[ugzz]

Thanks so much!

I wonder, if you could make a version for 3840 x 1024 ?

look back a few pages, helifax posts that you can just click file -> generate trainer from table, and edit the values to your 3x1 setup.
im messing with the settings now trying to find the best ones for my taste. which is awesome that i can do this since helifax already did all the hard work :D

[ugzz]

So Helifax

what would happen if i entered 1920 x 1080 into your programs code ?


would it all be on the left monitor ?

5760 change to 1920

i just did this on my 1280 x 1024 and it worked great for the inventory and all, but broke books. maybe dont edit the books part and it will work? ill try editing it agian..

[ugzz]

[quote]So Helifax

what would happen if i entered 1920 x 1080 into your programs code ?


would it all be on the left monitor ?

5760 change to 1920

i just did this on my 1280 x 1024 and it worked great for the inventory and all, but broke books. maybe dont edit the books part and it will work? ill try editing it agian..

This WORKS!

1. Open up whichever preset works for you
2. go tto File-Generate trainer from table
3. double click the THIRD Entry down, called "Set DO NOT CHANGE"
4. click on "set value to" and reselect it again, this will unlock the text field
5. enter in your single monitor width
6. click OK
7. Make sure TESTV.exe is in the process name list (when i edited this it deselected this for some reason)
8. Change the output from EXE to CT.
9. Save the file
10. close out of the trainer and open with your file (it didnt work for me when i just loaded it, but when i quit and clicked on it, it worked fine)

*note: this does move the hud over too, not just the menus and such. so your health / magika / stamina are all on the left screen.

this only benefits very few people im sure lol, but i attached my 1024x3840 file with the menus and hud on the left screen. books still work as well when you switch

Attached files

1024test.rar (2.8 KB)

[Pittyh]

[quote][quote]So Helifax

what would happen if i entered 1920 x 1080 into your programs code ?


would it all be on the left monitor ?

5760 change to 1920

i just did this on my 1280 x 1024 and it worked great for the inventory and all, but broke books. maybe dont edit the books part and it will work? ill try editing it agian..

This WORKS!

1. Open up whichever preset works for you
2. go tto File-Generate trainer from table
3. double click the THIRD Entry down, called "Set DO NOT CHANGE"
4. click on "set value to" and reselect it again, this will unlock the text field
5. enter in your single monitor width
6. click OK
7. Make sure TESTV.exe is in the process name list (when i edited this it deselected this for some reason)
8. Change the output from EXE to CT.
9. Save the file
10. close out of the trainer and open with your file (it didnt work for me when i just loaded it, but when i quit and clicked on it, it worked fine)

*note: this does move the hud over too, not just the menus and such. so your health / magika / stamina are all on the left screen.

this only benefits very few people im sure lol, but i attached my 1024x3840 file with the menus and hud on the left screen. books still work as well when you switch


cool, but does the map work, and the books and everything else ?

[ugzz]

yeah your right, i didnt use it..
NOW i see why these guys take so long to check everything! lol

menus are amazingly perfect. books you still have to use the - switch for, but everything jumps back and forth just fine.
some words are overly thin, but readable. all menu (journal etc) are fine.

level up looks off..

prolly why its called "Don't Change" this hehe


looks like i cant edit my other post to update it with that info.
guess thats cause you quoted it? meh, this is only 2 posts down, people can figure it out :D

[matrices]

The book-reading hotkey isn't quite working for me. I can see the text (instead of blank pages), but I'm too zoomed in to be able to really read it aside from the center 50% of the pages.