Help: SoftTH softTH.cfg for heterogeneous monitor setup

SpeedyVV · Post by **SpeedyVV** » 22 Sep 2007, 18:25

I have a triple monitor setup, a centre 30", and 2 20"s.

The side monitors are rotated to protrait using nvidia control panel giving a res of 1200x1600. The centre monitor is at 2560x1600.

I cannot for the life of me get softTH to work. I get diff errors everytime I try a diff setting.

Does someone have an example softTH.cfg file that I can use as an example using different sized monitor, and preferably in protrait mode, that I can use as a reference?

One other question, the 2 side monitors are on a 2nd GPU so windows reports them as display 3 and 4. So what deviceIDLeft and right should I use? It does not seem to like the fact that there is no monitor in device 2.

PLEASE help. I would love to see at least 1 of my games in triplehead mode. GTR2, GT Legends EA F1, or even FEAR.

Oh yeah, I am not picky about resolution, just want to see what it would look like across 3 screens!!!

Mesh · Post by **Mesh** » 22 Sep 2007, 18:46

One of the first settings should let you specify the side res, it's near the deviceIDLeft line I think.

For the deviceIDLeft and right, readme says to use window's id-1 so that'd be windows shows 3 = id is 2 and windows shows 4 = id is 3.

If it was to guess I'd say maybe the portrait part is messing up softth, have you tried it with em in 1600x1200 even if it's not same height as center?

SpeedyVV · Post by **SpeedyVV** » 22 Sep 2007, 19:20

One of the first settings should let you specify the side res, it's near the deviceIDLeft line I think.

For the deviceIDLeft and right, readme says to use window's id-1 so that'd be windows shows 3 = id is 2 and windows shows 4 = id is 3.

If it was to guess I'd say maybe the portrait part is messing up softth, have you tried it with em in 1600x1200 even if it's not same height as center?

Uhmm 1600x1200, now that is one thing I have not tried. I will give that a try.

SpeedyVV · Post by **SpeedyVV** » 23 Sep 2007, 05:02

Well it turns out that the problem was that I just could not get it to work with FEAR :cry:

I tried it with GTR2 and it worked with 1200x1600 side and 2560x1600 for a widescreen res of 4960x1600!!!!

It has to be seen to be believed!!

The FPS are low. Around 25FPS with everything on high, but I still did that for a few laps just to take in the view.

Mesh, thanks for the help.

slideways666 · Post by **slideways666** » 24 Sep 2007, 09:00

speedy-- im not sure if gtr2 is the same as rf.. but i know smoke KILLS fps.. turn that off and turn some of the eye candy down just a little and youll see a good increase in fps.. I would keep your aa at 2x or so and your af at around 8x..

starfighter · Post by **starfighter** » 01 Oct 2007, 11:01

The FPS are low. Around 25FPS with everything on high, but I still did that for a few laps just to take in the view.

the higher the resolution the more the pcie bandwidth is going to be a problem with softth.

JKeefe · Post by **JKeefe** » 01 Oct 2007, 21:09

Also, in addition to the in-game graphics options that can be modified iin GTR2, there are numerous parameters in the .plr file that govern graphical effects.

25FPS in GTR2 is close to undriveable, and if that's a daytime / good weather number, as I suspect it is, then when it's dark and/or raining you're in big trouble. Still, the screen shots you showed in your other thread are incredible.

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