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Hi all

It has been announced that the new WWI flight simulator Rise of Flight: The First Great Air War by neoqb will have full support for TripleHead2Go. I understand Jason Williams of 777 Studios will be showing the new sim at E3 playing through TH2Go.

Release date for the game here in the states is set for June 17, 2009.

EDIT;
Release date has been changed.

Nice one. This game has the highest reccomended PC specs of any game I have ever come across. Hope its a good'un.

Nice one, thanks for the info. :D

Yeah, this is the one that sold me on TH2Go.
I have been wanting TH2Go for a while, but had a old pc that would hardly run sims at 1280x1024, so I knew I wasn't ready for it. I built this one and while it isn't cutting edge, I don't believe I will have any real trouble running most with it.
RoF will be demanding, but reports are it actually is coded very well and runs well on medium hardware (reduced settings, of course).
I'll probably have to scale back a good bit running TH2Go.
Movies I have seen looked to be running extremely smooth, on hardward less then mine. So hopefully I can still have some eyecandy.

Anyway, when I heard it would support it, I decided I was going finally jump in and put together a multi monitor system.

I just bought two more monitors that should be here within the week.
I think I will get the unit from newegg. Hopefully I will have everything setup by the release of RoF.

Yes, cant wait for this game too, i had to buy 3 new monitors, my old Acer AL2216W wasnt compatible with TH2GO. :)

Hi again everyone.
Here is a couple short vids from E3, using TH2Go ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXfAAYLHu7A
And
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ISzn-ZUdmU
Enjoy :)

Hi again everyone.
Here is a couple short vids from E3, using TH2Go ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXfAAYLHu7A
And
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ISzn-ZUdmU
Enjoy :)

Thanks for sharing, there is a cool preview of the game here :

http://www.simhq.com/_air12/air_400a.html

Thank you. I hadn't seen that preview before.

Heads up, guys. I flew Rise of Flight at E3 at the CompuExpert Booth, with 777 Studios' Jason William over my shoulder helping me out. The game is fantastic, the flight model feels great, and the TrackIR support seems really good.

But the game is currently Vert-, and badly. Jason says it will be fixed in a patch. However, expect that the first version of the game will ship to North America without this issue resolved.

You have been warned.

Vert- then ? :!: Bout TrackIR thats great, ive just bought a TrackIR 4 Pro to play Arma 2, Black Shark and now Rise of Flight.

Hi

What is "Vert-"?

Vert-, or "vertical minus", is what happens when games don't repond well to widescreen or triplehead resolutions. Instead of the vertical FOV remaining fixed and the horizontal FOV expanding (Hor+), the horizontal FOV remains fixed and the vertical FOV is decreased. When this happens in triplehead, the vertical FOV is usually greatly decreased. It results in a feeling of beeing "way too close" to the in-game world, or looking at the world through a soda straw. It's a very undesirable feature.

Thanks you :)
Yes I saw that in the vids. I didn't know that was the way it is, I thought maybe it was just a FOV setting, set close up. Like can be done in FSX, for example.

I can live with it until a patch. I have TrackIR too, so that will help. It is certainly not anything that draws me away from the game ;)

And besides, if I found I just couldn't get on with it, I would simply run on a single screen until the patch. But honestly, I don't believe it will bother me too much.

Dont know if its possible, but maybe a hack like Racer_S's could change it . :D

I kinda doubt it. The game is suppose to be fairly 'tamper proof', for fair online play. If Jason says it must be patched to correct it, I'm pretty sure that's probably the case.

Since they are using the support of TH2Go as a sales point, I would assume it will be fixed reasonably soon after release. We'll see.

It will look kinda of strange, of that I'm sure. As I look at the vids and imagine it over 3 25.5" monitors, the cockpit will be wider than the real planes were. I'm hoping to have a fairly true scale cockpit, once the fov is fixed.

I'm also hoping they will do much as rFactor, FSX and IL-2 is, where you can change it on the fly.

The Rise of Flight FOV can be changed on the fly, but in triplehead it can't be zoomed out nearly far enough.

No need for anyone to try and fix it via a third-party hack if the publisher says a patch is coming.

So the bottom line is, it does not have TH2Go support. Do we know when the patch will be released and will if definitely fix the vert-?

Thanks!

We don't know the definitive answer to either of those questions. I only know that Jason Williams of 777 Studios (the RoF North American publisher) is aware of the problem and told me it would be patched.

Thank you.

We are working with Jason and the RoF developers to clarify what needs to be fixed and work toward a solution as quickly as possible.

I know everyone, including the devs & the publisher, will want the best possible TripleHead experience for RoF players.