BMS 4.32 SoftTH
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For more than a year now I am trying to run a Falcon version on my six screen setup, using all screens.(two rows of 3 screens):(
Some versions don’t even work very well under W7 so I had to keep XP in multiple OS setup.
The only one that worked was AF4.0 in windowed mode and the desktop set to 16 bit color depth.
The graphic were awwfull.Last night is discovered BMS 4.32, installed it and it worked.
Now I can fly the Viper at 3840 x 2048. WOW.:D
Now I can remove XP and only use W7.About SoftTH.
This a piece of free software that combines all your connected screens into one big screen.
You can use multiple video cards, even old pci cards will do, though your primary card needs to be a powerfull one.
It even supports monitors with different resulotions and you can do bezel management if you want.
If you have a spare monitor and not the money for a TripleHead or an Eyefinity card this is what you need to go dual or triple screen.Many, many thanks to the BMS team.
Great job.Regards,
PJGS
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pictures please
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I too want to get the 3 screen thing running. love that Idea! would love to see how anyone gets on with that…
post here if you have this setup and dont mind sharing.
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Im running 3 monitors in eyefinity at 5760 x 1080 and its amazing, still trying to figure out some FOV issues, such as looking down at my side panels in the cockpit. It doesn’t seems to be a problem running at 1920x1080, only when in eyefinity. Any suggestions…?
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@Cpt:
I too want to get the 3 screen thing running. love that Idea! would love to see how anyone gets on with that…
post here if you have this setup and dont mind sharing.
Use this link: [http://www.kegetys.net/forum/index.php?board=1.0
F](http://www.kegetys.net/forum/index.php?board=1.0)ollow the instructions.
Read this forum about the FOV.
It is realy a piece of cake.Suc6,
PJGS.
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Im running 3 monitors in eyefinity at 5760 x 1080 and its amazing, still trying to figure out some FOV issues, such as looking down at my side panels in the cockpit. It doesn’t seems to be a problem running at 1920x1080, only when in eyefinity. Any suggestions…?
There is a thread on this forum about eyefinity and I read something about setting the vertical FOV.
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Thanks man, thats exactly what I needed.
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Hello,
what configuration do you use to run softth with BMS?
I have black screen when I launch BMS+softth, I’m using the 2.01
thx
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Hello,
what configuration do you use to run softth with BMS?
I have black screen when I launch BMS+softth, I’m using the 2.01
thx
I use 2.06. Put the d3d9.dll and config.SoftTHconfig into Bin/x86
This is my config file
[main]
renderResolution=3840x2148
nonlocalFormat=RGB32D
keepComposition=0
smoothing=1
debugD3D=0
zClear=1
vsync=0
tripleBuffer=0
screenshotFormat=jpg
dllPathD3D9=auto
dllPathDXGI=auto
dllPathD3D11=auto[overrides]
forceResolution=0
antialiasing=0
processAffinity=1
FOVForceHorizontal=0
FOVForceVertical=0[head_primary]
screenMode=3840x1024
sourceRect=0,0,3840,1024[head_1]
; Autodetected as \.\DISPLAY2 at NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
devID=1
sourceRect=0,1124,3840,1024transportResolution=3840x1024
transportMethod=local
noSync=0As you can see I am using just one video card.
Each row of screens is connected to a Matrox Triplehead, but you can use any amount of video card and screens.
The Tripleheads do the horizontal bezel management, SoftTH does the vertical bezel management.Works like a charm for me.:D
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That is awesome! I had issues with nvidia surround, the sim would not run with 2x gtx470 in sli using the latest 280.xx drivers. I loaded softTH and disabled surround to get the 3 monitors going at 5760x1080. Thanks BMS for the great sim! Anyone else get nvidia surround working?
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Damn Great!!!I tried 2.05 and didn’t work with BMS4. Thanks for this great news!
Another main concern of mine is instrument export. Since BMS4 forcing use window mode and this kill almost half of my FPS (from 60+ to 30+), I’m looking a way to use softTH with BMS4 and export instruments under full screen mode. I try this in DCS:A-10 and successfully save my FPS from 20+ to 50+ (with 2 MFD export). Since BMS4 use the similair way to define display port and instruments like A-10C, I wish BMS team will add this feature in the future ,or someone kindly teach me how do do this via editing .cfg files etc.:D
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Hi questerymj,
MFD export is something I am very keen on doing as well. If you do find out (or if i do), would you mind sharing the info?
at the moment, i havent bought 3 screens. But i’d like to. The only thing that puts me off is the bezels on the monitors. Samsung have a MD203 setup and it looks great - but the price is a bit too high.
Has anyone any suggestions? To get 3 monitors and MFD extractions would be a dream come true…
probably lose my wife and kid mind you…
… oh and my job and probably everyone I know!!
but i am guessing it would be worth it?
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Cpt Mr Calm
I’m using 2 LCD-8000U USB monitors for MFDs. I will remove the shell/bazels when my panel design is finished and they will be perfect.
Here is basic setting right now:
https://picasaweb.google.com/104825487859139043468/SIMWorking#5568381700559270306If you want to know more detail I will glad to tell you more.
For price, LCD-8000U cost around 100 USD each. USB plug and play ,fairly easy. And I think the price is acceptable…Don’t know if your wife think so although.:P
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thanks for the info. Will definately look into this.
At the moment, I have the task of getting familiar with BMS itself -but once i get good at that, I will definately look into this.
I have bookmarked this page.
Once again, thanks.
I was also talking about 3 main monitors too -some guy on here is using 3 projectors!!! sweet jeezas!
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I’d done my test last night.
SoftTH running with BMS4 without instrument export( full screen mode): looks like worked but without any display.
SoftTH running with BMS4 with instrument export(forced window ):The game is running but I can’t see anything displayed in main monitor.
Looks like need to wait BMS to add the option to enable instrument export under full screen mode.
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thank you, it works very well
I have a small problem with the mouse, I try to do a rampstart but the mouse is stuck on the left screen.
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Hey Guys… Just tested out SoftTH with my setup and it works great!
I had 2 5:4 1280x1024 LCDs laying around from my older rig which I couldn’t use in a multi monitor setup since EyeInfinity needs all displays to be the same resolution/size.
SoftTH enabled me to use these displays simultaneously. Enabled 32 bit color and VSYNC / Tripplebuffer in the SoftTh config file without any noticeable FPS hit.
Here’s a quick video showing the initial run…
[1280x1024] x [1920x1080] x [1280x1024]
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anyone else got the really slow ui screen issue? i can fix it but in config but then lose freetrack and debrief clickable is fubar?
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tried everything I can think of.