Solved New monitor / TV for BMS: Resolution problem
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Hi folks,
I snatched up a 4k TV (LG 43 Nano 779p) to use as a new computer display. It’s working fine at native res for win10 and Linux, however with BMS when I enter 3d at 2560x1440p the 3d image displayed shows only the top left bms 3d image.
When I reset BMS to its previous resolution (1920x1080), all is working well w/r to BMS and 3d.
I’m running BMS in borderless mode, and the display setting in BMS shows this:
So it looks like BMS hasn’t yet picked up the new native monitor resolution.
I’ve tried deleting the dx113d.dll thingy from user/config, but that hasn’t helped sadly. Any idea what I’m doing wrong?
Thanks in advance & all the best,
Uwe
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All good here but thanks for the warning Jackal.
I’ve now settled for a desktop res of 2650x or thereabouts and run both BMS and rfactor2 in this resolution. It’s a nice tradeoff between what I had before (1920x) to not overloading my GPU with added pixels, so the gaming machine still runs nice and mostly quietly
All the best,
Uwe
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Switch to full screen or window maybe it will help refresh the monitor native resolution…
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Thanks Max,
switching to fullscreen did the trick. On the next start, BMS reset to “borderless” and the new monitor resolution was shown in “settings”.
However I would like to run BMS in 2560x1440p (3d) while the desktop is fine at 3650xwhatever (4k I think).
When I use these settings and “borderless”, the BMS 3d display will only occupy the top left corner of the desktop.
Is there a way / setting to have the display switch to 2650x1440 once BMS enters 3d?
Thanks & all the best,
Uwe
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Standard 4K is 3840 x 2160. So you want a lower resolution than that for 3D, but it should scale to fill up the entire screen (full screen)?
4K is exactly 150% of 2560x1440. I suppose you could choose your desired resolution for 3D, but you probably need to run fullscreen (not windowed) for the scaling to kick in. So you need to make fullscreen mode stick somehow, not have it change to windowed or borderless. You may have a setting of -window in your launch command line which you could try removing
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Thanks for your suggestions mate. The thing is that BMS is very prone to crash when ALT-TABbing out of and into the sim (a thing which I do rather frequently).
All the best,
Uwe
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@hoover
I feel like your 1070 Ti should be good enough to run 4k @ 60hz, with max antialiasing etc. No?I don’t know any easy way to achieve ‘borderless’ that’s not rendered at Windows desktop resolution. Use Nvidia console to set desktop rez to 66% (2560x1440p) and also set “perform scaling on GPU” to avoid any quirks with your TV not accepting that mode.
Also check the ‘3d settings’ page, there’s a slider to adjust the amount of smoothing it will apply as it upscales from 1440p buffer to the 2160p scanout.
(This is all per Windows btw … not sure if all the same NVidia console features exist on Linux.)
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@hoover:
same kind of troubles here, dear Uwe. So you did more than well when pointing this out.
Sure thing is that it would be far better if there were no differences in displaying between the “borderless” and the two other modes, but this isn’t the proper place to start such kind of discussion, I guess.@airtex2019:
interesting all those, bro, but any previous attempt made was unsuccessful, I’m afraid.
All what I currently know is that I can get a full screen display at 1920x1080, in borderless mode of course.
This doesn’t mean, however, that this was final. So I will try to follow all your suggestions more carefully, and see what happens now.Thanks a lot to you both and with best regards.
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Gentlemen,
I’m back with a short update.
I am not quite sure if I caught the sense of Hoover’s question correctly, but on my little own I decided to make a little experiment.
So I put my screen setting to its max. - 3840x2160, if I quote them correctly, which are also the suggested ones.
After, I entered the same values in BMS graphic resolution only settings in borderless mode, no need to change anything else. And it worked, I was able to fly at maximum and - most important of all - with the image full centered on my screen. At last!
The fonts size was awful little, but I can manage that thanks to a suggestion given by another skilled member in another topic - too bad that I can’t recall what it was here and now, as my sad usual.Hope this may help you in anything, Uwe - but according to the few I am able to undesrtand, it may seem that your screen main resolution (“output”, I mean) is set to 1980x1020, and all the trouble starts from it, so setting a different resolution in BMS may drive to unwanted results. Please try to make the first match to that value you chose as your desired one in BMS, and see what happens after.
(@airtex2019: thanks a lot, bro, for having made me thinking about those usual “little” things, which so little are definitively not, at the proof of facts.)With best regards to all.
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@hoover :
I have to add this, Uwe.
When I attempted to change the font sizes, I happened to get in that annoying issue I had (crashing to the desktop after exiting a mission) again, so I had to uninstall and install all from scratch. Uuuhhhhhhh, my poor (…).
So please be careful and, if you just want to change something about this matter, backup those two (in)famous files in the Cockptart folder before, at least.You have been warned.
With best regards.
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All good here but thanks for the warning Jackal.
I’ve now settled for a desktop res of 2650x or thereabouts and run both BMS and rfactor2 in this resolution. It’s a nice tradeoff between what I had before (1920x) to not overloading my GPU with added pixels, so the gaming machine still runs nice and mostly quietly
All the best,
Uwe
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Glad you have get a solution fit to your needs, Uwe - so you are you comfortable with the current size of the messages, aren’t you?
I had to revert to my former one because they were to small to be read at all at the highest 4K monitor resolution, eh eh eh.With best regards.
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