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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace & FreeSpace Open Support => Topic started by: illogique on October 28, 2007, 01:15:49 am

Title: triplehead
Post by: illogique on October 28, 2007, 01:15:49 am

i'm trying to use SoftTH to make the game work with triple monitors, but it's stretch...
anyway to solve this?
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Title: Re: triplehead
Post by: Jeff Vader on October 28, 2007, 11:30:57 am

No, I don't think so. FreeSpace supports widescreen quite poorly, not to mention that kind of way-too-widescreen.

Title: Re: triplehead
Post by: Bob-san on October 28, 2007, 12:06:54 pm

Yes--run only with a single monitor. The game--it doesn't work with widescreen monitors. You start getting some funny-looking screens with a widescreen monitor.

Title: Re: triplehead
Post by: Hades on October 28, 2007, 12:18:07 pm

@illogique::welcomegreen:
Yea wide screen is not recommended.
Although my laptop is wide screen and no problems. :nervous:

Title: Re: triplehead
Post by: Jeff Vader on October 28, 2007, 12:21:25 pm

Well, same here, but I didn't like the wandering suns and the ****ed up HUD, so I prefer playing in 1024x768, with black bars running around the screen.

Title: Re: triplehead
Post by: illogique on October 28, 2007, 01:39:22 pm

Quote from: Bob-san on October 28, 2007, 12:06:54 pm

Yes--run only with a single monitor. The game--it doesn't work with widescreen monitors. You start getting some funny-looking screens with a widescreen monitor.

when you start playing with 3 monitors, it's hard to go back to single ;7
any work being done/plan to support widescreen?

Title: Re: triplehead
Post by: Cobra on October 28, 2007, 01:44:25 pm

It's probably never going to happen, since there are more important things to work on.

And ew, you're running in Direct3D. :P

Title: Re: triplehead
Post by: illogique on October 28, 2007, 01:45:46 pm

well softth opengl is not ready yet...

Title: Re: triplehead
Post by: Reprobator on October 31, 2007, 09:59:10 am

i could not ma,age to launch freespace with softh in directx mod... what are your settings?
for the streched screen that's jsut a matter of fov... but i didn't saw anything about changing fov in freespace should be 120 instead of 60 degrees

Title: Re: triplehead
Post by: jr2 on October 31, 2007, 10:34:19 am

To change fov, add -fov x.xx (mine is set to 0.55)

Title: Re: triplehead
Post by: illogique on October 31, 2007, 06:42:01 pm

Quote from: Reprobator on October 31, 2007, 09:59:10 am

i could not ma,age to launch freespace with softh in directx mod... what are your settings?
for the streched screen that's jsut a matter of fov... but i didn't saw anything about changing fov in freespace should be 120 instead of 60 degrees

i just drop the file in the folder and select the resolution in the launcher...
the same config has for lfs, pretty stock config

when i launch freespace, my left screen is all fuzzy, i just alt-tab to the desktop and back to the game to correct it!

Title: Re: triplehead
Post by: Reprobator on June 30, 2009, 07:48:34 am

Any change on planning for multiscreen setup?
i've just bought a matrox triplehead2go , and it works very well with freespace2 scp in 3840*1024 , the fov is correct and i didn't noticed any glitch b ut the hud strectched accross the 3 screen.
Lasts mounths was released 16/10 screens support and i w onder if something could be done the sameway for triplescreen.
An option in the launcher or the command line to force the engine  to render hud under the resolution you defined (from the center of it) for exemple :
Resolution : 3840*1024
hud resolution : 1280*1024 ^^

Title: Re: triplehead
Post by: Jeff Vader on June 30, 2009, 10:08:11 am

:wtf: What the bloody hell? The last post was made almost two years ago.

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