triple screen support

[Werner]

Hey guys,
a sim racer here who drives with triple screens. Does this game has triple screen support and fov settings for that? Or do i have to live with ma left and right screen streched like hell? Thanks :)

[Staquix]

Since Motorsport 7 did a descent job with triple screen I'm betting 8 will handle it well. I have no idea why Horizon never got this right. I guess we will find out tomorrow.

[Werner]

Originally posted by Staquix:

Since Motorsport 7 did a descent job with triple screen I'm betting 8 will handle it well. I have no idea why Horizon never got this right. I guess we will find out tomorrow.

Oh i never palyed FM7 since i have 3 screens. I thought it wasnt possible to use them well with it and never tried. Thanks :)

[Moga CMDR]

It sounds like they are using some software, borderless gaming, if I understand correctly. So I'm not sure the game supports triple screen. Being able to play with three screens is not the same as the game supporting it natively.

To Ti's point, if it supported it properly, we would have a lot of settings to tweak how things look. But I'll know for myself shortly once its finished transferring over to my second machine.

[Daemia]

FH5 worked like a charm. So should this one.

[Moga CMDR]

Originally posted by Daemia:

FH5 worked like a charm. So should this one.

FH5 didn't support triple displays. It simply worked with Nvidia surround and similar solutions.

Supporting it, means the game has features to control how the monitors look. Unless FH5 added that much later, that game did not support triple-head setups. But it can support those resolutions. That isn't the same.

[Staquix]

I got it working with NV Surround but my frames went from 70 to 25. Back to single screen for me. Maybe one day with some major hardware upgrades.

[mixeu]

Originally posted by Menphues (Kyle):

It works with triple screen WITHOUT needing Nvidia surround!

I got a way to make it work so currently I am playing 7860x1440 and about 80 to 100 FPS with NO DLSS.

Picture of proof: https://ibb.co/vXpCKzt

I am using the borderless gaming method because Nvidia surround causes me issues so I do not use it.

Thank you very much friend, you are a friend

[Daemia]

Originally posted by Moga CMDR:

Originally posted by Daemia:

FH5 worked like a charm. So should this one.

FH5 didn't support triple displays. It simply worked with Nvidia surround and similar solutions.

Supporting it, means the game has features to control how the monitors look. Unless FH5 added that much later, that game did not support triple-head setups. But it can support those resolutions. That isn't the same.

Lol what? I have been using triples for 5 years, there wasn't a single time I used triples without Surround, as it's meant to be used. This has been like this since the begining of triples, starting with ATI if I recall right. The only difference are some games that have issues with surround, so you have to play around with windowed mode etc.

Again, FH5 supported it.

[Moga CMDR]

Originally posted by Daemia:

there wasn't a single time I used triples without Surround, as it's meant to be used.

Simulators often have Triple Monitor Support. Surround is not triple monitor support, It is one big fake screen.

Triple monitors are not necessarily meant to be merged into one fake one. But I understand you may not be aware of that. I only enable surround for games that don't support triples properly. Otherwise, my triplehead setup runs independent screens. (the way they were intended to be used)

I know you may not be familiar with it, most products don't actually support 3 independant monitors. Ti, specifically, is not asking about surround.

Originally posted by Ti:

Are there any settings you can adjust to fix these issues?

I may be the only one that understands your question. No the game does not have any settings to control 3 monitors. I just checked again now that I have it on my triplehead configuration.

So its the typical Surround path that many products use these days. Which means no control over independent monitors.

In defense of surround, without it we would have far fewer games we could use our screens on. And Sims that did support discrete screens tended to suffer heavily performance-wise when used. So there is that.

[Rivanov]

Originally posted by Daemia:

Originally posted by Moga CMDR:

FH5 didn't support triple displays. It simply worked with Nvidia surround and similar solutions.

Supporting it, means the game has features to control how the monitors look. Unless FH5 added that much later, that game did not support triple-head setups. But it can support those resolutions. That isn't the same.

Lol what? I have been using triples for 5 years, there wasn't a single time I used triples without Surround, as it's meant to be used. This has been like this since the begining of triples, starting with ATI if I recall right. The only difference are some games that have issues with surround, so you have to play around with windowed mode etc.

Again, FH5 supported it.

No, FH5 didn’t support it. It just stretches the game. It’s not native as in iRacing, ACC, rFactor 2 and AMS 2 for instance.

[Werner]

Originally posted by Daemia:

Originally posted by Moga CMDR:

FH5 didn't support triple displays. It simply worked with Nvidia surround and similar solutions.

Supporting it, means the game has features to control how the monitors look. Unless FH5 added that much later, that game did not support triple-head setups. But it can support those resolutions. That isn't the same.

Lol what? I have been using triples for 5 years, there wasn't a single time I used triples without Surround, as it's meant to be used. This has been like this since the begining of triples, starting with ATI if I recall right. The only difference are some games that have issues with surround, so you have to play around with windowed mode etc.

Again, FH5 supported it.

Just using Nvidia Surround is no triple screen support. Triple screen support means, that you can adjust your left and right screen. You need to adjust the angle of your screen, the bezel widht etc, or else it would look streched and not lined up. Because you cant do that in fh5 it looks terrible

[Andrew_WOT1]

Proper triple screen is three separate projections, so you don't see that wide lens like pincushion stretching on the sides. Plus you adjust angles of side screens.
This works for fixing UW monitors stretching as well, you just break it into 3 "virtual" screens.

[Daemia]

Since I own triples, I haven't once played a game that "supported" them without using surround. Even if using mods for it, tools in any shape, or playing around in ini or cfg files.

Since it's only a simracing thing, I cannot take it seriously.

[Werner]

Well it seems like it doesnt matter anyway, since my 3080 strangly cant handle the bigger resolution with all 3 screens. There must be some issue with the game, since my fps drop from 80 to 25 fps. Dont have that big of a drop in any other game when using 3 screens. Weird

[sebo]

Originally posted by Werner:

Well it seems like it doesnt matter anyway, since my 3080 strangly cant handle the bigger resolution with all 3 screens. There must be some issue with the game, since my fps drop from 80 to 25 fps. Dont have that big of a drop in any other game when using 3 screens. Weird

I get around 80 fps on mostly ultra settings with RT off on a 3090 with 3 screens at 7680x1440, but the side monitors picture don't even align properly with the center and its a bit distorted/stretched.

performance isn't bad, but terrible without proper triple screen support. i'm likely refunding. maybe i'll revisit again in 6 months in hopes they've actually taken sim racing a bit more seriously and implement some proper settings. you can't even hide the arms/wheel from the cockpit view. every other racing sim have these options including seat adjustment so you can match your screen with your cockpit/dash/wheel.