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Hi,

before I buy a 6870 eyefinity 6 edition graphic card to try a six monitor setup (3 over 3) for

-) IL2 1946,

-) Wings of Prey

-) IL2 Cliffs of Dover

I want to ask the forum, if anybody here has any experience or even already successfully installed a 6 monitor setup (3 over 3 with 3072x1536) for the above mentioned combat flight sims like is shown here for LockOn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I39LFabOyfg)

All my previous attempts with 2xTH2GO and also SoftTH 2.xx failed (3 monitorsetup with ONE TH2GO was no problem).

Any experience with eyefinity 6 edition (or a working solution for 2xTH2GO) is welcome!

Thanks and best regards, Harald

Asus P5N-E SLI / E8400 @ 3,8 GHz / 4GB RAM / ATI 4870, Catalyst 9.5 / TH2GO analog / Win XP, W7 64 bit with SoftTH 2.xx

I only have 3 screens, but I can tell you about 2 of them:
-IL-2 1946 I am running in 4960x1600 resolution without SoftTH or any eyefinity etc. I setup my left monitor in windows as my "main" screen anytime I want to play and the game loads the res from the config file. It's Fullscreen mode as well. I suspect it might work for you to set the top left screen in windows as the main, then do it like that.
-IL-2 CloD - I run it in 2560x1600 only on my middle monitor, because even on only one screen with a 1200mhz overclocked 7970 I still don't get a 60FPS vsync. This game is troublesome and really demands resources. You could try it but don't expect much more FPS than 30 on a resolution like 3072x1536. Best to post in the 1C Forums to see if anyone has attempted it.

Also before you buy that card, remember that Sapphire leaked document has a 6 mini-DP 7970 with 6GB on the list. Just a rumour but I don't see why they wouldn't make it, the 7970 is begging for multi-monitors to be attached. On everything except CloD it is a beast.

It's work flawlessly. I use a 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition. Back when I was using 6 monitors, since it's a hardware solution games (generally) just pickup the resolution. Some might need you enter them in manually, or use FOV fixes, but it works.

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It's work flawlessly. I use a 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition. Back when I was using 6 monitors, since it's a hardware solution games (generally) just pickup the resolution. Some might need you enter them in manually, or use FOV fixes, but it works.

Hi,

thanks for your promising answer! Just to make sure: Can you confirm that IL2 1946 did work with the 5870 eyefinity 6 edition on 6 monitors (3 over 3) on your computer or is it just a general assumption?

I tried it for IL2 1946 with manual config changes as well as FOV fixes and also SoftTH without success during the last months (with 2xTH2GO).

Best regards, Harald

Any particular reason why you want to game in 3x2? 3x2 is essentially the same aspect ratio as regular displays.

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Any particular reason why you want to game in 3x2? 3x2 is essentially the same aspect ratio as regular displays.

That´s true, but the only way for my cockpit setup (older pic here with fs2004 and 4 monitors).

Nobody else running IL2 (1946 or CoD) on 6 (3 over 3) monitors? Any experience to VERTICAL combination of 2 or more monitors in IL2 is also welcome and might contribute to solve the issue! (HORIZONTAL combination is no problem).

Harald

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is it even possible to run 1946 on 3 screens?

Hey guys,
New here, only because I haven't been stymied up to this point, but now I am. I have been running IL-2 1946 on 6 screens, 3 over 3, at 3840 X 2048 with no problems. I have GTX 680 in an i7 3770 Cyberpower PC. I have a TH2go analog plugged into the DVI-I port with 3- 19" Dell VGA screens, then I have 3- 19" DVI monitors plugged into the DVI-D, the HDMI and the Display Port outlets. As long as the primary monitor is the top left, IL-2 spans the whole desktop at 3840 X 2048. No problems and solid 60 FPS with V-sync. Didn't need Soft TH or anything, it just worked. I'm about to get IL-2 Cliffs of Dover and hoping that will just work as well.

But now I've been trying to get Wings of Prey on six screens but can"t. It only wants to stay on the primaty screen, whether that's the 3 TH2go screens or 1- 19". Although the six screens act as one desktop and I can move the mouse all over all of them, it's still not really one desktop. There are 4 seperate Win 7 backrounds on the monitors. one on the 3- TH2go screens, and 1 each on the others. In the Nvidea control panel, there is no setting for "Expand Desktop to these monitors". I'm thinking this is probably easy but no luck so far. Any ideas?

BTW, I have entered the res manually in the cofig.blk in the "My Games/WoP" directory and clicked the acesss.exe which skips the launcher. But whether you start the launcher or skip it, it still overwites the config setting, usually to 800 X 600. If I had to guess, I either have to make the desktop read as 3840 X 2048, or find some way to get that as an option in the launcher.

Anybody? It's been 3 to 4 days. Nothin? Please...

Pardon me, but how exactly are you displaying 6 screens from 1 nvidia card?
I understand you are using a TH2G unit, but the rest?

I think wings of prey really only works on 6 monitors when using AMD eyefinity with an E6 card.
You might be able to run the game in windowed mode and then stretch the window across all monitors, but the performance would be not be great.

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