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This guy is eating crumpets and hay for the rest of the war so I have declassified some of his widescreen shots! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/Shot12-04-09-18-17-39.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/Shot12-04-09-18-19-01.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/Shot12-04-09-18-23-12.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/Shot12-04-09-18-23-26.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/Shot12-04-09-18-28-47.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/Shot12-04-09-18-29-51.jpg

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OMG you poor SWAMBO bastards! I can understand SWAMBO if the children need braces, or the car needs a/c, or if money is really really tight. HOWEVER, if you have the money for a toy that makes you happy and all of the bills are paid and the kids are well fed, and SWAMBO gets those new pair of shoes every month, then what is the problem? My God man, my woman does not swambo me and she is beautiful! Lol shes actually the one that encouraged me to step out of my IL2 box and get OFF! SWAMBO should be happy that you are sitting at home playing the computer where she can monitor your activities instead of you going out, doing God knows what, God knows where at all hours of the night! Besides how would swambo notice something like this!

Well you live in blissful ignorance and that is perfectly alright! But gaming is a hobby for me, I enjoy building my own computers and tinkering with them. I don't throw money away at strip clubs and bars, nor do I smoke, so not having those vices allows me to have this vice! If you were to play on a triple screen setup you would probably throw your computer out the window and then proceed to max out your credit card at your favorite computer electronics retailer.

Eyefinity is definitely the way to go because SoftTH is not as optomized, however, SoftTH is the cheaper way to go because you don't have to have the latest and greatest ATI 5000 series card. SoftTH is a good staging ground for people to see if three screen gaming is for them without breaking the bank. Unfortunately there were no performance gains between a 5970 and a 5870 because OFF does not appear to support multi GPU crossfire gaming, so only one GPU works. I am getting better performance with my 5970 because I overclocked it faster than stock 5870 speeds, however, you can overclock a 5870 higher! If you only play IL2 and OFF then I would only recommend a 5870 because both of those games do not appear to support crossfire. I WISH WISH WISH WISH OFF supported CROSSFIRE! I have two 30" 2560x1600 monitors sitting on the floor and instead of buying a third one for eyefinity I am going to sell them both because it is just too many pixels for one gpu to push with the settings I want. Its a shame because I have a 5970 and a 5870 and I would love to crossfire all three of them with OFF on three 30" monitors!

Here is a video I made of a 40 man dogfight, I was gettin 45-60fps with my new 5970!! The second video i was just messin around trying to show off the ground detail. Sorry about the picture quality, I recorded it with my cell phone, but you can get the gist of it....kinda not really lol also I was flying with my left hand and filming with my right...i am right handed so it was a bit of a disaster! I will record better sources if anybody has any advice on how to do that, fraps maybe?

The first photo is of my eyefinity setup. Eyefinity is available with the new 5000 series of ATI graphics cards as they all have two dvi outs and one displayport out. You can run three screens off of one 5000 series card! The only caveat is you need three monitors set in the same resolution. You can use different size monitors but they all have to be set at the same resolution. My eyefinity setup is three dell 2007fp 20.1 monitors at 4800x1200 resolution and I am getting 30-60 fps with everything set to 4 except for plane detail at 5! You can find the 2007s on ebay for $100-$150 so it is not too expensive and they are IPS panels to boot!! The second photo is when I take my 30" 2560x1600 out and rotate two of my 20.1"s in portrait mode. The only thing that will allow you to use three monitors with different resolutions is SoftTH. I have posted a detailed way to make softTH work with OFF over at widescreen gaming forum. The thread for that is here: http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=17276 If you dont have a 5000 series of ati card you will need two graphics cards to make SoftTH work, but the second GFX card does not have to be the same as the first and it does not even need to be very powerful either. Here is SoftTHs page: http://www.kegetys.net/SoftTH/

WOW!

Mines 120" ;) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/091920096389.jpg

Track IR is amazing, now you need to get yourself another two monitors and Eyefinity or SoftTH and come to the three screen party! I am running three 20"s at a total resolution of 4800x1200 with a XFX 5870 and all the settings are on 4, except for aircraft on 5 and I am getting 40fps on average! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/120120098500.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/l88bastard/120120098501.jpg

I made this for IL2 Storm of War, feel free to use it if you want, lol

Hello gals and gents, Well I have been playing this game on my XFX 5870 and it runs very nice (everything set to 5) at 2560x1600 and I have even been able to use SoftTH and play with good frame rates at 4960x1600 (everything set to 3, except aircraft at 5), so I stepped it up last week and purchased a Sapphire 5970 and I got nearly the same frame rates with that as I did with the 5870 :( I was actually getting slightly less frames with the 5970 as it is downclocked lower than the 5870, however, that should not be a factor as it has TWO GPUS in it versus the 5870s one gpu! So what gives, when I had my 8800 ultras in SLI there was a huge improvement in FPS versus only one card. Does ati crossfire just flat out suck with this game or is there something I was doing wrong? For the record, I had the latest drivers installed... but I would also like to add that due to a defective fan and major screen artifacting/distortion, I ended up RMAing the 5970 so I don't have it to test right now. However, I am considering telling them to just refund my money if OFF does not support crossfire.

well I am running at a resolution of 4960x1600 and I would like to be able to take advantage of my TriFire 5870 + 5970 setup to play OFF with Hi settings at this massive resolution. As it is I can only run with settings set to 2s and 3's, and I wish my favorite game could take advantage of all this power. Here is what multi screen gaming brings to the table: And here are my cards

So after loosing my flyboy that had over 24 hours of flying time, 21 confirmed, the blue max, and all of the broads and booze available within all of flanders... I decided to switch to easy and see how that went, and you know it actually sucks! It takes all of the tension and nerves out of playing, I was actually in a dogfight with a pup and he pissed me off so I said screw it and purposely rammed him cause I knew there would be no consequences...im actually bored with the game like this, so back to DID I go! So what is our obsession with playing and investing hours and hours of time into something that is destined to die and die soon, lol? 24 hours and all I got is a shoe box full of medals that sometimes dissapear and fading memories as I continue to fill the DID graves next to Hornswagge Von DiamondWulf with his cousins of lessor glory!

I usually get one after I did really bad on a mission! I usually lone wolf it anyway when they try to assign me the suicide missions deep into enemy territory. Usually I will just find a nice set of FE2s, Be2cs or N17s and exhaust my ammo and then take it home...my DIDs a premadonna lol.

Hi Guys & Gals, I'm selling my CH gear; Fighterstick, throttle, & pedals on Ebay for $75.00 apiece. All three are USB! I'm sorry if this is not allowed to be posted here on the forums, but I figured it is ok since they are very relevant to what we do here and maybe there are a few members out here looking to pick up that last component to finish off their HOTAS setup, but don't wanna pay retail. Given the limited amount of space that I have, I can't setup my hotas properly (I want to build a cockpit eventually, but I need a house for that) so I am using my xbox 360s ace edge to pull double duty with IL2 Sturmovik, OFF and and birds of prey on the 360 so I am not without a hotas setup after I let these go. The components are in excellent condition and I have had them for almost a year. Please let me know if you have any questions, and sorry if this is not allowed to be posted here. Fighterstick http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=tab%3DSelling Throttle http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=tab%3DSelling Pedals http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=tab%3DSelling

Yes and stay away from the CH pedals as they suck! Yea they are built like a tank and can take a ton of abuse, but they are clumsy, too close together, and just totally feel unnatural. I have never tried the Saiteks but I hear they are great. I am currently using the logitec g940 system and love it!

Sold on ebay for $102.50

very good news indeed, a10 tank killer, red baron and aces over the pacific stole half of my childhood lol

This^^^^^^ I have the G940 and it is amazing, sold my CH sticks the minute I got my G940 and do not miss them one bit!

I know that this really isnt an OFF problem, but my OFF gaming is now suffering as a result... maybe the collective minds can help me on this one. Ok, I just got the 5870 today and I love it. Here is a sexy screen shot of it posing in the nude with my old 8800 ultras. And after installing it and playing with it for a while, I have packed up the ultras and put em on ebay. Apparently I am an ATI man now, and I am getting almost double the FPS in my favorite game, "Over Flanders Fields," at 2560x1600... went from 5-15fps to 25-40fps with all of the eye candy turned up! 5s on everything!!! Unfortunately, I have a problem. Since Eyefinity does not support my PLP 20x30x20 =4960x1600 setup, I figured that I would just use SoftTH and enjoy the power of the 5870 with my setup. I had no problem gettin SoftTH to work with my 8800 ultras, however, it does not work with my 5870. I even went out and bought a crappy 4670 to use as a second card but I get the same exact result with the second card as I do when I just push out all three displays from the 5870! It will not let me set my resolution in the CFS3Config file and hard locks my computer when I try and fly a mission. Im running Vista ultimate 64, and a 20x30x20 =4960x1600 display setup. I specifically play over flanders fields and it will not let me open the cfs3config file at all to set my resolution. It let me open the file prior to adding the SoftTH files, but once I got those files in the directory it does not bring it up. What is supposed to happen is CFS3config will open and let you change your resolution, but I cannot get to that step with the 5870 like I was able to with the ultras. Can anybody help me? Has anybody got SoftTH to work with a 5870?

I got it working. Basically I had to stick with beta 1.7 and had to add the 2560x1600 resolution at the bottom of the list and then put auto after it. Then I had to subtract the difference of 2560-1200 and make that negative adjustment so sideExtraWidth=-1360. Then I told it to half the display of the side monitors to 600x800, which surprisingly gives a decent quality while keeping the main at 2560x1600. With these settings I'm able to run at 5,4,4,4,4 and get 35fps on average for 4960x1600 running on a single 5870! This is what my softTH config looks like for anybody that ever has the same situation. ; ; SoftTH configuration file ; by Kegetys <kegetys[ät]dnainternet.net> ; [config] ; deviceIDLeft/right: Direct3D device ID's of left and right monitor, or 'auto' for automatic ; secondaryWidth/Height: Left & right monitor resolution, or 'auto' to use same as middle screen resolution ; secondaryRefresh: Refresh rate of left & right monitors, or 'auto' for automatic ; secondaryFormat: Secondary device image format, 'RGB32', 'RGB16' or 'YUV12'. ; antialiasing: Level of forced anti-aliasing ; anisotropic: Level of forced anisotropic filtering ; borderSize: Size in pixels of frame border between monitors that is discarded ; noHotkeys: Set to 1 to disable all hotkeys deviceIDLeft=auto deviceIDright=auto secondaryWidth=600 secondaryHeight=800 secondaryRefresh=auto secondaryFormat=rgb32 antialiasing=0 anisotropic=0 borderSize=150 sideExtraWidth=-1360 noHotkeys=0 [Direct3D] ; ** Advanced setting for Direct3D games ** ; cylindicalCorretionAngle: Amount of cylindrical correction done, use with sideExtraWidth ; hideNondefaultDevices: Hides all but the default adapter from the game ; forceHorizontalFOV: Forces horizontal FOV to be three times as wide ; forceResolutionWidth/Height: Forces device to be created with this resolution ; force16bitDepth: Force game to use 16bit depth buffer, can improve performance and reduce memory use ; sleepBeforeRead: Time in ms to sleep before reading back buffer data from video card ; useMultihead: Uses multihead features of primary card if available, can increase performance and reduce memory use ; Set to 2 to force multihead initialization even if game doesn't create device with TH resolution ; delayedPresent: When useMultihead enabled, delay primary monitor present to sync with secondary head ; swapOrder: Swap order at which the frame contents are copied ; autoSquash: Automatically squash output to middle monitor if only pretransformed (GUI) elements are drawn ; d3d8dll: Path to D3D8.dll/D3D9.dll to use or auto for automatic (system32 dir) cylindicalCorretionAngle=0 hideNondefaultDevices=0 forceHorizontalFOV=0 forceResolutionWidth=0 forceResolutionHeight=0 force16bitDepth=0 sleepBeforeRead=2 useMultihead=1 delayedPresent=0 swapOrder=0 autoSquash=0 d3d8dll=auto [hooks] ; Win32 API hooking settings - Used for some extra compatibility and game-specific fixes ; doHooking: Enable/disable hooks in Direct3D, with OpenGL hooks are always enabled ; doScaleMouseCoordinates: Scale mouse coordinates for getCursorPos to fix games which do not handle negative screen coordinates properly ; doScaleFromLeftScreen: Spread out mouse coordinates from left screen to full width ; doScaleWindowRects: Scale game window rectangle to triplehead size ; mouseXoffset: Number of pixels to offset mouse cursor position in X axis, to fix misplaced cursor due to negative screen coordinates. auto = use X resolution doHooking=1 doScaleMouseCoordinates=0 doScaleFromLeftScreen=0 doScaleWindowRects=0 mouseXoffset=auto ; Triplehead screenmodes to add to resolutions list (width multiplied by 3 and border added) ; Must be last in this file [modes] 640x480x60 640x480x75 640x480x85 800x600x60 800x600x75 800x600x85 1024x768x60 1024x768x75 1024x768x85 1200x1600x60 1280x960x60 1280x960x75 1280x960x85 1280x1024x60 1280x1024x75 1280x1024x85 1600x1200x60 1600x1200x75 1600x1200x85 2560x1600x60 auto

Some progress has been made here. I have found that the 1.7 version works but not too well (versions 1.9 & 1.8 dont work at all). For some reason it only recognizes my 2560x1600 monitor as being 1600x1200 and it forces my 1200x1600 monitors to a 1200x1200 resolution. Instead of giving me 4960x1600 + 300 for borders = 5260x1600 resolution option it only allows me these choices: And here is how crappy the 5100x1200 option looks... its all distorted :(

lOOK I know all about the terrian lol. If I get tripple screen working I am aware that I will have to dock that down to 4 or 3, because 4960x1600 is an insane resolution. HOWEVER, I can leave it at 5 while I play at 2560x1600 resolution because the 5870 actually is quite the beast.

No, I really don't need the ultras anymore. Its time to sell em, regardles of whether they support SoftTH or not versus the new ati card, I don't need em anymore. They are great cards, but the 90nm tech just runs too hot for me and the 5870 is really more powerful than both of em put together. Besides, this is the final point for the Ultras as there is still a market for them now, but come another year from now, they will be completely worthless. So I sell em now and recoup some of my upgrading money, while I can. I am planning on getting a 5870x2 when it comes out (supposed to be this month) and then running it in Trifire with my 5870. My plan is to continue on with my watercooling from my processor and watercool the cards as well! I have a q9650 and a quadfire capable mobo on the way, should get here Monday. I am planning on pushing the q9650 to 4ghz a core on water. Im aware that I will have to move sliders down if I get SoftTh working, thats fine. With the Ultra I had to move everything except planes to 2, which sucked and even with both ultras in SLI, I could not go over 3 for terrain and the other one. The 5870 is an exceptional card. It reminds me of the 9700pro days! I have tried to do the config in the workshop and also in windows explorer and no dice. When I try in workshop nothing happens it just stays in the workshop, when I try in windows explorer it comes up with the hourglass (which shows loading) and then the hourglass dissapears and then nothing! I looked over the ATI link you put up, but honestly when I ran on my single display, I had none of those problems! Thanks for your help! And please get some sleep, we need you fresh for your next sortie!