Widescreen Gaming Forum

So I figured out one thing. When I use "fov 80" from the console command prompt, that fixes this. It made the Pip-Boy much smaller and able to be used...BUT now everything on the left and right monitors is really stretched out and it looks like crap. I had it set to 70 because with my system, that made everything about the same size no matter which monitor it was in. But the Pip-Boy is unusable. Example pics below:


Trailer in the middle monitor, Vault Elevator in the righht monitor:





Trailer in the left monitor, Vault Elevator in the middle monitor:

Phlimm, what size are your monitors? like 22-24"? Mine are 27's and 70 is just terrible.. but I guess the overall width of the surround/eyefinity display probably makes a big difference. I'm running 90/100!

I have a 21.8 in the middle and 2 23"s on the left and right. 70 is about right for me as far as FOV goes other than the Pip-Boy. WIth your recommended settings it is exactly like my original screenshot.

I HATE the fact that in order to be able to play at all...i.e. Pip-Boy usable, the 2 side monitors have to look like garbage. >:(

I know what you mean by sluggish. In fact, this is what appeared to be happening: you know the whole "simulation tied to framerate" thing? At one point, the lower the framerate went, the slower the game not only ran, but "felt". Like, I was walking in slow motion. I'm not sure if it's that what you felt, or if it was the 150ms or so input lag induced with some settings.

I eventually fixed it by randomly changing combinations of a lot of things (SLI bits, VSync, .ini framerate limiter, things like that) so it's kind of tough to pinpoint what actually fixed it. I'm sorry I don't have more of a guess!

That said, it doesn't really matter - I'm only getting 45 or so FPS in triple screen. I've seen as high as 140FPS with a single GPU active on one screen, so the 45 makes sense for a single GPU on three screens. I should be able to maintain a very solid 60 on three screens.

Ahh Ok.. so you don't have as much overall width. There's a post somewhere around here that explains why they look like that.. of course I can't find it when I'm trying to =/

I sit about 2-2.5 feet from my 3x 27" monitors. In this game I use a first person FOV of 90 and a 3rd person FOV of 100. Yes the image on the outer monitors is distorted, but 95% of the time I'm looking at the middle monitor only and the outer monitors are angled towards me around 30deg and are only input for my peripheral vision. Setup this way when I walk down a hallway it actually feels to me like walking down a hallway or walking through a field feels like walking through a field because my monitors nearly fill my left/right "real life" FOV. One of the first things I always do when playing a first person game 3-wide is find a hallway and adjust the FOV until I get the feeling of actually walking down a hallway.. It's ruined me.. I absolutely cannot play a first person game on a single monitor anymore.. it feels like I have tunnel vision..

Hey other triple screen people... I'm not the only one who does this right? or am I crazy?


Some shots of my 3 story lair in Sactuary for me and my peeps.

Pip-Boy


First Floor


Second Floor


Third Floor/MY FLOOR(Dogmeat too)! No worker peasants allowed!


As you can see in the Afterburner HUD FPS is all over the place with the Arkham City SLI bits.. but it still never goes lower than without them and all of my GPUs aren't all running @ 99% to do it. Plus it was dropping quite a bit when I took screenshots. It's normally pretty steady at 55-60.

but you do know that the newest version of MSI afterburner shows "Overall" CPU Temperature and Load?
i coulnd't live with 12 rows high Stats xD

P.S i'm sure Strong likes your appartment xD

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Ha! I have the overlay bound to ctl+o. It's normally off.. I only turn it on when I actually want to look at it. I turned it on for the screen shots, it kind of backfired because it was dipping hard when taking them. It's fairly steady otherwise except for maybe diamond city. I like to be able to see the cores/hyper threads so I can tell how well the load is spread and I can see how hard the main thread is pounding whatever core it's running on.

For anyone that wants to reprogram the keys, here is my AutoHotkey script, it only swaps the keys while the game is active, working great for me as I always use all the numpad keys to move, reload, open etc.

Running smooth as butter at 5760x1080 on a single 980Ti, ultra everything + SweetFx, so not sure why some of you are getting < 60 fps.

https://www.autohotkey.com
"Fallout4Keys.ahk"

#NoEnv ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
SendMode Input ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir% ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.

#IfWinActive ahk_exe Fallout4.exe
{
a::Numpad1
w::Numpad8
s::Numpad2
d::Numpad3

e::Numpad0
LCtrl::NumpadDiv
Tab::NumpadMult
f::NumpadAdd
g::Numpad9
v::Numpad5
q::Numpad7
r::NumpadDot

Numpad1::a
Numpad8::w
Numpad2::s
Numpad3::d

Numpad0::e
NumpadDiv::LCtrl
NumpadMult::Tab
NumpadAdd::f
Numpad9::g
Numpad5::v
Numpad7::q
NumpadDot::r
}

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Tutorial how to edit .ba2 files
Things you need:
.ba2 un(re-)packer from here: http://www.loverslab.com/topic/54891-f4-ba2-unpack/ (seems to be down, Reupload by myself: )
(Edit: OR use Archive2.exe which comes included in the Creation Kit for Fallout 4 )
JPEXS Free Flash Decompiler from here: https://github.com/jindrapetrik/jpexs-d ... r/releases
the original Fallout4 Interfaces.ba2 (or you can use my modified version)

What to do?

• Start up the quickbms.exe
• select f4.bms as plugin
• select the Fallout4 - Interface.ba2 to unpack
• select the target folger

You have now an unpacked archive and can modify all .swf files how you wan't em.

Edit: Open the Interface.ba2 with archive2.exe select the files you want to extract, click on Archive-> Extract Selected to


What to change?
You have the heade of the .swf file, most of the time it's enough to simply change that to the Aspect Ratio you want.
Original is 25'600x14'400 twips aka 1280x720 pixel (Yep... it's simply x 20) if you wan't 21:9 you don't set it to your Resolution of 3440x1440 but leave it the 720p in height and simply set the according 1706 pixel wide aka 34'120 twips




How to center the HUD
If you're using mutliple Monitors you can Center the whole Hud via .ini Edits in the Fallout4.ini in myDocuments:

It's trial and Error there.... just play around until you have your Hud at the perfect position.
Be aware... this numbers are NOT the pixels of your resolution but the pixel of your HUD, so if you modified your hud for 3840x720 you'd need to add 1280+20 (border) for the SafeZoneXWide

How to prevent certain Elements from being Left aligned?
Stuff like Examine and Workshop are all left aligned, if you want them to be over the whole Monitor you'd need to modify each element itself.
If you wan't them to be Centered you can modify the whole Frame. you go to "Frames" select "frame 1" select tha "place Object blablabla" and search for the "translateX: SB[n TranslateBits] = 000" in "matrix". With this you can move the whole Frame segment.
Be aware that this are NOT pixels but twips (pixel x 20) and that the maximum X lenght is defined in the header of the file, not your gaming resolution.



How to fix the green shades?
According to Galnix the green shades are caused by the "bUseShadedBackground = true;" in the script part of the .swf file.

If you remove them from the HUDMenu.swf and FavoritesMenu.swf it looks way better... they're totally gone though, not fixed.

How to recompile the .swf files into a .ba2
it's written in the readme of the quickbms
ATM this only works via CMD, here is the command i'm using:

important note on reimporting. you need ALL .swf files in this Folder you want to reimport, if you only import the changed ones the archive structure might get broken and you can't start Fallout4.
When you get the error "this file is bigger than the original and can't be reimportet: Yes, no, force" always use the Force!

Edit:
Open the interface.ba2 with Archive2.exe click on Archive-> Add Folder and import the Folder you exported and fixed before. Now click on File->Save and thats all.


Clipping Issues:
Thanks to Aiken Drum
Hey guys, regarding the unintended wallhacking you get with surround resolutions (and, at least on my box, the glaring white background that often shows through and blinds me)... I have a fix.
Merge this into Fallout4.ini:

(The existing values, if present, will probably be 1.0 and 15.0, respectively.)
Basically, the problem was that we are effectively making the near clipping plane considerably wider, which allows it to clip through walls that previously couldn't get both close and on-screen at the same time. The solution is to bring the near clip closer so that it covers a smaller area that can't get close enough to walls to clip through them.
The numbers above should work well for 3 x 16:9, even with large bezel corrections. If not, try 0.3333 and 5.0000, respectively, but those are total overkill.


Small Objects in preview (letters, maps, newspapers) and building objects icons
Thanks to Aiken Drum
On the bright side, the books/notes already display in the right aspect, just not big enough, so this properly fixes them.
Option 1: Simply make the height correct. Merge this with Fallout4.ini:


Option 2: For the horizontally-squished elements, make them a bit taller than originally intended, in order to show more detail that has been lost from the squishing. Merge this with Fallout4.ini:

Note this assumes 48:9 (surround/eyefinity). For 21:9 you'd want to scale fWorkshopMenuItem3DScale and the two distances by 48/21.

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a little help please,
I have done all the following but out of the 3 monitors i have the game is only playing on my middle and right monitor, wallpaper is still showing on my left. what do i need to do to have all 3 monitors working?

thank you in advance.