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Sadly, my rig can't play this game at surround resolution.

Even though I've got a pair of 7800GTX's in SLI and a E6850 Duo, the frames are in the teens and thus unplayable.

Until I get a pair of 9800's (crossing my fingers for Nov.), I'll be stuck in single screen mode.

However... I'm having a problem that I hope someone can help me with.

When I started the game for the first time, I forgot to set the option under Window's properties that allows me the ability to switch my desktop to 1600x1200 mode. Thus, in game now, although 3840x1024 is available, the best 4:3 res I can select is 1280x1024 even though my desktop is running at 1600x1200.

I can't find an optin in the Bioshock .ini's to allow in-game selection of 1600x1200.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Wazoo

BTW - Do you need an 8800 to run this game with an AA?

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Gigabyte GTX 980 - SLI

i7-4770k @4ghz

16GB Ram

Planar SA2311W 3D Vision monitors (x3)

Windows 7 x64 Ultimate SP1

When I started the game for the first time, I forgot to set the option under Window's properties that allows me the ability to switch my desktop to 1600x1200 mode. Thus, in game now, although 3840x1024 is available, the best 4:3 res I can select is 1280x1024 even though my desktop is running at 1600x1200.

You did try this without going through the matrox triplehead2go right? If not that has a max vertical of 1024 - which makes sense why 1280x1024 is only available.

BTW - I'm trying to also tweak my system to make the game playable. It's not a fluid as I would like it using (2) 7950GX2 (quad SLi) setup.

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ASUS Maximus XII Gene MB | i7 4790k CPU with Corsair Hydro Series H80i | Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB | (2) EVGA nVidia GeForce GTX1080 Founders Edition in HB SLI | 1TB Samsung EVO SSD | Corsair Digital AX760i PSU | (3) Asus PG279Q (1) Asus PG278Q mounted on WSGF Ultimate Desk Stand v2 with Thru Desk Mount (3+1 Landscape Surround) | HTC Vive | Grace Design m9XX Headphone Amp/DAC | AudioEngine A5+ Bamboo | Ultimate Ears CIEM UE-5 Pro | ErgoDox Infinity Keyboard (Cherry Red) with Custom Keycaps | Logitech G502 Proteus Core Mouse | Win10 Enterprise x64

Current Setup

Racer_S & Paddy the Wak you guys are awesome!

One request - is it possible to edit some file or registry to accomplish what Racer_S does? I use a Deck keyboard (smaller in size) and it doesn't have a number pad. So trying to activate this hack doesn't seem to work. Besides trying to dig out a USB keyboard, is there another way to enable this?

Thank You! The game companies should let you guys beta test their games...

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ASUS Maximus XII Gene MB | i7 4790k CPU with Corsair Hydro Series H80i | Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB | (2) EVGA nVidia GeForce GTX1080 Founders Edition in HB SLI | 1TB Samsung EVO SSD | Corsair Digital AX760i PSU | (3) Asus PG279Q (1) Asus PG278Q mounted on WSGF Ultimate Desk Stand v2 with Thru Desk Mount (3+1 Landscape Surround) | HTC Vive | Grace Design m9XX Headphone Amp/DAC | AudioEngine A5+ Bamboo | Ultimate Ears CIEM UE-5 Pro | ErgoDox Infinity Keyboard (Cherry Red) with Custom Keycaps | Logitech G502 Proteus Core Mouse | Win10 Enterprise x64

Current Setup

Sadly, my rig can't play this game at surround resolution.

Even though I've got a pair of 7800GTX's in SLI and a E6850 Duo, the frames are in the teens and thus unplayable.

I'm playing in surround resolution with only 1 7800GS card. Playing in Surround and Max Textures, with almost everything else turned off, is good enough for me...

[quote]Sadly, my rig can't play this game at surround resolution.

Even though I've got a pair of 7800GTX's in SLI and a E6850 Duo, the frames are in the teens and thus unplayable.

I'm playing in surround resolution with only 1 7800GS card. Playing in Surround and Max Textures, with almost everything else turned off, is good enough for me...

I'll have to experiment a bit... but the difference, IMHO, between medium settings and high settings was profound.

Medium just looked so "flat" compared to high.

However.... even with Medium settings, it was still in the teens.

Can you tell me what your settings are?

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Gigabyte GTX 980 - SLI

i7-4770k @4ghz

16GB Ram

Planar SA2311W 3D Vision monitors (x3)

Windows 7 x64 Ultimate SP1

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When I started the game for the first time, I forgot to set the option under Window's properties that allows me the ability to switch my desktop to 1600x1200 mode. Thus, in game now, although 3840x1024 is available, the best 4:3 res I can select is 1280x1024 even though my desktop is running at 1600x1200.

You did try this without going through the matrox triplehead2go right? If not that has a max vertical of 1024 - which makes sense why 1280x1024 is only available.

BTW - I'm trying to also tweak my system to make the game playable. It's not a fluid as I would like it using (2) 7950GX2 (quad SLi) setup.

Going through the TH2Go should not be the problem. For example, I can play WoW in either 3840x1024 or instantly switch to 1600x1200 and play on my center screen without a problem.

The TH2Go will allow 1600x1200 pass-through to the center screen.

However... I just can't seem to get it to do it in this game currently...

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Gigabyte GTX 980 - SLI

i7-4770k @4ghz

16GB Ram

Planar SA2311W 3D Vision monitors (x3)

Windows 7 x64 Ultimate SP1

[quote]
When I started the game for the first time, I forgot to set the option under Window's properties that allows me the ability to switch my desktop to 1600x1200 mode. Thus, in game now, although 3840x1024 is available, the best 4:3 res I can select is 1280x1024 even though my desktop is running at 1600x1200.

You did try this without going through the matrox triplehead2go right? If not that has a max vertical of 1024 - which makes sense why 1280x1024 is only available.

BTW - I'm trying to also tweak my system to make the game playable. It's not a fluid as I would like it using (2) 7950GX2 (quad SLi) setup.

What are your Bioshock settings and what type of FPS are you getting?

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Gigabyte GTX 980 - SLI

i7-4770k @4ghz

16GB Ram

Planar SA2311W 3D Vision monitors (x3)

Windows 7 x64 Ultimate SP1

Going through the TH2Go should not be the problem. For example, I can play WoW in either 3840x1024 or instantly switch to 1600x1200 and play on my center screen without a problem.

The TH2Go will allow 1600x1200 pass-through to the center screen.

However... I just can't seem to get it to do it in this game currently...

What are your Bioshock settings and what type of FPS are you getting?

That's interesting - I guess I have an older TH2Go (analog) or just Didn't know this option on the Digital TH2Go. If that IS the case - I might have to upgrade to the Digital. I would try and just load the game without the TH2Go hardware and see if it's a something that could be related to the matrox hardware/software or the game itself (process of elimination).

Tonight or Friday night I'm going to have more time to really fine tune this game and make it work. I already know updating to the beta nVidia drivers helped alot (I was already trying to make a custom setting for this game). I need to load fraps again too. I'll let you know when I have more info.

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ASUS Maximus XII Gene MB | i7 4790k CPU with Corsair Hydro Series H80i | Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB | (2) EVGA nVidia GeForce GTX1080 Founders Edition in HB SLI | 1TB Samsung EVO SSD | Corsair Digital AX760i PSU | (3) Asus PG279Q (1) Asus PG278Q mounted on WSGF Ultimate Desk Stand v2 with Thru Desk Mount (3+1 Landscape Surround) | HTC Vive | Grace Design m9XX Headphone Amp/DAC | AudioEngine A5+ Bamboo | Ultimate Ears CIEM UE-5 Pro | ErgoDox Infinity Keyboard (Cherry Red) with Custom Keycaps | Logitech G502 Proteus Core Mouse | Win10 Enterprise x64

Current Setup

I have the older version and this works for me in some games but not others.

Ok so about the problem I'm having.. I can get the FOV hack to work, so that I can adjust my settings ingame by using +/- and CTRL +/-

My only problem is that I can't get it to look right using the settings posted on the forum

Here's what my config file looks like




My settings on the Program GUI are

Width: 0.337
Height: 0.037

Any ideas? (I can set it manually, but I'd rather get the numbers that someone else has perfected, can't tell when it's good)

Hmm another problem, the textures look horrible, but think this might be a problem on my end.