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SoftTH (Software Triple Head)

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by billman87, Dec 14, 2015.

  1. billman87

    billman87
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    I have built a video wall that utilizes SoftTH to expand some DirectX 9 games over more than one GPU and Outputs while maintaining the render on a single card. Diagram

    This works for early versions of BeamNG however more recently it does not. Frame rate is poor at 5760*3240 but SofTH allows for UP/DOWN scaling and depending on the scenario I could find tweak the resolution to find a playable frame rate.

    As the performance and quality of BeamNG improves I desire more and more to play on my overtly ridiculous PC shown below.

    SoftTH (9 Screens, 3 GPU) (1).png


    Video of iRacing on this system.

    I realize the render method now used is more efficient and I have no exception this post will change anything. But if it is possible to allow the user to fallback to the old render method I would be ecstatic.

    I'm hoping SoftTH will get an update to DX11 soon and I can move past DX9.
     
  2. Narwhal

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    There is an old dx9 branch that they kept so that people could still play if they were limited to dx9. right click the game in steam and click properties. then goto betas and select the dx9 one.

    also that is an awesome video wall. i have always wanted one.
     
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  3. billman87

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    Marvelous, I did as instructed and am beaming with excitement.

    At first I feared too much "optimization" caused SoftTH not to refresh the GUI when at the title screen and I was presented with 9 black screens. It can be heart breaking when the game boots gets hooked and fails.

    But I noticed the mouse cursor change as I vainly searched for sings of life.
    So back to the old "Refresh your desktop" trick with CTRL+ALT+DEL then ESC

    And to my amazement I saw a still frame of the title screen.

    WHHHOOOOOooo oowwwaaaaaa, DAMIT! hmmm.

    After at a ritual of click, refresh, click, refresh, Click CLICK CLICK! I manage to get to a scenario.



    Performance of this version is much better than 0.3.

    You sir have made my day, but I have one more desire.
    I'm positive I saw scenarios launched from a batch file or shortcut with arguments this would allow me to skip the Main Menu.
    But I cannot find any documentation on command line parameters.

    If the Main Menu GUI refreshed periodically or on mouse click or keystroke this would resolve my issue.
    However its not an issue once in game and the chance of other SoftTH users would be remote.

    Thank you for the help,
    Time for some Twisted Steel Leather Donut
     
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