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Triple Monitor Aspect Ratio / Horizontal FOV
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Riktor Voshek
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2013-07-08 23:03:48 UTC
Hi, I was wondering if there were any plans to change the way the aspect ratio of the in-station and in-space renderer works?

It looks like those scenes are rendered with a fixed horizontal FOV which, on a triple widescreen setup with Surround or Eyefinity, results in the vertical FOV getting extremely compressed. I can live with it in the station view, but it makes flying in space actively unpleasant.

I was very surprised to see that the Captain's Quarters actually render as I'd expect, with what looks like fixed vertical FOV instead of horizontal. I don't know if CQ is a completely different renderer or the same renderer with different parameters, but if there was an option to use CQ style FOV across the rest of the game, that would be fantastic.

EVE was one of the games I was most looking forward to running in surround mode, but this issue has made me resort to running EVE in a desktop window stretched about a third of the way onto my two side monitors; any more, and the FOV becomes too extreme for me.

I did do a forum search on this topic before posting, and while I did see some topics, none seemed to be active and none had any answer on this issue. I'd love to know if this is even on the radar for being looked at, or if I should get used to my 0.3:1:0.3 desktop solution :)

Cheers,

Riktor
Arya Regnar
Darwins Right Hand
#2 - 2013-07-09 01:23:12 UTC
It doesn't work because if you have 3 screens you are supposed to play 12 eve clients not one.

That's 4 on each screen.

Alt army yo.

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Riktor Voshek
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#3 - 2013-07-09 12:14:28 UTC
Arya Regnar wrote:
It doesn't work because if you have 3 screens you are supposed to play 12 eve clients not one.

That's 4 on each screen.

Alt army yo.



But, but... I only want one Cry
WhipDiddyWhip
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#4 - 2013-07-11 01:33:17 UTC
i too have noticed this exact same problem

captains quarters works fine but everything else just stretches the picture and it looks bad
Commander Ted
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#5 - 2013-07-11 05:02:08 UTC
Riktor Voshek wrote:


But, but... I only want one Cry


Scrub, ya need at least 2.

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Akturous
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2013-07-11 09:38:40 UTC
It's because EVE is vertically scaled instead of horizontally. I'm not sure how much work it would be to change it, though I agree it needs to happen. Maybe one day when I stop using so many accounts I too will be able to enjoy a surround eve experience.

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