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3 Monitors, One Client on two of them?
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Valeria Ghost
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2014-08-03 08:34:51 UTC
Hey everyone,

I have three different monitors (2 of them with a resolution of 1920x1080 and 1 of them with 1280x1024). I'd like to extend my eve client onto both of the bigger screens while still keeping the small one available for other stuff.

Unfortunately the ingame resolution menu (fixed window) only allows me either 1920x1080 on one of the bigger screens or 5120x1080 (resolution for all three screens).

My monitors are setup like this:

1 (primary): 1920x1080
2 (secondary): 1920x1080
3 (tertiary): 1280x1024

3 / 1 / 2


So the primary Monitor with number 1 is in the middle, and the small monitor is on the left side. If I select the 5120x1080 option and the 1st monitor, the game will be (somewhat how i want) visible on monitors 1 and 2 and the third one will be available for windows (no eve image on the third one). The problem however is that the client thinks that there is another monitor to the right side of monitor 2.... While I can't move my mouse out to the right side, all the windows etc that would be on the very right side are not visible since eve puts them on the "imagined" monitor to the right side. Because of that i can't see my Overview. I also have the feeling that it uses the performance to render three images but i'm not sure about that.

Is there any way to set EVE to a resolution of 3840 x 1080 (so only for the two bigger screens together)???


more examples:
5120x1080, monitor 2 selected: EVE image only visible on the right monitor (monitor 2) while eve "thinks" there would still be 2 more monitors on the right side and because of that most of my menus are not accessible to me...
5120x1080, monitor 3 selectod: EVE image visible on monitors 3 / 1 / 2 but image moved down (so I have empty space at the top of monitor 2 and 3)
fgervais
Chaotic Serendipity
#2 - 2014-08-04 07:44:37 UTC
You won't solve this within the EVE client. What GPU software are/can you use? For example, with AMD cards, I can define specific Eyefinity groups, such a 2+1 setup, which then appears as an option in the resolutions.
Darkblad
Doomheim
#3 - 2014-08-04 09:15:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Darkblad
Maybe this works:

- Exit your EVE Client
- Find your client's settings folder of the client installation within the matching subdirectory of %LOCALAPPDATA%\CCP\ (Windows).
- Create a backup of the file core_public__.yaml
- Open that file in a plain text editor (e.g. notepad.exe)
- Adjust the values highlighted as underlined below and save the yaml file.
- Launch your client to check wether this did what you wanted.

core_public__.yaml wrote:
DeviceSettings:
- 130516168350470863
- {Adapter: 1, AutoDepthStencilFormat: 1, BackBufferCount: 1, BackBufferFormat: 88,
BackBufferHeight: 1080, BackBufferWidth: 3840, EnableAutoDepthStencil: true, Flags: 0,
FullScreen_RefreshRateInHz: 0, MultiSampleQuality: 0, MultiSampleType: 0, PresentationInterval: 17,
SwapEffect: 0, Windowed: true}
FixedWindow: [130516168350470863, true]
FullScreenResolution:
- 130516168100644563
- [1920, 1080]
UIScaleFullscreen: [130516168100644563, 1.0]
UIScaleWindowed: [130516168350470863, 1.0]
WindowedResolution:
- 130516168350470863
- [3840, 1080]


I'm not sure if this does actually work, though. You might have to try fgervais' solution.

NPE – ISD – RIP
Valeria Ghost
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#4 - 2014-08-04 18:55:49 UTC
Thanks a lot Darkblad, that actually worked. It's a great workaround. Hopefully there are ways to make it easier though, i'd like to switch without fileediting :D but still as long as it works who am I to comlain. really great :-)

Note: I also had to edit the "BackBufferWidth" in the 4th line of your quote (maybe you can underline that as well for others who might stumble upon this thread)



@fgervais: I have Nvidia so EyeFinity unfortunately isn't an option for me :(
Darkblad
Doomheim
#5 - 2014-08-04 19:22:05 UTC
Updated my post, and I'm glad that method did help you! Smile

NPE – ISD – RIP