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I really don't see why Softth won't work on the 5870

I'll be the guinea pig if you want. but I have no idea how softth work too well

I got a bunch of some older and newer 3D games

if someone can send me a preconfigured file for UT2004 or UT3
I can try it.

but does Softh work in Windows 7? I know it was made for XP and DX9

Well I will be the experimental pig, but I need to find a place where I can find that display port to DVI adapter...apparently its harder finding one of those than an actual 5870 lol

I ordered mine from sewelldirect.com and should receive it in the next few days. It's the one from Accell

http://www.accellcables.com/products/DisplayPort/DP/dp_dvid.htm

I really don't see why Softth won't work on the 5870

I'll be the guinea pig if you want. but I have no idea how softth work too well

I got a bunch of some older and newer 3D games

if someone can send me a preconfigured file for UT2004 or UT3
I can try it.

but does Softh work in Windows 7? I know it was made for XP and DX9

I am using softh 1.09 with Win7 64 and HD5870 and it's working fine but I have only tested it with 2 screens yet. I personnaly don't really like the product, it's a real pain to get it work correctly and I am not sure it's using the graphic card to it's full potential. I was able to run it correctly with older DX9 games (LFS and Rfactor )but was never able to get it work with NFS Shift... The framerate however drops dramaticaly in LFS... maybe I am not configuring it correctly but anyway as I say it's a real pain... I cannot wait to receive my displayport to dvi adapter to set Eyefinity on 3 screens...

I am using softh 1.09 with Win7 64 and HD5870 and it's working fine but I have only tested it with 2 screens yet. I personnaly don't really like the product, it's a real pain to get it work correctly and I am not sure it's using the graphic card to it's full potential. I was able to run it correctly with older DX9 games (LFS and Rfactor )but was never able to get it work with NFS Shift... The framerate however drops dramaticaly in LFS... maybe I am not configuring it correctly but anyway as I say it's a real pain... I cannot wait to receive my displayport to dvi adapter to set Eyefinity on 3 screens...

When you get your adapter, can you try SoftTH with it? Meaning all running off of you one 5870.

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I am using softh 1.09 with Win7 64 and HD5870 and it's working fine but I have only tested it with 2 screens yet. I personnaly don't really like the product, it's a real pain to get it work correctly and I am not sure it's using the graphic card to it's full potential. I was able to run it correctly with older DX9 games (LFS and Rfactor )but was never able to get it work with NFS Shift... The framerate however drops dramaticaly in LFS... maybe I am not configuring it correctly but anyway as I say it's a real pain... I cannot wait to receive my displayport to dvi adapter to set Eyefinity on 3 screens...

When you get your adapter, can you try SoftTH with it? Meaning all running off of you one 5870.

Absolutely I will ... it may be a workaround to be able to use 2 differents resolutions. I am using 2 sides 19 (1280x1024) and 1 center 21.6(1680x1050).

For the moment however I was not able to get it run properly without setting my 21.6 monitor to 1280x1024 like my 19s ... probably config issue. But once I get Eyefinity working with the adapter I will probably never use Softh again as running my 21.6 monitor in 1280x1024 isn't that bad and it's definitely much simpler then using Softh.

Anyway it's just a question of time before I get 3 identicals monitors...

Thanks Bleco!

I will do some other tests later but for now it does not seem to work...

It cannot detect Id 3 (left)

0.000 SoftTH: SoftTH v1.09 by Kegetys (D3D8)
0.000 SoftTH: Module: C:Program Files (x86)LFSd3d8.dll ("C:Program Files (x86)LFSLFS.exe" )
0.032 SoftTH: Loading configuration C:UsersblecoSoftTH.cfg
0.032 SoftTH: Loading configuration C:Program Files (x86)LFSSoftTH.cfg
0.219 SoftTH: sideExtraWidth autodetected as -368 (1680x1050 / 1280x1024)
0.234 SoftTH: Added auto resolution 1680x1050 60Hz
0.234 SoftTH: Activating Win32 hooks...
0.000 STHook: Hooks: Attached
0.266 SoftTH: Direct3DCreate8 (ver 220)
0.593 SoftTH: Adapter 0: atiumdag.dll, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series with SoftTH v1.09 by Kegetys (D3D8)
0.624 SoftTH: Adapter 1: atiumdag.dll, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
0.656 SoftTH: Adapter 2: atiumdag.dll, ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
0.656 SoftTH: Added mode 4304x1050 f16
0.718 SoftTH:
0.718 SoftTH: Forcing process affinity (0xFF -> 0xFF)
0.718 SoftTH: CreateDevice 1680x1050 60Hz 22bf 77df 8/0ms
0.718 SoftTH: Focus window: 'Live for Speed'
0.718 SoftTH: Requested mode 1680x1050 not triplehead
0.718 SoftTH: 1 backbuffer(s): 1680x1050
0.718 SoftTH: SwapEffect 1, PP Flags 00000000, Behaviour Flags 00000080
1.264 SoftTH: Storing function pointers...
1.264 SoftTH: Empty device reference count: 1
1.264 SoftTH: Standard mode: 1680x1050
1.264 SoftTH: Releasing surfaces...
1.264 SoftTH: Releasing devices...
1.280 SoftTH: Video memory used: 6.73MB
1.295 SoftTH: InitStuff done
1.295 SoftTH: CreateDevice return (1680x1050)
33.307 SoftTH:
33.307 SoftTH: Reset main device (4304x1050)
33.307 SoftTH: Releasing additional surfaces
33.322 SoftTH: copySurf: Releasing shaders & buffers...
33.322 SoftTH: Triplehead mode requested (4304x1050 60Hz), enabling TH
33.322 SoftTH: Using application set antialiasing (level 8/0).
33.431 SoftTH: Reset OK
33.431 SoftTH: Cannot retrieve monitor info for device 3 (left)

And here is my config file:

deviceIDLeft=3
deviceIDright=2
secondaryWidth=1280
secondaryHeight=1024
secondaryRefresh=60
secondaryFormat=RGB32
uploadMethod=blit
forceAffinity=1
borderSize=0
sideExtraWidth=auto
noHotkeys=0
noOSD=0

lensCorrection=0
lensCorrectionEdge=0
hideNondefaultDevices=0
forceHorizontalFOV=0
forceResolutionWidth=0
forceResolutionHeight=0
force16bitDepth=0
sleepBeforeRead=2
useMultihead=0
delayedPresent=1
autoSquash=0
altResetBehaviour=1
d3d8dll=auto

doHooking=1
doScaleMouseCoordinates=0
doScaleFromLeftScreen=0
doScaleWindowRects=0
doScaleClientRects=1
mouseXoffset=auto

1680x1050x60
auto

Well that sucks, did you try setting the device ids to auto?

maybe try another game too, for example I cannot get Il2 to recognize my left monitor for the life of me, but over flanders fields has absolutely no problem working.

I tried it with Rfactor and LFS

I tried also putting both ID's to Auto... result: the software seems to see both sides screens (Softth Logo on both blinking like crazy) and center monitor becomes black ... That was however only doing it when all 3 monitors were set to the same resolution. If I used 2 differents res then the game just crashed all the time...

So maybe there is a way to do it... But for the moment I will stick to Eyefinity which works perfectly. And by the way the Accell adapter works like a charm... plug and play, perfect display without any kind of blinking or corruption...

Bleco, your efforts are greatly appreciated. Yes go back to your eyefinity goodness and let us gawkward monitor sods, suffer it out lol.

Ah, I just know that I am gonna end up having to buy another graphics card :(