Need help with BS multi monitor setup

[2GvSAP_Chief]

So a while back I bought a single LG W2452T monitor. It is awesome. It is also 16:10 aspect ratio which means its native resolution is 1920x1200, which I love. Well today I bought a little brother for it which is a LG W2453V. It has an aspect ratio of 16:9 (sadly you can't get 16:10 anymore) and a native resolution of 1920:1080. So here is the dilemma:

I am trying to set the multimonitor setup such that:
1) The Camera is 1920x1200, which would take up all of the first monitor
2) the Shkval is 960x1080, which would take up the left half of the second monitor
3) the ABRIS is 960x1080, which would take up the right half of the second monitor

So I came up with the following config:

Description = 'Camera on first monitor. Shkval on the left, ABRIS on the right, on the second monitor.'
Viewports =
{
Center =
{
x = 0;
y = 0;
width = 1920;
height = 1200;
viewDx = 0;
viewDy = 0;
aspect = 1.6;
}
}

Shkval =
{
x = 1920;
y = 0;
width = 960;
height = 1080;
}

ABRIS =
{
x = 2880;
y = 0;
width = 960;
height = 1080;
}

I try loading that up and all I can see is the camera view. Nothing happens on the second monitor. Now I know people are able to use different aspect ratios and stuff based on this thread:
http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t ... rk+monitor

But I cannot see to get this to work. What am I missing here?

[2GvSAP_Chief]

Well after much crashing and cursing and crashing some more, I have finally figured it all out. Turns out I forgot two things. First I needed to edit my config.lua in the /Ka50/BlackShark/data/scripts folder and make the following modifications:

["graphics"] =
{
["multiMonitorSetup"] = "camera+shkval+abris",
["color"] = "32",
["heatBlr"] = 0,
["scenes"] = "high",
["water"] = 2,
["fullScreen"] = false,
["visibRange"] = "High",
["aspect"] = 1.6,
["textures"] = 2,
["shadows"] = 3,
["display_mode"] =
{
["avi"] =
{
["bpp"] = 32,
["resolution"] = "640x480",
["full_screen"] = false,
["aspect"] = 1.333333333,
["height"] = 480,
["width"] = 640,
}, -- end of ["avi"]
}, -- end of ["display_mode"]
["effects"] = 3,
["lights"] = 2,
["haze"] = 1,
["terrPrld"] = "20",
["height"] = 1200,
["resolution"] = "3840x1200",
["civTraffic"] = 0,
["width"] = 3840,
}, -- end of ["graphics"]

The most important part was the fullscreen. For Vista unless you have it set to false it will cause it to crash. The bad part about this is that with fullscreen turned off it means you are running in windowed mode which is terribly inefficient and causes a huge hit to the framerate. So to hell with it until I move from Vista I guess.

[2GvSAP_Mohawk]

Glad you sorted it out. I had a dual monitor setup running in XP and it worked flawlessly even though the monitors were different aspect ratios (16:10 LCD and 4:3 CRT). Vista is a pain for dual setups as you described. Btw, why are you still using Vista? I know the rule of thumb is wait for the 1st SP release by Microsoft before upgrading to a new OS, but Windows 7 is the best OS released by Gates & Co so far.

[2GvSAP_Chief]

Will I run into the same problem with Winows 7? So far this is the only bad thing that has happened with Vista so far, otherwise everything else is working great. Would hate to tear down my system just to change the OS just for this only to find I am no better off... or worse off because something else will not work.

[2GvSAP_Einstein]

Chief, FYI, I just did a multi-monitor setup on Win7 64-bit. I did have to do the "fullscreen = false" option, but I didn't notice a big drop in FPS (was still getting 40fps+).