Assetto Corsa on Three Screens

[Derek Speare]

UPDATE: Since the Tech Demo has been released, there is no question that AC will support three screens properly. My experience with the Tech Demo confirms that KS has nailed three screen support perfectly! TYVM, KS for implementing my request!

I have only one humble request for AC. I am sure it will be great in many aspects. However, I fear one area may not be like it should, and the recent screens don't augur well for my hope.

I would hope that AC does a perfect job at presenting the visual world across three screens like we see with iRacing and LFS. There the user has substantial control over the resolution of the display. NKP does, and the recent screens of AC across three screens look as if there is substantial warping of the display at the outer most edges.

Warping is common among Simbin's titles, and it's also existent in CARS. iRacing and LFS have no warp. I hope the future sees the same for AC.

Thank you,

Derek Speare

NB - if this is not the place for the post, please move it to where it should be posted

 

[Luke Russell]

 

[Aristotelis]

Watch out guys... bombs ahead

 

[Aristotelis]

Ok, it's official on our facebook page,
copying here:

So you asked support for separate rendering, monitor angle settings, distance eye to screen, bezel compensation, screen width size and various other buzzwords. We deliver all this and add ingame realtime configuration.​

Photo of the TV screens we used today for testing, which are certainly not ideal for the case, but the end result is not that bad isn't it?​

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[Luke Russell]

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Ok, it's official on our facebook page,
copying here:
So you asked support for separate rendering, monitor angle settings, distance eye to screen, bezel compensation, screen width size and various other buzzwords. We deliver all this and add ingame realtime configuration.

Photo of the TV screens we used today for testing, which are certainly not ideal for the case, but the end result is not that bad isn't it?

Im now a religious man, Stefano and Aristotelis are my gods and i will pray 3 times a day.
My bible is this thread the gods have spoken!

No but seriously, this is amazing, i can´t thank you enough for listening to us even though we are a minority and that you spent 4 hard days trying to figure this thing out.

Thank you very much for this, i will support you guys any way i can!

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Also, was it much of a FPS hit? 20-30%?

 

[magicfr]

gratz!

 

[DennS]

What Luke said

Awesome work guys, thank you sooooo much! Enjoy your beer

 

[JvMr]

Not a 3screen user myself but it's just amazing how you guys deliver. Awesome job!

 

[Pablo Lopez]

THANK YOU

 

[Ivo Simons]

Looks great. But why still the wrong POV with 3 screens?
With 3 screens you can perfectly setup a realistic POV.

 

[Mat Venn]

He might like that POV .

Great stuff ,

 

[Nico Van Elk]

POV is hard to pick. If you have it realistic it's easier to judge the track/corners.
Less realistic means easier to see out of the side windows where the others are on track.

 

[magicfr]

POV is hard to pick. If you have it realistic it's easier to judge the track/corners.
Less realistic means easier to see out of the side windows where the others are on track.

With 3 screens correctly set and close to the steering wheel, you can setup up a 180° FOV, so you get realistic FOV and Full 180° view to watch other cars on the track.

 

[Nico Van Elk]

With 3 screens correctly set and close to the steering wheel, you can setup up a 180° FOV, so you get realistic FOV and Full 180° view to watch other cars on the track.

180 would be nice, i'd have to experiment a bit more. I think my problem is the screens are not close to the wheel as they are on the desk. But it's good anyway to not have the "warped" effect on the monitors in AC.

 

[magicfr]

I have 3 23" , side screen are 30° from center screen, the center screen is juste behind my logitech DFP , so my eyes are ~70cm from the center screen.
With this I get a total horizontal fov of 120°, which is already quite good to race in traffic !
I constructed a mount with bosch alluminium profiles and Conrad VESA screen mount
The whole thing can slide front/back to go from desktop/coding/mmorpg position to racing position

 

[Ivo Simons]

He might like that POV .
Great stuff ,

Bit still its pointless if you have a 3 screen setup. A 3 screen gives you a option to have it realistic set up. So not using it is a waste of money.

 

[Nico Van Elk]

Ok, i'm gonna steal that design, exactly what I need
Conrad mounts on order.

But did your desk tumble over the first time before you added those weights at the back, and are there any videos of that?

 

[magicfr]

Screens are a bit heavy (2kg each maybe ), If I dont put the weight it's not rolling over but it's really on the edge, so I didn't want to take the risk

 

[Hampus Andersson]

With 3 screens correctly set and close to the steering wheel, you can setup up a 180° FOV, so you get realistic FOV and Full 180° view to watch other cars on the track.

You need two more screens to get 180 degrees but keep a realistic FOV meaning everything is in scale 1:1

Which is really what you should focus on rather then your peripheral degrees.