Triple Screen Support Coming to ACC!

[Chris]

Earlier this morning, Aristotelis of Kunos Simulazioni teased an image of Assetto Corsa Competizione being displayed on three monitors.

For many racers, triple screen support is absolutely essential for racing. Without it, games will go completely untouched, unpurchased and left to collect dust on the virtual shelves of the Steam store. And it's completely understandable. Racing on triple screens is a totally different ball game to a single screen. Outside of Virtual Reality, it is the single most immersive way to play racing games currently.

However, with a single social media post from Kunos, they could see the inclusion of thousands of simracers who have been waiting eagerly for Assetto Corsa Competizione to become compatible with Triple Screen setups.

In what capacity it will be available at release remains to be seen as the cryptic post gave little away, other than support for triple screens and the interior of the newly (but not yet announced) McLaren 720S GT3. No release date, no word on how it will work with Unreal Engine. But... The most important thing is that it's coming.

Unreal Engine has been something of a limiting factor for the Italian studio as the engine does not natively support triple screen rendering. Meaning that to get it to work would require convoluted workarounds, often resulting in warped and skewed images on the side monitors.

However, with the hard work of Kunos, that looks set to be a thing of the past.

Will this development be the catalyst to get you to fire up ACC for the first time in months? Or to buy it in the first place if you haven't already? Let us know in the comments below.

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[erba72]

Fianlly we'll not see heters hate anymore !

 

[M D Gourley]

Forgive me for asking, but how do you mount these? Or do you have a table to set them up?

I made my own rig out of 30mmx150mm timber and MDF...so the Monitors are just positioned on a table surface that I jigsawed to shape, also handy for placing notes on as well...photo below showing my rig with existing old monitors....just waiting for new ones to show up

 

[M D Gourley]

I have 75Hz monitor too and someone told me that under 90-100 fps it was shitty. LOL

I will have to wait and see

 

[Edison5do]

UUhhh I'm eager to drive!
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3rhOhCAqcE/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

 

[Rory Wetherington]

I will have to wait and see

I have 3x 32" 75hz Sceptre curved monitors and they do quite well for sim racing, so you should be fine.

 

[Emery]

I'm looking forward to proper triple screen support (aka Multiview) and that's kept me from purchasing ACC. Somehow I suspect my current triple screen rig is not going to be strong enough, but I need to hold off on a rig update a year more due to autocrossing.

 

[azaralamouri]

Good news for ACC fans, hope performance won't be as bad as the VR implementation though...

photo source: theatlantic.com

Kunos employees will tare you into peaces now if you talk about VR optimization or the change in business model and selling DLC plans.

 

[Nick Hill]

I am a spoiled 1st world brat, so I have access to both VR and triples. VR is incredible, but I gotta say I run triples a lot. Graphical fidelity is pretty poor with current VR hardware...it ends up adding immersion and detracting from immersion simultaneously.

 

[Ho3n3r]

Oh no, what will the Triple Screeners nag about now?

/humor.

Buy another screen and moan about quadruple screen support.

 

[Sabine]

Im one of the 10!

He was talking about the 10 VR users that don't need to read the tripple screen users moaning anymore

 

[DrRob]

@M D Gourley Cheers mate, looks fab!

 

[Evert Geurtsen]

They've done VR, triples and TrackIR. All of those need more work yet but hats off for their efforts.

 

[Durge Driven]

Fianlly we'll not see heters hate anymore !

Hating a Hater makes you a Hater

 

[Metla]

How do you find response times/input latency using a projector. I'll be buying one soon and any advice will be gladly received.

And there is the kicker. I'm a few seconds a lap slower when using my projector, and I don't feel that the driving is as precise. I put this down to the latency/input lag.

If I were playing online then I'd only be using my monitor.

Bearing in mind my projector is a few years old now, Nor was it top of the line when I bought it.

 

[stormychel]

After seeing the ACC is getting possible Triple Screen support, time to throw out my 8 year old existing triple screen 27" monitors that have 28mm thick bezels ...I have just purchased 3 new basic 27" 1080 monitors with 3 sides frameless hidden edge design IPS panel, 75Hz and Freesync....yay, looking forward to them.
https://eu.aoc.com/en/monitors/27v2q

Do those work with a VESA mount?

 

[michelforest]

Oh no, what will the Triple Screeners nag about now?

/humor.

VR, of course!

 

[norbs]

Good news for the triple screeners for sure ! I know how frustrating the similar DiRT Rally 2.0 no VR, then Oculus VR via Steam debacle was.


However, I think we should all take a moment to reflect on the impact we are having on the planet with our hobby. I don't know how so many of you can be so insensitive to the planet at this time, running three monitors when surely one would do.

I mean come on Lewis Hamilton, F1 driver and bang on the extinction trend, has said we've all got to make sacrifices, he's even sold his private jet to show how much he cares. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/50061569

I want all you triple screeners to think of that next time you fire up your monitors, maybe just use 2 next time eh? I mean you could go outside, fly to 21 other countries and drive an ecologically sound F1 car for a couple of hundred laps every other weekend. Then you'd be saving the planet and qualified to tell others to do the same, appreantly.

I'll stick with VR and my bacon roll...ooh no I can't have one of those either according to Lewis.

I switched my PC power supply from 240V to 110V. That will help, right?

As for that idiot Hamilton. Does he not understand how plants grow? Or does he expect the whole damn world to switch farming practices overnight? Stop wasting **** tonnes of fuel driving a F1 car and race Formula E.

*runs and hides*

 

[Metla]

Doesn't that just make it so you are in a MASSIVE car if fov is correct?

FOV calculators don't work on screens this size, Not that I bother with them. Your field of view starts at your eyes, not at the screen.

Aside from that, Yes, Big screen, big image. For me, Much better then tiny screen with tiny image.

 

[Serge.M]

FOV calculators don't work on screens this size, Not that I bother with them. Your field of view starts at your eyes, not at the screen.

Aside from that, Yes, Big screen, big image. For me, Much better then tiny screen with tiny image.
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That’s WAY bigger then real life though, do you not feel tiny while driving with that? Look at the size of the steering wheel! Haha

 

[Metla]

That’s WAY bigger then real life though, do you not feel tiny while driving with that? Look at the size of the steering wheel! Haha

Do you feel giant with a 27cm wide car on your tiny screen?

Odd.