OK, I did the work using one of my old screenshots (with SLI GTX8800)
Needless to say, you want to see three monitors, well, it is gonna be big pictures :D


Optimal Resolution 1024x768 (in order to identify the dots ;) ) and 4:3 :)
note: I do not know whether CoD has been optimized for 16:9 or 4:3 monitors but at least for IL2 it was 4:3
This is a screenshot from the days we were trying to identify the Russian PE-2s which were becoming "invisible" over woods (you can recognise the dot under the number 3 in the centre screen)

Using the same IL2 3monitor 3072x768 (3x1024)x768 screenshot as base.

IL2 single monitor view 1024x768
http://grathos.de/temp/CoD/IL2_1MON_VIEW.jpg

IL2 three monitor view (3x1024)x768 = 3074x768
http://grathos.de/temp/Perfect_FullView_8800.jpg

As you can see from the two above screenshots, my horizontal field of view trippled and I did not lose any of my vertical view thanks to IL2's 3monitor view option in the conf.ini

CoD single monitor view 1024x768
http://grathos.de/temp/CoD/IL2_1MON_VIEW.jpg

CoD three monitor (current) view (3x1024)x768 = 3072x768
http://grathos.de/temp/CoD/COD_3MON_VIEW_WRONG.jpg
As you can see there is a major loss of vertical view because CoD just expanded the original 1024 pixels horizontal view to 3072 pixels horizontal view. The detail is of course much better (than in my "streched image" example but the loss of vertical view is considerable.

CoD three monitor (not available today) view (3x1024)x768 = 3072x768
This is what a real three monitor view should look like in CoD
http://grathos.de/temp/Perfect_FullView_8800.jpg


I hope this explains.

~S~

Il2 will NOT automatically select the correct settings. A person can, via the config.ini set up for three monitors rendering left window, center view, right window via the use3renders command - but it will ONLY work if your monitor is set to a 4:3 resolution and not 16:9 or 16:10 monitors. It's a big source of frustration for many users, myself included. Thankfully there are other solutions out there such as San's FOV changer and two other "mods" I am aware of that will allow users of three monitor setups to gain a "wider perspective", but the original software will not automatically configure itself as such.

Not trying to be disagreable - just pointing out something I and many other users have had a good deal of experience in the past. S!

Thank you for a very detailed analysis on the situation. But how come I'm not seeing that zoomed in limited view for CoD in this video for example but a pretty decent fov:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=jO0MYcI344c

Is it because of Eyefinity vs triplehead2go?

Neither, nor.

I can only assume, he adjusted the FOV using the following solution:

This solution unfortunately changes your front view and it is very difficult to dogfight and aim after that so, impractical.

~S~