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How to Change the Virtual Cockpit ZOOM factor?

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Tregarth:

I am using a TripleHead2Go (THG) unit to drive 3x19" wide screen TFT's with a natural resolution of 1440 x 900 each.  When I use Sludge's F-18 the initial ZOOM factor is set to 0.69 so all I can see is the top half of the HUD; reducing the ZOOM factor to 0.3 (by using the keyboard "-" key) I can see all the HUD and the indexer but the cockpit below is not visible i.e I am sitting "too far forward" in the cockpit.

By using the Shift + Keyboard keys I can see inside the cockpit so everything is working OK.

Can anyone please tell me how to either

Set the THG so I am sitting "further back" in the cockpit or

Change the FSX ZOOM Setting in FSX to achieve the same effect?

Thank you,

Tregarth

Sludge:
Tre...

OK, so you're at .3 zoom and even "panning down" (view angle up/down; keypad arrow up/down), you still can't see the instrument panel?  I know what you're saying about using the shift-bkspc/shift-enter or other combos to move your default eyepoint, but I don't know how the THG affects the view.

Can you provide some screen shots, in different views and panning angles, so I can try to help more?

Later
Sludge

Tregarth:
Dear Sludge,

Thanks for replying.

0.66 Zoom Start screen shows how the screen looks on start up.

0.66 Zoom ... Opened Out shows the view once I have dragged the window to cover all 3 screens

0.30 Zoom shows the view when I have pressed keybord "-" so the viewpoint is "as far back" as it will go.

0.30 ...Cockpit shows that all the instruments are visible when I press the Hat Switch to show inside the cockpit.

Thanks for your help and interest,

Tregarth

neutrino:
Did you set WideViewAspect=True in the fsx.cfg file (C:\Users\..\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX\fsx.CFG) ?

Razgriz:
No, no, no neutrino.  The path to the fsx cfg is %appdata%/microsoft/fsx/fsx.cfg

I realize he has W7 (the background looks like it, the taskbar, not so sure, but then you have a "users" shortcut on your desktop) which is why that path works for him, but some users have XP and won't post a desktop picture that you can figure that out from.

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