Widescreen Gaming Forum

I just bought the latest Skyrim legendary edition from Steam.
I was hoping to get it running across my 3 mons with nvidia surround, but no matter what I try It keeps giving me the message:

"Failed to initialize renderer. Your display doesn't support the selected resolution. Please set a different resolution in Skyrim's Launcher"

I have read many threads about this issue and no solution works for me.

My highest native resolution is 4320x900. I have edited the SkyrimPrefs.ini and added my res to iSize H/iSize W.

I have tried manually adding lower resolutions also, nothing i try works.
The game runs just fine on single monitor.

My 780GTX drivers are up to date also.

Has anyone got some things I could try.. Itching to play this game in surround.

Did you by any chance make a typo when entering the resolution values?
Or did you swap the Height and Width values?
iSize H should be 900, iSize W should be 4320 instead of the other way around. Sounds silly but i seem to remember once making the same mistake myself, since usually the width comes before the height.

Considering the error you're getting it sounds like there's either something wrong with your drivers, or something trivial like what i mentioned above.
Do other games work correctly?

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Hi Oraijon, Yeh I have them the correct way around in the ini, just wrote it backwards here..
Interestingly I have no issues with other games ie, crysis 3, grid 2 etc.

After seeing many successful ATI vids on youtube, starting to regret going with nvidia for a high end card :/

The error message im getting is a common one on the nvidia forums, although for different games/situations.

I'm getting ready to buy 3 new matching monitors to fix this problem (I have one odd monitor out, which although same size, seems to have different polarity/timing - and results in the 4320x900 highest res... Im hoping if I can get to 5760x1080 it will fix..

and if it doesn't.. i will have a lot of broken monitors lying around

Hey nebularising, when i had a nvidia 3 monitor setup i had to patch skyrimm first (but being a legendary edition i dont now, also i did this about a year ago). Then i had to search for a widescreen patch and apply this BEFORE running the game (The FOV was also adjustable) and it worked and looked awesome
It did hit me hard in the fps though (Was running 2x gtx560's on 3x 1600x900 screens).

Another option is using softTH to get it going for now (ITS FREE!!!).... http://softth.com/?page_id=92
I got it going on 15 screens and an ATI 7970 (4000x1800) If you try this and the game crashes about a second or two after loading up then set VBquirk=1 in the config file (Worked for me but i was using ati not nvidia) also try nonlocal transport = cuda32 (i think) instead of rgb16d. Its supposed to help fps but softTH only works in dx9 so make sure it set right.

Just be warned i think softTH causes skyrimm to bug, when i used this on my game i could not apply skill points when i leveled up. (but looks great on a 2m x 1m screen)

PS: I agree with Oraijon, test the system with a game that should work but i remember when i was using skyrimm IT NEEDED A WIDESCREEN PATCH. (Damn bethesda games are awesome )

For the widesreen fixes these names are familiar, HaYDeN and Helifax's fixes?

awesome dude, going to look into this. Will post back after some tests!

About the monitors.... Nvidia is not forgiving in this area and i had a problem with this.
I had 3x samsung 20' monitors and i purchased an aftermarket VGA cable. When i used it this changed the way the monitor was detected (Went from generic PnP to non Pnp) just by the cable so if you are using a non OEM cable this can cause issues (Although probably not cause you said the monitor is different).
Just letting you know to save some possible headache.