Seems the magic sauce was to put the relevant files in these locations:

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\XXUSERNAMEXX\team fortress 2\
SoftTH.cfg
SoftTH_hook.dll

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\XXUSERNAMEXX\team fortress 2\bin\
d3d8.dll
d3d9.dll

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Tips: Use spacebar to move through the new map screens.
Download my Config file: softth
I load the game and switch to 16:9 and 4000×1200 resolution for it to work. It does not seem to like any other aspect ratio for me.

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NVIDIA enabled PhysX with their GeForce v177.83 graphics driver, Geforce 8 and higher only, sorry.  This driver package will also install v8.08.01 PhysX System Software.  The PhysX control panel can be accessed through the Windows Start Menu under ‘NVIDIA Corporation’.  In proper celibration they released a ton of free apps, demos, and a full game through The Force Within Site.

The “free” PhysX support plus apps are a pleasant surprise in a world where companies give me the impression that they dont care who they screw to make a buck.

Available for free from this first GeForce Power Pack includes:

• Warmonger — Full free game! Destroy walls, floors, and whole buildings to open up new paths or close existing ones. Destructive power is more than eye candy here-it’s a tactical weapon in this ground-breaking action game.

• Unreal Tournament 3 PhysX Mod Pack-includes three maps with amazing effects that fundamentally change the gameplay (requires full version of Unreal Tournament 3)

• A sneak peek at the upcoming Nurien social networking service, based on the Unreal Engine 3 (with built-in benchmark).

• A sneak peek at the upcoming game Metal Knight Zero (with built-in benchmark).

• All new NVIDIA “The Great Kulu” tech demo that showcases the use of PhysX soft bodies in a real game play environment.

• All new NVIDIA “Fluid” tech demo-a simulation of realistic fluid effects with a variety of liquids.

• Badaboom Media Converter: Beta  -  formats video and audio files for a variety of devices using a process called transcoding. By utilizing a NVIDIA® GeForce® GPU, badaboomâ„¢ enables users to painlessly convert video in multiple formats and view them on their portable media devices – all in a convenient, intuitive application.

• New WHQL-certified drivers that enable PhysX acceleration for all GeForce 8, 9, and GTX 200 Series GPUs. This new driver also adds support for PhysX-accelerated features in the commercially available Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 game.

Upcoming PC titles that incorporate PhysX technology include Cryostasis, Backbreaker, Aliens: Colonial Marines, with close to 20 more PC titles expected before the year-end holiday seasons.

The Official Press Release.

Oblivion was not difficult to use SoftTH v1.07b to span 3 screens, no configuration changes were needed, although I prefer changing the side monitors to run in 32bit rather than 16bit. This can be done with the following setting  secondaryFormat=RGB32

Bonus: Triple Screen Ending (Spoilers)

* 1.08beta (rc2)
- Fixed performance with RGB16D mode
- Fixed possible crash with D3D9 GetDepthStencilSurface
- Window rect scaling
- Various minor compatibility fixes

* 1.08beta (rc1)
- Improved Autosquash detection
- Removed cylindrical correction setting
- Added lens correction postprocessing effect
- Depthstencil created by SoftTH now uses discard flag
if application originally requested it
- Pixel shader dithering in RGB16 mode for cards that
do not support dithering (ie. GeForce 80000 series)
- Reduced video memory use and improved compatibility
for antialiasing
- Changed to global mouse hook for better compatiblity
- Automatic screenmode & sideExtraWidth detection
- New faster, simplier, multithread safe win32 api hooks

You can grab it here.

Kegen “kegetys” kotisivu has just published the latest installment of SoftTH, that monitor spanning DX9 hack we all know and love.

* 1.07beta
- Autodetection for various settings such as secondary
resolution, device ID, etc. (default)
- Support for D3D9 swap chains (for Call of Duty 2,
Company of Heroes…)
- Persistent win32api hooks for more reliable hooking
- Uses debug access to write memory if regular access
fails (requires admin/debug privileges from user)
- Some default settings adjusted for better compatibility
- Improved device release detection & handling
- Mouse compatibility fixes
- Config file settings separated for OpenGL & Direct3D
- Global config file support in user home directory
- Autosquash option for automatic squashing when no 3D
elements drawn
- Forced multihead use (useMultihead=2) for games that
do not immediately initialize the device with the
triplehead resolution (Such as Test Drive Unlimited)
- Misc fixes & improvements

Thank you kegety’s, I cant wait to give CoD a shot!

You can download the application and find support here.

Running Crysis with SoftTH was a piece of cake. No special configuration, just past the files to the root of Crysis, set the resolution and go. While tweaking the setting I found one nVidia 8800GTS can run fairly smooth at medium quality and 1024×3840 resolution.

I purposefully did not focus on scripted scenes to minimize the spoilers.

Should you accidentally set Crysis to an unsupported resolution and can no longer enter the game to change it, you will need to follow the steps below to reset it.

Make an “autoexec.cfg” file in your Crysis root directory and put the following in it:
r_Width 1368
r_Height 780

And a extra special thanks to www.tweakguides.com for making Crysis rock out at “Very High” settings without needing Vista!

Presenter View is a severely under used feature of PowerPoint 2007, and can improve presentations for even the most experienced presenters.

You can do a lot more with the Presenter View in PowerPoint 2007.
Easily and privately preview upcoming slides and notes. Research information to answer questions during slide shows, and more, without the audience ever realizing it.

I recommend you view the PowerPoint Presentation (4.3MB) on the topic so you can try it while reading along.

If you do not have PowerPoint 2007, I have saved a PDF version (1.4MB) as well.

Enjoy!

Here are just a few of the things you can do with DisplayFusion:

* Set a different desktop background on each monitor (either a picture or solid colour)
* Set a desktop background that spans all monitors (either a picture or colour)
* Integrated Flickr image search & download
* Drag maximized windows by their title bars to other screens
* Easily manage application windows with HotKeys:
o Move windows to the next monitor
o Move windows to the next monitor and maximize them
o Move windows to centre of the screen
o Move windows to centre of the screen and size it to 75% of the work area
o Tile windows along the top, bottom, left or right side
o Maximize windows so that they span all monitors

http://www.binaryfortress.com/displayfusion/

• You run windows Vista
• You link 2 or more video cards (SLI or CrossFire)
• You use DirectX 10 applications

Then you need the following Official Microsoft Patch to enable SLI or CrossFire. Come to find out your second video card was just collecting dust without it.  This patch is slated for Vista Service Pack 1.

For a list of more really handy Vista patches from Microsoft, check out this article.

Day 1 – Today I decided to really thoroughly test synergy, and the best way to find out if you really love or hate something is to use it on your personal PC every day, for better or worse I am going along for this ride.

My main PC has dual screens, and I would really like to maximize my desk space so I stole the “Guest PC” from my other desk and set it up on my desk. With a 24 inch in the middle and a 19 inch on each side I feel like I am getting a tan when I turn on both PC’s after squeezing all three monitors onto my desktop.

Day 3 – I am lazy and haven’t setup synergy yet, I am using both PC’s using 2 sets of keyboards and mice. It’s really frustrating when I start typing on the wrong keyboard, or move the wrong mouse. I don’t think I will ever get used to having two. I will most likely install tomorrow, but I felt adding today’s entry was important because I am experiencing all the frustrations Synergy is suppose to solve.

The only thing I do not like about this setup is I am used to having all my chat and messenger windows open to my right, and now my secondary screen is to the left. It’s weird to move the mouse left to a new screen for me, I will let you know how I adapt.

Day 4 – The guest PC is fully patched and updated. Installing and configuring Synergy took all of 30 seconds after following my first write-up instructions. http://multimonitor.net/2007/06/throw-out-your-kvm%e2%80%99s-synergy-does-it-right-part-1/

Writing today’s entry is simple, it is natural for me to copy a URL from my main PC and paste it into this review. The clipboard copying is a sweet bonus.

And it works with images too! (Not files, copying screen shots or in paint.)

Adding automatic startup is as easy as clicking a single button and synergy will start on boot and the PC’s will automatically connect.

Day 5 – I realized today that when I type on a full screen E-Mail or Word document on a secondary monitor I tend to move the mouse pointer out of the way and onto the main screen. This causes a problem with synergy setups because your keystrokes go to the PC with the mouse. I catch myself typing a couple letters and nothing will show up on the slave PC’s word processor until I figure out my mouse is on the master PC and I just accidentally searched Google, oops.

Day 9 – When games or movies are running in full screen mode and the cursor leaves to the other PC’s desktop weird things happen, like the start bar shows up over the full screen application, or in other cases the sound and/or video stops. No thing to be critical about, as soon as you move the cursor back to the main PC all is well.

Day 10 – Having the “Guest PC” to my right is driving me bonkers. Rather than training myself to stop pushing the mouse out of the way to type, I swapped the guest pc over to the left of my main monitor, and my secondary monitor on my gaming PC went to the right. Ahhh, this is much more fluid and natural. Everything behaves the way I like. Cursor out of the way, Chat to my right, and torrents to my left. Live is good, and very accessible.

Day 13 – Not a single crash, or other issue. Synergy has been running for days and every time I boot, the PC’s Sync like magic without any intervention. This is definitely a very stable product. One feature I wish I had was the ability to change an option on the Guest PC’s synergy (Sync Screen Saver check box) without having to plug in a mouse and keyboard to the system and stop synergy. But there are so very few options that this miner issue is barely worth noting.

Day 14 – I have been full screen gaming pretty regularly with Synergy and have not had one issue. I guess it’s good to point out that whenever you are using an application that does have issues with the mouse leaving the screen such as a first person shooter with Mouse-look, you get used to pressing Scroll Lock button to disable synergy. Most games do not have the key mapped to anything and you can game on without an issue.

Day 15 – I am writing this entry on my guest PC while waiting for the next round of Supreme Commander to begin. I feel I can use both PC’s like a pro! I really enjoy the ease and benefits of Synergy and I am now wondering about what the limitations are.

Day 20 – I set up a laptop with Synergy and configured it to be a 3^rd PC, and my 4^th monitor. Just as I suspected it works like a charm. A couple setting tweaks and I enabled screen wrapping so when the cursor rolls off the utmost right screen it appears to my left. Too easy! A couple tweaks more on the server settings and the laptop is now below the primary monitor in a “T” formation. I imagine you could set up a 4 PC setup in a 2×2 formation if you wanted to control multiple PC’s with little mouse movement but the configuration could get confusing and may need to be written down to get it just right. Here is where Synergy could really benifit from a GUI where you can drag monitor icons around.

Day 22 – I have noticed that when you have the push to talk key set in Ventrillo and the cursor leaves this system while you are pushing the key, it stays pressed. This could lead to an embarrassing situation whenever some application leaves the microphone on. The same thing happens in WoW. When running using the “W” key, I continue running if the mouse leaves the main PC. Bringing the mouse back into the host system resets the key. I would consider this a minor issue, because most games and professional applications are not affected by this.

Day 25 – With the addition of a second 8800GTS onto my Gaming PC the time to review Synergy is coming to an end. I need all 3 monitors to begin breaking testing the next cool app’. All 3 monitors are hooked up my main PC, but the utmost right LCD’s VGA is hooked up to both PC’s. Now i can still access the Guest PC with synergy, I push the input button on the monitor to switch to the VGA source.