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Hey MickF, Thanks again for the suggestion to use EMC, worked like a dream this time! All exports back to the correct positions! Just have to re run Peters great clcikable menu prog to get that where I need it and I'm sorted! Cheers P.S Sorry docfu, no idea about the double draw question.

Well this is very strange ( as is always the case with anything to do with DCS lol )... I have just amended my monitor.lua and renamed the viewports as per deaconjb's post on page 48. I have amended all the ones on his list, saved and loaded it and the 2 MFD's are now back on my fourth monitor ( and in the right positions I left them ) but all the other indicators are still missing! MickF, could you post your Export.lua please? So I can see what your naming the indicators. This is what I have at the moment that gives me 2 MFD's but no more...( please note its now a mish mash of the old naming conventions and the one I took from deaconjb's, neither of which are working ) _ = function(p) return p; end; name = _('HELIOS_Ver2'); Description = 'HELIOS setup' Viewports = { Center = { x = 0; y = 0; width = 5040; height = 1050; viewDx = 0; viewDy = 0; aspect = 5.04; } } CDU_EXPORT = { x = 6423; y = 733; width = 280; height = 180; } LEFT_MFCD = { x = 5105; y = 145; width = 380; height = 380; } RIGHT_MFCD = { x = 6265; y = 145; width = 380; height = 380; } DIGIT_CLOCK = { x = 5456; y = 809; width = 100; height = 100; } RWR_SCREEN = { x = 5536; y = 141; width = 200; height = 200; } CMSP_SCREEN = { x = 5980; y = 182; width = 236; height = 47; } CMSC_SCREEN = { x = 5784; y = 139; width = 218; height = 34; } ED_A10C_UHF_FREQUENCY_STATUS = { x = 5609; y = 671; width = 120; height = 33; } ED_A10C_UHF_PRESET_CHANNEL = { x = 5693; y = 466; width = 30; height = 27; } UHF_REPEATER = { x = 5599; y = 540; width = 110; height = 28; } Gui = { x = screen.width / 3; y = 0; width = screen.width / 3; height = screen.height; } UIMainView = Gui UIMainView = Viewports.Center

Thanks Mick I will take a look tomorrow. Cheers

Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Yesterday all my exported indicators were where I wanted them...today ( following a small patch ) they are now back at default settings! I have checked my monitor.lau and its loading the correct one in the menu. Any ideas whats changed? ( I wouldn't mind so much but its just taken me about a week to get the damn things working were I want them! ) :wallbash:

Ah I see, thanks for the quick explanation. That answers my question, sorry I should have read the whole thread a little more carefully. Still looks a great app, hope to see it released soon, and good luck with the baby!

Hey tiger, just stumbled across this thread and must say very impressed with what you have done so far. One question, will this be compatible with people running Helios? Also would you be able to have multiple devices running, ie an ipad running with an iPhone?

Hello mate, looks awesome. Many thanks for sharing and continuing the development of your profile. Can't wait to try this once my touchscreen is up and running again!

Good question as I had noticed one display considerably brighter than another... unfortunately I have no idea, sorry. Not sure if the in game display can be adjusted and if that is mirrored in the external?

Hey barra, great to hear! It really is worth it when it all works. In fact doing all this has reminded me of the feeling I had in the early days of gaming when I spent more time getting the game to work rather actually playing the damn thing, lol :doh:

No Problem, please see attached. Hope they work for you! I do know that the changes make no sense what so ever to me. I had the 2 mfd's work straight off, a couple of otehrs just needed the extra code adding and the last 3 or 4 needed the coordiantes moving radically and a major resizing of the exports... weird! Hopefully these are what you need. UHF_FREQUENCY_STATUS ( This file is actually freq_status_init. not to be confused with FREQ_STATUS_page ) UHF_PRESET_CHANNEL UHF_REPEATER

Well after last night and quite a bit of this morning I have finally got everything back to where it was before the latest patches!!! Please, please ED dont mess with these again I dont think my heart could take it. Thanks again to all those that take the time to post their findings and offer assistance to us mere mortals :thumbup: Oh and in case anyone has the same setup as me I include my monitor config. I run : Total of 4 monitors - 3 x 24"s in eyefinity at 5040x1050 and the fourth 23" touchscreen at 1920x1080. Although I use the fourth below the middle trio I have it in windows on the right. (if you see what I mean ) I now have all exports correctly aligned and run it with Loz's profile in HELIOS on teh fourth monitor. ( Just got to figure out how to get the radios working again ) Cheers

That's great, many thanks for yours and air dogs help, much appreciated! Will try this tomorrow, cheers.

Thanks very much for posting this and passing on the info that Hellfrog has worked out. Would you mind posting some of your other configs? So far I have the MFD's working ( they worked right off the bat ) however following your directions I have got the RWR and digital clock to display. However having copied the other files exactly the same I cannot get the CMSP,CMSC or any of the UHF radio frequencys to show up??? So close but yet so far!!! Any assistance gratefully received!

Thanks Congo, you can be my official technical advisor if you like? Your observations were spot on! Cheers buddy! :thumbup: Air dog, thx mate, pm sent.

http://www.scsimulations.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=81&page=2 Rat by name...not by nature mate. :smilewink:

Hello Mate, Just thought I would update you following a "little" upgrade :) I have just gone for the ATI 6950 2 gig card ( with FLEX ) and a SSD for Operating system and A10, so am now running.... "Deep Breath"... 3x24" monitors under eyefininty at a res of 5040x1050 1x23" Acer touchscreen underneath for my instruments @ 1920x1080 The touchscreen is setup with HELIOS and I have now exported the MFD's plus CMSP,CMSC,RWR,UHF controls and Digital Clock. This is using Easy Monitor Cofigurator. HELIOS Im running with Lozs panel. and heres the good bit... FPS 40 to 60 while running the training missions... YES!!!!! Boy am I a happy camper, though did takes ages faffing about but it was definetly worth it, oh yes!!!! If anyone is in any doubt, the talent behind those 3 bits of software should be knighted especially HELIOS, absolutely brilliant. I thank you all for writing these and taking the time to share them to the community. Because without them and of course the many others that help this community, I would still be staring at my monitor wishing for a miracle to get a multi monitor solution up and running. Gadroc, Loz and IceMaker... :thumbup:Gentlemen, I salute you! With a special mentioned in dispatches to Madtommy for compiling this guide!!!

Hey thx for the replies Congo & fzfq3m ( btw that's a really hard name to repeat, where did it come from??? :lol: ) Congo, your experiences with a 5 screen set up ( bloody nice setup btw :thumbup: ) makes me wonder about going down the same route as yourself, and changing gfx card. I had a look at some multi monitor gfx's and saw that ati do a 6950 "flex" that supports up to 5 monitors, would that be quicker than your 5870 6? Also have you tried exporting mfd's and such onto your 4th monitor, looking at your screen shot it looks like a no, but wondering if you have messed about with it at all? Currently I'm running HELIOS without any issues ( well other than the latest patch has apparently messed up some of the buttons!!! ) & I must say I am loving what it brings to the table. I really like the way I can monitor (no pun intended ) my instruments by just flicking my eyes down instead of having to move my head using trackir. Sounds a small point but really helps my scan and feels much more natural. ( The fact that my trackir doesn't seem to like to pan down in game hasn't helped ) Currently I'm getting on ok not having the mfd's exported and hasn't stopped me from getting back into enjoying what is quite simply an astoundingly deep and fulfilling sim!

Hey thx I will be sure to check it out ( box of tissues on standby for my blubbing like a baby when it all goes horribly wrong! ). Actually I have been messing about all week trying to improve my fps after finally taking the plunge and ordering a acer 23" touch screen. Now that did seem like a good idea at the time however I have now got a number of issues with what I'm trying to run OK quick recap of what I have and what I'm trying to do with it!!! 1: running 3x24" monitors in eyefinity @ 3840x1024 2: 4th monitor acer 23" touchscreen @ 1920x1080 3: running HELIOS on 4th monitor 4: Exporting MFD's,RWR,etc onto 4th monitor 5: sys spec: intel i7 @2.7 o/c 4.0, GFX - 2x 5870's, 6 gig RAM, win7 64 OK, running that drags my fps right back down to <10. Having done a fair bit of reading on here and over at SCsimulations forum I've concluded that it just cant run well enough once I expand the desktop onto the 4th monitor. ( I guess too many pixels ). With just HELIOS running on 4th monitor ( 1920x1080 ) with the x3 screens @ res of 3840x1024 I'm getting 60(ish) FPS on the 1st quick mission. Once I alter my .lua to span onto the 4th monitor the fps plummets. I have read that there is an issue with ATI and also that if if you put the 4th monitor onto another graphics card it hits fps. Well thats what Im doing. (the eyefinity monitors have 2x vga and 1 powered display port. The touchscreen goes into the other gfx card ona dvi connector. I can not think of another way to try and export the mfd's. The only thoughts I have left are ... a) live without the exporting ( not really wanting that ) b) buy a different graphics card that will run 4 monitors off just the one card. ( would that signifcantly improve my fps? ) c) go to a single big monitor ( 30"/27" ) plus the touchscreen. ( so no issue with monitors going to second gfx card and lower res ) d) I suppose the final "wish list" setup would be to use the curved Herculean screen that I read about on simhq last year. That looks a fantastic setup. Edit....nearly forgot the obvious option... e) upgrade CPU and or graphics card, and if so what would be able to handle these resolutions and still give respectable fps? Anyways if any one has any ideas what I might be missing to get better fps please feel free to throw any ideas at me!!! Cheers

Hey fzfq3m, Thanks again, and guess what... quickly tried the setting you suggested last night ( though ended up changing the 4th monitor res down to 1280x1024 )... YES!!! Quick mission is now running at 40fps, not quite as good as the 60fps but a whole lot better than <10! I also still need to look at disabling the 3d mfd's, hopefully that should give us a bit more. Oh yes, sorry for the confusion over 1.08... yep I'm also on the latest build for A10. Ok, thanks again for your help, lets see how I get on after some tweaking!!! :thumbup: rep inbound!

Hi fzfq3m, Thanks very much for taking the time to try and help. Interesting idea about the resolution. The reason I have done it that way was thats how the monitors actually physically sit, ie 3 across the top and the fourth directly below the second. ie XXX _X_ so the combined horizontal distance is 3840 ( 3 x 1280 ) I then have then vertical of the top monitors ( 1024 ) added to the bottom monitor ( 900 ) giving me the 1924. I did it that way as I thought thats what it said to do in the guide, but seeing what you have written makes me think your way may be better, as it doesn't really matter where the screens are, so long as I can posistion the mfd's in the correct location on the 4th monitior. I will try disabling the mfds in the 3d view ( I had looked at that solution earlier as I have just downloaded the Ipit for the ipad and am trying to get that running ). With regards the graphic driver, yes I am on the latest, though I did try rolling back to an older one just to eliminate that as a possible conflict. I will have a proper look at this tomorrow, but thanks again for your thoughts, really appreiacted :thumbup: Cheers

Hey all, I haven't been around for a while and thought it was high time to fire up A10 again. Before the break I had been running 3 screens with eyeinfinity ( or possibly triplehead2go ) and a fourth screen as the instruments ( HELIOS ) plus the 2 MFD extended onto the 4th monitor as detailed here. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=62021&page=3 which followed Madtommys advice at teh start of this thread. Now at the time my frames were pretty good and I didn't have any issues other than spending an age getting the MFD's to align under the TM mfds. Ok so back to now... I've set everything back up - 3x24" monitors running under eyeinfinity (CAT 11.6 ) total res for that is 3840x1024. My fourth monitor is 22" @ 1440x900. Everything ok so far. I have then created a new .lua shown below. _ I have altered the options settings to reflect my extended desktop ( from 3840x1024 to 3840x1924 ). I fire up the sim, go into the first quick mission and am getting under 10fps when I am running without the fourth screen ( just 3840x1024 ) I'm hitting from 60-70 fps on the same mission. Anyone have any ideas what the problem is? And anyone else running a simmilar setup? Cheers in advance!!!

Thats fine, but don't forgot VAT is going up from next year!!!:doh:

Hi and welcome to my world of pain! Please read about my expericenes with them here.... http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=55254 Good Luck! And if you get any joy please keep us updated.:thumbup:

Most enjoyable and the cockpit is looking fantastic! 1 question though, could anyone explain why its all tied together with a bit of string? Budgets cuts perhaps? :cry:

Thanks for the suggestion, however I think I'm fairly sure now that it isn't a problem with eyeinfintiy, but as CyBerkut had thought ( thanks again to you! ), actually its crossfire. This weekend I had some time to really play about with it, and have had "some" success. First off previous attempts to disengage crossfire hadn't worked and it seems it took a re boot for the new setting to take effect. Once disabled I managed to succesfully add... 1st - My touch screen ( 10" running touch buddy ) 2nd- the 2 usb monitors ( these could now play video withou a problem ) So I had my 3x24" monitors creating 1 eyeinfinty group. Then had 3 additional monitors ( 2xusb,1 touch ) all running off the one computer. I feel a quote from the film Pulp Fiction where Mr Wolf cautions "Lets not start ....... .... ...... ..... just yet Gentlemen" Pretty much sums it up. I couldnt get LEAVU to run properly at the same time as the touch screen that was running touch buddy. The game ( which incidentally didnt seem to run any worse after switching off cross fire ) seemed to be struggling and stuttering. I also coulnt get any displays up on the usb monitors from LEAVU. I then went back to trying to run LEAVU from another networked computer, keeping the single touch screen and the 3x eyeinfinty group on my game machine. This, for God alone knows why, now doesn't run properly either. I haven't changed any settings since it last ran fine, but now I'm having a nightmare with LEAVU - which I know has nothing to do with this topic so I will stop before I start crying... Just about ready to give up on this, and just content myself with running DCS A10 with eyeinfinity and my touch screen (without crossfire and teh 2 usb monitors...what a waste! ) Just posting this to let anyone else tempted to try this setup hear my experiences!