Tumbleweed Posted November 9, 2015 Posted November 9, 2015 Hi, I've purchased this tablet for me and the Mrs as a treat and then I wondered if it would be any good for displaying instruments such as the Shkval or ABRIS in the KA-50 or the VSD for the F-15C? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191481434436 It's not the greates of tablets, I really only got it so we had something light but bigger than our phones to browse with. I've read bits n pieces about people using tablets to display DCS instruments here and there but I'm not 100% sure what's needed. Any advice would be extremely welcome. Thanks! :thumbup: My Hangar: P-51D Mustang - KA-50 Blackshark - A-10C Warthog - F-86F Sabre - FC3 - Combined Arms - UH-1H My Flying Adventures: www.dcs-pilot.com :pilotfly:
tob.s Posted November 9, 2015 Posted November 9, 2015 hi i tried this sometime ago and figured out that a real second monitor is a much better solution in terms of lag, fps inpact and stability. A simple used monitor should be around 20/30 euros on ebay... Anyways here some hints for you as starting point... There are many apps to stream your desktop to android devices via wlan but they all have the problem off lag which makes it very hard to aquire a target with shkval / tgp . I tried with the "splashtop" app but there was around half a second of lag, so it got to hard to get a lock on a moving target. However i recently tried using my phone and a cardboard as cheap occulus and stumbled across an app called "trinus vr". This app also has an usb streaming mode which is much faster than wlan, so it might be worth a try. Another App to try might be "Kinoni Remote Desktop" is said to be the fastet wlan streaming app according to some websites. You can trick your windows ( 8.1 guess its the same for 7 and 10) to think theres a second monitor this way - Right click on the desktop, click 'Screen Resolution' Click 'Detect' on the next screen Click 'Another display not detected' and under the multiple displays option select 'Try to connect anyway on: VGA' Click 'Apply' You can now enable your desktop to be extended as if you have a second screen plugged into your computer. However most of those streaming apps will only stream the main monitor in fullscreen mode so ull might need to get ur shkval/tgp as seperate window - the easiest way to do so might be "UltraMFCD" . greetings tobs
Tumbleweed Posted November 12, 2015 Author Posted November 12, 2015 Thank you tob.s I've decided to buy a dedicated 7" display instead. The lag would really irritate the hell out of me. :) My Hangar: P-51D Mustang - KA-50 Blackshark - A-10C Warthog - F-86F Sabre - FC3 - Combined Arms - UH-1H My Flying Adventures: www.dcs-pilot.com :pilotfly:
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