Retired Navy Pilot About to Tear his Hair Out Over Monitors

[bkrull]

Good evening all. As a retired Hornet jock, I love DCS World and the various aircraft. Flying the sim is straightforward; getting my monitors lined out is making me crazy. I have a Dell G7 laptop, 34” LG and an Asus 27”. They’re all set to 1924 by 1080. Before I added the two external monitor everything displayed properly. Now the displays are unusable. They just show just small fragments of the sim and I can’t fly. Please help.

‘Thanks in advance shipmates

Bill

[feefifofum]

Hi bkrull.

 

Are you trying to use multiple monitors for the sim, or just your main display?

[bkrull]

Thanks for your quick answer. I want to use two monitors plus the laptop screen if possible.

For the sim

 

Edited January 1, 2022 by bkrull

[feefifofum]

The mismatched sizes are unfortunately going to make that a pretty strange experience. If possible, I'd recommend identical (at a minimum, size and resolution. preferably same mfgr) displays for anything you want to use to render the actual simulator in-flight. If you're planning on using the second display to render instruments only, you shouldn't have a problem, but some setup is required either way.

 

First, in your System options uncheck "Full Screen." Unless you are running additional software to fool windows into thinking your multiple displays are a single monitor, full screen rendering is not compatible with multiple displays.

 

Next you must set your system resolution to the TOTAL pixel volume of all your monitors. For example, if you have three 1080P displays arranged horizontally, your TOTAL resolution is 5760x1080. If those monitors are arranged vertically (with respect to the "Display" settings in Windows) the total resolution would be 1920x3240.

 

Next you must set the appropriate aspect ratio for the display elements you want rendering the actual simulator. Exclude any displays that are only showing avionics. Get this number by dividing your horizontal resolution by your vertical resolution. I.E. 1920x1080 = 1920/1080 = 1.77

 

Next, you must select a .LUA file using the "Monitors"  drop down menu that will tell DCS where to render what element of the cockpit. There are a few preset options for rendering multiple displays; your best bet is to find one of these that is close to what you want (I.E. 3 screen, 1 camera + MFDs on 2nd screen etc.) and do some experimentation with placement and size.

 

For an example of a basic 2-screen setup, with one 1080P display rendering the sim and a second display showing the two DDIs and AMPCD check my post in this thread.

Edited January 1, 2022 by feefifofum

[bkrull]

Great info. Thanks