Nanovision 7-inch displays

[Stickers]

Hey all,

 

I just got done flippin through the June issue of PC Gamer and they talk about these little 7-inch displays in the Hardware section. I was thinking of purchasing 2 off the $129.99 models.

 

Heres a link to the website: http://www.mimomonitors.com/

 

My question is does anyone think these would suck for BS? I would love to have 2 of these to assign the Shkval and ABRIS to. My current monitor is an Acer P243 24" monitor that runs in a 1920 x 1200 native resolution. I guess these things run in 800 x 480. Would there resolution not work for BS?

 

Now I know I can go to newegg.com and get a 17" LCD for like $110 instead but I don't have that many DVI ports for a 3 monitor setup. These things plug into a USB port which sounds kind of nifty.

 

 

Let me know your guys thoughts! Thanks!

[woz]

theres touchscreen ones too

 

they look awesome :thumbup:

[crazysundog]

Those look cool, would be nice to have a set of touchscreens that were USB!

 

P.S welcome to the forums gents.

[Stickers]

Well the reviewer said the touch screen part kind of sucks. That was one of the reasons I wanted to just get the cheaper ones. But ya it would be great if they all worked well.

[goon3r]

Hey all,

 

I just got done flippin through the June issue of PC Gamer and they talk about these little 7-inch displays in the Hardware section. I was thinking of purchasing 2 off the $129.99 models.

 

Heres a link to the website: http://www.mimomonitors.com/

 

My question is does anyone think these would suck for BS? I would love to have 2 of these to assign the Shkval and ABRIS to. My current monitor is an Acer P243 24" monitor that runs in a 1920 x 1200 native resolution. I guess these things run in 800 x 480. Would there resolution not work for BS?

 

Now I know I can go to newegg.com and get a 17" LCD for like $110 instead but I don't have that many DVI ports for a 3 monitor setup. These things plug into a USB port which sounds kind of nifty.

 

Let me know your guys thoughts! Thanks!

 

I have been thinking about grabbing one of these as well. Another option to consider PSP Disp. A bit more work though. I too have a 24 inch monitor which takes up almost all of the space on my desk. I'm thinking of using one of these for the Shkval only. Don't care for the ABRIS too much.

 

Not trying to Hijack the thread but I'm not clear on one small detail. Does BS support multiple monitors with different resolutions ? If not then these tiny monitors are useless.

[Made.In.China.00]

ATTENTION!

I am deadly sure to have seen that it DOES NOT work for any 3D application! So Shkval is NO GO! Abris is ok cause it's only 2D, and i've seen a photo of it working.

[nomdeplume]

Why wouldn't it work for 3D applications? The video card is just generating a 2D image. Even the ABRIS display is a texture mapped onto a 3D plane and rendered onto a 2D output, just like the Skhval is...

 

From what I've read on the forums, DCS does support multiple monitors with different resolutions (that's what the camera options is for on the main options screen). The caveat is that you have to set your desktop to 'spanned' mode, as if it's one long display; which is an option apparently not available in Vista. Also it seems to require a bit of mucking around with configuration script files, so between being lazy and not wanting my two monitors in spanned mode I've never bothered.

[PeterP]

Hello!

I was also looking at this kind of soulotion the last weeks. But after some studding the pros and cons I came to the conclusion that I go better with a real Triplehead solution like TH2GO or SoftTh and monitors connected directly on the graphic adapter (and use the Full screen render) and save bandwidth resources - leading to a higher framrate.

 

There is no doubt that it will work but it is will be so hardware demanding that you will have no real fun playing it over 4 monitors like "Stickers" mentions it at Post#1.

 

The render of the USB monitors has to be copied back to the ram and put though the USB. This is acceptable for 2D application but to slow for a DirectX environment. - like "Made.In.China.00" already mentioned in post #6.

 

Why wouldn't it work for 3D applications? The video card is just generating a 2D image. Even the ABRIS display is a texture mapped onto a 3D plane and rendered onto a 2D output, just like the Skhval is...

That's not right - even if the Abris is showing only a 2D image - The render is done in a DirextX-driven 3d application - and that means that you will have to take a big FPS hit when you run it in windowed mode. (with todays hardware and OS) And you are forced to run it in windowed mode because the Render of the Image can't be put out only of the DVI ports of the Graphic card - the render has to split so that it can go the way over the USB bus.

You can use "Fullscreen" only if you use the outputs of one Graphic renderer in BlackShark. And this is no limitation of BS alone - every DirektX application has to run in windowed mode if the render is split over different GFX.

 

But using a USB instead a normal monitor output would be the bottleneck of the whole system - even if you only show something that looks like a 2d Image.

 

I hope that you get my point - :)

 

And I would be carefully before I spend 100 bucks - BTW I got myself a used 17" Touchscreen on ebay for 120€ and I combine it with my normal 22" screen -and I'm very happy right now to do it exactly the same like shown in this video:

http://www.veoh.com/search/videos/q/leftside+touchscreen#watch%3Dv1627326198keXc3X

(This Guy has even videos out where he uses all six screens!)

I'm Fly BS now without using the Keyboard and I don't have have to "look down" all time because the Abris and the TV is always in my sight :smilewink:. But it is sadly only possible in XP in full screen mode. Have a 8800GT and I have average Fames of 40 in the cockpit in 1440x1800 vertical span.

Edited May 1, 2009 by PeterP

[soup55]

I have Matrox TH2Go with 3 19" acer LCD monitors running off of an GeForce Nvidia 8800GTX 768mb. I run BS usually as one 'big' monitor. But I can also easily switch so that the ABRIS is running on the left monitor, the Skhval on the right monitor, and, the main view on the center monitor. When I do this my FPS increases in the main view. But then of course I loose that nice wide FOV from using all 3 monitors as the main view. I also have Naturalpoint TRACKIR. I can't imagine flying BS without it. I would like to keep 3 screens as the main view, and, add 2 more for the ABRIS and Skhval. But I have to wait to see what ED releases for aids in the cockpit building department. Maybe in the coming upgrade?

[Stickers]

Well thanks for the information guys. After reading all the posts I think I am going to just stick with my single monitor and TrackIR for now. The only game I ever used multiple monitors with was Supreme Commander. This was from my Laptop streaming to my LCD TV. It all hooked up quite easily, but it sounds like it'll be a little over my head for BS.

[Made.In.China.00]

Just to make it clearer, USB monitor don't work in 3D application is the USB monitor's problem, it has nothing to do with the application itself. Black shark dose support moltimonitor, but the monitor has to be pluged into a video card (intergrated counts).

In the TH2G's case, it is seen as a super ultra wide screen by the computer, the TH3G box splits and distribute the image to the individual monitors connected to it.

[JG14_Smil]

small monitors cost as much as their larger brothers... add another $35 for a power supply.

 

http://aeicomp.com/Detail.asp?Product_ID=090.035_LCD8VGA

[Flim]

Has anyone actually tried the monitor? I bought the 8 inch usb century to test the idea.