Possible multi-display setup?

[digital_steve]

In my quest for some kind of cockpit, with limited money, space and a less-than-willing fiance, i was wondering if this would be possible to do with DCS:BS:

 

1 x main monitor (whatever size) - cockpit

1 x touchpal monitor (15") - touchpal buttons without shkval & abris

2 x samsung u70 (7") - one for shkval, one rotated 90 degrees for abris

1 x monitor or networked laptop - BSVP

 

Given you have a computer with the stones to run it, would this be possible at all?

[Gadroc]

I suspect you will have problems with the USB monitors for Black Shark. In my testing putting the ABRIS display on anything except for the primary video card kills your framerate. I successfully run a four monitor (40" main display and 3 15" touch screens) setup off of one computer, but I do it through all VGA/DVI connections with a secondary video card. I obviously run TouchPal on that. I have successfully run BSVP on it as well in regards to frame rate, but it causes problems with my G940.

 

I have not had a chance to try out the shkval on a USB monitor. I have a 8" LCD which I will drive via TV out for my shkval in the new pit I'm building.

[digital_steve]

Interesting...

Perhaps using just one u70, for Shkval, and keeping the ABRIS on the TouchPal screen would be the way to go... which i can't get working currently, but should be able too with a new system.

So cockpit would be centre (higher than the others, obviously) with BSVP on the left, Shkval middle and TouchPal right

[ddahlstrom]

And don't forget that Touchpal itself can run on a separate networked computer too--especially if you plan to run it without the shkval & abris. If this is an option for you, you can also check-out my touchpal patch here, which provides a profile for this along with support for keystrokes.

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=795212&postcount=117

[digital_steve]

Oh cool, i didn't realise touchpal can now run networked!

[ddahlstrom]

Oh cool, i didn't realise touchpal can now run networked!

In fact, you can even run both a networked and local copy simultaneously, providing that one of them limits itself to using keystroke commands (since export.lua can currently only converse through a single port). In my setup, I have Touchpal running locally on a second monitor with a profile that shows the ABRIS and Shkval along with a small set of switches and buttons that use strictly keystroke-based commands. Meanwhile, I have a second instance of Touchpal running on a remote touchscreen machine which hosts buttons that issue a full suite of network and keystroke based commands.

Edited December 15, 2009 by ddahlstrom

[digital_steve]

Got a link to where you've shown that setup off?

Sounds (and no doubt looks) awesome!