My New Multiple Monitor Setup (pics/description)

[Bisch]

I also have 2 tft and until 102 came out I used the second one for Abris + Shkval. It was a huge gain in atmosphere AND gameplay.

I used solution 2 from this guide: http://www.vjs-germanknights.de/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=251

This guide is in german but you see the lua files.

Since 102 it didnt work anymore but I ll try it from the scratch again. Especially with the updated phantom monitor fix

Edited May 19, 2010 by Atelophobia

[filtonflyer]

Thanks for that Atelophobia, It must make navigation easier to see and plot on the seperate screen.

 

Nick

[Bisch]

You re welcome filtonflyer. Before that I didnt find units I even knew they are here. The seperate shkval now even enabled me to fully recon my environment far ahead. Didnt use the Abris except the map. Now I can see all details and finally got motivated to lesen more about this system

[filtonflyer]

Thats the main reason I want to use it and do justice to this amazing simulator.

[71st_Mastiff]

mm I have one of those gaming pads I should use it it's not doing anything else.:thumbup::thumbup:

[Scooternutz]

What would be awesome is if we could export the data to another computer and put the ABRIS and SCHKVAL up that way.

[Nasty]

my multimonitor setup

 

 

 

 

luas here

 

= function(p) return p; end;

name = _('nasty');

Description = 'Shkval on the left monitor,ABRIS on the right and camera on the center';

Viewports =

{

Center =

{

x = 0;

y = 0;

width = 1680;

height = 1050;

viewDx = 0;

viewDy = 0;

aspect = 1.6;

}

}

Shkval =

{

x = 1680;

y = 552;

width = 720;

height = 480;

}

ABRIS =

{

x = 2400;

y = 0;

width = 768;

height = 1024;

}

 

 

running game with phenom 965 +4gb 1066 ram , 2 x nvidia 8800gt 512mb

sata raid disk.

 

got solid 30 fps when aero is on and details medium and view distance high but edit manual graphics lua like this

structures = {40, 4000};

trees = {1000, 6000};

[Scooternutz]

What is "aero is on"

[Nasty]

windows vista has aero i think that make ur desktop 3d or something. After that i can reach 30fps with multimonitor.

[MackTheKnight]

Since you folks have been talking about touch screens, I thought I'd share my experiance.

 

I recently purchased 2 23" Acer touch screen monitors and set them up. Rather than use the abris and shkval on a separate display, I just use my main 23" for blackshark and the 2nd 23" for touch-buddy. (Although I have to build a new touch-buddy profile as all the one's available in the forums are for small 800X600 displays.) The touch buddy profile I plan to create will only have buttons for things I can't physically click in the pit. Such as radio comms to my wingman, etc.

 

Essentially this allows my entire clickable cockpit available with the touch of my screen. It works well for me. Also, since I'm not running blackshark on more than one screen, I suffer no FPS loss.

 

The Acer touch screens were fairly cheap in comparison to some of the Elo touch screens I'd priced out before. (19" for $800.00+ seemed outrageous to me) If any of you are interested in finding these screens the model is Acer T230H. I picked mine up for $333.00 a piece.

 

Now if only the SU25-T had a clickable pit, I'd be in heaven. Still, Touch-Buddy does the trick. :)

 

-Mack

Edited May 21, 2010 by MackTheKnight

[Scooternutz]

I use Touchbuddy as well for BS, FC2, AF, and IL2. It is funny because someone will ask what a keystroke is and I have no idea because I rarely touch the keyboard. I am also using an X-Keys Pro and an X-Keys Stick. All that combined with my Cougar, I still have room for adding on.

[SEwhiteG]

Hi to all.

I have one SncMaster 793df and one SncMaster 795df monitors.

I try to use your setups with my setings but every time when loading starts, i got runtime error DCS exe.

Can someone post his setings with two monitors.

I try to use one for camera and other for shkval.

Please help !

Thanks.....

[Scooternutz]

Monitor setup lua settings:

 

_ = function(p) return p; end;

name = _('ScooterView');

Description = 'Shkval on the right monitor, ABRIS on the right monitor, camera on the left';

Viewports =

{

Center =

{

x = 0;

y = 0;

width =1920;

height = 1200;

viewDx = 0;

viewDy = 0;

aspect = 1.6;

}

}

 

ABRIS =

{

x = 1920;

y = 318;

width =670;

height =880;

}

 

Shkval =

{

x =2591;

y = 697;

width = 700;

height = 500;

}

 

Options in the Scripts folder:

 

["graphics"] =

{

["multiMonitorSetup"] = "scooterview",

["color"] = "32",

["heatBlr"] = 0,

["scenes"] = "high",

["water"] = 2,

["fullScreen"] = false,

["visibRange"] = "High",

["aspect"] = 1.6,

["textures"] = 2,

["shadows"] = 1,

["effects"] = 2,

["width"] = 3600,

["lights"] = 2,

["height"] = 1200,

["civTraffic"] = 1,

["resolution"] = "1920x1200",

["haze"] = 1,

}, -- end of ["graphics"]

} -- end of options

 

Designate your primary monitor as #1. If it is not, physically change the cables so Monitor 1 is center and Monitor 2 is on the right.

 

Good luck!

[thereminqblank]

@MackTheKnight: Those Acer touchscreens sound good - I'm really tempted to get one to display the Shkval, ABRIS and also TouchPal.

 

How do you find the image quality of these screens?

[MackTheKnight]

@thereminqblank: The screen quality is fair to good. About what I'd expect from any Acer brand monitor. Not as good as a Samsung by any stretch but very acceptable. I tried an Elo touch screen and the display quality of those was not nearly as good as the Acer. And the Acer is much much cheaper than any Elo display.... and bigger.

 

Hope this helps,

Mack

[thereminqblank]

@thereminqblank: The screen quality is fair to good. About what I'd expect from any Acer brand monitor. Not as good as a Samsung by any stretch but very acceptable. I tried an Elo touch screen and the display quality of those was not nearly as good as the Acer. And the Acer is much much cheaper than any Elo display.... and bigger.

 

Hope this helps,

Mack

 

Cool mate, thanks for the review!

[SinandGrin]

what is the purpose of this code from the options.lua file?

 

["display_mode"] =

{

["avi"] =

{

["bpp"] = 32,

["resolution"] = "640x480",

["full_screen"] = false,

["aspect"] = 1.25,

["height"] = 480,

["width"] = 640,

}, -- end of ["avi"]

}, -- end of ["display_mode"]

[mustard7550]

I followed this guide to the later with one slight change this being that i have a 15" on my left at 1024x768, 20" centre at 1920x1080 and a 19" on my right at 1440x900.

Here`s the problem after altering all the options.lua and monitor set up lua it doesn`t spread across any of the screens, all i get is a window @ 1024x768 in the centre screen!

can some one post the options.lua and multimonitor.lus for my setup please as I`m ripping my hair out over this.

Thanks

Edited July 13, 2010 by mustard7550

[ZQuickSilverZ]

I seriously need help! I have a 2 monitor setup. One is on a 19 inch Dell LCD, the other is on a (I'm Guessing) 15 inch VeiwSonic CRT. This is my problem. When I play single player only the loading screen is messed up but the menu screen, cockpit and the shkval look fine. However when I go into multiplayer the screen is stretched out and the monitor does not display all of the menu screen. It seems to cut off the top and bottom. So when I join a server I can't pick most aircraft and I cannot spawn. I am using an nvidia graphics card (Nvidia 8600GT 512 GDDR3) in DualView mode.

 

Options lua

["graphics"] =

{

["multiMonitorSetup"] = "shkval+camera",

["color"] = "32",

["heatBlr"] = 0,

["scenes"] = "medium",

["water"] = 2,

["fullScreen"] = false,

["visibRange"] = "Medium",

["aspect"] = 1.25,

["textures"] = 1,

["shadows"] = 2,

["effects"] = 3,

["width"] = 2080,

["lights"] = 2,

["height"] = 1024,

["civTraffic"] = 1,

["resolution"] = "1280x1024",

["haze"] = 1,

}, -- end of ["graphics"]

 

shkval+camera lua

_ = function(p) return p; end;

name = _('Shkval+Camera');

Description = 'Shkval on the left monitor, camera on the right';

Viewports =

{

Center =

{

x = 0;

y = 0;

width = 1280;

height = 1024;

viewDx = 0;

viewDy = 0;

aspect = 1.25;

}

}

Shkval =

{

x = 1280;

y = 0;

width = 800;

height = 600;

}

Edited July 19, 2010 by ZQuickSilverZ

[ZQuickSilverZ]

Mustard you know you have to enable that option in the Blackshark menu right? Hope that helps.

[CAT_101st]

I had just got my ABRIS working and runing with the shkval and BSVP. Only 1 problem my PSU culd not take it and gave up the ghost in a big blue flash. I have a new 1000w on the way and wont be here till saterday. But i did get a short video of it working. I was working on a full video but it is on the downed PC.

 

[ZQuickSilverZ]

Cat 101st are you able to use those things online. I was able to get my shkval working fine too on single player. Multi stretched the screen out and would not display it properly. I could not choose aircraft or even spawn.

[CAT_101st]

due to the hight of my 3rd screan (1378) I can with out a problem. and yes it does streach the page out.

[walker450]

A quick easy way to fix the mp screens is to set both monitors to the same resolution, if that's possible. The mp menus draw to the largest width and height, and if the second or third monitors are smaller, that part of the screen just gets left off.

 

I really hope dcs a10 does not have this problem

[Razorback]

Untill now I am using BS with 2 monitors. One for the camera view and the second for the shvalk.

These two monitors are connected to my Nvidia 8800 GTS graphicard. No more HDMI output available !

 

I want now to connect a third monitor for the ABRIS. (10'')

 

What's the solution ? Buy a second graphic card ?

 

 

Thx for the support

Chris

Belgium