Gremlin77 Posted August 27, 2013 Posted August 27, 2013 (edited) Okay, found out something really funny, perhaps somebody would need it too. As you know, I have written some tools for Saitek Instrument panel or my prog to send parts of screen over network to use with my simulator hardware. Okay, imagine you only have one monitor connected on you graphics card. Then you would have to export the instruments, MFDs or the CDU somewhere on your screen to copy them to Saitek Instrument or to another PC. The alternative would be to connect a second monitor......until now. If you press WindowsKey + P under Windows7 you can select Extend Desktop without having a second monitor connected. In DCS change your resolution in the options windows to your new desktop resolution. Now you can export your desired instruments to the "unvisible" part of the desktop and transfer them wherever you want.... Quite funny, isn't it. First tried to install virtual graphic drivers and so on to get this effect...now I just press two keys..:smilewink: Hope this will help somebody! Edited August 27, 2013 by Gremlin77 1 visit my build thread Gremlin's A-10 :thumbup: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=86916
Duckling Posted August 27, 2013 Posted August 27, 2013 Ha ! It works, just got myself an extra display here. Great find, Thanks Gremlin :thumbup: - - - -
agrasyuk Posted August 27, 2013 Posted August 27, 2013 Good find. Vielen dank! Sheeeesh, I can't wait to start my new build with all these awesome solutions. Anton. My pit build thread . Simple and cheap UFC project
Hansolo Posted August 28, 2013 Posted August 28, 2013 Nice find Gremlin :thumbup: Cheers Hans 132nd Virtual Wing homepage & 132nd Virtual Wing YouTube channel My DCS-BIOS sketches & Cockpit Album
jay43 Posted August 28, 2013 Posted August 28, 2013 That doesn't work for me it nerfs my view up. Eagles may soar high but weasel's don't get sucked into jet engines. System Spec. Monitors: Samsung 570DX & Rift CV1 Mobo: MSI Godlike gaming X-99A CPU: Intel i7 5930K @ 3.50Ghz RAM: 32gb GPU: EVGA Nvidia GTX 980Ti VR Ready Cooling: Predator 360 Power Supply: OCZ ZX Series 80 Plus Gold Drives: Samsung SSD's 1tb, 500g plus others with OS Win10 64 bit
Gremlin77 Posted August 28, 2013 Author Posted August 28, 2013 What's the problem? visit my build thread Gremlin's A-10 :thumbup: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=86916
jay43 Posted August 28, 2013 Posted August 28, 2013 If I do that it shuts of 1 of my 3 screens for some reason as I have 3 which are running in Nvidia surround mode I have no idea why it would do that. Eagles may soar high but weasel's don't get sucked into jet engines. System Spec. Monitors: Samsung 570DX & Rift CV1 Mobo: MSI Godlike gaming X-99A CPU: Intel i7 5930K @ 3.50Ghz RAM: 32gb GPU: EVGA Nvidia GTX 980Ti VR Ready Cooling: Predator 360 Power Supply: OCZ ZX Series 80 Plus Gold Drives: Samsung SSD's 1tb, 500g plus others with OS Win10 64 bit
Gremlin77 Posted August 28, 2013 Author Posted August 28, 2013 (edited) Ah okay, I think this trick is not working for multimonitor systems. Think, you need one unused graphic port to use this as a projector output for the fake screen. The trick is, that windows doesn't check this output for an attached Monitor or projector. I only use this trick when I am working on my developer PC, so I don't have to use a second "real" monitor. In my simulator setup, I use a Matrox triple head2go with two projectors for views and the third for exporting CDU, MFD etc. Edited August 28, 2013 by Gremlin77 visit my build thread Gremlin's A-10 :thumbup: http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=86916
Sn0w_Lynx Posted August 28, 2013 Posted August 28, 2013 Okay, found out something really funny, perhaps somebody would need it too. As you know, I have written some tools for Saitek Instrument panel or my prog to send parts of screen over network to use with my simulator hardware. Okay, imagine you only have one monitor connected on you graphics card. Then you would have to export the instruments, MFDs or the CDU somewhere on your screen to copy them to Saitek Instrument or to another PC. The alternative would be to connect a second monitor......until now. If you press WindowsKey + P under Windows7 you can select Extend Desktop without having a second monitor connected. In DCS change your resolution in the options windows to your new desktop resolution. Now you can export your desired instruments to the "unvisible" part of the desktop and transfer them wherever you want.... Quite funny, isn't it. First tried to install virtual graphic drivers and so on to get this effect...now I just press two keys..:smilewink: [ATTACH]86658[/ATTACH] Hope this will help somebody! been doing that since BS 1 with my ipad and extended desktop app [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Rig: :joystick: :pilotfly: AMD FX8350 8 core @ Stock Clock G. Skill X Series 32GB (4x 8GB) @ 2200Mhz OC GTX 1070 8GB Corsair H110 Liquid Cooler
Mr_Burns Posted August 29, 2013 Posted August 29, 2013 been doing that since BS 1 with my ipad and extended desktop app So why didnt you share it....Only messing. I dont get what you are saying though, i have 2 monitor connections on my GFX card and one of those ifintiy ports I dont have the monitors for and I have a monitor connection on my mobo. Right now, this doesnt allow me to use 3 monitors, for some reason the either the mobo or gfx card isnt recognised. But would this push it to my spastic 3rd port? How do you send it to an ipad??? via the recharge/itunes chord??
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