BS Multi monitors setup with negative co-ords (secondary screen on the left)

[coolts]

Has anyone got this working? I’ve gone from 1 to 3 then to 2 monitors as I gave up on SoftTH, etc. and wraparound screens due to fisheye rendering and desk space issues.

Coming back to DCS, I rummaged around for my old multi monitor notes and started bashing together a .LUA using ED’s new syntax changes.

Ms second monitor is however on the left of the main one and I think that has bamboozled the engine.

It seems that ABRIS and SHKVAL viewport’s with negative ‘X’ co-ordinates just don’t render.

Is this true?

I created a test.lua using the excellent Easy monitor configurator but even that didn’t like windows being dragged to the left.

I could set the second monitor as my Windows Primary to set its base co-ords as 0x0 but I don’t want unless I have to as all my other games will start using the smaller screen to appear on.

[PeterP]

Phantom Monitor Fix

 

This script measures your total desktop and pulls the window to the left-top most possible position - even when it's a negative value. And it does it only with that DCS.exe process.

 

Download it here:http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=37983

Start this small script before mission start.

 

Tip - place the exe or a shortcut of this script it in your startup folder ,

C:\Users\>User Name<\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup to lower your workload .

So it is loaded when your system boots and you don't have to manually start it any more.

[coolts]

That works, Thanks very much. I had hoped that silly v1.0 phantom monitor would have been fixed by now ;)

 

BTW. How do I stop the in cockpit SHKVAL & ABRIS being rendered now I have them on a separate screen? Doing it twice seems like a waste of CPU/GPU resources.

[PeterP]

Use one of these pre-sets:

>>> http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.ph...11#post1541311

 

 

BTW: all the links that I have posted up to now can be found in post #1 when following this sticky right here in this forum section:

 

Sticky: Unofficial "Dummie's Guide" to Multi-Monitor Setup

 

Hmm..., seems to be a good idea to actually really read them when running into problems.. ;) - seems some of them are really useful and not only placed to use up some web-space.

[coolts]

Sorted.

 

edited viewporthandling.lua

 

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=111332