Hardware & Technical Multiscreen
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Lower your desk, then you will be able to get a larger monitor in. :smilie:
By square I am assuming you mean 4:3!
By square I am assuming you mean 4:3!
Ha! I wish I could lower the desk but alas I cannot. Yes 4:3 ratio is what we have. Its a nice monitor so I don't want to lose it. Was considering maybe having a widescreen as new main monitor and old monitor along side for maybe a split view?
Surely you can. Ever heard of a power saw?
Crikey. Thats a little extreme!! Allegedly I can fit 6 monitors to the MB and Graphics Card I have but I think 2 or 3 is enough for me.
I was thinking about getting one of these for the Man Cave but after looking at the cockpit screen shot I might need a forth monitor above me too!
Haha! Thats quite a setup. I'll think I'll stick to the 2 monitors.
This would be my ideal setup, which I knocked together with sketchup (I used mainly existing models that looked roughly correct).
I have no idea what the possibilities for E will be, so this is just an imagination.
Three mainscreen monitors (maybe a fourth for an overhead view?)
Central scanner/instrument display.
Configurable touchscreen panel, for those important controls.
Keyboard, with lit keys, on a floating pivot.
Flightstick (I couldn't find a proper sketchup model)
Throttle
Foot pedals (rudder)
A comfy chair (the chair in the picture is not a comfy chair!)
There is no game-pad.
I have no idea what the possibilities for E
will be, so this is just an imagination.
Three mainscreen monitors (maybe a fourth for an overhead view?)
Central scanner/instrument display.
Configurable touchscreen panel, for those important controls.
Keyboard, with lit keys, on a floating pivot.
Flightstick (I couldn't find a proper sketchup model)
Throttle
Foot pedals (rudder)
A comfy chair (the chair in the picture is not a comfy chair!)
There is no game-pad.
I'm actually doing something about it.
I'm building a gaming seat setup. Mostly for Elite, but I should also be able to set it up to run as a car racing sim seat as well.
Details at
http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6869
and a mock up looks like
I'm building a gaming seat setup. Mostly for Elite, but I should also be able to set it up to run as a car racing sim seat as well.
Details at
http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6869
and a mock up looks like
oh wauw. Will I be the only one playing ED mostly on a laptop?
I know it's soooooo 2012 for you but it has only one screen
I know it's soooooo 2012 for you but it has only one screen
I will be starting on a laptop but mine has multiscreen capability. Eventually I will be moving to a semi-dedicated system
Multiscreen how? It won't be portable then I suppose?
You can connect monitor to either the DVI or the HDMI output. I have wondered whether I can connect monitors to each and get different out put on each.
You can, I have this setup at home.
I have my TV plugged into the HDMI port which I use as my main screen and I have a monitor plugged into the DVI-D port.
you then extend your desktop onto the second screen so that you now have 2 screens that you can do different things on (e.g. watch a movie on one and surf the internets on another)
Only thing to be aware of is that if you're playing a game and you move your mouse to the second screen and click it will alt tab out of the game.
Some games that use the mouse reaching the edge of the screen may also have issues.
You can get around this though in certain games by playing in full screen windowed mode. (i.e. the game is running in a window but the window is sized to match the size of your screen. Try pressing Alt+Enter/Return in game as that quite often changes between full screen (not to be confused with full screen windowed mode) and windowed mode (which you can then make full screen (not to be confused with full screen mode
) )
Came across this company earlier today that provide free and licences software that basically manages multi-monitor setups - wallpapers, screensavers and the like. Has a ton of free images too that can be used for multiscreen setups. From what I can see, the free version is pretty good. For €25, the pro version does things like carry across taskbars and the like:
http://www.displayfusion.com/
Might be usual for others.
p.s I'm not on commission!
http://www.displayfusion.com/
Might be usual for others.
p.s I'm not on commission!
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