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oal331

01-06-2009, 07:51 AM

Hi,

i need your help how to setup PM's GC in my 2PCs one for for Captain and the other havinng 2 monitors for Eicas and FO
My monitors are 19"wide for CPT and FO, but 15normal for Eicas and Digital STBY Instuments.
I have 2 identical PCs running WinXP.
I installed GC and FMC with Netdir and Engravity's usb FMC in the first PC
and GC only in the 2nd PC, for EICAS and FO monitors having one ATI VGA with 2 monitor outputs.

The problem:

1) First i found, that GC has the page F5 for support Captain's side and upper Eicas with STBY, but not the same for FO's side. I was expecting to find in F6 page the same like F5, but with ND in the left and PFD in the right side of FO's monitor and then Upper Eicas and STBY for the middle 15monitor.

2) Second problem, was mixing 4:3 & 16:9 monitors in the same VGA. With the ATI CCC, for having with my 2 monitors, a big one for the extemded GC, i forced to have the same resolution for both monitors (15normal and 19"wide). This is a problem because i loose the aspect ratio in one of them. Is there a solution?

3) I tryed the NewNG Ratio choice in GC menu, but i didn't saw a difference in 16:9 ratio, What is for, this menu item ?

In your cockpits, what you have done with your monitors?

regards

Eddie Armaos
Athens-Greece

AchillesP

01-06-2009, 11:09 AM

Hi Eddie,

I have all GC software (Captain, copilot, upper and lower eicas) in one pc with 2 gpu's and four screens without any problem. So, what I did. I istalled the PFd and then copied the pfd folder in threen new folders. I have now PDF, PFD2, PFD3 and PFD4 folders. Every GC runs from differend folder. For example. Pilot from PFD, copilot from PDF2 and etc. In this way, every folder keeps the screen resolution's and positions of the GC software. Hope that helps

Hi,

i need your help how to setup PM's GC in my 2PCs one for for Captain and the other havinng 2 monitors for Eicas and FO
My monitors are 19"wide for CPT and FO, but 15normal for Eicas and Digital STBY Instuments.
I have 2 identical PCs running WinXP.
I installed GC and FMC with Netdir and Engravity's usb FMC in the first PC
and GC only in the 2nd PC, for EICAS and FO monitors having one ATI VGA with 2 monitor outputs.

The problem:

1) First i found, that GC has the page F5 for support Captain's side and upper Eicas with STBY, but not the same for FO's side. I was expecting to find in F6 page the same like F5, but with ND in the left and PFD in the right side of FO's monitor and then Upper Eicas and STBY for the middle 15monitor.

2) Second problem, was mixing 4:3 & 16:9 monitors in the same VGA. With the ATI CCC, for having with my 2 monitors, a big one for the extemded GC, i forced to have the same resolution for both monitors (15normal and 19"wide). This is a problem because i loose the aspect ratio in one of them. Is there a solution?

3) I tryed the NewNG Ratio choice in GC menu, but i didn't saw a difference in 16:9 ratio, What is for, this menu item ?

In your cockpits, what you have done with your monitors?

regards

Eddie Armaos
Athens-Greece

oal331

01-06-2009, 11:40 AM

dnoize

01-06-2009, 02:16 PM

you can also have the upper and lower eicas running in one instance of PM pfd and then spread them over 2 monitors for upper and lower eicas.

with the cpflight mipboard you can easily flip through the SYS and ENG pages this way.

Stef

oal331

01-06-2009, 04:47 PM

Stef, thanks for reply,

i already made a test like the solution Achilles gave me and everything is working fine!!
A very simple solution, !!! Just running 2 times the PFD, one for upper Eicas+STBY another for FO.
Next days, I will change them to have the Eicas with CPT's side.

Achilles,
one more question.......
Can you reply with the configuration has the this PC with these 4 monitors?

Thanks, both :)

Eddie

AchillesP

01-06-2009, 05:57 PM

Achilles,
one more question.......
Can you reply with the configuration has the this PC with these 4 monitors?

Thanks, both :)

Eddie
Hi Eddie,

I am not sure what exactly you mean but I will try to give an answer.

I use two same gpu's (8600gt not in sli mode) and use the two connectors from each gpu = total 4 screens. From nvidia panel I use the multiple screen configuration as different screens and not one with different resolustions. After that, I installed the pdf/nd software, validated, calibrated and after that I created the extra folders as I descripted before and copied the contents of the main pfd folder. After that I calibrated only the size and the position. So, every pfd.exe stores the positions at pdf.set inside different folder. At start up, every pfd runs from the diferent folder and every pfd opes always at the right posiotion and screen.

oal331

01-06-2009, 06:12 PM

Hi Eddie,

I am not sure what exactly you mean but I will try to give an answer.

I use two same gpu's (8600gt not in sli mode) and use the two connectors from each gpu = total 4 screens.

Achilles,

i was looking for your system (pc) information, (cpu, ram, 2xpci express ?, etc).

I'm asking because my current PCs for these 4 monitors, having only one PCI-Express slot, so propably i can't install a second VGA, right?

thanks

Eddie

AchillesP

01-07-2009, 01:21 AM

Achilles,

i was looking for your system (pc) information, (cpu, ram, 2xpci express ?, etc).

I'm asking because my current PCs for these 4 monitors, having only one PCI-Express slot, so propably i can't install a second VGA, right?

thanks

Eddie

Hi Eddie,

It is a 2 years old pc of 400Euro with Intel Core duo 2,4 Ghz with an Asus motherboard, 2 pci express slots and 1 gb of memory. This should cost less that 300 euros this time. The cost of 8600gt was approximatelly 120 euro per piece but now maybe it costs about 50 euro. In any case, the pfd does not need a lot of cpu and gpu demands. At the same pc I run also cdu, rcdu and mcp. So, all magenta software except pmsystems.

oal331

01-07-2009, 05:36 AM

Thanks for reply,

these PCs i bought for CAPTAIN-EICAS & FO's monitors, are brand new Core Duo (low-end) HP PCs, with 2GB Ram, but they are working perfect.
The problem is that they have only 1 PCI Expressx16, 1 PCI Express full size and 2 PCI Express (mini size?), so i can install, only one VGA.

I don´t know, if there is a way to make work the onboard VGA together with the extra PCIE 16X vga i installed, otherwise i will use one of these pcs for CPT+EICAS+FMC and the other for FO+lower EICAS+ PmSystems minimized.

Will see.....:cool:

regards

Eddie

AchillesP

01-07-2009, 06:04 AM

I don´t know, if there is a way to make work the onboard VGA together with the extra PCIE 16X vga i installed, otherwise i will use one of these pcs for CPT+EICAS+FMC and the other for FO+lower EICAS+ PmSystems minimized.

Will see.....:cool:

regards

Eddie

Hi Eddie,

maybe you can but there is also a solution with one vga card with four outputs

oal331

01-07-2009, 06:35 AM

Hi Eddie,
there is also a solution with one vga card with four outputs

Which one?
I knew some years before, there was some old quad head matrox but i don't know if they support OpenGL in all the outputs.

Anyway, i don't know if it worths to buy a very expensive VGA, than a low-end pc :p

regards

AchillesP

01-07-2009, 06:44 AM

Which one?
I knew some years before, there was some old quad head matrox but i don't know if they support OpenGL in all the outputs.

Anyway, i don't know if it worths to buy a very expensive VGA, than a low-end pc :p

regards

Maybe change the motherboard to have 2 pci express slots with 35 euros and buy also a new gpu (as second) with 30 euros. It does not matter if there are different model because you do not run sli. But must be the same chip brand. Nvidia or ati to have the same driver.